Filed under: Featured Videos , News , UFC , Videos Taking a page from bigger, “mainstream” sports leagues, for years the UFC held an annual “Athlete Summit,” helping to educate the league’s fighters on important aspects of being a professional athlete. While the UFC has, in the past, catered the event to all athletes – veteran and prospect – and covered a range of topics such as performance-enhancing drugs, athlete management, financial planning, social media and media duties, this year’s edition of the summit was for 20 hand-picked veteran fighters only. The focus, according to UFC Director of Athlete Development James Kimball, is on preparing the veteran athletes to transition to their post-fighting life. “This is a hand selected group, an intimate setting – a great setting for learning,” Kimball told MMAjunkie. “We’re educating them on financial management, entrepreneurship, impact to their community, and our goal is that they find one of those niches and take away something from that. It will help them transition out of their UFC careers eventually, at some point
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Video: UFC holds ‘Athlete Summit’ for hand-picked group of veteran fighters – MMA Junkie