Talent in MMA has never been more concentrated under one banner. The Ultimate Fighting Championship now has almost 550 fighters under contract, a number that has ballooned upwards as the insatiable content demands of the Fox family of networks, pay-per-view and its UFC Fight Pass platform have skyrocketed. Five years ago, this was not the case. The UFC had fewer than half as many fighters, and other promotions -- Strikeforce, Dream and World Extreme Cagefighting, to name only a few -- laid claim to many of the world’s top fighters.
This does not mean, however, that the UFC is the only promotion with elite talent.