Dana White Says Ufc Expanding To Germany, Phillipines And Australia

[jonz]

Originally Posted by carbondioxide830

you know what i wanna see? ufc in japan (again). i love watching fights in the ocatgon w/ silence (like on tuf, but a ppv in japan would have actual commentary). hell, what about a ufc event in japan where stomps, knees to the head of a grounded opponent, and soccer kicks are as legal as a RNC; that'd be fuckin awesome and a perfect setting for wandy/chucky II.

It doesnt matter where the ufc goes they will still keep the same rules. You are going to have to face the facts that knees to the head of a downed opp, stomps, soccers gets will never be a part of any successful mma org ever again. Some people will be happy about this some will be sad but its a fact. Those techniques appeal to a very small % of the general population and even more importantly they disgust a very large % of the population. As sports evolve they generally move away from the more brutal aspects of their orgin to become more acceptable to the general population. i.e reduction of rounds, ref stopages in boxing. Reduction in fighting, hits to the head in hockey. Million different rules to protect quarterback and restriction on types of hits and blocks in football. All these changes are not necessarly bad, first and foremost they protect the athelete, they bring more people into the sport which provides more money, more youth involvement and therefore a better pool of talent for the future of the sport.
So Germany, Phillipines, Japan, Austalia sound great and will be awesome for the sport just don't expect the rules to change in those different locales.

[hunterkiller]

Originally Posted by bobafett

nfl will never make it in europe because its not in there culture,
ufc is a different story .

That's why the Super Bowl shown in more than 100 countries throughout the world and is the most watched television event every year. The NFL may not have been bred over there but there is definite interest in it there. As I said before, NFL Europe failed because they were sending over a bunch of rookies and players who couldn't cut in the US. Give the Europeans some credit for knowing what they were watching was second rate.

[jrube]

Originally Posted by thecoylewis

That's why the Super Bowl shown in more than 100 countries throughout the world and is the most watched television event every year. The NFL may not have been bred over there but there is definite interest in it there. As I said before, NFL Europe failed because they were sending over a bunch of rookies and players who couldn't cut in the US. Give the Europeans some credit for knowing what they were watching was second rate.

I hate to agree with someone who had Tito everywhere in their Sig/Av... But you are 100% correct...

I think this expansion is really cool, and will help bring in more international stars to the UFC which is great... On the down side will be time delayed PPV events...

[markzabin]

Originally Posted by Warchief

100% Correct...

And they can make a Giant Prison Collony.




Sure...

Antartica
Africa
Australia-New Guinea
Asia
Europe
North America
South America


Am i right?

Sounds good to me, I thought that you were going to group in Australia and Asia as one. I know the point that you were trying to make though and people are still working on making Australia an Asian continent, but I don't know if they will succeed or not.

[Dimson]

Originally Posted by Warchief

Maybe those Asian Chinese friends of yours are bunch of facist pigs...i'm mix Japanese and i have a lot of japanese and korean friends (!00% Asians) and sometimes they also mistaken them as Filipinos, but they not get easily oppended and they just all smile and laughed.


They are Great People.



And you can't compare the phillipine peso to a dollar, b/c obviously phillipines is one of the most poorest countries in the whole word...but a lot of ppl there loves martial arts.






P.S. I'm from Asia so beleive me...Phillipines is part of Asian countries and yea Australia has it's own continent (Asian Continent).

It is like some hispanics that I know. When you call them Mexican they get pissed. They are like I am not fucking Mexican. So yeah, people get mad when you call them something that they are not.

[Warchief]

Originally Posted by Dimson

It is like some hispanics that I know. When you call them Mexican they get pissed. They are like I am not fucking Mexican. So yeah, people get mad when you call them something that they are not.

Other people mistaken me as Johny Depp sometimes...but i don't get mad.

[atj-lucko]

Originally Posted by markzabin

Brazil's Retail Sales Increased 11.4% in March, which is huge, might be the reason that Dana wants to go their all of the sudden.

Bloomberg.com: Latin America

Dana stated just before UFC 83 in an interview that he has no plans on going to Brazil.

[markzabin]

Originally Posted by atj-lucko

Dana stated just before UFC 83 in an interview that he has no plans on going to Brazil.

Did you even read the article on this very thread?

"Details on Brazil are far more sparse even than White’s secrecy on Germany. “Probably about three weeks ago, I did an interview and I said, ‘You know what? Brazil isn't even on our radar right now.’ And that's changed actually in the last three weeks. We're seriously looking at Brazil right now because there's a lot of interesting economical things going on down there right now.”