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Will UFC 170 put MMA on the path to main stream?
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<p>The goal of the UFC, Dana White, and Lorenzo Fertitta has always been to build the UFC into a global brand and a main stream sport across the world. It hasn't quite got there yet, but Yahoo's Kevin Iole argues that UFC 170, featuring three former Olympians might be a good push in that direction:</p>
In the short-term, the impact of having these Olympians on one card may be simply to sell a few extra tickets and pay-per-views to UFC 170. It could also just be a curiosity.
The real impact though may not be felt for 10, 15, even 20 years later, when athletes who were inspired by Rousey and McMann to learn the sport turn professional and begin their own journeys.
From that perspective, UFC 170 might be viewed as the night that put MMA on the path to mainstream status.
JeffersonDArcyChoke- Jon Jones can't sell out the Baltimore Arena.
Yeah.
They'll be mainstream and running Cowboys Stadium any day now.
Somebody only read the headline....
"The real impact though may not be felt for 10, 15, even 20 years later, when athletes who were inspired by Rousey and McMann to learn the sport turn professional and begin their own journeys."
Since when is 10-20 years "any day now"? Since when did somebody have to "run" Cowboy Stadium to be considered mainstream? The NBA doesn't run Cowboy Stadium, guess that's not a mainstream sport either.
It's easy to hate on stuff when you're just making up stuff to hate. :)
"The real impact though may not be felt for 10, 15, even 20 years later, when athletes who were inspired by Rousey and McMann to learn the sport turn professional and begin their own journeys."
Since when is 10-20 years "any day now"? Since when did somebody have to "run" Cowboy Stadium to be considered mainstream? The NBA doesn't run Cowboy Stadium, guess that's not a mainstream sport either.
It's easy to hate on stuff when you're just making up stuff to hate. :)
The headline was so dumb that we had no desire to actually read it
That's the best you could come up with? Seriously? You're going to troll somebody to sleep one day.
I guess your reply was meant to match the level of the headline.
"The real impact though may not be felt for 10, 15, even 20 years later, when athletes who were inspired by Rousey and McMann to learn the sport turn professional and begin their own journeys."
Since when is 10-20 years "any day now"? Since when did somebody have to "run" Cowboy Stadium to be considered mainstream? The NBA doesn't run Cowboy Stadium, guess that's not a mainstream sport either.
It's easy to hate on stuff when you're just making up stuff to hate. :)
The headline was so dumb that we had no desire to actually read it
That's the best you could come up with? Seriously? You're going to troll somebody to sleep one day.
I guess your reply was meant to match the level of the headline.
Olympians and NCAA champions have fought in the UFC before, and often. Just because Uncle Fester plucked the shallow women's Olympic talent pool for 2/3 of this card doesn't mean shit for long-term growth, or "mainstream" appeal.
The attempted mainstream shift for the sport is the FOX deal, not WMMA, not one card out of 200+ to have three Olympians on it. And the FOX deal is one disastrously boring card after another, failure compounding failure. The UFC rubs it in the fans' faces by having a foul-mouthed middle-aged douchebag talk trash about the fighters and fans alike, and they call it "promoting".
