In the past, Donald Trump was a billionaire active in the competitive sports industry, the current success of the UFC is also thanks in no small part to Donald Trump’s contribution.
There are many things we still do not know about US President Donald Trump, one of them is that he was honored in the Hall of Fame of New Jersey state martial arts.
In the UFC’s first seven years, the UFC was just a small martial arts organization. The media and the majority of the people are still not sympathetic to the game format and the rules of the MMA, so the UFC has not been able to organize its martial arts events in big cities like Las Vegas, New York and Atlantic. UFC can only exist in cities where the cost of organizing the match is low and the population is small like Casper, Wyoming; Tulsa, Oklahoma; Bay St. Louis, Mississippi; Cedar Rapids, Iowa; Dothan and Alabama.
Thanks to the help of Donald Trump (who 10 years ago turned Atlantic City into a boxing hit and where Mike Tyson made his name), there was an early step in the development of MMA in America. On November 17, 2000, Trump authorized the UFC to be held at the Trump Taj Mahal casino in Atlantic City.
When Zuffa bought the UFC in January 2001, Trump once again opened his casino to the UFC upon realizing that the UFC was having trouble finding the venue for UFC 30 and UFC 31 events, thanks to the help. by Trump, the UFC 32 event was possible at the large Continental Airlines Arena in East Rutherford, New Jersey. By September 2001, the UFC finally got its feet in Las Vegas. The modern MMA era — the period when the UFC signed Fox and Reebok, the rise of Ronda Rousey, MMA fighters interviewed in talk shows at night — has begun.
UFC President Dana White said: “Casino Trump Taj Mahal was the only accomplishment that accepted us at the time. Trump saw the UFC’s success well before everyone else. There are a lot of people who want to invest in the UFC now, but Trump guessed that”.
