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Dana White Ready To Put Major Events For Free On Network TV
Dana White Ready To Put Major Events For Free On Network TV UFC President Dana White is hoping to bring UFC fights to the masses by airing bouts for free on network television.

"I'll put on one a quarter," White said on The DAM Morning Show on X107.5 in Las Vegas. "One that should have been on pay-per-view, except we'll put it on network TV."

White is hoping to lock in a network deal by September 2010. He say’s the free fights will not only attract new fans to the sport, but is also a “Thank You” to loyal fans who have been paying to watch UFC events on pay-per-view.

"I think you have to give back to the fans and you have to give back free fights," White said. "So we do a ton of free fights on Spike TV between Ultimate Fight Nights and some of the big out of the blue fights that we put on Spike, and now we'll get a network deal and we're doing four big fights a year that should have been on pay per view but you get for free.”

He added, “That's how I became I big boxing fan. My uncles used to watch all the fights on ABC's Wide World of Sports and I used to watch it with them and I became a huge fight fan, and that's my model. That's what I'm going to build now here today."

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