Filed under: 2017 MMA Road Show , Featured Videos , News , UFC , Videos (The UFC hosts four events on four continents in four weeks. MMAjunkie is in Stockholm, Rio de Janeiro, Auckland and Singapore from May 23 to June 18 for the 2017 MMA Road Show .) LAS VEGAS – The UFC returns to New Zealand this week for just the second time in promotional history, and while the company isn’t planning on annual events in the island nation, a senior exec said the region can expect some big fight cards. “We’ve seen, especially after the last event we had in Auckland, a spike in not only residential buys, but just commercial interest in the bar business and everything like that grow, similar to what we saw after (UFC) 193 in Australia,” UFC Senior Vice President of International and Content Joe Carr told MMAjunkie. “The course and direction of our business in Australia has completely changed since bringing that event there.
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UFC exec: Australia, New Zealand markets booming, PPV events could be coming in 2018 – MMA Junkie