OKTAGON mixed martial arts is days far from placing on among the highest-attended mixed martial arts occasions in history.
With more than 58,000 tickets cost Saturday’s OKTAGON 62 at Deutsche Bank Park in Frankfurt, Germany, the budding European-based company will draw what might be the greatest crowed ever for an all-time mixed martial arts battle.
The UFC’s revealed presence record sits at 57,127 for UFC 243, which happened at Marvel Stadium in Melbourne, Australia in October 2019 with a Robert Whittaker vs. Israel Adesanya middleweight title headliner.
The just greater presence figured have actually come out of the now-defunct PRIDE company in Japan. A hybrid PRIDE/K-1 kickboxing occasion in August 2002 claims to have more than 91,000 seats filled, while the all-MMA PRIDE Final Conflict 2003 program revealed 67,451. There is no official verification of these numbers, nevertheless.
OKATAGON mixed martial arts promoters Ondrej Novotny and Pavol Neruda declare their figure is completely genuine, and fans from all over the world have actually bought tickets to be on the scene.
“It’s definitely various spots, but most of them are definitely from Frankfurt and the whole of Germany,” Novotny informed mixed martial arts Junkie on Tuesday. “A few thousand coming form Czech Republic and then people who like big events. Not just MMA, but big events, they are coming from all over the world. Around 46 with different kinds of people from business, show business or also fighters and fans.”
Novotny stated there are roughly 600 tickets still staying, and motivated fans to take them as much as become part of a historical program. The company is going full-blown to make it a phenomenon for both those at the location and seeing from home.
“We have almost 500 different kinds of lights,” Novotny stated. “Some crazy fires and fireworks inside the arena. Definitely there’s some special entrances but we don’t want to spoil them before. There will be some superstars from the German rap scene. We’ve got a halftime show with John Newman, who is a crazy DJ who was just in Tomorrowland. He has many hits. It’s going to be really crazy.”
The effort for OKTAGON mixed martial arts to distinguish itself from a production viewpoint is totally deliberate. They wish to place on occasions that can’t be compared to others in the market, and for a program of this magnitude, the ante was upped occasion even more.
“We will have a special drone which is allowed to fly above the people and it will go into the live stream,” Neruda stated. “We have an unique 360 degree video camera with a VR set. It will be an insane experience. We likewise have cams on the referees that are live. As far as I understand we are the only one who is doing it live. You can see it from an action viewpoint. Plus open scoring. A great deal of these components that make to captivated for the entire night.
“We love it. All the members of OKTAGON team, if you have this passion about something it’s never enough. You are never satisfied. You achieve something, you want more and to make it better and entertain people more. We are always going to events that are musical or another type of entertainment around the world or sports event, we watch what’s going on and try to inspire and bring it to the world of MMA.”
OKTAGON 62, which can be bought through online pay-per-view from the business site, will include 11 bouts and 3 champion battles. There is a regional style to the headliner, with German professional athletes Christian Eckerlin and Christian Jungwirth defending an unique “King of Germany” belt.
“The main event is the biggest thing to ever happen on German soil,” Neruda stated. “It’s Christian Jungwirth vs. Christian Eckerlin. Two huge stars. Very similar styles of fighter. One is from Frankfurt, and another from Stuttgart. Both used to be pro football players who dreamed on one day playing in a big stadium, and now it turned out the event they will be in a stadium will not be as a football players, but as fighters. We call this title ‘The King of Germany.’ It’s a welterweight fight. It’s going to be crazy. We prepared a special belt.”
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