They are old promotions anyway. If MMA will grow up, the EU will ban it. Russia and UK care the most, but Russia could have been 5 times better in MMA than today since they have so many fighters in different style. And the British MMA scene is a joke. Boxing taking over there, and I didn"t happen before 2010 but these years.
Compared to MMA, we have loads of promotions. Just that they don"t have the best fighters which were in the Netherlands and Romania for a while (because of their promotions). Now the scene is opened up, since including Romania is divided. You can see amazing production even in Poland, in that DSF. In Germany, we have a pretty similar production, in the production where fights the most famous German heavyweight right now. But it"s not Mix Fight.
And Italy puts some good shows for years, Russia the same. Oktagon in Slovakia? It"s at least comparable to the kickboxing promotions of Czech Republic? I doubt so. I know W5 is Russian but they are hardly hosting shows now in Russia, all are in Central Europe. Just that in Slovakia, they are really minor. Croatia puts shows for years, etc.
You must understand a thing, in kickboxing we (the Europeans) are the best, in MMA not. The level of Cage Warriors was laughable compared to the UFC. While in kickboxing we had one of the best promos in the world. Not huge discrepancy, compared to K-1/Glory. In MMA in Europe it's bigger. Maybe some Russians though are really pillars of the world"s MMA, but notice hardly Europe had a champion in UFC. Most of them were Americans and Brazilians. Then a few Russians. Very rarely a Dutch or a Brit.