The UFC announced it’s building a Performance Institute in Shanghai, China, set to open in 2019. Like the original Performance Institute in Las Vegas, it’ll be a state-of-the-art facility, but the one in China will be three times as big and offer a lot more. Specifically, they’ll be in in-house MMA-specific trainers. When you begin to think about how that actually works and what that might mean, it doesn’t become crazy to think – intentionally or not – the UFC could end up creating their own MMA team in the process.
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2018-11-21
China has a lot of great talent their.
There are so many people in China that PPV sales will definitely be impacted by this push. Also, I expect to see an influx of UFC fighters from China.