Let’s take a trip back in time to roughly five years ago: Dana White’s Contender Series was about to begin its third season on the air and it did so in a new facility. After having spent the first two years of its life inside the TUF Gym, the original home of The Ultimate Fighter television series, the Tuesday night MMA promotion would instead originate from the new UFC Apex.
UFC CEO Dana White first took notice of the abandoned property that was to become the Apex two years prior to its opening when Endeavor CEO Ari Emanuel saw it from a window and didn’t know what the building was or the property’s owner.