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Having experienced the UFC from the cheap seats as a fan, from sports bars, from restaurants with my face covered in wing sauce, from living rooms and from the (relative) comfort of press row, it was time Saturday to check off another box: the UFC theater experience.
UFC 115 marked the promotion’s second card partnering with Fathom Events to show pay-per-views in movie theaters. The partnership was announced in February and UFC 111 in March kicked off the experiment. The UFC has said that fans’ reaction to watching their Octagon action on the silver screen the first time around was “a great experience and better than they had expected.”
I wanted to put that statement to the test, but I knew after a day that had already seen my butt in the same theater’s seats for “The A-Team,” plus a pre-fight meal of wings and fries, that I might very well be in for a five-round war.