Jake Paul
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So my, my business partner and most valuable promotions, Nikki is one of the best negotiators in the world, but he was the CFO at a UFC when they, they sold to endeavor and he helped lead the sale and was a partner part of their organization for many years.
So you think Dana took that personally?
Oh yeah, that's a whole big part of the beef.
It's not just me, it's the fact that Nakisa and I have teamed up together.
So yeah, definitely a sore subject for Dana.
Yeah, I think it's just having the relationships and making the right fights at the right moments.
And we've also, you know, put on amazing events and have great relationships with so many fighters.
And so we're able to pull together the Ronda Rouseys, the Francis Ngannous, the Nate Diaz's, the...
the Mike Perry's because we've always been fighter first.
So people love working with us.
We came into the world that was, I say it was like taxi and we're Uber in the fight world.
The way we run things is like a startup professional treating fighters right.
We're on time, we're pay instantly.
all these little details, production, fighter kits, helping them, instant communication, social media tips, the list goes on.
These things are all like super basic to me and Nikisa, but in the fighting world, it's like fighters will fight and then like not get paid for like a year.
And just like there's so many issues in the sport.
So just by running it like a proper SF startup, we've
Amongst many other things, but that's why we've been able to become the number one promoter in the sport in four years when a lot of these other people have been doing it for 30, 40, 50 years.
I mean, Bob Arum, I don't even know.