If you’re beginning to set out to watch and follow MMA on a week-to-week basis, you’ll need to understand something important: MMA doesn’t begin and end with the sport’s top promotion, the UFC. While the UFC is, was, and always will be a goal for top prospects of the cage, it’s just one of a series of goals for these competitors.
To gain a greater appreciation of just what these men and women do and sacrifice in order to reach their destination of fighting in Dana White‘s promotion, you’ve got to make an evening of it and take in some events from the local and/or international scenes.