Say you’re a regional fight promoter. Say this is how you make your living, putting on fights, selling tickets and VIP tables and sponsorships and anything else you can so that you still have some money left over after the fighters are paid. How are you supposed to accomplish that, exactly? How do you ensure that you don’t go broke trying to be a small-town Dana White? If you ask the guys at CES MMA in New England, they’ll point you to their featherweight champion Matt Bessette .