Muhammad Ali Revival Act | All In Tickets | Nielsen Gauge | Pollock & Thurston
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Muhammad Ali Act / TKO
The Muhammad Ali American Boxing Revival Act is going to allow boxing promoters to work outside of the existing Muhammad Ali Act and would create them under the label of a Unified Boxing Organization, which would put them into a separate lane where they do not have to work under the guidelines of the Ali Act.
TKO / Boxing
When you see UBO, which stands for the new type of entity this law will create, just think UFC but boxing. That should have been the name of this company.
They reportedly signed Conor Benn to a $15 million deal. If that is the type of money you're offering, that is telling us we are going to spend as much as we need, and it's going to lure a lot of the fighters over.
Live Nation / Ari Emanuel
The Wall Street Journal reports that Donald Trump heard about the Live Nation case from friends, including Hollywood talent agent and former Live Nation board member Ari Emanuel, who told the president it should be settled.
Boxing regulation
Under the current Ali Act, fighters have to be able to know what the broadcast revenue and ticket information is. Under these new UBO deals, you don't need to know any of that stuff. Just trust us.
AEW All In
All In London tickets went on sale last week. The first estimate on Friday was 19,883 tickets distributed for the August 30th event at Wembley Stadium. This is a difference of about 41% from the last time.
David Sahadi
The case against David Sahadi is still ongoing. He has a next court date about just under one year from now. Basically, he has to stay away from the complainant and stay on good behavior. If that happens, the case could be dismissed at that point.
NXT
NXT's library is now on YouTube. They seem to like that is where they are going to reside for the time being. To go to the effort of just uploading all of this, I would think they're imagining they're going to be parking this here on YouTube for at least some time.
AEW Ratings
I think when we talk about ratings, they're slightly up. We're even seeing that somewhat in the Dynamite ratings, comparing this year if you just lay it seasonally over last year.
Netflix
Netflix is increasing its pricing yet again. For the second time in less than two years, the standard plan with ads has now gone up $1 to $8.99 a month. The standard plan with no ads is rising by $2.
