Hi,

Firstly, just wanted to say that this is my first post on the forum and I've had a look around and I can't seem to find any UK based promotions - I'm doing research into the UFC as part of a business studies project and was supprised that there doesn't seem to be any here in England.

So my question is, are there any MMA promotions in the UK and If so, where are they and who are they?

Thanks,

Chris

There are loads mate you've not been looking hard enough...can i ask a bit more about your project, ie: what your going to discuss cover/what aspect of ufc? will it be MMA in general or just ufc? Sorry for all the questions, im just curious...
A few uk mma promotions of the top of my head

Ultimate challenge uk
Bamma
OMMAC
cagewarriors

There are about 20 more that escape me at the moment

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Maybe you could write about the story of Cage Rage as well. It used to be great until it faulted, no offense to anyone affiliated with Cage Rage but maybe you can evaluate on what they did right and what they did wrong.

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Cage Rage was sold to eliteXC and they declared bankrupcy so Cage Rage went down the pan.

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I have to do a presentation on how the UK has been influenced by the United States and as I'm a fan of MMA I'm writing about how the UFC has taken a sport and transformed it into a multi million dollar industry in a very short space of time. Which has in turn been picked up here in the UK and seems to be growing at quite a rate...

Thanks for the list, it really helps. I'm still interested in how the UK hasn't yet produced anything near the quality of the UFC (no offence to any of the promotions listed). But when you look at it, America has the UFC, Japan used to have Pride FC but the UK doesn't have an equivalent. Do you think its because there isn't a market for it?

...Sorry, just trying to get as much help with my essay thats all

I would't say UK promotions don't have the quality of the UFC, but rather that the UFC has Vegas money backing it up, not to mention an extemely savvy promoter and businessman called Dana White, but I wouldn't neessarily say the UFC has more quality, it's larger, it's more... american :P

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Hello mate, very interested to hear more about your essay. For me i'm also very interested in the UK market size of MMA (how much money it makes)... you may find this website interesting: Mixed Martial Arts it goes on about the US market of MMA.

In my opinion money is the key factor.... you must remember the UFC was bought by Zuffa and already well establish and financial strong company back in the day when MMA was banned in most countries, so they have always been at the forefront and why they are themarket leader (essential everyone else has tried to copy) in the UK I'm not sure if any promotion have that kind of money to put of a show as spectular as the UFC. Cage Rage was probably the first, put they too ran out of money having been sold to EliteXC.

"Knuckle Up" seems to be doing ok...

Its a shame cage rage/ultimate challenge is our uk equivalent of the ufc, its just plain chav, you get the feeling Dana would be laughing his balls off if he saw one and listened to the commentary.
Im looking forward to the BAMMA event, they went down the pan the first time, but i think if they could get a good money man/corp involved they could do big things, the problem is then getting big names and signing them to an organisation

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There are a few burgeoning promotions attempting to take things in the right direction... High-level European fighters and the best of the domestic guys. Unfortunately, for the majority of people who buy tickets for events the names and accomplishments don't matter. They're buying tickets to see a friend or see two blokes "twat each other" and herein lies the problem: you're expending a lot more money on better fighters but it will usually make little difference in ticket sales because the 'hardcores' would have been there anyway and the 'casuals' don't care...

Anyway, top promotions in the UK at the moment IMO are:

OMMAC
Strike and Submit
UC
Knuckleup
Bushido Challenge

There are thousands of others though.

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Although I wasn't a huge fan of the CageRage format (dancing girls etc), Dave & Andy did some stirling work in promoting British MMA. Getting Sky Sports to show events was a huge coup. Unfortunately, no one could foresee the ridiculous self-inflicted problems brought about by Elite-XC (fight rigging? please!), so our best known and flagship promotion went down the pan. Fair play to DoD for dusting himself off and starting again though, I have nothing but respect for that man. Fingers crossed he can grow his promotion again (and maybe tidy it up a bit - no offence meant if you're reading this Dave!).