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mma.fanhouse.com - 8/19/2008

UFC President Dana White on MMA in the Olympics: 'I Hope I'm Alive to See It'

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I spoke to UFC President Dana White today at an event to promote UFC 90, and with the Olympics going on, I asked him what he thinks of the possibility that mixed martial arts will one day be an Olympic sport. He thinks it can happen. "I hope I'm alive to see it," White said. "I don't think it's going to happen soon, but then again I thought it was going to take longer than it did for us to ...

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