Bellator NYC ticket prices bear shades of UFC 205, Golovkin-Jacobs

Bellator MMA is pulling out all the stops for what will mark just its second-ever pay-per-view event, and they're charging fight fans accordingly.

The promotion will take Madison Square Garden on June 24 for Bellator NYC, a card featuring a pair of title fights, heavyweight legend Fedor Emelianenko's debut, as well as a grudge match between Chael Sonnen and Wanderlei Silva nearly five years in the making.

The star-studded (by Bellator standards) card's tickets range from $66 for the nosebleeds to $1,000 and change for cageside seats, and while some may be inclined to raise their noses at the price point, it appears the promotion is taking its cues from a few combat sporting events MSG has recently hosted.

In its long-awaited New York City debut last November, the UFC went all out with three title fights, and charged over $1,500 for cageside seats and $250 for the nosebleeds - the latter amount nearly four times the price for Bellator NYC.

The Bellator card's prices are perhaps more comparable to a boxing match between world middleweight champ Gennady Golovkin and Daniel Jacobs that went down earlier this month, for which spectators were charged $1,000 to sit ringside and $100 for the balcony, with the prices for mid-level seats easily exceeding their Bellator counterparts.

Booking Madison Square Garden for an event is a notoriously costly affair, which would explain the price points for the above-mentioned shows, each appearing exorbitant on the surface.

As promotional head Scott Coker revealed on Monday's edition of "The MMA Hour," fight fans can watch the event on pay-per-view for $49.95.