MMA Junkie reports that the UFC’s senior vice president and general manager of Brazil, Giovani Decker, has resigned from the company.
An official announcement from the UFC will be made shortly.
Prior to his stint with the UFC, he was the president of ASICS Brazil.
Decker’s last newsworthy decision with the UFC was the announcement that the company would not punish Roy Nelson for a kick at referee John McCarthy for not stopping his fight with Antonio Silva sooner. Nelson believed that he inflicted more damage on Silva than he should have since McCarthy was slow to stop the fight. Decker indicated that it would be up to the Brazilian athletic commission to decide whether to punish Nelson for his post-fight actions.
Decker joined the UFC in March 2015 after his time with ASICS Brazil.
Payout Perspective:
We will see if the UFC announcement comes with the news of a replacement for Decker. The UFC has held 25 events in Brazil and the latest event last week drew surprisingly good ratings with Cristinae “Cyborg” Justino in the main event.
Tsktsktsk….hahahaha…whatever happened to ufc china?
To directly quote you from the article just below.
It’s China and then Ari and then the celebrity investors…
……… All Dana’s bosses hahaha
So what the hell are you talking about? They have been in charge less than 3 months.
China has thrown its hat into pro boxing and that seems to pull the biggest numbers over there. Zou Shiming turned pro with a 500K payday, Taishon Dong is making noise in his rise up the heavyweight ladder, knockout artist KAnat Islam, etc etc. With the history of and similarities with Wing Chun punching techniques and movement, I would be surprised if mma takes hold in China like boxing has, particularly in big money machine Macau