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LONDON – Aside from a last-minute save by main-event winner Michael Bisping, Saturday’s UFC 120 card in London wasn’t exactly a shining moment for British MMA.

Three of the country’s biggest stars – Dan Hardy, John Hathaway and “The Ultimate Fighter 9″ winner James Wilks – were easily defeated by their American counterparts in high-profile main-card bouts at The O2.

But UFC president Dana White said the results won’t do anything to hurt the growth of the UFC in the U.K.

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LONDON Next to “can you get me tickets,” UFC president Dana White is most often asked where the…

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LONDON – Next to “can you get me tickets,” UFC president Dana White is most often asked where the promotion is headed next.

Both questions were frequently posed today during a Q&A session with UFC Fight Club members at the Earls Court Exhibition Centre in London

Two new markets appear to have risen above White’s usual response (“we’re going everywhere”): Brazil and India.

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LONDON – When the Ultimate Fighting Championship travels to Germany for
just the second time in the promotion’s history for November’s “UFC 122: Marquardt vs. Okami”
event, it will do so amid political backlash and without a TV contract
in the country.

If it all sounds to you like a little bit of déjà vu for the company
that struggled in the U.S. throughout the 1990s to overcome the label of
“human cockfighting,” you’re not alone.

UFC U.K. president Marshall Zelaznik feels the same.

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UFC’s Asian expansion will take time and a concerted effort, but the promotion’s new Asian boss is set on finding the UFC’s Yao Ming…

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Aspiring mixed martial artists find few better places to establish themselves than in the fight capitol of the…

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Aspiring mixed martial artists find few better places to establish themselves than in the fight capitol of the world, Las Vegas.

Once you’re established, though, it’s nice to get a break from the hum of Sin City.

That’s why the fighters of Team Takedown, one of the sport’s more unique management firms, recently told MMAjunkie.com Radio that they’re turning over a new leaf in the Lone Star State.

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UFC president Dana White, following UFC 117, said that the promotion’s global expansion efforts are happening at a much faster pace than he had expected…

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Two of the UFC’s five champions are Brazilian, and it soon could be five after Junior Dos Santos, who won a No. 1 contender’s bout against Roy Nelson this past weekend at UFC 117, gets his shot at the heavyweight belt early next year.

But despite the Brazilians’ success in the UFC, the organization hasn’t hosted a show in their home country in nearly 12 years.

But according to UFC president Dana White, that soon could change.

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DREAM’s American representative says the Japanese promotion’s prosperity
depends not only on new capital, but a plan to spend it well.

And when that happens, DREAM hopes more fans will part with their cash.

Mike Kogan, Director of FEG USA, on Friday told MMAjunkie.com that the lucrative new deal between DREAM’s parent
company, Fighting and Entertainment Group, and Shanghai-based investment
bank PUJI Capital is an important step in regaining MMA’s foothold in
Japan and the rest of the world.

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