Ever Wondered Who Owns the UFC
You better buckle up for this. I’m just going to read very mainstream sources and I’m going to let you fill in the blanks. Don’t worry, it won’t be hard to do. So in case we’re not clear, we’re talking about the UFC, the biggest mixed martial arts fighting promotion in the world.
About the Holding Companies TKO Group, Endeavor Group and the CEO Ari Emanuel.
TKO Group Holdings owns UFC, which is owned by Endeavor Group Holdings. The CEO of TKO Group is Ari Emanuel. He is also the CEO of Endeavor Group, the bigger company, along with Patrick Whitesell, the executive chairman. I guess his name is probably pronounced Ari Emanuel because it’s Jewish, not Mexican.
His father, Jerusalem born Benjamin Emanuel, was a pediatrician who was in the Irgun, a Zionist paramilitary group that operated in mandatory Palestine during the 30s and 40s. Just to clarify, paramilitary group means terrorist organization. Just to clarify, that is not my definition or Hamas’s definition or Palestinians’ definitions. That is literally the Israeli government’s definition. In 1948, they outlawed the Irgun and Lehi groups, declaring them terrorist organizations.
So anyways, Ari Emanuel‘s dad was a Zionist terrorist from back when Israel was being formed. And now he runs the UFC. Well, he owns the UFC. Dana White runs it.
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