Jon Ossoff
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OK, so that's so just put that aside because that's its own little wild card.
But let's just talk about what we've gotten here.
Two different ways to understand that there's the MMA side and then there is the boxing side and they do differ.
The UFC has been famous about never letting anyone have control of their product.
When they would do television deals, in most other sports, the network assigns who the commentators are going to be and who's going to cover it.
That is not the way it works with UFC.
They always have control over all their production, all their broadcasts, all their systems of information, over their journalists, everything.
I'm on the outs with them because I do conversations like this.
So they will give they'll bring premier events to some of these places.
They are going to go to Saudi Arabia.
They haven't announced one yet, but they've been there or, you know, other UAE.
They've been to Dubai a million times because they'll do deals like any of these kind of dictators and these governments who just pay the maximum money they'll bring there.
But they don't give them control over the product and they don't necessarily bring always their A game to Saudi Arabia.
They'll bring their A game to UAE.
But that's the general idea.
The boxing side is very, very different.
Zufa Boxing, which is that TKO boxing vertical, so there's the WWE, MMA, and now the boxing vertical, they are being bankrolled by them, essentially.
They are trying to get this legislation passed that would take away these protections, that would enable them to monopolize, but then who's footing the bill is Saudi Arabia on the other end.
And so that promotion and that union is actually quite significant, to say nothing of how the rest of the boxing world has โ
You don't get modern boxing without the Saudis at this point.