How big will MMA become in Brazil?
With the announcement that the UFC will be making a return to Brazil in January for UFC 156, the question has to be asked of just how big can the UFC become in Brazil. It is already huge, and is set to explode next year and beyond. FuelTV‘s “Ultimate Answers” poses the question and has several UFC athletes answer it, from Michael Bisping to Jon Fitch to Tito Ortiz. Brazil is home to great champions like Anderson Silva, Junior dos Santos, and Jose Aldo, and they are respected like the top football and baseball players are here in America. UFC 153 was a huge success in Rio, and now UFC 156 will most likely follow suit. The UFC will have visited South America for the fifth time in little over a year-and-a-half, marking Brazil as the fastest growing hotbed of Mixed Martial Arts. Will it continue to grow at this torrid pace?
