UFC Makes Big Splash in New York City
By MMAEdition on Mar 24, 2010 with Comments 0
NEW YORK — Frank Sinatra sang that if you can make it here, you can make it anywhere, but for the UFC, it was exactly the opposite; they needed to make it everywhere else before New York would give them a fair shake.
Mission accomplished on the first part of the equation, the UFC returned to Manhattan to hype up this weekend’s UFC 111, and suffice it to say, it went much better than the first visit.
The story — likely mythologized over time — goes that the first time the UFC under the new Zuffa ownership group ran a press conference in New York, only two reporters showed up. One of them asked Tito Ortiz a question in Spanish, and when Ortiz told them he didn’t speak the language, the reporters got up and left.
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