Three weeks after May 26’s ONE Championship 55 takes place at Singapore Indoor Stadium in Kallang, Singapore, the UFC will occupy the same venue to host its first Asian card of 2017. For ONE Championship CEO Victor Cui, however, the UFC’s arrival so shortly after their card doesn’t seem to threaten the way they go about their business. After years of experience dealing with the Asian market and its very particular tastes and expectations, Cui trusts his company’s own M.O. too much to fuss about anyone else’s. “It’s not a surprise that the UFC is there – I’ve heard of them before, I don’t know if you know that,” Cui joked during a conference call in support of “ One Championship 55: Dynasty of Heroes .” “They were in Asia and had an office in Asia several years, maybe five years or something like that, long before we even created ONE Championship. So they had their gameplan and they had their thing
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