Dana White Details International Expansion in Joint Conference Call

http://www.bloodyelbow.com/2011/2/15/1995510/dana-white-details-international-expansion-in-ufc-127-ufc-129-joint
•Dana says last set of international fights were sellouts. Goes over Rogers Centre UFC 129 records. Largest North American gate, a Rogers Centre record. Says the event will do $11 million gate.
•Dana says 17,000 tickets sold for UFC 127, added 400 seats over the last Australia event.
•Dana uses UFC 129's ticket sales to prove UFC will be biggest sport in the world. He also says when "new deals" get done, UFC will be in over a billion homes.
•In terms of a show in Dallas, he says UFC 129 ticket sales motivates him. Says, however, as big as the stadium is there aren't enough hotel rooms.
•White not sure if he'd do stadiums in other cities. He said you can do them with the right fights, but is very non-committal.
•White says The Ultimate Fighter is going to air in every country. 2011 is going to do TUF UK, TUF Canada. First one will be TUF Philippines.
•Dana White says there is a day coming where fights will be held in Las Vegas & Australia at the same time.
•When asked if it's hard to get motivation up, Fitch says "When fighting BJ Penn? Hell no."
•B.J. Penn says in training with Matt Hughes, it came about by talking to Hughes' boxing coach Matt Pena. Pena gave B.J. Hughes' number. Wasn't sure about the response he was going to get. Says he had a great time training and Hughes is the best partner he could've had.
•Penn says, "It's going to be hard to be competitive if you chop off your right leg," in terms of Kenny Florian's weight cut to featherweight.
•In terms of having a future at 155 pounds, Penn says, "I don't even like cutting the weight." Says it's not a tough cut, but he's not sure it's ultimately a healthy thing.
•Dana White says he didn't see the Strikeforce show.
•Jon Fitch has no opinion on Georges St. Pierre vs. Jake Shields. Penn says Jake Shields will do well. "It's a toss-up," says Penn. Penn also says Dan Henderson would do well against St. Pierre.

Says on BJPENN.COM that Dana also confirmed that the fight between BJ and Fitch is for the #1 contender spot. Hell Yeah!

MMAEYES wrote:

Says on BJPENN.COM that Dana also confirmed that the fight between BJ and Fitch is for the #1 contender spot. Hell Yeah!

That has been said many times before in fights like this. 1 fighter here is going to get a title shot for sure if wins. The other is BJ Penn lol. They do this all the time.

BJ vs GSP 3 greesless, it's happening OU deal with it lol

MMAEYES wrote:

BJ vs GSP 3 greesless, it's happening OU deal with it lol

Nah, I see BJ vs Sherk 2 in the future lol

No comment on Paul Kelly?

MMAEYES wrote:

BJ vs GSP 3 greesless, it's happening OU deal with it lol

If GSP wins he's moving up to Middleweight. Jon Fitch wins anyway, GSP moves up then Fitch fights either Kampmann, Condit, Lyttle or Sanchez for the title. If Penn wins then he'll fight Alves or Kampmann for the title.

Jamal wrote:

MMAEYES wrote:

BJ vs GSP 3 greesless, it's happening OU deal with it lol

If GSP wins he's moving up to Middleweight. Jon Fitch wins anyway, GSP moves up then Fitch fights either Kampmann, Condit, Lyttle or Sanchez for the title. If Penn wins then he'll fight Alves or Kampmann for the title.

Damn it your right, why did you have to ruin it for me?

MMAEYES wrote:

Jamal wrote:

MMAEYES wrote:

BJ vs GSP 3 greesless, it's happening OU deal with it lol

If GSP wins he's moving up to Middleweight. Jon Fitch wins anyway, GSP moves up then Fitch fights either Kampmann, Condit, Lyttle or Sanchez for the title. If Penn wins then he'll fight Alves or Kampmann for the title.

Damn it your right, why did you have to ruin it for me?

Things are not set in stone. Even if GSP wins the Anderson fight is far from a done deal. GSP seemed to imply in a recent interview that Anderson might travel down to 170 for the fight. If not GSP has already said he wants an extended amount of time to make a proper jump to 185. I'm starting to think maybe a catchweight would be possible, which would allow both Champions to keep their belts.

You know I keep forgetting that they originally said that the fight between GSP and Silva would be at 170 during the Silva/Maia fight

Lorenzo Fertitta

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Who wants to see the #UFC in #Milan?

MMAEYES wrote:

Says on BJPENN.COM that Dana also confirmed that the fight between BJ and Fitch is for the #1 contender spot. Hell Yeah!

fuck me sideways...

who gone bumped this thread? i was reading this post by Eyes and was totally confused, thought penn vs fitch ll was set and for the tittle!

OU wrote:

http://mmajunkie.com/news/26937/ufcs-international-schedule-will-slow-in-mid-2012-but-expansion-still-a-priority.mma

fucker!

http://mmajunkie.com/news/28001/dana-white-says-ufc-will-be-in-china-by-years-end-venetian-macao-likely-to-host.mma
LAS VEGAS – The UFC's international expansion has a new destination.

UFC president Dana White today said Macau, a special administrative region of China known for tourism and gambling, is expected to host a UFC event soon. Just how soon?

"Very soon," he told MMAjunkie.com (www.mmajunkie.com) following a UFC 146 kickoff press conference in Las Vegas. "It will happen this year.

"We're this close. We are going to do a fight in China."

China has never hosted a UFC event, though it's long been on the UFC's radar. Macau has a population of approximately 550,000, though China has more than 1.3 billion overall.

White said the event would be held in conjunction with The Venetian Macao-Resort-Hotel, a 40-story property that opened in 2007 with a $2.4 billion price tag. The property, which is modeled after The Venetian in Las Vegas, features the planet's largest casino and is one of the region's most popular tourism spots.

The resort also is home to CotaiArena (previously Venetian Arena), a 15,000-seat indoor arena that's hosted past boxing events. A venue of that size would be more than adequate for a large pay-per-view UFC show.

Currently, no specific fights are planned for the show.