White: UFC could create regional circuits, champs
“Lorenzo and I were literally talking about this before the show started tonight, and we’re coming up with some ideas…
“Lorenzo and I were literally talking about this before the show started tonight, and we’re coming up with some ideas on how to – believe it or not – do more events so that we can feed these markets that are dying for it,” White said. “The U.K. keeps terrorizing us. Ireland is part of it, but (we’re) going back to Ireland, too. And Scotland. A guy here tonight was asking about Norway. Germany we haven’t been back to. Every time we got to Australia, it’s insane.
“There are a lot of markets that are starved. India – we’re going to go to India. The list goes on and on and on. China we were talking about tonight, too. But we’re working on figuring out how to feed all these markets so they don’t have to wait so long.”
“We’ve talked about doing two shows at the same time,” White said. “We’ve talked about doing a lot of stuff. But one of the things you guys have got to understand, the hardest part is the infrastructure. It’s creating all this new talent, and it’s not just fighters. It’s commentators. It’s (cage announce Bruce) Buffer’s position. Cameramen. (It’s) all the things that go along with putting on the event that we put on. It’s a lot of work.
“We talked about [regional champions],” he said. “We talked about rankings – just like boxing, guys ranked in other countries. So you end up being ranked. I don’t know. You have UFC champions, and then you have guys that are ranked in different countries. It absolutely makes sense. In the big picture, long-term, it absolutely makes perfect sense.”
