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Convicted Artist Magazine was fortunate to be in Las Vegas over the weekend for the UFC Fan Expo 2010. The part trade show, part meet and greet and part grappling competition featured keynote speeches from many UFC fighters, UFC executive Lorenzo Fertitta and Dana White. According to UFC officials this years expo more than doubled its audience from the previous year.
UFC president Dana White said Saturday that UFC Fan Expo 2010 drew an estimated 125,000 fans to the Mandalay Bay Events Center in Las Vegas. We attended UFC Fan Expo 2009, which took place prior to the promotion's UFC 100 event, drew between thirty to fifty thousand people.
Some of the fighters in attendance for UFC Fan Expo 21010 included Bas Rutten, Mike Goldberg, Junior Dos Santos, Sam Stout, Forrest Griffin, the elder Nogueira, Wanderlei Silva, Roy Nelson, Vitor Belfort, Jake Shields, Nate Quarry ,Josh Koshcheck, Matt “The Immortal” Brown, and Chris Lytle.
Steven Arredondo
www.convictedartist.com
Photos by Staff Photographer PJ Russo
