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If you want to get into the building to watch Conor McGregor return to the octagon at UFC 303, you’d better be ready to empty your pockets.
Tickets for the event at T-Mobile Arena in Las Vegas don’t officially go on sale on April 26. But the UFC released information about VIP ticket packages on Monday.
Those VIP tickets go for as much as $12,000 per seat.
The so-called “challenger” package includes a guaranteed seat in the 100-level section, in-venue hospitality, a reserved seat at the ceremonial weigh-in, a post-weigh-in reception, and a VIP entrance into the T-Mobile Arena.
There’s also the “champion” package. This includes a floor seat, in-venue hospitality, a post-fight experience in the octagon and the same post-weigh-in reception.
There’s also an “elite” package which doesn’t even have a price listed. Which is to say, if you have to ask, you can’t afford it.
UFC 303 on June 28 marks McGregor first time in the cage in nearly three years. The former two-division champ lost via TKO to Dustin Poirier at UFC 264 on July 10, 2021. McGregor suffered a broken leg that ended the bout, which was a rematch of an earlier fight that Poirier won by knockout.
His last UFC victory came against Donald Cerrone in January of 2020.
But this time McGregor squares off with a new opponent in the form of Michael Chandler, his former Ultimate Fighter 31 opposing coach.
Chandler, like McGregor, has not fought in over a year. And, like McGregor, he’s coming off a loss to Poirier at UFC 281 in November 2022.
But he’s confident about his chances against the Irish superstar.
“It’s going to be a big card, it’s going to be fun, and I finish Conor within the first two rounds and after that, probably end his career,” Chandler said when discussing how the fight will go.
It looked for a while as if we’d never find out. But now the fight is officially on. And it’s one of the hottest tickets in UFC history.