UFC lined up many new corporate partnership deals this year. This scene is from a hallway at UFC's new headquarters that opened earlier this year.

UFC Scored Numerous Sponsorship Deals in 2017

By ALAN SNEL   Poor UFC.   After selling for more than $4 billion and opening a gorgeous new corporate campus headquarters complete with high-tech training center, the Las Vegas-based professional MMA fight club that produces better TV programming than most networks just doesn't dominate the local sports headlines like it used to in Las Vegas now that the Raiders are building their $1.8 billion domed football stadium and the Golden Knights are spinning a Cinderella first-year tale.   But don't feel too bad for WME-IMG's Ultimate Fighting Championship.   UFC 219 on Saturday features an intriguing women's featherweight title fight pitting Chris "Cyborg" Justino against Holly Holm, best-known for walloping UFC's biggest mainstream star, Ronda Rousey, at UFC 193 in Nov. 2015.   UFC headquarters features an impressive waiting lobby with video screens at your disposal.[/caption
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Alan Snel

Alan Snel brings decades of sports-business reporting experience to LVSportsBiz.com. Snel covered the business side of sports for the South Florida (Fort Lauderdale) Sun-Sentinel, the Tampa Tribune and Las Vegas Review-Journal. As a city hall beat reporter, Snel also covered stadium deals in Denver and Seattle. In 2000, Snel launched a sport-business website for FoxSports.com called FoxSportsBiz.com. After reporting sports-business for the RJ, Snel wrote hard-hitting stories on the Raiders stadium for the Desert Companion magazine in Las Vegas and The Nevada Independent. Snel is also one of the top bicycle advocates in the country.