best seats for UFC 67 at Mandalay

[psywzrd]

I'm hoping some of you guys who have gone to UFC events at the Mandalay Bay Resort Event Center can chime in and help me out here. What seats would you guys recommend for the best view? I've only been to one UFC event and it was at the Taj Mahal in Atlantic City. We had floor seats but ended up watching most of the show on the big screen behind us because the view from our seats was crap. Are floor seats at Mandalay Bay any good or is it tough to see from there? I know it's great because there's usually tons of eye candy sitting on the floor but I'd like to be able to see the fights too. From what I remember in Atlantic City, as soon as the fighters went to the ground you really couldn't see that well from the floor. Is the first section off the floor better or are you better off sitting on the floor but 20 rows back? Any help is appreciated.

[short bus]

same situation. get back one section form the front. i have nbever been to an MMA fight where you could see the ground from up close.

[Thumpin]

If you're not in the floor seats, chances are your best viewing will be done on the bigscreens they put up. Thus I usually recommend the ringside seats or the nosebleeds. Nothing is worse that spending money in the middle and still watching the fight on the bigscreens.

[psywzrd]

same situation. get back one section form the front. i have nbever been to an MMA fight where you could see the ground from up close.

That's where I'm leaning but I want to make sure I'm close to enough to see what's going on. The floor seats are about double the price but I think that's just because the celebs and fighters sit there, not because the view is much better. Still, I find it hard to understand why people would want to sit there if you can't see that well.

[Loot]

For every MMA event that I have been to (both rings and cage), the best seats tend to be in the lower bowl section, about 5-15 rows up. This puts you at or just above eye level to the cage/ring. If you can get ones that directly line up with the cage, you will have a perfect view of everything. Even if you are off to the side a bit, it is still pretty good. I have sat as man at 30 rows back and still had an excellent view of everything. Floor seats usually suck and are a huge dissappointment, as you sit in a folding chair and are lucky to see the tops of fighters heads. Unless you can get in the front 5 rows, skip the floor seats.

I am not familiar with Manadalay Bay, so make sure to check the seating arrangements on Ticketmaster.

Hopefully my general statements made sense and could help out a bit.

[psywzrd]

For every MMA event that I have been to (both rings and cage), the best seats tend to be in the lower bowl section, about 5-15 rows up. This puts you at or just above eye level to the cage/ring. If you can get ones that directly line up with the cage, you will have a perfect view of everything. Even if you are off to the side a bit, it is still pretty good. I have sat as man at 30 rows back and still had an excellent view of everything. Floor seats usually suck and are a huge dissappointment, as you sit in a folding chair and are lucky to see the tops of fighters heads. Unless you can get in the front 5 rows, skip the floor seats.

I am not familiar with Manadalay Bay, so make sure to check the seating arrangements on Ticketmaster.

Hopefully my general statements made sense and could help out a bit.

Makes perfect sense to me and that's probably the way I'll go. The floor seats are all sold out anyway so the only option is to either pay a scalper $1000+ for floor seats or pay just as much on StubHub, ebay, etc. The first level off the floor can be had for around $500 or so (not a bargain by any stretch but that's actually around face value for those seats). Like I said, the attraction of sitting on the floor is obvious but I'm not the type of person that gets excited about sitting next to celebrities - I just want to be able to see the fights.

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[moriarty]

Last time I went to a fight at Mandalay, I was at the rear of the $250 section. For my money, I probably would have been better off in the cheap seats b/c I ended up watching most of the fights on the monitor anyways. There seemed to be a pretty wide area for those seats though (if I had been in the front of the $250 section it would have been much better).

My biggest complaint about the Octagon is there are too many padded corners (duh, it's an 8 sided ring) which block the view when you're there live if you're at the wrong angle unlike a boxing ring where you just have the 4 obstructions and thin ropes.

[psywzrd]

Just wanted to let you guys know that I did make it to UFC 67 and I got $500 seats for $350! It wasn't the greatest card in the world but I'm definitely happy that I went.

[Loot]

Just wanted to let you guys know that I did make it to UFC 67 and I got $500 seats for $350! It wasn't the greatest card in the world but I'm definitely happy that I went.

Congrads.....how did you pull the $350 seats? Scalpers? Did you get a chance ot meet anyone interesting?

[psywzrd]

Congrads.....how did you pull the $350 seats? Scalpers? Did you get a chance ot meet anyone interesting?

Yup - scalper. We were about to go the box office to see what they had available (despite what they said on the telecast, that event was definitely not sold out) when a scalper approached us to see if we needed tickets. To make a long story short, we talked him down to $350 apiece and I know we could have gotten him even lower but we didn't feel like haggling back and forth. He actually told me not to throw my money away at the box office and he was right - there was no need to pay face value when there were so many tickets available through scalpers. I can't say for sure how it would have been if the card was better, but I'm very happy that I didn't get tickets ahead of time.

As for your other question, we didn't actually "meet" any of the fighters (I'm not the type to try to talk to these guys, take a picture, get autographs etc.) but we saw a ton of fighters at Mandalay - Tim Sylvia, GSP, Hughes, BJ Penn, Frank Trigg, Frank Mir, A. Silva, Couture, Tito (Jenna at his side), Liddell (hot chick with him), Jardine, Eddy Sanchez.

Also saw Wesley Snipes there. I thought he would have been in the clink but I guess I was wrong... I can't stand that dick.

[Thumpin]

I hope that "hot chick" next to Chuck that you saw wasn't that blonde next to him on the pay per view...that chick looked like she fell out of the ugly tree, hit every branch on the way down, and then someone came along and hit her with the ugly shovel after she landed. yuk.

[Loot]

Sounds good. I am actually wondering what the scalping scene will be like for UFC 68, as I have a few friends who need tickets.

Ohio ain't Vegas though...

[psywzrd]

Sounds good. I am actually wondering what the scalping scene will be like for UFC 68, as I have a few friends who need tickets.

Ohio ain't Vegas though...

That's a tough call - the card is definitely better but the fact that it's in Ohio makes it tough to predict what the market for scalping will be like. I know that scalping is illegal in Vegas though (at least that's what my scalper told me) - not sure what the laws are in Ohio.

[Loot]

That's a tough call - the card is definitely better but the fact that it's in Ohio makes it tough to predict what the market for scalping will be like. I know that scalping is illegal in Vegas though (at least that's what my scalper told me) - not sure what the laws are in Ohio.

I am not worried aobut legality....I have my tickets :). In Ohio, sclaping laws are left for the city/county to mandate. I have been unable to find more info than that.

[Drunken Gamer]

I'm hoping some of you guys who have gone to UFC events at the Mandalay Bay Resort Event Center can chime in and help me out here. What seats would you guys recommend for the best view? I've only been to one UFC event and it was at the Taj Mahal in Atlantic City. We had floor seats but ended up watching most of the show on the big screen behind us because the view from our seats was crap. Are floor seats at Mandalay Bay any good or is it tough to see from there? I know it's great because there's usually tons of eye candy sitting on the floor but I'd like to be able to see the fights too. From what I remember in Atlantic City, as soon as the fighters went to the ground you really couldn't see that well from the floor. Is the first section off the floor better or are you better off sitting on the floor but 20 rows back? Any help is appreciated.

If you can get on the bottom floor, then you will usually have access to meet the fighters afterwards. I don't know about Mandalay, but many of those event centers have it where you cannot get to the bottom floor if you have tickets to the top floor.