00:00Explain to me this is, is UFC, UFC had this, this big moment where it became probably the
00:06most famous combat sport promotion, right? But I feel now that there's so much competition.
00:11There's, there's a gazillion different leagues and promotions coming out. How is UFC retaining
00:18talent? How are they continue to be, you know, the big name, the big marking name for fighters
00:24to move on to be part of? So a big move was their signing with Paramount. When they signed with
00:30Paramount, they put an end to their pay-per-views. They're getting $7 billion or more. I might,
00:35I might actually be underselling it, but I think it's $7 billion over seven years.
00:40That's a billion dollars in the pocket every year. Which means that they're getting a little lazier.
00:47They're, they're sending a lot of no names. They're, they're, they're letting some people go that cost
00:51so much money, some veterans that, that are, that are pricing out. And so the UFC is they've,
00:57you know, they're, they're, they're kind of sitting on, uh, uh, what do you call them?
01:01Their laurels. They're sitting on their laurels a little bit. So you do have other leagues popping
01:05up. You do have also other, not, not exactly MMA, but like you have that real American freestyle.
01:10So they're trying to make a thing out of regular, uh, and also boxing's making a comeback.
01:14That celebrity boxing circuit actually.
01:17Do you think actually actually brought the attention back into the sport?
01:20It got attention back on boxing. And now you have people like Ryan Garcia and,
01:23and, and boxers coming up and then you have the UFC brass getting involved with Zufa boxing.
01:27Yes.
01:28I think that's diluting their energy. Dana White has been criticized because he's been
01:31in a bunch of press conferences and when they ask him about certain fighters, he doesn't know.
01:35He used to be an expert about every fight.
01:37Every fight.
01:37You ask him about every fighter. He knows everything.
01:39Now he doesn't know. So he, you're absolutely right. The UFC's influence is diluting it throughout
01:45combat sports. And it's because they're sitting on the rules because they have a billion dollars
01:48coming in every year from Paramount. I mean, it's they're in the green.
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