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On the eve of New Year’s, Dana White is thrilled to make forecasts for the next decade. In an interview on the Las Vegas Sun, the hat of the UFC itself to a further growth. “UFC will be the biggest sport in the world by 2020.
People were saying I was a lunatic 10 years ago when we first got this going, but the stuff we’re working on right now on so many levels is mind-boggling.
The UFC will be on network television in the coming years, but we’re not going to go out and do a stupid deal because we don’t need them. We built this thing without help from anybody, and that’s why the UFC has been able to flourish even in these hard times.
The sport was just sanctioned in Massachusetts and Vancouver. We’re going to get it done in Ontario and New York in 2010. And we’re already working on taking the UFC global. We’ve already done Germany, England and Ireland, and we just sold 22,000 seats for an event in Australia in 15 minutes, beyond the live broadcast to 175 countries.”
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