{"id":466461,"date":"2022-12-29T06:45:43","date_gmt":"2022-12-29T14:45:43","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/staging.tcpcharms.com\/bjpenn\/?p=466461"},"modified":"2022-12-29T06:45:43","modified_gmt":"2022-12-29T14:45:43","slug":"dana-white-explains-why-the-ufc-is-not-interested-in-cross-promotion-events-theyre-going-to-be-here-anyway","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/staging.tcpcharms.com\/bjpenn\/mma-news\/ufc\/dana-white-explains-why-the-ufc-is-not-interested-in-cross-promotion-events-theyre-going-to-be-here-anyway\/","title":{"rendered":"Dana White explains why the UFC is not interested in cross-promotion events: \u201cThey\u2019re going to be here anyway\u201d"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>UFC president Dana White has explained why the promotion isn&#8217;t interested in co-promoting with other companies.<\/p>\n<p>For many years now, Dana White&#8217;s primary focus has been growing the Ultimate Fighting Championship. In turn, then, he&#8217;s also been growing mixed martial arts as a whole.<\/p>\n<p>Plenty of other major promotions have been and gone in that time. In the present day we&#8217;ve got the likes of Bellator, Rizin, ONE Championship, PFL, KSW and many more to enjoy outside of the UFC bubble.<\/p>\n<p>On New Year&#8217;s Eve, Bellator and Rizin will team up for a fun crossover event. Dana White, however, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=JmpCjYLlPug\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">isn&#8217;t particularly keen<\/a> on replicating such an idea himself.<\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"Paddy Pimblett &amp; Dana White&#039;s UFC 282 Preview\" width=\"500\" height=\"281\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/JmpCjYLlPug?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\">\u201cIf somebody is really that good, and they\u2019re in other promotion, they\u2019re going to be here anyway.\u201d<\/p>\n<h3 class=\"p1\">White fights back<\/h3>\n<p>The essence of Dana&#8217;s point makes a lot of sense. After all, the majority of the best MMA fighters out there already reside in the UFC.<\/p>\n<p>Alas, it&#8217;d be nice to get a bit of friendly competition going. Bellator has done an especially good job of building up its roster in recent times and even though it still doesn&#8217;t compare, they have a couple of divisions that can certainly rival what the UFC has in its locker.<\/p>\n<p>At the end of the day, the success of events like <a href=\"http:\/\/staging.tcpcharms.com\/bjpenn\/mma-news\/bellator\/bellator-rizin-will-aim-to-win-every-fight-on-new-years-eve\/\">Bellator vs Rizin<\/a> isn&#8217;t going to impact Dana White. In fact, he probably isn&#8217;t even going to know many of the fighters who are on the card.<\/p>\n<p>Still, as fans, we can dream of a day in which the UFC gets involved with such great organized chaos.<\/p>\n<p><em>Do you think Dana White will ever change his mind about co-promoting, as he did with Pride back in the day? Are you excited about Bellator vs Rizin? Let us know your thoughts in the comments, BJPENN Nation!<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>UFC president Dana White has explained why the promotion isn&#8217;t interested in co-promoting with other companies. For many years now, Dana White&#8217;s primary focus has been growing the Ultimate Fighting Championship. In turn, then, he&#8217;s also been growing mixed martial arts as a whole. Plenty of other major promotions have been and gone in that [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":54478,"featured_media":396365,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mi_skip_tracking":false},"categories":[10112,39610],"tags":[],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO Premium plugin v19.7 (Yoast SEO v19.14) - https:\/\/yoast.com\/wordpress\/plugins\/seo\/ -->\n<title>Dana White explains why the UFC is not interested in cross-promotion events: \u201cThey\u2019re going to be here anyway\u201d | BJPenn.com<\/title>\n<meta name=\"description\" content=\"UFC president Dana White has explained why the promotion isn&#039;t interested in co-promoting with other companies.\" \/>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" 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