Dana White Plans to Transfer Away From UFC Apex With Struggle Night time Playing cards
Chatting with media members following UFC St. Louis, Dana White admitted that the UFC is just higher for the game of MMA with packed arenas (by way of MMAJunkie).
“Even should you have been watching on ESPN, I’m positive you guys have been getting texts too, like, ‘Jesus Christ, it’s like a pay-per-view there proper now,’” White informed reporters at his post-fight information convention. “And when you consider how we constructed this enterprise, it was taking it out of the large markets.
“After we first bought into the struggle enterprise, everyone simply went to Vegas, Atlantic Metropolis, generally New York, generally L.A. These have been the one locations that actually had fights except you had a neighborhood child that may struggle. We constructed this enterprise to taking this factor to each metropolis everywhere in the world. As we begin to get our sh*t collectively, I’ll name it, and begin to transfer out and exit to those completely different cities like we used to, the entire sport simply goes to a different degree.”
Dana then revealed that beginning this 12 months the corporate will likely be making extra journeys outdoors of the Apex for Struggle Night time occasions.
“I’ve been saying this for a very long time,” White stated. “We’ve bought to get out of the Apex and begin doing extra occasions in all these completely different cities. We’re beginning to do it. We’re getting it achieved this 12 months.”