In Maggie Hendricks blog post, she explains Zuffa’s acquirement of MMA company Strike force. She points out that Zuffa made this purchase to further their goal to eliminate all of competitors in the MMA industry. Furthermore, this is it’s third company acquisition since the world-renounced Pride Fighting Championship. Maggie does not say wether this was a good move on Zuffa’s part, but she does state, “that it’s a definite game changer.”

Although Maggie’s point that only time will tell if Zuffa made a good decision is true, I believe that it will be definitely be beneficial to it. To clarify, Strikeforce was the UFC’s (MMA company owned by Zuffa) only real threat in terms of fan base. Also, Strikeforce owned one of the elite pound-for-pound fighters: Nick Diaz^1, Zuffa is now in control of his contract. Therefore, it now basicly owns all Pound-For-Pound fighters and the top four MMA companies. Moreover, MMA is a constantly growing sport which is gaining immediate fame worldwide. For example, for MMA event: UFC 137, their where 280,000 pay-per view sales. Their is little possibility that Zuffa will be affected negatively from it’s acquirement of Strike force.

Footnotes: Pound-For-Pound: MMA FIghters, http://fighting-mma.com/top10/pound-4-pound.php