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UFC 180 sells out 21,000 tickets for Mexico City Arena within eight hours
Aug 28, 2014 - 3:45:40 PM UFC 180 sells out 21,000 tickets for Mexico City Arena within eight hours

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By: Jamie Penick, MMATorch Editor-in-Chief

The UFC will make their first trip to Mexico this November with UFC 180, and they'll be doing so in front of a packed sold out crowd at the Mexico City Arena.

Tickets for the event went on sale this week, and according to UFC President Dana White via a report from Kevin Iole at Yahoo! Sports, the event sold out in just eight hours.

That comes on the heels of a smashing debut of "The Ultimate Fighter: Latin America" on Televisa in Mexico this past weekend, which drew over seven million viewers.

"I've been saying it for years that Mexico was going to be huge, and you're seeing that now," White said. "That's a massive number to pull [for the first episode] and this thing is going to be massive down there."

This debut event will be headlined by the Heavyweight Championship fight between Cain Velasquez and Fabricio Werdum, while White says the UFC plans to bring multiple events to the country a year moving forward.

Penick's Analysis: The UFC typically manages to sell out in new locations for their first trip, so the key will be follow up after an already successful debut for Nov. 15. The numbers for "TUF: Latin America" are absolutely stellar as well, and if they hold up over the course of the next several months the UFC could find another international boon for business the same way they did in Brazil.