I missed the re-run last night,...thought it was on around ten, bit was on at 7.00pm...doh!

Yeah, UFC is getting pretty popular over here in the UK...like u said, they do an event over here every few months...nxt 1 being in birmingham i think? and there usually sell outs everytime...
The deal done with setanta is evidence there breaking through to the uk market.

In a way,the explosion of UFC and mma in general, as given boxing a big boot up the arse.....thats why theres been a lot of big fights being put together latley...Mayweather v Hatton etc etc....boxing as had to pull its finger out as they know the UFC is becoming massive......when Hatton fought Mayweather in Dec on pay per view, theres was a UFC event on the same night also on pay per view....the UFC event apparently had 10,000 more viewers than the boxing, so thats saying something.
In the UFC you cant fanny about picking and choosing who you wanna fight, your just told who your fighting and thats it....where as in boxing theres usually a lot of pollotics bullshit between the fighters and promoters, resulting in the best not fighting the best......thankfully this as started to change, starting to see some real good matchups now, with an absolute pearler this coming saturday between Cotto v Margarito.....this as the potential to be fight of the year....both are world champs unifying and both are probably the 2 most violent boxers around today......26th, 3.00am, setanta;)