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Did you guys hear? Dana White emerged from his holiday to declare his future dominion over the entire planet. 

"UFC will be the biggest sport in the world by 2020. People were saying I was a lunatic 10 years ago when we first got this going, but the stuff we're working on right now on so many levels is mind-boggling.... The sport was just sanctioned in Massachusetts and Vancouver. We're going to get it done in Ontario and New York in 2010. And we're already working on taking the UFC global. We've already done Germany, England and Ireland, and we just sold 22,000 seats for an event in Australia in 15 minutes.... Right now we are on some form of television in over 175 countries. We're all human beings and we all 'get' fighting.... Me and Lorenzo Fertitta will sit down and figure out a game plan for the next 10 years, and we'll execute it. So, is 10 years enough time to make this the biggest sport in the world? Hell, yeah."

Admirable that Dana White fancies himself a Napoleon but someone should really tell White about this sport called soccer because it is simply not possible for the UFC to overcome the cultural, economic and popular significance of soccer throughout the world in just ten years. 

Here's a small anecdote that WKR previously wrote, which accurately sums up the power in all three of the aforementioned spheres.

When one compares soccer's status around the globe to the UFC's, soccer is not merely in another stratosphere it is in another Galaxy-- probably Andromeda. Case in point, the 80,000 fans who showed up to watch Cristiano Ronaldo try on a jersey or the $130 million (£80m, €93million) that Real Madrid paid Manchester United just for the option to negotiate with Ronaldo. Truly mind boggling numbers for the world of mixed martial arts, could the UFC even draw 80,000 fans to UFC 100?    

By the way UFC 100 didn't draw 80,000 fans. 

This isn't the first time that Dana White's Renfield-like proclamations required a realists perspective. For instance WKR detailed the ten-fold increase in ratings the UFC would need to achieve in order to just draw even with football in the United States. 

Look, the fact that MLS players not named David Beckham can make more annually than top-tier UFC fighters should put this lunacy into perspective. 

Then again, White could be a contemporary Cassandra, able to predict the future to the curse of constant disbelief.