The UFC is throwing one last shindig on FOX on Saturday night in Milwaukee, before moving in with its new broadcast partner, ESPN. It’s been an interesting run.
When the UFC signed its deal with FOX in 2011, there was still a movement in place — a movement frontiered by diehards, and fueled by casuals —towards the idea of “legitimacy.” Making MMA legit. And if we’re being honest, with such a fingers-crossed set-up in play, there really was a certain romance in imagining your aunt flipping channels and stumbling across a blood-soaked Nate Diaz in a cage floating double-birds at whoever’s blood he was wearing.