If you are a fan of the UFC, Strikeforce, Bellator, One FC, INVICTA FC, King of the Cage, XFC, Titan Fighting Championship, MFC, Heiwa DREAM, M-1 Global, etc. Then you really need to be supporting local/regional MMA events!
Without these local & regional promotions you don't have national & international MMA. The stars of tomorrow can be seen at these local events - this is a perfect opportunity to see them before they hit the bigger organizations.
If you like watching MMA on TV... then just wait until you get to see it LIVE at a local or regional event! It is a truly entertaining & exciting night... and by missing one UFC pay-per-view and instead attending a local show you are making an impact on the local MMA scene.
If you have friends who train at a local gym and fight for a local promotion... then you need to be attending those events to support your friends. Buying a ticket to a local event and purchasing merchandise sold there helps make the event more successful, and that means the promoter is more likely to have events in your area. That means your friends have more opportunities to fight so their carrer can develop. Tell your friends about your experience at the event & try to get more people to attend the next one. Successful events mean more events which means more fighters get to fight for spectators/friends/family.
If your friends are sponsored by a company, visit that company's website & buy their merchandise. This allows the company to increase sponsorships with existing fighters they sponsor as well as being able to sponsor more fighters. Tell your friends about the companies that sponsor your friends who fight. Help your friend out by getting more exposure for them and their sponsors. Getting the word out makes events more succesful, allows sponsors to keep sponsoring more fighters and advances the career of the fighters fighting in these local events.
No matter where you are, there is most likely a promotion that holds MMA events either in your immediate area, or relatively close by. If you look around you can find MMA events or BJJ/submissions/grappling competitions that you can attend. Every time you do this you support the local combat sports scene... and this helps the scene to flourish.
Supporting local fighters and promoters helps the entire system. By supporting local events the fighters get to fight more fights, which means their career will develop and they can possibly graduate from being an amateur to being a professional MMA fighter. Having more experience allows them to be available for better opportunities in promotions that are regional or even national... which eventually could lead to a local fighter getting a contract to fight for a national/international MMA promotion like the UFC, Strikeforce, Bellator, KOTC. You can't get to the big show without putting in the time at the smaller shows, and people supporting the local/regional shows is how a fighter gets from point A to point B. Supporting local/regional promotions means there will be more events in your area, as well as better and bigger named fighters getting to fight on the fight cards. It's a domino effect working in reverse - success at the lower level flows upward... for fighters & promotions.
If you are a fan of MMA, then do your part by supporting local MMA.!!
