Ultimate Fighting Championship (UFC) and Vince McMahon\u0027s World Wrestling Entertainment (WWE) are merging into one $21\u002Dbillion company.
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Endeavor Group Holdings Inc. — which runs UFC — will assume a 51% controlling interest, with current shareholders of publicly traded WWE obtaining the remaining 49%. “Together, we will be a $21+ billion live sports and entertainment powerhouse with a collective fan base of more than a billion people, and an exciting growth opportunity,” WWE’s executive chairman Vince McMahon said in a statement.Article contentApr 2, 2023; Inglewood, CA, USA; Cody Rhodes and Roman Reigns during Wrestlemania Night 2 at SoFi Stadium.
Don’t get your trunks in a knot, wrestling fans, over the real-ness of the rasslin’. It’s athletic and dangerous as hell. Noted. But as the late, great Shelby Strother — asports columnist in the 1980s — once noted, if pro wrestling were real, Andre the Giant would be champion and everyone else would be dead.
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