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Originally Posted by Strange Famous
I appreciate that these are the countries most of you are from - but please try to understand that there is a wider world. MMA is unknown in the UK for example. I guarantee that not 1 in a 1000 people in the UK would have a clue who Randy Coutre is. Probably 75 out of 100 would know who Ricky Hatton was.
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That is absolute rubbish. I'm from the UK and I know a ton of people who not only know who Randy Couture is, but who are massive MMA fans.
If your figure is right, in the 65 million population of the UK there would be 65000 people who knew of Couture. How then did they manage to get 16,235 fans into the O2 arena for a UFC PPV. I reckon the vast majority of the people there would have known who Couture is. Then you have the people like myself who have never had the opportunity to go to a PPV, but would love to, but can't for whatever reason (cost, the fact London is not exactly central to the UK, whatever). I wager there's closer to a million MMA fans in the UK than there is 65000.
You're really going to have to stop quoting figures unless you have sources - it's like the old saying says - 98.873% of statistics are made up on the spot.