UFC gets Bigger !!

[Jimbo]

“I think it’s a mainstream sport now." I beg to differ. It'll be a mainstream sport when it is regularly covered in the newspaper sports sections like Football, Baseball, Golf, Tennis, et.al.

Agree 100%.

Most of the time, MMA is barely covered in my local newspaper's sports section unless Ronda Rousey fights. Even then, it's usually on the third page. MMA promotions and fans love to tout it as the fastest-growing sport in the world. Maybe, maybe not. It's certainly the fastest-growing thing in the MA world. But it will NEVER come close to equaling the popularity of football, baseball, basketball ... even golf, tennis, etc., as in-demand among American sports buffs. It's certainly supplanting (or already has supplanted) boxing, for the most part. But boxing's popularity had already been steadily slipping for decades, anyway. MMA is still seen as somewhat of a novelty in the sports world.