RenfroBasics: UFC in Sacramento

Most of you probably know this, but Branden is a HUGE mixed martial arts (mma) fan. He has been following the sport for as long as I have known him. He could probably tell you the results of any fight you ask him about.

Naturally, when we found out UFC was going to be in Sacramento we decided we wanted to try and go. Tickets were pretty expensive and we opted not to buy them. However, I have a friend (thanks Edris!) who told me that Dana White (the president of UFC) tweets out free tickets to almost every event. After much research we decided we wanted to take the chance and drive to Sacramento.

We got to Sacramento just after the weigh-ins finished on Friday evening and decided to hang around Natomas in case he tweeted them out that night. We spent 4 hours at Buffalo Wild Wings enjoying ourselves and constantly updating our twitter pages. At 9pm we gave up and decided to head to my parents' house since they live much closer!

On Saturday morning we decided to drive back out and take our chances. We went to Starbucks at the corner of Del Paso and E Commerce and planned on drinking coffee and waiting there. We ordered our coffee and as we were waiting Dana tweeted out that they were giving free tickets!

I did a quick search to see where exactly that was and realized it was at the next major intersection!

We still hadn't gotten our coffee yet so as I ran to get the car Branden got our coffees. We thankfully made both lights and pulled into the shopping center and then ran to get our tickets. When we walked up the guy giving out the tickets told us we were the first people there! Man it felt great to get some free tickets! He even gave us 4 tickets so that we could go with some friends.

We had great seats in the lower level!

We called one of our old friends, Tyler, and invited him and his wife to come with us. They quickly found babysitters and we were on our way to the fights! We enjoyed every minute of it and it was great seeing a hometown favorite get a huge win!