UFC set to take bow

Dana White has been waiting for Saturday night for more than a decade. The UFC’s first network prime-time appearance on Fox will be a new peak in the growth of mixed martial arts from a banned sport into a billion-dollar enterprise. Yet the UFC’s president and tireless one-man promotional machine sees Cain Velasquez’s heavyweight title defense against Brazil’s Junior Dos Santos as the beginning of a new growth spurt, not the end of a quest. Fox believes millions of uninitiated viewers will get their first taste of the violent, growing sport by tuning into the one-hour show from Anaheim, Calif. White unflinchingly calls it the biggest night in UFC history, saying the bout will set a tone for its landmark seven-year television deal with Fox Sports. – AP