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The Playbook With David Meltzer

Peter Murray : CEO of Professional Fighters League| #ThePlaybook 113

The Playbook With David Meltzer

David Meltzer, Entrepreneur.com

Entrepreneurship, Business, Careers

4.61.9K Ratings

🗓️ 11 July 2019

⏱️ 24 minutes

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Summary

On Episode 113 of #ThePlaybook, Peter Murray, CEO of the Professional Fighters League and sports industry veteran, chats about: How sometimes you have to make sacrifices to get to where you want to in life, even if that means starting out in a mailroom. Why working with Nolan Ryan helped him realize the power of sports marketing Why he’s so excited to help the Professional Fighters League drive the evolution of mixed martial arts How the exciting tournament format of the PFL sets the league apart from it’s competitors Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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On this episode of the Playbook if you want a job in sports this is the episode to listen to because I have Peter Murray the CEO of the Professional Fighters League and he's done it all from the MMA to the NFL. This is entrepreneurs the playbook, where each

0:16.0

week I bring you some of the greatest athletes, celebrities, and entrepreneurs to talk

0:21.2

about their personal and professional

0:23.5

playbook to success in what made them champions on the field and in the

0:28.4

boardroom. I'm your host and CEO of Sports One Marketing, David Melzer.

0:34.0

This is Dave Melzer with Entrepreneurs The Playbook

0:40.0

and I have another fighter here,

0:42.0

not the kind of fighter that you think of but it's Peter Murray

0:44.7

CEO of Professional Fighters League.

0:46.7

Great to be here.

0:47.7

I really appreciate you coming on because so many people dream about getting a job in sports and the majority people have the

0:53.0

majority people have the cool jobs in sports at least

0:55.0

have jobs like you and I that nobody's really heard of.

0:58.0

Right. And so I want to start with kind of when you were a kid,

1:01.0

what do you dream about being?

1:03.0

When I was a kid, I really want to be a police officer.

1:07.5

Really?

1:08.5

I have family and NYPD.

1:11.0

I grew up, New York City kid in the Bronx.

1:14.0

I thought they were the leaders in the community,

1:17.0

doing the right thing on behalf of people and helping people.

1:21.0

But took the test, passed the test, got into the academy and I decided to pursue my passion and at the time and that was really the intersection when I was in college.

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