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Jon Ossoff

๐Ÿ‘ค Speaker
687 total appearances

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The Bulwark Podcast
Jon Ossoff: Trump Is a Lifelong Racist

OK, so that's so just put that aside because that's its own little wild card.

The Bulwark Podcast
Jon Ossoff: Trump Is a Lifelong Racist

But let's just talk about what we've gotten here.

The Bulwark Podcast
Jon Ossoff: Trump Is a Lifelong Racist

Two different ways to understand that there's the MMA side and then there is the boxing side and they do differ.

The Bulwark Podcast
Jon Ossoff: Trump Is a Lifelong Racist

The UFC has been famous about never letting anyone have control of their product.

The Bulwark Podcast
Jon Ossoff: Trump Is a Lifelong Racist

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.

The Bulwark Podcast
Jon Ossoff: Trump Is a Lifelong Racist

That is not the way it works with UFC.

The Bulwark Podcast
Jon Ossoff: Trump Is a Lifelong Racist

They always have control over all their production, all their broadcasts, all their systems of information, over their journalists, everything.

The Bulwark Podcast
Jon Ossoff: Trump Is a Lifelong Racist

I'm on the outs with them because I do conversations like this.

The Bulwark Podcast
Jon Ossoff: Trump Is a Lifelong Racist

So they will give they'll bring premier events to some of these places.

The Bulwark Podcast
Jon Ossoff: Trump Is a Lifelong Racist

They are going to go to Saudi Arabia.

The Bulwark Podcast
Jon Ossoff: Trump Is a Lifelong Racist

They haven't announced one yet, but they've been there or, you know, other UAE.

The Bulwark Podcast
Jon Ossoff: Trump Is a Lifelong Racist

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.

The Bulwark Podcast
Jon Ossoff: Trump Is a Lifelong Racist

But they don't give them control over the product and they don't necessarily bring always their A game to Saudi Arabia.

The Bulwark Podcast
Jon Ossoff: Trump Is a Lifelong Racist

They'll bring their A game to UAE.

The Bulwark Podcast
Jon Ossoff: Trump Is a Lifelong Racist

But that's the general idea.

The Bulwark Podcast
Jon Ossoff: Trump Is a Lifelong Racist

The boxing side is very, very different.

The Bulwark Podcast
Jon Ossoff: Trump Is a Lifelong Racist

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.

The Bulwark Podcast
Jon Ossoff: Trump Is a Lifelong Racist

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.

The Bulwark Podcast
Jon Ossoff: Trump Is a Lifelong Racist

And so that promotion and that union is actually quite significant, to say nothing of how the rest of the boxing world has โ€“

The Bulwark Podcast
Jon Ossoff: Trump Is a Lifelong Racist

You don't get modern boxing without the Saudis at this point.