The MMA Regulator: For UFC’s Marc Ratner, MMA grows one state at a time

Marc Ratner vividly remembers the UFC’s first regulated event in the state. As a kid, the Nevada native and former commission executive would sometimes ride his bike to Las Vegas hotels to watch big-time boxers prepare for major fights. But in 2001, Ratner was blown away by mixed-martial-arts fans who flooded Sin City.

“There was this huge line,” Ratner said of UFC 33. “To this day, I’ve never seen a line like that in boxing for the first fight.”

In our latest Sunday feature, MMAjunkie.com’s Kyle Nagel talks to “The MMA Regulator,” who now works for the UFC, about his love of sports and his role in making MMA the phenomenon it is today.



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