im a bit slow this week, work has been busy.
but anywho...


UFC sells for 4 BILLION DOLLARS (dr evil with pinky next to mouth)
a few days ago it was officially announced that the fertita brothers had sold the UFC.
4 billion was the amount. Dana white sold his 9% shares too netting him around 360 million dollars.
Dana has also signed a 5 year deal with the new owners ( WME-IMG ) as president which lets face it, is a good thing because he is the face of the ufc and i cant imagin anybody else doing it, who else can do it better?? seriously, who???

In the beginning...
WOW promotions and SEG produced the first UFC as a one off PPV even but when people begged for another, the sport was unknowingly born with the gracies taking on the lions den.

in the second new coming....
In 2003 Zuffa took over for just a mear 2 million dollars and held its first event at ufc 30.
the company struggled to get its foot in the door of the worlds acknowledgment of MMA untill zuffa gave one last all out on the tv show The Ultimate Fighter in which Stephan Bonnar and Forrest Griffin BOTH won a contract with one of the greatest and possible the most well known ufc fight of all time, the fight even got them both in the ufc hall of fame.
Which was well deserved as it was their heart and unwillingness to give up that got the sport finally through that heavy door zuffa has spent so much and long working on breaking through.

Over the next 14 years zuffa push the boundries and took the UFC from strength to strength, to bigger and better venues drawing in bigger crowds.
Eventually dominating the world of MMA and inheriting some of the best fighters from around the globes other budding MMA proving grounds.
They finally got a big tv deal they wanted and became a regular on fox sports, even made it on to BBC three no to long ago (early 2016).
But in order for the UFC to really break its stride it had to remove that 'Illigal' banner from above its head in the state of new york,which they managed to remove back in the early part of 2016 and holding its first event in MSG in november of 2016.

Zuffa then held its biggest and baddest even in its life with UFC 200 where virtually every bout was worthy of a main event on any other card. they smahed records all night long, but it wasnt to last......
This would be Zuffa's last time hosting the UFC, a sad time for all of us. but on the other side of the coin its a new and exiting time.
The fertita brothers have done all they can, now its time for the next phase in the life span of the UFC.
WME-IMG are able to progress the sport to where it needs to be, giving fighters more opportunities to progress their career and us fans to see them more and hold more events.
There is a reason why MMA is the fastest growing sport in HISTORY,fighting is our blood,its in our DNA, without fighting,we wouldnt even have made it as apes all those millions of years ago.UFC will evolve to become greater just as we as humans evovled.Eventually that '9 point must' system will evolve for the better too.

And now for the third era of the UFC.
only time will tell what is instore for us and the sport,i feel privilaged and honoured to have been a part of the infancy of the ufc, to have seens it birth, its first steps, its teething problems,watching it go out on its first date all those years ago with ZUFFA and building its personality, and now being part of its marriage to WME-IMG.
the rest, is still left to be written.............