There is a reason that records for MMA attendance in the U.S. pale in comparison to some of the better-attended sporting events: Fighting is an intimate activity, and sprawling only applies to technique, not spectacle. Get too far past a 20,000-seat arena and you run the risk of turning athletes into specks of undefined motion.
But because there’s cachet that comes with a big audience number, the UFC has floated the idea of holding an event at Cowboys Stadium, the ostentatious 80,000-seat mini-town…