Dana White - "We will be coming back to Australia"

February 21, 2010 01:18 by MMA Admin

MMA Razor was at the exclusive UFC 110 Question and Answer session today with Dana White at the Acer Arena. Fight club members posed some interesting questions to the president, who was more than happy to answer even some of the more difficult questions.

Here is a short summary of some of the main questions and answers:

Will the UFC be coming back to Australia?

Dana White said that based on Australia's initial response, that they will definitely be bringing the UFC down under again, and even mentioned the possibility of an event in Melbourne.

Will the UFC ever fight in larger venues?

The UFC likes to keep the crowd size close to 20,000 but not much bigger, so that fans will always feel close to the action. Supersized arenas are therefore not ideal for the UFC experience.

Will there be any new weight categories in the UFC such as a Super Heavyweight Category?

Dana said this is unlikely to happen. He cited that with sports like boxing things can get confusing with many weight divisions, and that things are likely to stay the way they are.

Will the UFC ever have it's own ranking system?

The UFC is happy with it's current model and prefers to give the fans the fights they want to see, rather than following a systematic ranking system which doesn't mean that the fights will always be the most exciting ones available.

Other discussions involved popular topics such as Fedor, Anderson Silva, GSP. There was also discussion of UFC training centres which will be opening in the USA, but possible countries like Australia in the future. Overall the Question and Answer session provided a positive indication of the continued international growth of the UFC, with many more exciting times for Australian fans.

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