Do you know the best way to tell how expensive a city is? By the cover to get into the bar of a MMA fight of course! Let's look at the different prices to get into a bar to watch a fight of the cities I've been in:
1) San Francisco: Mayweather fight, $25 each
2) Ithaca: Jon Jones fight, no cover
3) New York: Mayweather fight, $20 each
4) Philadelphia: Machida fight, $5 each
Philadelphia clearly wins this battle. Ithaca is the cheapest, but come on, its in the middle of nowhere. So clearly it can't charge any cover. San Francisco and NY are amazing cities, but you might as well just buy the fight yourself on Pay-Per-View, as the combination of the cover and food/drink costs in the bar will end up being much more than if you had bought the fight yourself. Philadelphia though, fun big city but cheap! What can be better?
We were in Philadelphia the last weekend and the boyfriend was desperate to see the UFC fights. So sitting in the apartment, he started to call the local bars. The closest one that looked cool was the Fox and the Hound. So he calls to ask the cover. The person's response? It can be up to 5 whole dollars! Clearly we decided we were willing to part with that amount. And then the bar itself? HUGE! With plasma TV's everywhere. And the bill? Four huge beers came to the cost of $20. That's right. The total excursion cost us $30, which let's be honest, is the price of an average dinner in NYC.
So the moral of the story? Try to be anywhere but NYC and San Francisco if you want to watch a fight at the bar.
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