UFC 300 came at an interesting time for MMA’s No. 1 promotion. Just a few short months earlier, Dana White‘s promotion had just celebrated its 30th anniversary of operation, but times were often difficult for the organization in the early days of operation.
If you might recall, back in the 1990s, moral guardians tried their hardest to ensure that television carriage of the earliest UFC events was limited. The late Sen. John McCain (R) of Arizona likened the UFC to “human cockfighting” and worked to have the Federal Communications Commission (FCC) ban the promotion’s events from cable television providers.