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.