Which President of the Ultimate Fighting Championship has grown it into a globally popular enterprise and recruited famous fighters such as Devin Clark?
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Devin Clark (fighter) Devin "Brown Bear" Clark (born April 2, 1990) is an American mixed martial artist. He was signed by Ultimate Fighting Championship (UFC) after Dana White scouted him on the "Dana White: Looking for a Fight - Season 1 Episode 6" UFC web series. He is currently competing in the light heavyweight division with Ultimate Fighting Championship.
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Dana White Dana Frederick White Jr. (born July 28, 1969) is an American businessman and the current President of the Ultimate Fighting Championship (UFC), which is the largest mixed martial arts (MMA) organization in the world. Under White's leadership, the UFC has grown into a globally popular multibillion-dollar enterprise.
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Jon J. Franklin Jon J Franklin (aka "Jon Franklin") is a sports marketing and sports television business executive who is currently Chief Executive Officer of Glory Sports International, the parent company of Glory Kickboxing seen on ESPN TV and CBS in the USA along with UFC Fightpass (in a major deal announced in 2016) and on major networks including Eurosport, Ziggo Sports Holland, Le TV China and others in more than 170 countries. Since Franklin joined Glory as CEO in 2014, Glory Kickboxing has undergone a complete strategic remake and seen solid advances in ratings, attendance and following culminating in John Malone's Liberty Global and Yao Ming's Yao Capital joining Glory as investors and partners. In the final months of 2016, Glory produced events in Trenton, New Jersey, Denver, Colorado, Nice, France and on December 10, a sold out major global PPV event in conjunction with the UFC, Collision, Rico v Badr, the fight no one thought could be made, in Oberhausen, Germany. Further Glory events for 2017 have included Glory LA Live, January 20 and a sold out show at Sears Center Chicago, February 24th. In Europe Brussels Belgium hosted Glory on March 25th, Copenhagen in April, Holland in May, Paris in June and a sold out show from New York, Madison Square Garden Theatre on July 14, 2017. Franklin has stated his intent to bring Glory to Toronto Canada, to San Paulo, Brazil and also to China in 2017 and 2018.
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Stephan Bonnar Stephan Patrick Bonnar (born April 4, 1977) is an American professional wrestler and retired professional mixed martial artist and a UFC Hall of Famer who competed as a Light Heavyweight for the UFC. Bonnar was the runner-up on The Ultimate Fighter 1. His TUF Ultimate Finale loss to Forrest Griffin is considered to be one of the most important fights in the history of the UFC. He is currently under contract for Bellator MMA. For most of his MMA career Bonnar played the "role of the underdog", this is particularly exemplified in his fight with Anderson Silva at UFC 153.
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Shane Douglas Troy Allan Martin (born November 21, 1964) is an American professional wrestler and promoter, better known by his ring name Shane Douglas. He is best known for his tenures in Extreme Championship Wrestling (ECW), World Championship Wrestling (WCW), World Wrestling Federation (WWF), and Total Nonstop Action Wrestling (TNA), where he worked as a wrestler and manager.
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Jonathan Wilson (fighter) Jonathan Wilson is an American professional mixed martial artist currently competing in the Light Heavyweight division of the Ultimate Fighting Championship (UFC).
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Tamdan McCrory Tamdan Wade McCrory (born November 5, 1986) is an American professional mixed martial artist who formerly competed in the Middleweight division of the Ultimate Fighting Championship. A professional competitor since 2006, McCrory has also formerly competed for Bellator MMA and the Cage Fury Fighting Championships.
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Rich Franklin Richard Jay "Rich" Franklin II (born October 5, 1974) is an American retired mixed martial artist who competed in Ultimate Fighting Championship. He is a former UFC Middleweight Champion. As of June 2014, Franklin was announced as a Vice President of Asian Mixed Martial Arts company ONE Championship.
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Jeff Jarrett Jeffrey Leonard Jarrett (born July 14, 1967) is an American retired professional wrestler, professional wrestling promoter and businessman. In 2002, Jarrett and his father founded Global Force Wrestling (then known as NWA:TNA and also previously known as Impact Wrestling). He is the current Head Chief Creative Officer with the promotion which is now under the ownership of Anthem Sports & Entertainment. Jarrett is also known for his tenures with World Championship Wrestling (WCW) and the World Wrestling Federation (WWF, now WWE).
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Jim Herd James Herd (born August 13, 1932) is a former professional wrestling executive. Herd was the Executive Vice President of World Championship Wrestling from 1988 to 1992, following Turner Broadcasting's acquisition of the NWA-affiliated Jim Crockett Promotions in 1988. His tenure, however, received much criticism from wrestlers and fans alike.
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Scott Coker Scott Coker (born October 3, 1962 in Seoul, South Korea) is a South Korean-born American Martial Artist, Taekwondoka, former movie stuntman and combat sports promoter. He is the founder and former CEO of MMA promotion Strikeforce and the current President of Bellator MMA.
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1999 in UFC The year 1999 is the 7th year in the history of the Ultimate Fighting Championship (UFC), a mixed martial arts promotion based in the United States. In 1999 the UFC held 6 events beginning with, "UFC 18: The Road to the Heavyweight Title".
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Frank Fertitta III Frank Joseph Fertitta III (born February 24, 1962) is an American entrepreneur. He is the current CEO of Station Casinos. He is also an owner of Zuffa LLC, which is the entity that formerly ran the Ultimate Fighting Championship (UFC).
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Alaska Fighting Championship Alaska Fighting Championship, also known as AFC, is an American professional mixed martial arts (MMA) promotion based in the United States.
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Floyd Mayweather Jr. Floyd Joy Mayweather Jr. (born Floyd Joy Sinclair; February 24, 1977) is an American professional boxing promoter and former professional boxer. He competed from 1996 to 2007 and 2009 to 2015, and made a one-fight comeback in 2017. During his career, he held 15 world titles in five weight classes and the lineal championship in four different weight classes (twice at welterweight), and retired with an undefeated record of 50–0, surpassing Rocky Marciano's record of 49–0. As an amateur, Mayweather won a bronze medal in the featherweight division at the 1996 Olympics, three U.S. Golden Gloves championships (at light flyweight, flyweight, and featherweight), and the U.S. national championship at featherweight.
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Michael Bisping Michael Bisping ( , ; born 28 February 1979) is an English mixed martial artist and actor. He fights in the Ultimate Fighting Championship (UFC), and is the current UFC Middleweight Champion. He is a former Cage Rage Light Heavyweight Champion, and "The Ultimate Fighter 3" Light Heavyweight Tournament winner. At UFC 78, he became the first English fighter in a UFC main event and at UFC 199, he became the first English fighter to win a UFC championship.
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Warrior Xtreme Cagefighting The Warrior Xtreme Cagefighting (WXC) is the largest mixed martial arts (MMA) promotion company in Michigan that hosts most of the top-ranked fighters in the state and is looking in 2017 to produce events Nationwide. Based in the United States, the WXC has eight weight divisions and enforces the Unified Rules of Mixed Martial Arts. Norbert Pasztor serves as the president of the WXC.
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Vince McMahon Sr. Vincent James "Vince" McMahon Sr. (July 6, 1914 – May 24, 1984), commonly known as Vincent J. McMahon or simply Vince McMahon Sr., was an American professional wrestling promoter. He is best known for running the Capitol Wrestling Corporation (subsequently renamed as the World Wide Wrestling Federation and World Wrestling Federation during his tenure, and currently named WWE) from 1954 to 1982, and fathering his successor, Vince McMahon.
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1980s professional wrestling boom The 1980s professional wrestling boom (more commonly referred to as the Golden Age) was a surge in the popularity of professional wrestling in the United States and elsewhere throughout the 1980s. The expansion of cable television and pay-per-view, coupled with the efforts of promoters such as Vince McMahon, saw professional wrestling shift from a system controlled by numerous regional companies to one dominated by two nationwide companies: McMahon's World Wrestling Federation (WWF, now WWE) and Ted Turner's World Championship Wrestling (WCW); the latter in the 1990s, as by the time the WWF were in the top during the 1980s and early 1990s, the WCW was still a National Wrestling Alliance (NWA) territory. The decade also saw a considerable decline in the power of the NWA, a cartel which had until then domineered the wrestling landscape, and in the efforts to sustain belief in the verisimilitude of wrestling.
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Carlos Condit Carlos Joseph Condit (born April 26, 1984) is an American mixed martial artist, competing in the Welterweight division of the Ultimate Fighting Championship. Condit is the former Interim UFC Welterweight Champion and WEC Welterweight Champion. As of May 31, 2015, he is #4 in official UFC welterweight rankings. 28 of Condit's 30 wins have come by way of knockout or submission. He has never been knocked out or stopped due to strikes; Condit's only TKO loss came by injury.
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Georges St-Pierre Georges St-Pierre (] ; born May 19, 1981), often referred to as GSP, is a Canadian mixed martial artist (MMA) and a three-time former Welterweight Champion of the Ultimate Fighting Championship (UFC), having won the title twice in 2006 and 2008, as well as an Interim title in 2007. Frequently cited as one of the greatest MMA fighters of all time, St-Pierre was ranked as the #1 welterweight in the world for several years by Sherdog and numerous other publications. In 2008, 2009, and 2010 he was named the Canadian Athlete of the Year by Rogers Sportsnet. Fight Matrix lists him as the top MMA Welterweight of all time and most accomplished fighter in MMA history. He retired on December 13, 2013, holding the record for most wins in title bouts and the second longest combined title streak in UFC history (2,204 days).
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Devin Battley Devin Battley (born August 31, 1950, in Arlington, Virginia) is an American businessman known for his involvement with motorcycles as a racer and as a dealer. From an early age, Battley enjoyed racing motorcycles and participated in many national championships. He helped to orchestrate Harley-Davidson's interest in Buell motorcycles, and he sold motorcycles to King Hussein of Jordan and Mike Tyson.