UFC CEO Dana White plans to hold more Fight Night events outside of UFC Apex: “We’re getting it done this year”

Dana White Plans to Move Away From UFC Apex With Fight Night Cards

Chatting with media members following UFC St. Louis, Dana White admitted that the UFC is simply better for the sport of MMA with packed arenas (via MMAJunkie).

“Even if you were watching on ESPN, I’m sure you guys were getting texts too, like, ‘Jesus Christ, it’s like a pay-per-view there right now,’” White told reporters at his post-fight news conference. “And when you think about how we built this business, it was taking it out of the big markets.

“When we first got into the fight business, everybody just went to Vegas, Atlantic City, sometimes New York, sometimes L.A. Those were the only places that really had fights unless you had a local kid that would fight. We built this business to taking this thing to every city all over the world. As we start to get our sh*t together, I’ll call it, and start to move out and go out to these different cities like we used to, the whole sport just goes to another level.”

Dana then revealed that starting this year the company will be making more trips outside of the Apex for Fight Night events.

“I’ve been saying this for a long time,” White said. “We’ve got to get out of the Apex and start doing more events in all these different cities. We’re starting to do it. We’re getting it done this year.”