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UFC Imperial Strategy: Buy Them Out, Then Kill Them Softly
On March - 14 - 2012
The UFC Empire, in its quest for global domination, has effectively caused the expiration of one colony and the evisceration of another. One’s from another continent across the Pacific Ocean, the other more accessible in Northern California from UFC’s home base in Las Vegas. In the first quarter of 2007, the MMA world—with the exception of the legendary Japanese promotion’s head honchos and a couple of hard-nosed sports journalists—was surprised to find out that Pride Fighting Championships was hanging on life support. In March of the aforementioned year, Zuffa, UFC's parent company, presumably came to the rescue. Trumping with triumphalism, ...