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WWE, UFC form TKO Group Holdings | POST x Wrestlenomics

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🗓️ 13 September 2023

⏱️ 79 minutes

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Summary

John Pollock and Brandon Thurston discuss the completed merger between WWE and UFC to form TKO Group Holdings and all the ramifications of the deal.

John & Brandon speak with Patrick Auger of The Fight Business Podcast who runs the Auger Consulting Group to discuss the merger, short and long-term ideas, the combination of resources, and what this will mean for wrestlers & fighters in both promotions.

Plus: TKO dividend payout and Vince’s big payout, lowest WWE Raw audience in history, NXT does a huge number, Royal Rumble 2024 location, and more.


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0:00.0

Welcome to Pollock and Thurston. I am John Pollock and he is Brandon Thurston as we are

0:06.3

now living in the era of TKO group holdings with the merger completed several executives

0:14.4

doing the media rounds for going us and here is Brandon and I to talk about all of the

0:21.5

big breakdown of this merger, what it means and information that we have gotten over

0:26.7

the past 24 hours because boy has TKO spared no expense with their mailing list functionality

0:33.5

of working. I can guarantee you it works and small bit of advice, the green font on white

0:40.4

not a fan, not a fan. It's a lime green too. It's not like dark green. It's not forced

0:45.1

green. Lime green. The green font can just be discarded, okay? Not cutting edge, not

0:50.6

eye catching. It's an eye sore and I would just happily take the black text. Let's just

0:56.4

keep it traditional. If you look at your email, you know how it will group together multiple

1:01.9

messages from the same address. It's something like 33 from 127 from the W1. These are notifications

1:10.2

about fileings and stuff. There was definitely not a easing into things. Plenty of homework

1:17.4

on the first day of TKO from a 251 page 8K filing among many, many SEC documents. If you

1:25.5

look close enough, you realize Vince McMahon very profitable day for the man. But let's talk

1:31.0

a bit about just kind of the overall picture here for those that sort of are just following

1:36.1

this at a at a cursory level. But essentially this company now takes form where endeavor has

1:43.2

51% of this new company and WWE shareholders holding on to 49%, which would have been

1:49.8

a lot smaller of a percentage, if not for Vince McMahon, who had the shareholders front

1:55.9

of mind during these negotiations and his presence alone, bump those percentage points

2:00.0

up several at the request of Arya Manual, who was willing to give him 49% as long as Vince

2:04.8

McMahon is part of the deal. And here he is. That's that's what's in the filing that

2:09.8

gives the narrative of how the steel came together was it was 43% for WB, but then after

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