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Ultimate Fighting Championship is a U.S.-based mixed martial arts (MMA) organization, UFC tickets currently recognized as the major MMA promotion in North America.

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The UFC broke the pay-per-view industry's all-time records for a single year of UFC tickets business, generating over $222,766,000 in revenue during 2006, surpassing the WWE and boxing. The UFC grossed more revenue in UFC tickets 2006 on PPV than any promotion in history.

In March 2006, the UFC announced the hiring of Marc Ratner, former Executive Director of UFC tickets the Nevada Athletic Commission, as Vice President. Ratner, once an ally of Senator McCain's campaign against mixed martial arts, was credited as one of the people responsible UFC tickets for the emergence of sanctioned mixed martial arts in the United States. Ratner is expected to help raise the UFC's profile in the media and to help legalize mixed martial arts in jurisdictions UFC tickets inside and outside the United States that do not sanction mixed martial arts bouts.

Today, Ultimate Fighting Championship events have become popular UFC tickets in the United States, Japan, Brazil, Canada, the United Kingdom, UFC tickets and in Mexico, where live events are often seen on cable television and UFC tickets pay-per-view. UFC tickets The UFC currently plans on expanding internationally, running shows regularly in Canada and the United Kingdom, UFC tickets with an office established in the UK aimed to embolden the European UFC audience. Dana White recently announced in interview with UFC tickets Reforma Newspaper that the UFC will visit Mexico in 2007.

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