THE ULTIMATE FIGHTER GOES INTERNATIONAL

Dat de UFC zich internationaal steeds meer laat zien bewijzen het aantal grote events al. Denk aan Keulen, Dublin, Sydney en binnenkort Abu Dabi. Dana White gaf aan dat er steeds meer internationaal talent rondloopt en via de show The Ultimate Fighter zal er nog meer aanwas zijn voor de UFC. “We’re working on taking it international. We’re working on that right now,” UFC president Dana White revealed following UFC 110 in Australia on Feb. 20. “We’ve got a couple of countries nailed down that we’re definitely going to do.” Finishing filming of it’s eleventh season this week, “The Ultimate Fighter” will still continue it’s successful run in the U.S., but the plan is to cultivate talent and stars worldwide. “We’re going to keep it in America. It will still be going strong in America. We just had our best season ever last season, and it was Season 10,” said White. “I’ll tell you what my goal is and what my ultimate dream is, is that we have ‘The Ultimate Fighter’ going on everywhere, in every country, and continue to grow talent in all these different places. But first we have to come in and do like we did in Australia, and what we did in the U.K.,” added the UFC president. “You move into these markets. You infect it. After you have an event, that’s when everything starts to spill over and people are buzzing and talking about it.” The ninth season of the reality television series “United States vs. United Kingdom” pitted U.S. fighters against U.K. fighters, but the plan now is to have contestants from a particular nation make up the full cast.