{"id":74223,"date":"2013-11-12T12:38:27","date_gmt":"2013-11-12T20:38:27","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/staging.tcpcharms.com\/bjpenn\/?p=74223"},"modified":"2022-02-06T12:29:48","modified_gmt":"2022-02-06T20:29:48","slug":"dana-white-it-would-be-tough-to-not-call-us-one-of-the-major-sports","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/staging.tcpcharms.com\/bjpenn\/ufcnews\/dana-white-it-would-be-tough-to-not-call-us-one-of-the-major-sports\/","title":{"rendered":"Dana White: \u201cIt Would Be Tough to Not Call Us One of the Major Sports\u201d"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/staging.tcpcharms.com\/bjpenn\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/11\/Dana-WhitePNG.png\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-74227\" title=\"Dana WhitePNG\" src=\"http:\/\/staging.tcpcharms.com\/bjpenn\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/11\/Dana-WhitePNG.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"389\" height=\"270\" srcset=\"https:\/\/staging.tcpcharms.com\/bjpenn\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/11\/Dana-WhitePNG.png 389w, https:\/\/staging.tcpcharms.com\/bjpenn\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/11\/Dana-WhitePNG-300x208.png 300w, https:\/\/staging.tcpcharms.com\/bjpenn\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/11\/Dana-WhitePNG-360x250.png 360w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 389px) 100vw, 389px\" \/><\/a><br \/>\n<em>\u201cI think we\u2019re starting to get there (mainstream) now.I don\u2019t think we\u2019re mainstream yet. I really don\u2019t. I know people disagree with me when I say that. But I think we\u2019re starting to be looked at as one of the major sports now. If you look at what we\u2019ve done on television, it\u2019s pretty amazing, and our live events, what we do at venues. It would be tough to not call us one of the major sports. To me, mainstream is when you walk down a street in any city anywhere and everybody knows what you are, and we\u2019re not (there yet.)\u201d<\/em><\/p>\n<p>On a recent media call, UFC President Dana white revealed that while he doesn&#8217;t believe the UFC is mainstream just yet, he does feel that the sport of Mixed Martial Arts, branded by the promotion is one of the Major global sports.<\/p>\n<p>Agree?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>\u201cI think we\u2019re starting to get there (mainstream) now.I don\u2019t think we\u2019re mainstream yet. I really don\u2019t. I know people disagree with me when I say that. 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If you look at what we\u2019ve done on television, it\u2019s pretty amazing, [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2616,"featured_media":74227,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mi_skip_tracking":false},"categories":[2681],"tags":[255,649,3241,16,2930],"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: \u201cIt Would Be Tough to Not Call Us One of the Major Sports\u201d | BJPenn.com<\/title>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/staging.tcpcharms.com\/bjpenn\/ufcnews\/dana-white-it-would-be-tough-to-not-call-us-one-of-the-major-sports\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"Dana White: \u201cIt Would Be Tough to Not Call Us One of the Major Sports\u201d | BJPenn.com\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"\u201cI think we\u2019re starting to get there (mainstream) now.I don\u2019t think we\u2019re mainstream yet. 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