Source: UFC sale to WME-IMG not closed yet

[Wild]

It sounds as though, despite being announced, the UFC’s sale to WME-IMG may not be 100% concluded.

It sounds like fighters are going to have to wait just a little bit longer before hailing their new overlords and masters. At least that’s the latest update according to Dave Meltzer and the Wrestling Observer newsletter. The latest issue contains a lot of details about Brock Lesnar and the fallout from his UFC 200 return and subsequent drug test failure, but this particular note caught our eye.

It’s about the UFC sale, which seemed to be completed after the promotion sent around a memo to their staff and fighters announcing the transfer of the UFC to an investment group principally involving the talent agency WME-IMG. Dana White himself even commented saying that the promotion looked…


Source: UFC sale to WME-IMG not closed yet

 

[dacofty]

I read with would take a month or so

 

[Ghost Bro]

arielhelwaniThe Fox Theatre

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• arielhelwaniLorenzo Fertitta used to stand there. Now it's WME-IMG's Patrick Whitesell. The dawn of a new era in MMA.

 

[DFW4L]

so, a 4 billion dollar transaction has holding period / escrow, eh?

Fuck, I thought Ari just whipped a check out, spit in his hand and KABOOM

(directed at click bait author, not OP)

 

[Qat]

arielhelwaniThe Fox Theatre

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• arielhelwaniLorenzo Fertitta used to stand there. Now it's WME-IMG's Patrick Whitesell. The dawn of a new era in MMA.

His name is Whitesell?