Dana White speech at Oxford Union Society (Video)
by MMAmania.com on Oct 14, 2010 8:27 AM EDT
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No, Dana No
Be it 15 or 50 years the UFC will NEVER be the biggest sport in the world. Remember I said that!
I agree
I love the ufc and mma as much as anyone but it will never take over football or soccer to be polite to the US guys. Cos quite simply that sport is practiced in every continent in every country and pulls hundreds of thousands of fans every weekend in each individual division alone. So I can’t see how it can grow to be bigger that I just can’t see it!! Even if ufc done events twice a week that’s like 40,000 fans at the gate, compared to old Trafford alone which holds 78,000 it’s just not comparable!! Plus that’s not even live viewers!!
I like the commitment but the realism is a little short
by the real mo on Oct 14, 2010 8:40 AM EDT via mobile up reply actions
Correct. UFC isn't even a sport either. Take the whole of MMA and combine it together and it wouldn't be 5% as big as football.
Wish he’d stop saying such dumb shit.
I can't imagine it ever being more popular than the NFL is here in the states.....
I love MMA but here recently I find myslef being more excited for Sunday afternoon than the paltry events the UFC is putting on. Plus ppv sucks……….
Me and DetroitDrew1980 are best pals! We like to have sleep overs in each others tree houses and roast marshmellows over campfires. We are gonna be best friends forever!!!
I AGREE. I AM A HUGE NFL FAN. "WHO DAT"
However, there is nothing more exciting than a big fight because you never know what might happen. The only football game I would watch over a championship fight is a playoff game the Saints are playing in.
mma is my favorite sport
But no combat sport will ever be the biggest in the world…and mma is more sports entertainment…teams don’t get to the playoffs because they’re more popular, they always earn it..unlike mma, where lesser fighters are given higher profile fights because they’re more marketable.
Activia; now with bullshitifus ridicularus
by salamagogo on Oct 14, 2010 8:56 AM EDT via mobile reply actions
I think the main point is that a combat sport would never grow to the size of a "normal" sport...
It just can’t – you can pop down a field and kick/throw a ball with mates, your dad etc… You can’t usually go punch your mate in the face without upsetting someone! MMA can certainly overtake boxing – providing DULL wrestlers don’t continue their growing domination – lay n pray/holding against the cage for 15-25 minutes is not entertaining regardless of what “educated” posters may try to be superior in their comments with.
In-fact MMA probably WILL be the main combat sport within 5 years or so. (K1 could be with better promotion – the last event showed how great it can be, I can’t remember the last UFC event that was non-stop entertainment) but to think it would ever take over mainstream, non-combat sport is deluded.
Pretty funny that he said the same things he always does in Q&As and interviews in his speech at Oxford Uni
Bit of a letdown really, I thought that he would go into more detail about discussing the business and how he succeeded where many others have failed than making his same BS guarantee that the UFC will be the biggest sport in the world. Maybe he should have prepared something afterall.
"Stay classy San Diego"
Jon "Bones" Jones, MMAs best young fighter and the next LHW champion
agreed
and at least toss on a button down or something….
-It's Better To Be Judged By Twelve Than Carried By Six-
(In the name of the SouthCaliStunNa, amen)
by *Californication* on Oct 14, 2010 12:36 PM EDT up reply actions
But he wore a Union Jack coat
Seriously he dressed horribly for this speech, considering that Oxford is one of our top 2 universities and the Union Society has invited much more famous people than Dana to talk and everyone there will be from a wealthy and posh family. He just looks so scruffy, it’s as if he treated this event as any old interview.
"Stay classy San Diego"
Jon "Bones" Jones, MMAs best young fighter and the next LHW champion
Is it clear
Why he was speaking there, a fan lobbied to set it up? It seems weird to me.
120 is a very good Card....
Very much looking forward to it. Akiyama ftw!
by Knowledgereigns on Oct 14, 2010 11:36 PM EDT reply actions
What you may not know is that a lot of these keynote speakers actually pay for these slots
In my graduation, we had some Asian businessman who just happened to contribute $100,000 to the University. None of us knew who he was. Don’t you think it conveniant that this uneducated clown would be asked to speak? Because he paid.
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