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bartil · 01-07-2009, 11:13 AM

I've been thinking about something like this for years. You make a TUF in a couple of countries, and broadcast it in each respective country. Then you have some kind of "super finale", where the best couple of fighters from each country participate.

Dana has said that it is so difficult to penetrate 'Europe'. Well, UFC had a hard time getting people to watch MMA in USA before TUF.

So this makes perfect sense to me. For example, me being a Swede, I'd like to see something like TUF Scandinavia. Maybe there are a dussin or so of fighters here that could compete, and the winner advances to a big event in USA. I can see how the sport is growing here: I read on fitness forums and fighting forums and they talk about MMA. Hell, even on a computer geek forum, they sometimes discuss an upcoming UFC-event. All UFC events are broadcasted for free, BTW

, which is a smart thing to do to get people to discover MMA.

Again, this (TUF) was how UFC had a major breakthrough in USA. Why not give it a try in other countries?

01-07-2009, 11:13 AM	#17 (permalink)
bartil White Belt Join Date: Dec 2007 Posts: 17	I've been thinking about something like this for years. You make a TUF in a couple of countries, and broadcast it in each respective country. Then you have some kind of "super finale", where the best couple of fighters from each country participate. Dana has said that it is so difficult to penetrate 'Europe'. Well, UFC had a hard time getting people to watch MMA in USA before TUF. So this makes perfect sense to me. For example, me being a Swede, I'd like to see something like TUF Scandinavia. Maybe there are a dussin or so of fighters here that could compete, and the winner advances to a big event in USA. I can see how the sport is growing here: I read on fitness forums and fighting forums and they talk about MMA. Hell, even on a computer geek forum, they sometimes discuss an upcoming UFC-event. All UFC events are broadcasted for free, BTW , which is a smart thing to do to get people to discover MMA. Again, this (TUF) was how UFC had a major breakthrough in USA. Why not give it a try in other countries?