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Why black and gold colour themes for many of your websites and business branding?
Numerous reasons. This will be fully answered in the book that will be public sometime in the future.
There was a series of events that influenced this decision, as there was for the choice of company name, Media Man, that eventually became Media Man Australia and then Media Man Int, part of the Media Man Group.
My late father Rick "Tricky Ricky" (Eric) Tingle, was a truck driver who then became a modest size trucking and transport operator, who went on to become a property developer and self-made multi-millionaire. His main truck of choice was a Mack
@MackTrucks
R-600. Before this he had a few Diamond T's and Diamond Rio's. These trucks and in particular "The Black Mack" helped make Dad a very happy, wealthy, and successful man. He got up to approximately 5 trucks and a dozen trailers - container trailers, cattle trailers and all sorts. The second-hand truck largely did the job of a brand new, top of the line Mack Superliner or equivalent, that was about 5 or 10 times the price. Substance often beats style and glossy brochures, and hard work and big hours does have its merits. From around age 10 I used to wash the truck and trailers and I would help paint the rims (usually silver, rather than gold). The Mack Bulldog was gold in color.
Down the track I would become more fashion aware. I was in the position to buy just about any clothes I wanted. A van full of luxury designer brand fashion used to frequent the Northern Beaches of Sydney and stop by Newport Beach near one of our properties on Barrenjoey Road. It was shopping time one weekend per month and at less than half price! I discovered Versace
@Versace
as well as Benetton
@benetton
, Calvin Klein
@CalvinKlein
and others and then I became aware of what gold coins and gold bullion was. I even had a coin collection stolen - expensive lesson. Then gold pro wrestling championship belts entered the picture and more non-coincidences.
Circa 2001 I decided to get some proper and professional business cards made up from a local (at the time) logo design, graphic designer and creative genius contact, Theo of T-Rex
@trex_art
who was based just a stones throw down the road from my place at Waterview Street, Balmain. I noticed some gold and shiny silver themes in the portfolio that included a few rock stars. The silver and black design for magician Sam Powers grabbed me, so I asked Theo to a design based on Sam's card to match up to my prime website at that time: Media Man Australia
@mediamanoz
...a few days later I received the digital logo and 1000 or so business cards and was totally blown away.
I learned from a number of master media and promotions men including Harry M. Miller, Max Markson and Michael and Kevin Jacobsen, via interviews, the importance of standing out from the pack and being different and just being yourself.
Black and gold trimmings (boxing and wrestling reference) was (and still is) working a charm. No wonder we still love combat sports and the championship title belts in the likes of WWE
@WWE
, AEW
@AEW
, NWA
@NWA
and UFC
@UFC
.
On a side note we started to explore b2b online based gold bullion, gold coin and gold and silver themed NFT firms and traders. As they say, what will be will be. We're open and have been for over two decades.
At Human Statue Bodyart we helped create, sell, and manage dozens of gold (and silver and bronze) themed human statues, roving performers and models. Gaming, casino and VIP executives and tycoons (aka "whales") were in the mix of clientele.
Did I mention that one of my favorite movies of all time is 'Willy Wonka and The Chocolate Factory'.. Gotta win the golden ticket right Charlie! Another classic movie is simply entitled 'Gold' (1974). A Peter Hunt film and starring Roger Moore from James Bond fame.
We worked on some Bond
@007
'Goldfinger' type campaigns also in our time with Human Statue.
Oh, then there were The Logies in Melbourne that I attended. I didn't win any gold despite a credit as an associate producer for 'Sum Of Existence' as per Internet Movie Database
@IMDb
Just maybe they should change their colors from yellow and black to gold black! We do the odd review for them from time to time, but I find there's never enough hours in the day to get everything done, with our without A.I!
Wonder if any of the new and future developments with X
@X
will help us more with time management and/or our own gold prospecting, virtual and otherwise. Still chasing 'The Internet Matrix Of Things' Holy Grail.
This has been the latest attempt of mine and telling more of my own story, rather than telling that or others.
Hope the readers are more inclined to award us a gold or at least silver for our efforts. We will still accept a bronze if offered. In the minds eye I've got the gold already, but the Internet Matrix is known to play tricks on occasion!
And if you made it to the end of this chapter, there is no trick nor is it a coincidence. Figure out what brought you here. And, where to go from now.
Scribed by (the real) Greg Tingle
Founder and Director
Media Man Group
Media Man Int
Media Man Australia
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Liar or unlucky? Making sense of the Sam Bankman-Fried crypto trial - October 5, 2023
It is difficult to pick who will emerge the biggest loser in the Sam Bankman-Fried trial that has captivated the world. If he is found guilty of fraud, he could face the rest of his life staring at four confining walls in striped pyjamas. But the already beaten-up crypto asset class is also in the frame.
Set in a Manhattan courtroom, this is the litigation equivalent of a page turner.
Bankman-Fried stands accused of stealing billions from his customers, but the under-regulated Wild West environment which cryptocurrencies occupy was arguably an enabler.
And like any page turner, it has lots of juicy details: Bankman-Fried, a young profligate risk-taker, lived the rarefied life of a billionaire – an arguably offensive lifestyle that included ownership of a large exotic real estate portfolio in the Bahamas, and outsized influence in the corridors of US political power and the entertainment industry.
“He had wealth, he had power, he had influence, but all of that was built on lies,” prosecutor Thane Rehn said on the opening day of hearings this week. “He was committing a massive fraud, and taking billions of dollars from thousands of victims.”
In a book recently published by The Big Short writer Michael Lewis, the bestselling author said that at one time Bankman-Fried even explored “the legality of paying Donald Trump himself not to run for president”. Some advisers to Bankman-Fried informed him that Trump’s price was $US5 billion ($7.9 billion), Lewis wrote.
Cryptocurrency is a relatively young asset class that experienced a meteoric rise, capturing the minds of risk-loving investors. It could mint overnight millionaires, or send investors to the wall.
On the spectrum of risk, crypto sat closer to a casino than to government bonds. So not surprisingly, for the most part, it was eschewed by the investing establishment, particularly those managing the trillions of dollars of superannuation and pension funds.
Bankman-Fried became something of a talisman for the industry, and when his crypto trading platform FTX crashed into bankruptcy owing $US3.1 billion to creditors, so did the chances of crypto’s chances of ever being accepted as a legitimate investment.
FTX’s collapse last year was as large and fast as it was noisy.
‘Behind the curtain, Sam Bankman-Fried was not who he appeared to be. He was using his company, FTX, to commit fraud on a massive scale.’
Prosecutor Thane Rehn
The Bankman-Fried trial will remind those arguing that crypto can be a legitimate investment option that the risks attached are considerable, and as supporters they are in the minority.
Rather than a middle-aged, suit-wearing person in an office, the portrait of a crypto investor these days looks like a young person, most often male, who when not trading gimmicky-sounding blockchain assets is playing video games. It is a demographic which rarely baulks at risk.
But it’s worth remembering how crypto as an asset class became difficult to ignore in 2021, with its market value rising to $US3 trillion before it imploded the following year to be worth $US796 billion.
Many of the venture capital funds that joined the crypto craze in 2020 and 2021 were burned, and their current investment in the sector is a shadow of where it was at the peak.
The implosion was the result of a decision by central banks to increase interest rates, making riskier assets far less attractive.
FTX wasn’t the only or the first crypto company to fall. But its implosion hastened the dominoes falling.
Although crypto has now had several periods of reckoning, it still has a pulse. This year, much of the price volatility has disappeared – which perversely would hamper its appeal to investment thrill seekers.
As for Bankman-Fried, the rollercoaster that started moving a year ago is far from finished.
As Rehn summed it up in the court proceedings, “one year ago, it looked like Sam Bankman-Fried was on top of the world. He ran a huge company called FTX. He lived in a $US30 million apartment in the Bahamas. He jetted around the world on private planes. He hung out with celebrities like Tom Brady and politicians like Bill Clinton. Behind the curtain, Sam Bankman-Fried was not who he appeared to be. He was using his company, FTX, to commit fraud on a massive scale.”
Bankman-Fried’s lawyer Mark Cohen in contrast portrays his client as an unlucky guy with a challenged ability to make good judgement calls.
“Things were happening quickly, very quickly. Sam and others were making hundreds of decisions a day,” Cohen said. “And as a result, some things got overlooked … things an older company would have built out over time.”
The jury has the job of sifting through these arguments, and piecing together what really went down at FTX in the crypto craze.
Why Lachlan Murdoch wanted News Corp to stay out of Australia’s betting market - October 5, 2023
As the deadline looms for bookmaker Betr to complete its final payout of now-infamous 100-1 launch odds on a string of sporting events, the inducement is a sore spot with its former investor News Corp, despite a lack of financial exposure.
Betr launched audaciously onto Australia’s wagering scene as a News Corp-backed consortium, reportedly against advice from then co-chair Lachlan Murdoch. A year on, the media giant remains tight-lipped on the status of its $75 million investment, of which it has written down $52 million as a loss.
However, after this story was first published, a Betr executive confirmed that News Corp sold its stake in the fledgling company just four months after it launched.
Last week, Betr founder and Melbourne Storm chair Matthew Tripp told The Australian Financial Review the betting firm was in the market for deals, including a long-touted buyout of PointsBet’s local operations, having turned a “modest profit” in recent months.
News Corp is no longer believed to be exposed to any of the 100-to-1 payouts or involved in any way with Betr, with the Tripp group investors – which now own 100 per cent of the company – expected to front all costs. Betr and News Corp still won’t publicly comment on the status of their relationship.
The wagering group launched in October 2022 as a joint venture between News Corp, Tripp’s investment vehicle TGW and Las Vegas-based Tekkorp. Tripp and his investors – the identities of whom Betr has not revealed – have owned all the company since News Corp sold down its stake in February. It’s believed Tekkorp was not allowed to remain in the consortium after being unable to fund its launch obligations.
Paddy Manning, biographer of Lachlan Murdoch, said Betr never had the support of the News Corp and Fox heir, which according to him was an entirely local play.
“I’m told Lachlan had nothing to do with the formation of the Betr joint venture, it was purely a News Corp Australia decision, and that he was wary of it given how mature the sports betting market is here,” he said.
“Lachlan played no part in the meetings that led to Betr, or in the development of the strategy, my understanding is that he warned against it.”
A source close to the Murdochs, who spoke freely under the condition of anonymity, reaffirmed Lachlan had always been adamant the Australian betting market was over-saturated, unlike the immature and expanding US market.
Murdoch has previously been framed as one of Betr’s orchestrators in media reports. This is because of his prior role in establishing Fox Corp’s Fox Bet and Sun Bets, a News UK betting business aligned with The Sun’s which closed in 2018 two years after launching.
It’s believed Betr first approached the Murdoch-helmed Fox Corp seeking investment and use of its fledgling Fox Bet branding, a request flatly rejected by Murdoch.
The betting venture then looked to News Corp’s majority-owned pay TV company Foxtel for funding, using either Foxtel or sports streaming service Kayo for branding. This request was also denied, this masthead was told.
In Australia, News Corp’s publishing, Foxtel and REA divisions report to New York separately.
The initial and subsequent investments were ultimately signed off with the support of News Corp’s New York management team.
Until September, Lachlan Murdoch was co-chair of News Corp globally, and executive chair and CEO of Fox Corp. After his father Rupert Murdoch announced a move to become chairman emeritus, he is now sole chair of both companies. News Corp’s chief executive is Robert Thomson.
A former News Corp executive, who spoke under the condition of anonymity to speak freely, said several other senior executives in New York were “unsupportive of the venture”, including Rupert Murdoch, and “uncomfortable” with the launch inducement which led to court action lodged by the NSW gaming regulator.
Betr has amassed more than 300,000 users and this week will pay $40 million to punters who backed the Penrith Panthers to win the NRL grand final for a third year in a row. After hedging, Betr’s exposure on this payout is understood to be $18 million.
Tripp said last week it’s generated $225 million in gross profits from the customers its gained since launching, and hedged the bulk of its inducement exposure via lay-off wagers and early pay-outs.
“We had always anticipated [the launch] would cost us somewhere between $50 million and $80 million, depending on how the results fell,” Tripp said.
“For us to have spent $72 million in hard costs, then probably another $20 million in marketing, we spent just under $100 million to generate more than double that.”
News Corp’s plans with Tripp date to 2021, when the local media behemoth agreed to let it leverage its suite of media assets, including its four metro tabloid mastheads.
Shortly after it was hit by the regulator, documents filed with ASIC in March then showed News Corp national executive editor Peter Blunden and the managing director of the group’s consumer division, Mark Reinke, ceased their board director duties, a strong signal the media company was stepping away from Betr.
Since then, News Corp has deferred all questions about its involvement in the business to Betr. Multiple News Corp executives also declined to comment when contacted.
Warner Bros streaming boss flags local Max rollout in blow for Foxtel - October 2, 2023
Warner Bros Discovery’s head of streaming says the broadcasting giant expects to launch its Max platform locally in 2025, putting at risk one of the most lucrative pipelines of content for Foxtel and its Binge platform.
Warner Bros Discovery produces shows like The Last of Us, Succession, Euphoria and The White Lotus through its HBO subsidiary – that programming has ended up on Foxtel because of a long-term licensing deal last renewed earlier this year and up for negotiation in 2025.
But Jean-Briac Perrette, Warner Bros Discovery’s president of global streaming and games, gave the clearest indication yet that the company would launch the Max platform in Australia.
“We’ll do Europe before the Olympics, which we have to get done because we have the Olympics coming in Paris next summer. And then we will get to Asia,” Mr Perrette told media executives in Bali at a summit last week.
“Asia continues to be critically important, but we have to do it in that sequence. And we will get to Asia before the end of next year with our existing markets and then roll out to new markets again, starting in 2025.”
Mr Perrette told the Media Partners Asia APOS event that Warner Bros Discovery would “probably look to launch in a market like Australia after that”. “Australia’s a critically important market for us, where again we think our content is very strong for that market.” he added.
The launch of Max would remove some of the most popular shows and films from the rest of the sector – a blow for Foxtel and Binge. Warner Bros Discovery owns HBO content, like Harry Potter and DC comic franchises, the Discovery library of documentaries and more. Some of this content is currently licensed to different streaming services in Australia.
There are 15 paid streaming players in Australia, including the major players – Netflix, Amazon Prime Video, Disney+, Stan, Binge, Paramount+, Kayo Sports and Apple TV+. But there are also a group of smaller players, like Britbox, CrunchyRoll, Hayu and Optus Sport.
All are competing for a limited pool of Australians’ funds that is being crunched by inflation, interest rate increases and cost-of-living pressures. Netflix lost subscribers for the first time since its launch, research firm Telsyte found in August. Stan is owned by Nine Entertainment, the publisher of The Australian Financial Review.
Mr Perrette said profitability – revenue per user and the competitive landscape – were key considerations for Warner Bros Discovery when they considered whether to enter a new market. India, he said, was one example where it was “just not the right time”.
“Our measures of success are different than some others in the industry. We have three metrics: we have profitability, we have share, and we have scale. And we always said, you know, we’d rather be profitable and in fewer households than have more households and be losing billions of dollars,” he said.
“The company lost over $2 billion last year, we’re now profitable in the first half of the year. We feel great about that ... It’s not just about scale for scale’s sake.”
The past decade has been marked by too many shows, too little money from consumers and too much competition, Mr Perrette said – a “great oversupply at great underpricing”.
“Over the next five to 10 years, you’re going to end up with three to five big global players, in addition to maybe some local champions,” he said, flagging Warner Bros Discovery would look to partner with local studios to make shows.
WWE Hall of Famer Edge makes AEW debut - October 3, 2023
WWE Hall of Famer Edge is now All Elite.
After weeks of rumours, Edge, who will be known as Adam Copeland, made his AEW debut at the end of Sunday's (October 1) WrestleDream pay-per-view.
Copeland appeared after his former tag team partner Christian Cage defeated Darby Allin in a two-out-of-three-falls match for the TNT Championship.
Allin was suffering a beat down from Christian, Luchasaurus, and the newly turned heel Nick Wayne, with Sting attempting to make the save. But with the babyfaces outnumbered, Copeland appeared to make the save and confront his former partner.
While Copeland is unable to use his WWE name, he will still be known as the 'Rated R Superstar' in AEW, as well as having his iconic 'Metalingus' theme.
Copeland's WWE contract expired in September, with his last match taking place in August, where he defeated Sheamus in Toronto.
Following his debut, Copeland was officially made 'All Elite' by AEW CEO Tony Khan, who wrote on X: 'Welcome to the @AEW team! "Rated R Superstar" Adam Copeland @EdgeRatedR is ALL ELITE!'
Copeland later posted a lengthy message to fans on X, where he addressed the end of his WWE career.
'I love WWE and appreciate everything the company did for me,' Copeland wrote. 'Always have, always will. They put me on the map, gave me amazing opportunities and through hard work on both ends I've been supplied with a wonderful life.
'Sometimes relationships just grow apart and I feel the WWE and I have just outgrown each other. I wanted to do more. They didn’t have much more for me to do. Simple as that. And that’s OK. I’ll still be watching and still be supporting all of my friends there.'
Copeland ended by telling fans: 'This ride isn’t over just yet. Just try to have fun, like it should be. Because trust me, I’ll be having fun every time I’m out there in an AEW ring. Let’s go!'
Catch AEW Dynamite live every Thursday at 1am in the UK and Rampage every Saturday at 3am on FITE with an AEW Plus subscription. US customers can also watch Dynamite on TBS and Rampage on TNT, and in the UK, Dynamite repeats air on ITV4.
Social Media
FITE / Yahoo!: Wrestling fans go wild as pro wrestling friendly wars enters a new era.
Pro wrestling friendly war heats up. Adam Copeland had the wrestling fans on edge and it was like, Let's Go! Reminding us of a draft season for other U.S sports, Paid professionals and fans win. Massive thumbs up for the AEW WrestleDream PPV delivered to us in Sydney, Australia via FITE. Mr Copeland was a major hightlight, as was old school brawlers/fighters Cladio Castagnoli vs Josh "The Warmaster" Barnett for us. And as an old school wrestling fan and sometimes commentator from way back I got to relive Inokisms and Inoki Bom-Ba-ye from decades ago. All up it was a wrestling fans dream come true broadcast throughout the world. Well done to all involved in an outstanding and worldclass effort and result. Next round of the PPV/PLE friendly war coming up. Rated R for ratings!
X Twitter October 1
All Elite Wrestling @AEW . Another Dream Match set for WrestleDream. Zero Hour!
"I never felt so good. See, you don't need to be a champion to act like a champion. You have to look inside yourself and find what keeps you going. What keeps me going is this sport and when there is a pay-per-view, dedicated to the sport I love, I'm going to lay out the challenge for anybody who thinks they are man enough to step in my way". Claudio Castagnoli @ClaudioCSRO
"Challenge, he said. Everybody loves to talk about challenges. How they're going to overcome this, conquer that. Somehow they're going to lay something out there in the world so they themselves can climb the top of that mountain. But so often, people really arent ready for what door they've opened up. War is ageless. The ring is a field of combat and where is ring is in the world, you will find me. Tomorrow night Claudio, you are really going to see what a challenge can become". Josh Barnett @JoshLBarnett
"And you will see it live tomorrow. WrestleDream Zero Hour. Josh Barnett vs Claudio Castagnoli. A dream match of sorts, no doubt about it. Antonio Inoki will love to be watching down from above, at his man, Josh Barnett". Tony Schiavone
#AEWWrestleDream #WrestleDream
AEW @AEW WrestleDream. Zero Hour! This is our new real life and favourite dream match on the horizon. This has all the makings and the two key competitors (Barnett and Castagnoli) for this to be an absolute modern day, instant classic says media. Less than 24 hours away. Perhaps a long night as these two warriors prepare mentally and physically for the wrestling war of a lifetime. A war for the ages and world timelime awaits. A beautiful voilence under the premise of a professional wrestling match. How blessed we are. They will be giving their. Thank you in advance. Much respect warriors.
"I still believe in old school values, I still believe in hard work, I still believe in wrestling, and people have showed that's what they want to see" - Claudio Castagnoli @ClaudioCSRO #ClaudioCastagnoli #CSRO #quote #Swiss #oldschool #hardwork #work #wrestling #prowrestling #combatsports #mindset #mbs #legend #media
1st October 2023
All Elite Wrestling Top Brass Tony Khan on wrestling legend Antoni Inoki and WrestleDream
"When Antonio Inoki passed away, the wrestling world lost a king. Mr. Inoki built a legacy and created a kingdom that has touched us all. In doing so, he inspired so many of us to dream up our visions for what pro wrestling can be".
"I'm one of the countless dreamers that Mr. Inoki influenced in his remarkable lifetime. Since he passed away exactly one year ago today, I've worked to create an event for fans around the world to celebrate his creations–and the fighting spirit that he will forever embody."
"Tonight in Seattle, we'll proudly honor Mr. Inoki. The greatest champions and rivalries in the sport will take center stage, and a new era in AEW will begin at WrestleDream". - Tony Khan, AEW @AEW
Videos
AEW Pays Tribute to the Dreamer Antonio Inoki | AEW WrestleDream, LIVE Tonight on PPV
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=f5E15uNU88g&ab_channel=AllEliteWrestling
It's the Last Stop Before WrestleDream! | AEW Control Center: Seattle, 9/30/2023
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0dqtlsnywfc&t=2s&ab_channel=AllEliteWrestling
Zero Hour: AEW WrestleDream Pre-Show | Sunday, October 1 at 6:30pm ET / 3:30pm PT
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yStR5oNdtZc&ab_channel=AllEliteWrestling
#TonyKhan #quote #quotes #AEWWrestleDream #WrestleDream #AEW #AllEliteWrestling #AntonioInoki #Inoki #StrongStyle #FightingSpirit #wrestling #prowrestling #SI #sportsillustrated #combatsports #sportsnews #entertainment #popculture #legends #trend #trending #buzz #media
"Pro wrestlers must be strong...They would further develop in the future and would begin, not show-wrestling, but real fights." - Antonio Inoki regarding Akira Maeda's first lesson. #AntonioInoki #Inoki #quote #wrestling #prowrestling #wrestler #wrestlinglegend #combatsports #fighting #entertainment #sports #popculture #legend #media
"When your fist connects with my chin, take care that your fist is not damaged." - Antonio Inoki, answering to a joke made by boxing legend Muhammad Ali
#AntonioInoki #Inoki #quote #Ali #MuhammadAli #wrestling #prowrestling #wrestler #wrestlinglegend #MMA #martialarts #boxing #combatsports #fighting #entertainment #sports #popculture #legend #media
Ring of Honor. "Yeah, first of all, this is weird. Having championships on the line - I'm not used to that. But, ah, it's an honor. To step in there with someone I respect like Shibata who represents Strong Style and strong style wrestling and that's the wrestling that Mr. Inoki represented and believed in. He believed that professional wrestling is a mixed martial art and that professional wrestlers are the strongest and that's why I think everyone on the card tonight is going to try to prove and do and that's what I'm going to try to do my best at". - Eddie Kingston #EddieKingston #ROH #AEWWrestleDream #WrestleDream #strongstyle #AntoniInoki #FITE
Live from Climate Pledge Arena is Seattle, AEW presents WrestleDream. "It's Sunday. You know what that means"The inaugural WrestleDream from All Elite Wrestling is coming your way"... #AEWWrestleDream
“Pro-wrestling, card games and animation - they were all seen as subculture 20 years ago, but they’ve since grown into a mainstream culture” - Yoshitaka Hashimoto (Bushiroad’s Chief Executive Officer) #YoshitakaHashimoto #quote #prowrestling #cardgames #animation #subculture #mainstream #mainstreamculture #popculture #culture #bushiroad #wrestling #entertainment #Japan #media
Pro Wrestling
“Even if you go back to Japan Pro Wrestling, you’re still second to Baba. If you come to my organization, I’ll make you the president’s ace.” - Michiharu Toyonobori to Antonio Inoki #MichiharuToyonobori #quote #AntonioInoki #Inoki #ace #wrestling #prowrestling #combatsports #legend #legends #sports #entertainment #popculture #Japan #media
AEW @AEW WrestleDream
FTR def Aussie Open
"Both champion and challenger to that point realize how important and how incredible this match is" Nigel McGuiness @McGuinnessNigel
"Everybody enthralled looking on. Oh, centre of the ring" NM
"Spine to spine. That will numb your body up" Taz @OfficialTAZ
"Now Dax Harwood. Out on the floor. He gets hoisted up by Mark Davis. Right in front of our broadcast position. Fletcher and Davis meet. Smashing the spines of Aussie Open" Excalibur @ShutUpExcalibur
"Not quite sure has Dax kicked out of that but it was as impressive as hell" Taz @OfficialTAZ
"Diving headbut by Dax Harwood and that just shows the sense of desperation I think of FTR. Very rarely to they head to the top" Excalibur
"Davis there was a straight crescent kick of the rope" Taz
Super Shatter Machine!
Video
AEW World Tag Team Championship: FTR v Aussie Open | AEW WrestleDream, LIVE Tonight on PPV
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=q7RoifG-INk&ab_channel=AllEliteWrestling
#AEWWrestleDream #WrestleDream #AEW #AllEliteWrestling #FTR #AussieOpen #AEWTag #wrestling #prowrestling #combatsports #sportsnews #entertainment #popculture #legends #trend #trending #buzz #media
All Elite Wrestling August 2023
Wrestling News
All Elite Wrestling @AEW has apprently broken a new world record with today's All In attendance in London, England at the famed Wembley Stadium.
Prior to th Acclaimed/Gunn trios match Nigel McGuiness went to the wing to announce the total paid attendance at Wembley Stadium was 81,035. The number is understood to be an actual world record for most paid attendance for a pro wrestling event. This is different to "papered" numbers for events that included free tickets and comps for fans, VIP, false numbers being annouced by promoters etc. The practices of "papering events" ala giving away free and comp tickets, and annoucing false numbers is well documented in professional wrestling history.
Today's AEW All In: London has officially set the worldwide record for the most paid fans ever at any pro wrestling event! Thank you everyone who made this possible! Don't miss history, moments from NOW on ppv," tweeted AEW top brass Tony Khan.
Wrestling fans, the stakes have just got higher in the pro wrestling business. AEW will certainly be looking for bigger numbers once they return to U.S soil.
AEW was funded by the the Khan Family. Long time wrestler and sports fan, Tony Khan, submitted a business proposal to his extremely wealthy and succesful father, Shahid Khan in 2019 and after much convincing father signed up and opened up the funding to help make Tony's dream a reality. Most fans, wrestlers and business analists agree that the challenger promotion has been good for wrestling, even it it didn't make or hasn't made a profit for years. Many ask about "the real books" and "the real balance sheet".
AEW's success in London will shut up some of the naysayers at least for a while, but they are going to need many more massive crowds to becoming what is known in business as "a fully sustainable business" model.
Credit where due. AEW remains in business and provides wrestlers and fans with another choice of big pro wrestling.
#AEWAllIn #AEW #AllEliteWrestling #TonyKhan #WembleyStadium #worldrecord #wrestlingfans #tickets #gate #boxoffice #prowrestling #wrestlingpromotion #wrestlerpromoter #sportsbiz #showbiz #entertainmentnews #popculture #biz #media
Press conferences add much to the pro wrestling experience.
Combat Sports. Pro Wrestling Strong/Shoot Style
Flashback
Former Pancrase Australia @_PANCRASE_ Promoter Chris DeWeaver
"It was fascinating, I mean really the precursor to a lot of modern MMA training was how they trained - and that had to do a lot with the way Gotch had trained their conditioning, as well as... there's two sides of their art. The actual shoot-style, and then there was also the conditioning and the work ethic that they put in. And yeah, when the foreign fighters came in, we would come in for a week beforehand, to get acclimatized and everything. We would often bring with us, if it was a- in single fighter, they would just have one person come, and that would usually be a trainer/coach, and they would go in and train around the same time with the Japanese guys, but not with the foreign guys. Or, it would be vice versa depending on who you were matched against".
"So, we got to see a lot of their training methodology, and see how they practiced, and that was hugely helpful - because at that time, I was based out of Australia. And Australia has a really strong kickboxing culture- but we had zero wrestling. And so, we did great when the fight was on the feet, but as soon as it went to the ground - BJJ had only been in Australia in that time maybe a year or two".
"And there were only two guys in all of Australia at that time who actually were going to Brazil, and then they weren't really involved with the vale tudo movement or the luta livre or anything like that. It was traditional BJJ. It's great to hear that you were interested and involved back then as well, because back then there was only really two styles of MMA. You had the BJJ guys, and you had these shoot guys- who came out of the three arms that you've correctly identified. That was really it for the guys who had a complete package. Other than that you had guys who did a bit of this, did a bit of that, tried to do it- but those two groups really were the foundation of modern MMA".
"And it's really been forgotten that the whole shoot side… because they never really kept evolving, developing, and moving forward." - Chris DeWeaver #ChrisDeWeaver #quote #Pancrase #PancraseAustralia #PancraseWrestling #PancraseWrestling #wrestling #prowrestling #BJJ #MMA #mixedmartialarts #kickboxing #fighting #combatsports #sportsbiz #entertainment #popculture #sportsmedia #promoter #media
Pro Wrestling
AEW @AEW WrestleDream on shortlist for 'Pro Wrestling PPV Of The Year' says Media Man agency. Huge thumbs up.
Live broadcast was streamed in Australia via FITE @FiteTV
Video
AEW WrestleDream Post Show Media Scrum | 10/1/23
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3y0OmHGliPU&ab_channel=AllEliteWrestling
Video
"Rated R Superstar" Adam Copeland has arrived at ALL ELITE WRESTLING! | AEW WrestleDream 10/1/23
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=n6npyxD_YuU&ab_channel=AllEliteWrestling
"WrestleDream is here to stay". Tony Khan
"Just an amazing blessing". Tony Khan
"Just from start to finish this is one of the greatest nights I've ever been part of"... Tony Khan
"Just very greatful to all of you. Thank you for being here. Thank you for covering this"...
#AEWWrestleDream #WrestleDream #AEW #AllEliteWrestling #AEWMedia #MediaScrum #TonyKhan #AdamCopeland #MJF #ChrisJericho #AntonioInoki #wrestling #prowrestling #combatsports #sportsnews #entertainment #popculture #legend #legends #newsmedia #PPV #payperview #streaming #trend #trending #buzz #media
Wrestling News
All Elite Wrestling @AEW All Out. London
27th August 2023
MJF vs. Adam Cole. AEW World Championship
CM Punk vs Samoa Joe. "Real World Championship"
Hikaru Shida vs Toni Storm vs Saraya vs. Dr. Britt Baker, D.M.D. AEW Women's World Championship
Chris Jericho vs. Will Ospreay
FTR (Dax Harwood and Cash Wheeler) vs The Young Bucks (Matt and Nick Jackson) AEW World Championship
House of Black (Malakai Black, Brody King, and Buddy Matthews) vs Billy Gunn and The Acclaimed (Max Caster and Anthony Bowens. AEW World Trios Championship
Darby Allin and Sting vsSwerve Strickland and Christian Cage. Coffin match
Blackpool Combat Club (Jon Moxley, Claudio Castagnoli, and Wheeler Yuta), Santana, and Ortiz vs Best Friends (Chuck Taylor and Trent Beretta), Orange Cassidy, Eddie Kingston, and Penta El Zero Miedo. Stadium Stampede match
The Golden Elite (Kenny Omega, Kota Ibushi, and "Hangman" Adam Page) vs Bullet Club Gold (Jay White and Juice Robinson) and Konosuke Takeshita
Pre-show
Aussie Open (Mark Davis and Kyle Fletcher) (c) vs MJF and Adam Cole for the ROH World Tag Team Championship
Jack Perry vs HOOK for the FTW Championship
- The AEW Women's World Championship match was previewed. Dr. Britt Baker, D.M.D. was interviewed
CM Punk (c) vs. Samoa Joe. "Real World Championship"
The Golden Elite (Kenny Omega, Kota Ibushi, and "Hangman" Adam Page) vs. Bullet Club Gold (Jay White and Juice Robinson) and Konosuke Takeshita w/ The Gunns and Don Callis
FTR (Dax Harwood and Cash Wheeler) (c) vs. The Young Bucks (Matt and Nick Jackson) for the AEW World Championship
Blackpool Combat Club (Jon Moxley, Claudio Castagnoli, and Wheeler Yuta), Santana, and Ortiz vs. Best Friends (Chuck Taylor and Trent Beretta), Orange Cassidy, Eddie Kingston, and Penta El Zero Miedo in a Stadium Stampede match
Hikaru Shida (c) vs. Toni Storm vs. Saraya vs. Dr. Britt Baker, D.M.D. for the AEW Women's World Championship
Darby Allin and Sting vs. Swerve Strickland and Christian Cage w/ Prince Nana in a Coffin match
Will Ospreay w/ Don Callis vs Chris Jericho w/ Sammy Guevara
House of Black (Malakai Black, Brody King, and Buddy Matthews) (c) w/ Julia Hart vs. Billy Gunn and The Acclaimed (Max Caster and Anthony Bowens) in a House Rules match for the AEW World Trios Championship
MJF (c) vs. Adam Cole for the AEW World Championship
#AEWAllIn #AEW #AllEliteWrestling #TonyKhan #WembleyStadium #worldrecord #wrestlingfans #tickets #gate #boxoffice #prowrestling #wrestlingpromotion #wrestlerpromoter #sportsbiz #showbiz #entertainmentnews #popculture #biz #media
Wrestling News
All Elite Wrestling @AEW All Out. London
27th August 2023
MJF vs. Adam Cole. AEW World Championship
CM Punk vs Samoa Joe. "Real World Championship"
Hikaru Shida vs Toni Storm vs Saraya vs. Dr. Britt Baker, D.M.D. AEW Women's World Championship
Chris Jericho vs. Will Ospreay
FTR (Dax Harwood and Cash Wheeler) vs The Young Bucks (Matt and Nick Jackson) AEW World Championship
House of Black (Malakai Black, Brody King, and Buddy Matthews) vs Billy Gunn and The Acclaimed (Max Caster and Anthony Bowens. AEW World Trios Championship
Darby Allin and Sting vsSwerve Strickland and Christian Cage. Coffin match
Blackpool Combat Club (Jon Moxley, Claudio Castagnoli, and Wheeler Yuta), Santana, and Ortiz vs Best Friends (Chuck Taylor and Trent Beretta), Orange Cassidy, Eddie Kingston, and Penta El Zero Miedo. Stadium Stampede match
The Golden Elite (Kenny Omega, Kota Ibushi, and "Hangman" Adam Page) vs Bullet Club Gold (Jay White and Juice Robinson) and Konosuke Takeshita
Pre-show
Aussie Open (Mark Davis and Kyle Fletcher) (c) vs MJF and Adam Cole for the ROH World Tag Team Championship
Jack Perry vs HOOK for the FTW Championship
- The AEW Women's World Championship match was previewed. Dr. Britt Baker, D.M.D. was interviewed
CM Punk (c) vs. Samoa Joe. "Real World Championship"
The Golden Elite (Kenny Omega, Kota Ibushi, and "Hangman" Adam Page) vs. Bullet Club Gold (Jay White and Juice Robinson) and Konosuke Takeshita w/ The Gunns and Don Callis
FTR (Dax Harwood and Cash Wheeler) (c) vs. The Young Bucks (Matt and Nick Jackson) for the AEW World Championship
Blackpool Combat Club (Jon Moxley, Claudio Castagnoli, and Wheeler Yuta), Santana, and Ortiz vs. Best Friends (Chuck Taylor and Trent Beretta), Orange Cassidy, Eddie Kingston, and Penta El Zero Miedo in a Stadium Stampede match
Hikaru Shida (c) vs. Toni Storm vs. Saraya vs. Dr. Britt Baker, D.M.D. for the AEW Women's World Championship
Darby Allin and Sting vs. Swerve Strickland and Christian Cage w/ Prince Nana in a Coffin match
Will Ospreay w/ Don Callis vs Chris Jericho w/ Sammy Guevara
House of Black (Malakai Black, Brody King, and Buddy Matthews) (c) w/ Julia Hart vs. Billy Gunn and The Acclaimed (Max Caster and Anthony Bowens) in a House Rules match for the AEW World Trios Championship
MJF (c) vs. Adam Cole for the AEW World Championship
#AEWAllIn #AEW #AllEliteWrestling #TonyKhan #WembleyStadium #worldrecord #wrestlingfans #tickets #gate #boxoffice #prowrestling #wrestlingpromotion #wrestlerpromoter #sportsbiz #showbiz #entertainmentnews #popculture #biz #media
Pro Wrestling Dream Match becomes a reality via All Elite Wrestling @AEW ; Will Ospreay @WillOspreay vs Chris Jericho @IAmJericho .. AEW All In. Broadcast in Australia via FITE TV @FiteTV #prowrestling #dreammatch #AEWAllIn #AEW #ChrisJericho #WillOspreay #PPV #wrestling #media
Wrestling. AEW @AEW All In. London. Big thumbs up.
#AEWAllIn #AEW #AllEliteWrestling #TonyKhan #WembleyStadium #wrestling #tickets #gate #boxoffice #prowrestling #wrestlingpromotion #wrestlerpromoter #sportsbiz #sportsnews #showbiz #popculture #PPV #worldreconrd #biz #media
Movie Box Office News
'Gran Turismo' tops North American box office with $17.3M
Gran Turismo starring Orlando Bloom and David Harbour is the top movie in North America, earning $17.3 million in receipts this weekend, reports Box Office Mojo.
Number 2 position is by Barbie with $17.1 million, Blue Beetle crawls into 3 with $12.8 million, Oppenheimer at No. 4 with $9m and Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles: Mutant Mayhem in 5 with $6.1 million.
Then its Meg 2: The Trench at 6 with $5.1m, Strays at 7 with $4.7m, Retribution a 8 with $3.3million, The Hill at 9 with $2.5mn and Haunted Mansion at 10 with $2.1 m. See you at the movies.
#boxoffice #boxofficemovies #movienews #GranTurismoMovie #GranTurismo #Barbie #BarbieMovie #BlueBeetle #oppenhaimer #TMNTMovie #Meg2 #Strays #Retribution #TheHill #hauntedmansion #entertainment #entertainmentnews #showbiz #popculture #media
"My greatest challenge has been to change the mindset of people. Mindsets play strange tricks on us. We see things the way our minds have instructed our eyes to see" Muhammad Yunus #MuhammadYunus #quote #mindset #people #wisdom #attitude #world #media
"My greatest challenge has been to change the mindset of people. Mindsets play strange tricks on us. We see things the way our minds have instructed our eyes to see" Muhammad Yunus #MuhammadYunus #quote #mindset #people #wisdom #attitude #world #media
“My toughest opponent has always been me.” -Muhammad Ali #MuhammadAli #Ali Quote #opponent #boxing #boxer #legend #life #mindset #world #media
Wrestling News
EC3 @therealec3 defeats Fox hound Tyrus for NWA @nwa Worlds Heavyweight title at NWA 75. Day 2.
Tyrus has finally retired from in-ring comp. Tipped to still appear on Gutfeld @Gutfeldfox ; Vast majority of pro wrestling world believe that EC3 will likley be a superior champion and better face of the company for the current era #NWA #NWA75 #NationalWrestlingAlliance #EC3 #wrestling #prowrestling #wrestlingnews #combatsports #popculture #AndNEW #sportsbiz #sportsnews #sportsmedia #media
Wrestling News
All Elite Wrestling @AEW All In Media Scrum: Tony Khan
"I can announce here for the first time that on October 1 at the Climate Pledge Arena in Seattle, it will be the first-ever WrestleDream," Khan said. "WrestleDream, one-year anniversary of the passing of wrestling's greatest dreamer. I thought it would be very fitting and after All Out, you won't have to wait for Full Gear in November."
Tribute planned for Japanese and international wrestling legend Antonio Inoki who the world lost last year.
The Japanese connection along with the Inoki tribute is likely to attract more international press and postive buzz than what would be the case for a more regular pro wrestling event.
#AEWAllIn #AEW #AEWMediaScrum #AEWMedia #TonyKhan #WrestleDream #AntoniInoki #legend #wrestling #prowrestling #combatsports #wrestlingnews #wrestlingmedia #popculture #sportsbiz #sportsnews #media
Pro Wrestling News
CM Punk & Jack Perry had a backstage altercation at AEW @AEW All In. Punk and perhaps Perry are now developing reputations for real life drama that is not so welcome at AEW or in any other pro wrestling promotion. Wrestling Observer/Figure Four and Fightful Select have more detail on the scenarios and theories as to exactly what happened.
Real life "heat" is known to help sell tickets and create extra hype and buzz for pro wrestling promotions, but sometimes the headaches are worth too much trouble. AEW management is across the drama.
Life reflects art, art reflects life, or worked shoot, or a combo? The story and rumor lit up an already hot AEW thanks to its mega success at All In at Wembley Stadium @wembleystadium in front of more than 81,000 paid fans!
#prowrestling #wrestlingnews #wrestling #AEW #AEWAllIn #CMPunk #JackPerry #angle #promo #feud #shoot #Incident #security #rumors #history #WembleyStadium #Wembley #entertainmentnews #sportsbiz #sportsnews #popculture #media
"I can't change the direction of the wind, but I can adjust my sails to always reach my destination" Jimmy Dean #JimmyDean #quote #wind #sails #destination #mindset #world #mbs #media
Pro Wrestling News
Paul Wight: I think Vince McMahon is pissed about All Elite Wrestling 'All In' but in a good way
"I think he is pissed"...“I think he is absolutely pissed, but he’s pissed in a good way. Because he is the type of guy that’s like ‘Oh, ok.’ He likes competition, he likes the challenge. Vince is very much an animal of the jungle type mentality. I think that Vince is a guy who thrives on competition, that thrives on doing new things, that thrives on being the best in his mind at what he does.
“So when competition steps up, that fires up Vince more than anything. The worst thing that can happen to Vince is to be bored and be monotonous. If he’s got competition, then it fires him up to be better, which is a win for the fans, because they’ll get a better product. It’s good for us, because we produce a better product so competition’s good.”
Sources: Inside The Ropes, Google News, Wires
#wrestlingnews #wrestling #AEW #AEWAllIn #AllEliteWrestling #PaulWight #quote #VinceMcMahon #promoters #wrestlingpromoter #sportsbiz #sportsnews #liveevents #popculture #entertainmentnews #media
PRIME @PrimeHydrate For peak and primed performance, be it in pro wrestling, in and around the UFC Octagon, boxing, the soccer field, or other sporting and life endeavors. When winning means just about everything. Be primed and ready for the task at hand. Erling Haaland. LP and KSI for the win! #prime #drinkprime #hydration #loganpaul #ksi #erlinghaaland #haaland #beverage #sportsdrink #performance #sportsmarketing #buzz #trend #popculture #media
SEJ LinkedIn and Twitter August 2023
SEJ's @sejournal Cynthia on a seriiously deep dive into AI for SEO and growth. Quality, performance, results and security are high on our list. And at this stage of the game, always have a trusted human or two to monitor the machines, bots, systems, or whatever else you want to call them. I like the expression that goes something like "One extraordinary man can can do the work of a thousand ordinary machines". This is different from the opposing view as quoted in 'The Matrix', "Never trust a human to do a machines job" (Agent Smith). Back to the serious business of AI and SEO, quality machines, programs, monitered by human beings with smarts, hopefully ethics, and who are in touch with the market and society. AI and SEO for real world results to the bottom line and business as hopefully a force for good. PS: organic SEO remains our prefered approach etc, along with a few well placed links, resources and mainly human generated articles. Human vs machine continues, but hopefully they can co-exist without too much trouble. Humans for the win (index that HAL 9000). #sej #searchenginejournal #ai #artificialintelligence #seo #searchengineoptimization #searchenginemarketing #aiseo #aiseo #ainews #marketing #biz #authority #expert #biz #biznews #innovation #technews #organic #links #textlink #hal9000 #news #media
SEJ Google Travel Flights September 2023
SEJ's Matt on Google world dominance into travel/bookings and tourism industry related tech. Something tells me X Corp power's that be may have at least some interest in this. X boss Elon Musk stopped one particular social media site from tracking his air travel.Perhaps some travel/tourism tech firms such as Pegasus or Booking may like to aquire this tech, if they have the funds available? Or, is this not a suitable arm of Alphabet's Google to sell.off, unlike the announcement a few months ago to sell Google Domains to Squarespace? Something the ex journalists are compelled to ask these sort of questions as further regulations oversee the big tech giants, and often rightly so - in my view. Take to the skies and beyond.
Pro Wrestling News
All Elite Wrestling @AEW boss Tony Khan says he's received "billion dollar offers" for AEW. "We have a valuation of - well, people have approached me with billion dollar offers. So the business has grown. I’m not turning over huge cash profits. But as we approach the new media rights renewal, that is really the key not only to weekly profitability and cash flow, but also another large multiplier on top of the business valuation." #prowrestling #wrestling #wrestlingnews #AEW #AllEliteWrestling #TonyKhan #promoter #sportsbiz #sportsbusiness #sportsmedia #entertainmentnews #popculture #showbiz #biz #livevents #PPV #streaming #sportsmarketing #mediarights #media
MI3 LinkedIn office culture
MI3's Paul on an educational and insightful feature on workplace culture. Culture and work/business culture is an interesting topic. The work culture is made up of a mix between management culture and employee culture. Without the people, or most of them showing up to the office, the work culture is different. Perhaps those old water-cooler chats, staff cafe brainistorms and quick business plans on the fly past your office co-worker may have been undervalued. Not everyone can perhaps as well in a home office environment. Accountablity, teamwork, face-to-face, body language elements etc etc ..many elements to the wheel of running and working for an agency. Some pros and cons, such is busines. Adapation and communication, and running a succesful agency remains paramount. Now inward looking at own business and office culture. Thanks for the motivation and insight.
Wrestling News: WWE @WWE RAW. 28th August, 2023
Becky Lynch @BeckyLynchWWE vs Zoey Stark @ZoeyStarkWWE
Falls Count Anywhere Match
Chad Gable vs Ludwig Kaiser
Tommaso Ciampa vs Bronson Reed
The Viking Raiders vs The New Day
#WWERaw #WWE #wrestling #prowrestling #wrestlingnews #entertainment #sportsbiz #sportsnews #popculture #USA #TV #media
WWE @WWE RAW: "Yowie Wowie, welcome to Monday Night Rollins @WWERollins #WWERaw #WWE #SethRollins #BrayWyatt #YowieWowie #wrestling #prowrestling #sportsentertainment #entertainment #EntertainmentNews #showbiz #sportsbiz #combatsports #popculture #sportsnews #USA #TV #media
"Popcorn, you know, soda. I cheat a little bit there"... Tom Cruise, Mission Impossible @MissionFilm press #TomCruise #quote #popcorn #soda #beverage #showbiz #MissionImpossible #MissionImpossible7 #entertainment #EntertainmentNews #popculture #media
"This f***face just tried to kick my front door in Levant, Maine". Dana White, UFC @UFC top brass said in a photo of the alleged suspect. via TMZ @TMZ #DanaWhite #quote #UFC #MMA #TMZ #sportsbiz #sportsnews #sportsmedia #trend #media
Wrestling News
WWE @WWE RAW - August 28, 2023
Becky Lynch @BeckyLynchWWE vs Zoey Stark @ZoeyStarkWWE – Falls Count Anywhere
"Oh, Becky trying to drag a table. No, your not going to get a table. You don't deserve it. WWE fans here in Memphis" Michael Cole @MichaelCole .."They agree. Cheer when they get hit in the face with a steel chair. They don't deserve anything" Wade Barrett @StuBennett .. "Not having a good night with furniture with Zoe" MC
#WWERaw #WWE #FallsCountAnywhere #BeckyLynch #TrishStratus #wrestling #prowrestling #womenswrestling #furniture #femmefatal #femmes #ThankYouTrish #entertainmentnews #sportsnews #sportsbiz #popculture #USA #TV #media
“They’re getting paid, everyone’s getting paid”... Anthony Mundine, boxing legend #AnthonyMundine #quote #paid #boxing #boxinglegend #boxingnews #politics #legend #news #newsmedia #Australia #media
“Luck is what happens when preparation meets opportunity.” - Seneca #Seneca #quote #luck #preparation #opportunity #life #wisdom #mbs #world #media
"Every time you win, you get another fight. Every time you get a fight, you get promotion, marketing, and media. Those things are what makes stars" Chael Sonnen #ChaelSonnen #quote #win #fight #promotion #marketing #sportsmarketing #sportsbiz #sportsmedia #legends #stars #mma #biz #media #mediaman
"After all those years in Asia, I don't have to do promotion anymore. We just release a Jackie Chan movie and - Boom! - people go" - Jackie Chan #JackieChan #quote #asia #promotion #movie #boom #movie #entertainment #entertainmentnews #movies #movienews #popculture #media
Wrestling / WWE @WWE RAW Results
Becky Lynch def Zoey Stark
Damian Priest def Sami Zayn
The Viking Raiders def The New Day
Chad Gable def Ludwig Kaiser
Tommaso Ciampa def Bronson Reed
Confrontation: Raquel Rodriguez and Rhea Ripley
#WWERaw #WWE #wrestling #wrestlingnews #prowrestling #sportsbiz #sportsbusiness #entertainment #EntertainmentNews #popculture #USA #TV #media
"My main concern is meeting with public because my main commitment, main interest is promotion of human value, human affection, compassion and religious harmony" - Dalai Lama #DalaiLama #quote #public #interest #promotion #human #affection #compassion #harmony #mbs #world #media
"I don't mind being, in the public context, referred to as the inventor of the World Wide Web. What I like is that image to be separate from private life, because celebrity damages private life" Tim Berners-Lee #TimBernersLee #quote #context #inventor #worldwideweb #www #image #private #celebrity #media
"A lot of people, myself included, are excited about blogging and stuff like that, citizen journalism, but I do remind people that no matter how excited we are, there's no substitute for professional writing, no substitute for professional editing, and no substitute for professional fact-checking" Craig Newmark @craignewmark , founder, Craig's List #CraigNewmark #Craigslist #quote #blogging #CitizenJournalism #journalism #writing #editing #factchecking #factchecker #factcheck #advertising #media #mediaman
SEJ's Matt on the YouTube Shorts algorithm. Quality content that engages the audience gets the job done and then some. How to achieve the best results with numerous examples. For us social media channels remain just part of the overall business model for the media and agency business and our website portals remain paramount in the big picture of things. Spread the risk and stack the odds in a smart and ethical way to win the day. The audience remains the algorithm! #sej #youtube #youtubeshorts #socialmedia #socialmedianews #algorithm
Pro Wrestling: WWE NXT @WWENXT
Kiana James @kianajames_wwe def Roxanne Perez @roxanne_wwe , Gigi Dolin @gigidolin_wwe and Blair Davenport @BDavenportWWE
Number 1 Contendership. Fatal 4-Way
Kiana James snatches her ticket to the biggest match of her career as she defeated three other Superstars to become the No. 1 Contender to Tiffany Stratton’s @tiffstrattonwwe NXT Title
#WWENXT #NXT #nxtwomen #wrestling #prowrestling #womenswrestling #combatsports #entertainment #entertainmentnews #showbiz #popculture #sportsnews #media
PageRank: Created by Google founders Larry Page and Sergey Brin, PageRank is an algorithm based on the combined relative strengths of all the hyperlinks on the Internet. The vast majority of people state that the name was based on Larry Page’s surname, whilst others suggest “Page” refers to a web page. Both positions are likely true, and the overlap was probably intentional. #pagerank #LarryPage #SergeyBrin #algorithm #Algorithms #page #hyperlinks #links #textlinks #linking #searchengine #seo #searchengineoptimization #internet #web #media
"The Internet is the first thing that humanity has built that humanity doesn't understand, the largest experiment in anarchy that we have ever had" - Eric Schmidt #EricSchmidt #quote #internet #humanity #understand #experiment #tech #society #world #google #searchengine #searchengines #web #media
"The ads all call me fearless, but that's just publicity. Anyone who thinks I'm not scared out of my mind whenever I do one of my stunts is crazier than I am." Jackie Chan #JackieChan #quote #ads #fearless #publicity #mind #stunts #movies #showbiz #entertainment #entertainmentnews #popculture #media
"The ads all call me fearless, but that's just publicity. Anyone who thinks I'm not scared out of my mind whenever I do one of my stunts is crazier than I am." Jackie Chan #JackieChan #quote #ads #fearless #publicity #mind #stunts #movies #showbiz #entertainment #entertainmentnews #popculture #media
PFL LinkedIn
PFL and SRJ Sports Investments. It's a massive Win-Win-Win. A win for the PFL, SRJ Sports Investments, fighters, fans and beyond. Major combat sports disruptors. Great timing by all accounts. #pfl #professionalfightersleague #srj #srjsports #combatsports #mma #mixedmartialarts #sportsbiz #sportsbusiness #sportsmarketing #sportsmedia #sportsrights #sportsproduction #sportsnews #media
SEJ LinkedIn Facebook August 2023
SEJ.s Matt on Alphabet's Google computer generated AI imagery tool, SynthID. What a mouth ful! We used an AI generated Image for gonzo type online based coverage of the potential Elon Musk (X Corp - x Twitter) vs Mark Zuckerberg (Meta - Facebook - Threads) 'Fight Of The Century/Battle Of The Billionaires' when the story was enjoyed a much typed time and trending period about one month ago. The AI generated Image helped set the scene and mood as both gents had never faced off before in a combat sports setting, let alone a UFC Octagon. It's been an online war of words and simulated contest. I have musk winning most of the first 5 rounds on points but Zuck got the nod for the 6th after Dana White (UFC) and top brass of ONE Championship chimed in. I quizzes actual UFC fighters such as Volk and Tui on these sort of dream matches. The AI added to the coverage on YouTube and YouTube Shorts and helped amplify its trending off and on for a few weeks.. I'm going to track what SynthID makes of the situation. Can we say "AI for good and for the win?". I prefer to keep a respectful code with the AI powers that be. May the best AI result win!
Combat Sports News and Monthly Awards via Media Man
WWE wins Wrestling Promotion Of The Month award
All Elite Wrestling is runner-up followed by National Wrestling Alliance
UFC wins MMA Promotion Of The Month award
Professional Fighters League is runner-up, followed by ONE Championship
Most Valuable Promotions and Misfits Boxing tie for Boxing Promotion Of The Month
Logan Paul wins Wrestler/Sports Entertainer Of The Month
Jake Paul wins Boxer Of The Month
Triple H (with Nick Khan assistance) wins Wrestling Promoter Of The Month
AEW 'All In' wins Wrestling PPV Of The Month
FITE TV wins Sports Streaming Service Of The Month
WWE SmackDown wins Wrestling TV Series Of The Month
Combat Sports (Media Man Int)
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#wrestling #prowrestling #mma #mixedmartialarts #boxing #combatsports #sportspromoters #sportspromotions #livesport #ppv #payperview #sportsbiz #popculture #sportsmarketing #broadcasting #streaming #wwe #aew #ufc #pfl #media #mediaman #mediamanint
SEL's Nicola on X (formally Twitter) bringing back paid political ads. As an ex journo with a trained eye and vast experience I see political messaging (and blatant) bias in mainstream news media just about every day. Watching with an eagle eye to see what flys into the X feed from the either. At present in the U.S may folks could say you could nominate a donkey and they might just win! Pin The Tail On The Donkey. X Marks The Spot. X financial bottom line for the win! Perhaps more trusted than the "mainstream news"! Look up the world's least trusted industry and results are politics, news media, big tech, legal, mining etc.. What a perfect storm is brewing!
PFL Facebook
PFL just reached a whole new level in the combat sports business.
SEJ YouTube LinkedInd and Facebook August 2023
SEJ's Matt on the new YouTube community strikes procedure, guidelines, educational component and other elements. Big thumbs up to Alphabet's YouTube on this. In the big tech space helpful, practical and user friendly enhancements are always more welcome, especially considering the track record of mixed experiences with social media over the last couple of decades, not mentioning anyone one, two or three firms. Companies - small, medium or large, don't always get things right the first time around and at the same time the business world and society "norms", expectations etc etc can also change. And there's also been the rise of some challenger brands just to add to the Pandora's Box. Credit where credit is due to YouTube. A masterpiece in progress?!
YouTube @YouTube News:
“We’re excited to share that we’re expanding this new level of YPP to creators in 33 more countries beginning on August 29th and rolling out over the next month.”
#YouTube #youtubenews #alphabet #ypp #youtubepartners #video #multimedia #socialmedia #socialmedianews #media
SEJ's Matt on the question of how much value and relevance remains in technical SEO. It's apparent there's a disagreement between Google's Mr Mueller and a Mr X (formally Twitter) on this. It is not unexpected that X Corp's X are not going to agree with Alphabet's Google Search on a range of matters - after they are competitors of sort including in the search AI space. xAI is the name for Musk's AI solution and the X head has even described his AI as "non-woke". Get the picture? At our modest firm we aim to get along with all folks in the big tech and business world in general, but obviously not all of us are going to agree on all points all the time. I'm suggesting to spread the risk and future proof your business and this includes for the range of search engines now and on the horizon, be it AI powered or not. Google's been good to us over the decades and X Corp has been back in track since the infamous Twitter cnsr situation re Canadian and Canberra peaceful trucker protests years back. For my money there's nothing quite like home made ala home cooking. Bake that webcode by hand with no artificial for traditional success.. Execute AI in a moderate fashion for future proofing and risk management purposes. Finger on the pulse.
#sej #searchenginejournal #seo #seonews #seotips #seostrategy #seostrategies #seostrategist #seomarketing #googleai #googlebard #googlebardai #ai #artificialintelligence #aisearch #searchai #xcorp #x #xai #algorithm #algorithms #webcode #code #biz #aibiz #biznews #onlinenews #onlinemarketing #bigtech #media
FITE WrestleQuest
FITE enters the online based wrestling game world. Oh Yeah? Smart and big play says veteran mediia and gaming analysts. Wrestling and pop culture icons, a best of breed steaming platform and striking while the iron (and other weapons) are hot, recalling the late Randy Savage, Terry Funk and others. Seems that Netflix Games, a start-up type offering from Netflix has a new, aggressive, hip and winning attitude challenger in their hands. Flashback to the pro wrestling territory invasion days. Are you more of a Vince McMahon/Hulk Hogan type cat, or more of a rebel player like Colt Cabana, Nick Aldis, Missing Like or Abdullah the Butcher? Who will survive the semi hostile entry into the ultra competitive world of pro wrestling gaming? FITE Founders w WrestleQuest Management vs 'The Goldust Trio (look it up) with NWA roots. As the late Harley Race would say, "The name on the marque says wrestling"! Awaiting comments from CM Punk, Tony Khan, VKM and Josh Barnett (GCW), not not holding breath. Enough talk and hype. Ring the darn bell!
#fite #fitetv #wrestlequest #wrestlinggame #wrestlinggames #games #gaming #popculture #homeentertainment #streaming #streamingtv #streamingbiz #legends #retro #win #gamesbiz #gamemarketing #entertainmentnews #media
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FITE enters the online based wrestling game world. Oh Yeah! Smart and big play says veteran mediia and gaming analysts. Wrestling and pop culture icons, a best of breed steaming platform and striking while the iron (and other weapons) are hot, recalling the late Randy Savage, Terry Funk and others. Seems that Netflix Games, a start-up type offering from Netflix has a new, aggressive, hip and winning attitude challenger in their hands. Flashback to the pro wrestling territory invasion days. Are you more of a Vince McMahon/Hulk Hogan type cat, or more of a rebel player like Colt Cabana, Nick Aldis, Missing Link or Abdullah the Butcher? Who will survive the semi-hostile entry into the ultra-competitive world of pro wrestling gaming? FITE Founders w WrestleQuest Management vs 'The Goldust Trio; (look it up) with NWA roots. As the late Harley Race would say, "The name on the marque says wrestling"! Awaiting comments from CM Punk, Tony Khan, VKM and Josh Barnett (GCW) - not holding breath. Enough talk and hype. Ring the darn bell!
Wrestling News
WWE @WWE SmackDown. 1 September, 2023
John Cena @JohnCena returns to Friday Night SmackDown
Jimmy Uso @WWEUsos returns to SmackDown after Jey Uso’s departure
Rey Mysterio @reymysterio and Santos Escobar @EscobarWWE vs Austin Theory @_Theory1 and Grayson Waller @GraysonWWE
#SmackDown #WWESmackDown #WWE #wrestling #prowrestling #sportsbiz #entertainmentnews #popculture #FOX #TV #media
Wrestling News
WWE @WWE SmackDown. 1 September, 2023
John Cena @JohnCena returns to Friday Night SmackDown
Jimmy Uso @WWEUsos returns to SmackDown after Jey Uso’s departure
Rey Mysterio @reymysterio and Santos Escobar @EscobarWWE vs Austin Theory @_Theory1 and Grayson Waller @GraysonWWE
#SmackDown #WWESmackDown #WWE #wrestling #prowrestling #sportsbiz #entertainmentnews #popculture #FOX #TV #media
Wrestling / WWE @WWE / John Cena News
John Cena @JohnCena is returning to active duty today at WWE SmackDown.
The wrestling legend is scheduled to work a number of SmackDown tapings during this return series the world's leading pro wrestling promotion, WWE.
Hershey, Pennsylvania is in for a rare treat, as is the viewing audience around the world.
The 'Payback' centred event is being held in Pittsburgh, PA. Cena is returning to WWE for the first time since 'Money in the Bank'.
Cena has some history with Australia's Grayson Waller @GraysonWWE and it will be interesting to see what creative is in store for Cena today and in the upcoming weeks.
#SmackDown #JohnCena #wwesmackdown #WWE #wrestling #wrestlingnews #prowrestling #entertainment #entertainmentnews #legend #popculture #sportsbiz #FOX #TV #media
Paul Allen quote
"There are so many websites I read; I look at everything from Slashdot to Ars Technica to the business technology sites, major newspapers like the 'New York Times,' and my local papers where I live, which cover the sports teams I'm involved with. There are about 20 sites we go to regularly, and I do use Twitter and Facebook as well" Paul Allen #PaulAllen #quotes #websites #website #news #newsmedia #newsbiz #sports #tech #sites #Twitter #X #Facebook #socialmedia #newspapers #biz #media
Social Media Buzz and News; John Cena @JohnCena style seen by wrestling fans and the world at large
The wrestling legend posts images "without explanation, for your interpretation". The WWE @WWE powers that be mandated his involvement in the platform, wanting to add the "johncena" handle to their social media portfolio. Feeling "maxed out" on Facebook and Twitter (now X @X ) Cena told Ellen DeGeneres he agreed to start the account, but that he would do it "his way." "His way" has led to numerous hilariously random posts, some of which may have a deeper meaning while others simply are what is. The randomness was another twist in the road leading to the staple "Stone Cold Friday" posts, where he posts a superimposed image of someone or something over the head of Stone Cole Steve Austin @steveaustinBSR
"Two years ago, I openly decided that I would use Twitter (now X) for a little bit of self-promotion and then as a journal," Cena told Delta Sky / CNBC) in 2019. "[I'm] trying to tip the balance of the social platform a little bit more toward the positive."
The Media Man Group management, associates, wrestling fans and pop culture followers across the globe keep coming back for more Cena social media gems so his posts that get seen far and wide add value to the platforms, the WWE brand, and for educational and entertainment purposes. Check your attitude today via Cena's posts, and get ready for WWE SmackDown now!
#JohnCena #socialmedia #WWE #SmackDown #wwesmackdown #socialmedia #socialmedianews #socialmediatrends #wrestling #prowrestling #popculture #legend #wisdom #seen #quotes #entertainment #entertainmentnews #trend #trends #trending #FOX #newsmedia #media #mediaman
Social Media Buzz and News; John Cena @JohnCena style seen by wrestling fans and the world at large
The wrestling legend posts images "without explanation, for your interpretation". The WWE @WWE powers that be mandated his involvement in the platform, wanting to add the "johncena" handle to their social media portfolio. Feeling "maxed out" on Facebook and Twitter (now X @X ) Cena told Ellen DeGeneres he agreed to start the account, but that he would do it "his way." "His way" has led to numerous hilariously random posts, some of which may have a deeper meaning while others simply are what is. The randomness was another twist in the road leading to the staple "Stone Cold Friday" posts, where he posts a superimposed image of someone or something over the head of Stone Cole Steve Austin @steveaustinBSR
"Two years ago, I openly decided that I would use Twitter (now X) for a little bit of self-promotion and then as a journal," Cena told Delta Sky / CNBC) in 2019. "[I'm] trying to tip the balance of the social platform a little bit more toward the positive."
The Media Man Group management, associates, wrestling fans and pop culture followers across the globe keep coming back for more Cena social media gems so his posts that get seen far and wide add value to the platforms, the WWE brand, and for educational and entertainment purposes. Check your attitude today via Cena's posts, and get ready for WWE SmackDown now!
#JohnCena #socialmedia #WWE #SmackDown #wwesmackdown #socialmedia #socialmedianews #socialmediatrends #wrestling #prowrestling #popculture #legend #wisdom #seen #quotes #entertainment #entertainmentnews #trend #trends #trending #FOX #newsmedia #media #mediaman
Wrestling News
WWE @WWE SmackDown. September 1st, 2023
Segment and confrontation: John Cena and Jimmy Uso
Grayson Waller and Austin Theory def LWO (Rey Mysterio and Santos Escobar)
Segment: Bobby Lashley and The Street Profits
Kevin Owens and Sami Zayn def LWO (Cruz Del Toro and Juaquin Wilde)
Confrontation: Miz and LA Knight
Shotzi def Bayley
Solo Sikoa def AJ Styles
#Smackdown #WWESmackdown #WWEPayback #WWE #wrestling #prowrestling #wrestlingnews #wrestlingresults #sportsbiz #entertainment #popculture #FOX #TV #broadcast #media
Wrestling News
WWE @WWE Payback. Saturday. September 2nd, 2023. Pittsburgh, PA
World Heavyweight Championship: Seth “Freakin” Rollins vs Shinsuke Nakamura
Women’s World Heavyweight Championship: Rhea Ripley vs Raquel Rodriguez
Steel City Street Fight for the WWE Tag Team Championships: Sami Zayn & Kevin Owens vs Damian Priest & Finn Balor
United States Championship: Rey Mysterio vs Austin Theory
LA Knight vs The Miz
Steel Cage Match: Becky Lynch vs Trish Stratus
Segment: Grayson Waller Effect with "The American Nightmare" Cody Rhodes as the guest
#WWEPayback #Payback #wwe #wrestling #wrestlingnews #prowrestling #combatsports #entertainment #entertainmentnews #sportsnews #sportsbiz #PLE #premiumliveevent #PPV #payperview #liveevent #liveentertainment #popculture #showbiz #trend #trending #media
UFC @UFC 293 Open Workouts
Wednesday September 6th
Time: 6:00pm
Where: Sydney Town Hall
Attendees: Israel Adesanya, Sean Strickland, Tai Tuivasa, Tyson Pedro, and Justin Tafa
Free and Open to the Public
6:00 PM GMT+10 ( Doors Open at 5:00pm )
#UFC293 #ufcopenworkouts #UFCSydney #UFCAustralia #MMA #mixedmartialarts #combatsports #Adesanya #Strickland #Tuivasa #Pedro #Tafa #sydneytownhall #mmanews #mmamedia #sportsnews #sportsmedia #sydneytownhall #media
Netflix
FITE @FITE enters WrestleQuest @megacatstudios RPG world
Commentary from Media Man:
FITE enters the online based wrestling game world. Oh Yeah! Smart and big play says veteran mediia and gaming analysts. Wrestling and pop culture icons, a best of breed steaming platform and striking while the iron (and other weapons) are hot, recalling the late Randy Savage, Terry Funk and others. Seems that Netflix Games, a start-up type offering from Netflix has a new, aggressive, hip and winning attitude challenger on their hands. Flashback to the pro wrestling territory invasion days. Are you more of a Vince McMahon/Hulk Hogan type cat, or more of a rebel player like Colt Cabana, Nick Aldis, Missing Link or Abdullah the Butcher? Who will survive the semi-hostile entry into the ultra-competitive world of pro wrestling gaming? FITE Founders w WrestleQuest Management vs 'The Goldust Trio' (look it up) with NWA @NWA roots. As the late Harley Race would say, "The name on the marque says wrestling"! Awaiting comments from CM Punk, Tony Khan, VKM and Josh Barnett (GCW) - not holding breath. Enough talk and hype. Ring the darn bell!
#FITE #FITETV #WrestleQuest #megacatstudios #wrestlinggame #wrestlinggames #wrestling #prowrestling #wrestlingnews #gamerelease #gamers #PlayStation @Xbox #PlayStation4 @XboxOne #Switch #PC #Netflix #popculture #homeentertainment #entertainmentnews #gamesbiz #gamesbiz #win #media #mediaman
SEJ Twitter post reply 2nd September 2023
SEJ's Matt on the question of how much value and relevance remains in technical SEO. It's apparent there's a disagreement between Google's Mr Mueller and a Mr X (formally Twitter) on this. It is not unexpected that X Corp's X are not going to agree with Alphabet's Google Search on a range of matters - after they are competitors of sort including in the search AI space. xAI is the name for Musk's AI solution and the X head has even described his AI as "non-woke". Get the picture? At our modest firm we aim to get along with all folks in the big tech and business world in general, but obviously not all of us are going to agree on all points all the time. I'm suggesting to spread the risk and future proof your business and this includes for the range of search engines now and on the horizon, be it AI powered or not. Google's been good to us over the decades and X Corp has been back in track since the infamous Twitter cnsr situation re Canadian and Canberra peaceful trucker protests years back. For my money there's nothing quite like home made ala home cooking. Bake that webcode by hand with no artificial for traditional success.. Execute AI in a moderate fashion for future proofing and risk management purposes. Finger on the pulse. #seonews #Google #SEO
Google Fights Back Against Misleading Ads With New Policy; Google introduces "Limited Ads Serving," a policy to enhance ad transparency, build user trust, and curb misleading advertisements via Search Engine Journal @sejournal #sej #searchenginejournal #LimitedAdsServing #adserving #ads #onlineads #google #googleadvertising #googleads #onlineadvertising #searchengine #SEO #brands #campaigns #authority #trust #experience #adbiz #adnews #technews #media
Pro Wrestling News
WWE @WWE Champion Seth Rollins @WWERollins via After The Bell @AfterTheBellWWE
Current WWE World Heavyweight Champion appeared on After the Bell with Corey Graves @WWEGraves recently and discused the pro wrestling business.
"We are in the boom, man" "You've got to understand, there is another company that just put 80,000 people in a stadium for one night. A week before that, we sold 90,000 tickets to WrestleMania, broke the all time gate on the first day."
"There are seven, eight different television programs of professional wrestling on a week not counting Premium Live Events or pay-per-views. The talent roster across the board is beyond what any generation has ever put forward."
"I'm not taking anything away from the guys who paved the way, I stand on the shoulders of these guys."
"The business is bigger than it's ever been, it makes more money than it's ever made, it's healthier. The future of the business is so bright and I'm so happy to be part of it in any capacity".
"What I sense more than anything is this kind of bubbling little undercurrent from our audience, they want something fresh and new and they want to have people to get behind" "I'm not saying these people are coming from NXT @WWENXT, you never know, it might be somebody that steps up, a Chelsea Green, a Piper Niven, you never know. There's tons of women capable on our main roster at the moment."
"I'm feeling it, it's very much like this 'We want something more out of the women and we know it's there and we can't wait to see it' but there's a growing intrigue, a growing desire to see it."
"I felt like Monday was a huge reminder of what their capable of. I'm going to be frank with you, they haven't been showcased as well as they could have been over the past six months or so".
Rollins is defending his WWE Champions against Shinsuke Nakamura @ShinsukeN at WWE Payback in Pittsburgh on Saturday and Nakamura and the wrestling world is well aware of Rollins's legit and serious back injury. Many fans and insiders are tipping the Japanese-American superstar for the win and insider speak is that "Rollins may be getting written off WWE PLE and TV for a while in order for him to have his back injuries addressed. Sometimes real life meets storyline in the fantastic world of professional wrestling and many times it's because of the the high risk nature of the game. Make no mistake, the occupation of pro wrestler aka sports entertainer is one of the most dangerous endeavors in the world. We say at least even odds for a win by Nak at time of publication. #WWEPayback #SmackDown #SethRollins #ShinsukeNakamura #RollinsNakamura #ATB #AfterTheBell #CoreyGraves #WWE #WWEChampion #wrestling #prowrestling #wrestlingnews #PLE #PPV #payperview #livesport #liveevent #sportsbiz #sportsnews #entertainment #popculture #FOX #TV #broadcast #media
WWE Twitter post reply
It's not Sin City 3, Kill Bill 3, Pulp Fiction 3 or The Big Boss 2, It's Rollins vs Nakamura at WWE. The Art Of War! Back to a Pulp! Fact stranger than fiction! @WWE Payback #WWEPayback
UFC Twitter post reply
The winning feeling with the UFC @UFC #UFCParis
AEW Twitter post reply
AEW All Out. Mox to squeeze and serve up wrestling cocktail 'Blood Orange'. International bar to rise, open and close. Cheers to a brawl for the ages. #AEWAllOut
WWE Twitter post reply
Ma Baker from Boney M fame would be proud of this one folks. Who will be the meanest cat in the land tonight? Aussie vs Latino. Best Of Breed pro wrestling and beyond. Who will bring home the milk money. Strap in for Femme Fatales and then some! #WWEPayback
WWE Twitter post reply
Payback is a *itch in the WWE @WWE . Wrestling warriors, catfights, cage matches, "American Nightmare" enters the Danger Zone with Aussie's Dynamite Down Under for some cause and effect. A day and long night of Judgement. The roof is going to blow off the PPG Paints Arena. WWE Payback to paint us a beautiful violence with just the right amount of wrestling and fights served up. Can the cage, ring and arena contain the volatile beautiful art of war that awaits Pittsburg tonight! #WWEPayback
Pro wrestling great CM Punk (Phill Brooks) has "left the (AEW) building", so to speak. AEW has released an official statement. #cmpunk #phillbrooks #AEW #AllEliteWrestling #wrestling #prowrestling #thankyoupunk #legend #sportsbiz #popculture #media
All Elite Wrestling enters a new era in Chicago.
Expend4bles @expendables
A new generation of stars join the world's top action stars for an adrenaline-fueled adventure in Expend4bles. Reuniting as the team of elite mercenaries, Jason Statham, Dolph Lundgren, Randy Couture, and Sylvester Stallone are joined for the first time by Curtis "50 Cent" Jackson, Megan Fox, Tony Jaa, Iko Uwais, Jacob Scipio, Levy Tran, and Andy Garcia. Armed with every weapon they can get their hands on and the skills to use them, The Expendables are the world's last line of defense and the team that gets called when all other options are off the table. But new team members with new styles and tactics are going to give "new blood" a whole new meaning. Lionsgate @lionsgate
On September 22nd! You're Welcome! Sly @TheSlyStallone (and Dolph and crew : )
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Cm3Z1jEjHHc&ab_channel=LionsgateMovies
#expendables4 #expendables #lionsgate #movie #movietrailer #movienews #JasonStatham #DolphLundgren #RandyCourture #SylvesterStallone #actionmovie #entertainment #entertainmentnews #popculture #legends #media
“If you know the enemy and know yourself, you need not fear the result of a hundred battles. If you know yourself but not the enemy, for every victory gained you will also suffer a defeat. If you know neither the enemy nor yourself, you will succumb in every battle.” - Sun Tzu, The Art of War #SunTzu #theartofwar #quote #battles #battle #self #victory #defeat #war #strategy #life #biz #mindset #wisdom #mbs #media
Combat Sports News
UFC @UFC Paris. Main Card (ESPN +)
Ciryl Gane (250) vs. Serghei Spivac (256) – Gane def. Spivac via TKO (punches) at 3:44 of Round 2
Manon Fiorot (125) vs. Rose Namajunas (125) – Fiorot def. Namajunas by unanimous decision (30-27, 29-28, 29-28)
Benoit Saint Denis (156) vs. Thiago Moises (156) – Saint Denis def. Moises via TKO at 4:44 of Round 2
UFC. Paris Prelims (ESPN+)
Taylor Lapilus (135) vs. Caolan Loughran (136) – Lapilus def. Loughran via unanimous decision (29-28 x3)
Ange Loosa (171) vs. Rhys McKee (171) – Loosa def. McKee by unanimous decision (30-27, 29-28 x2)
Nora Cornolle (136) vs. Joselyne Edwards (136) – Cornolle def. Edwards by unanimous decision (30-27 x2, 29-28)
Farid Basharat (136) vs. Kleydson Rodrigues (134.5) – Basharat def. Rodrigues via submission (arm triangle) at 4:15 of Round 1
Sources: UFC, ESPN, Wires, Google News, X (formally Twitter) YouTube...
#UFCPARIS #UFC #ufcnews #MMA #mmanews #combatsports #ESPN #espnplus #sportsnews #sportsmedia #media
Streaming vs Cable Channel news; Writers Strike shines more light; Streaming entertainment disruption to business models afoot
Most U.S and global streaming services continue to be unprofitable, with Neflix being the exception, with most studios still shooting for 2025 to break even. The subscriber televison business continues to decline in quality most people believe, but not all will admit. Sports and news media channels continue to seek out other options and business models.
On Friday morning, Charter Communications held a conference call with Wall Street analysts where it said it was prepared to abandon its video business if it couldn’t come to a “transformative” deal with The Walt Disney Co. to try and salvage the pay TV bundle. The company is one of the top pay TV providers domestically, with 14.7 million subscribers — just short of leader Comcast’s 14.9 million but above satellite rivals DirecTV (12.3 million) and Dish (6.9 million). Charter, like those other pay TV firms, has also lost video subs, about 200,000, in its latest quarter, per a Leichtman Research tally.
“We’re on the edge of a precipice. We’re either moving forward with a new collaborative video model, or we’re moving on,” Charter CEO Chris Winfrey said on the call. “This is not a typical carriage dispute. It’s significant for Charter, and we think it’s even more significant for programmers and the broader video ecosystem.”
Charter, in a Powerpoint presentation that accompanied the call, wrote that “programmers are caught in a self-imposed dilemma as they have moved content to their DTC products for short-term profit maximization and their management teams are not incentivized to drive business for the long-term,” arguing that studios like Disney and Warner Bros. Discovery chose to wreck their pay TV business (by moving most original shows to subscription video on-demand services, and pushing for higher and higher fees for sports channels) to pursue the streaming riches that Netflix promised.
“As an industry we failed to come together quickly to create that consumer friendly product,” Winfrey said. “Programmers then made high value content available for anyone to access on websites, and soon thereafter through emerging streaming applications such as Hulu, which was initially free. At the same time programmers believed that their content libraries could create so called incremental streaming service revenues by selling this content to Netflix.”
Media Man Wrap-Up
Something is going to give. It's a perfect storm approaching. This comes are most streaming TV viewers globally are turning off the paid services in favor of other freed channels such as Tubi @Tubi , YouTube @YouTube /YouTube Movies, and seeking out other TV streaming channels with more legacy content such as Australia's SBS On Demand @SBSOnDemand Some people are even focussing more on making more of their own content, or just spending more time in nature, at the beach and in non- tech endeavors.
(Sources: Wires, AP, The Hollywood Reporter, Variety, Charter Communications, The Wall Street Journal and X @X (formally Twitter buzz)
#streaming #streamingcontent #streamingentertainment #streamingnews #OTT #overthetop #VOD #showbiz #SAG #writerstrike #netflix #charter #subs #Subscription #subscribers #movienews #entertainment #EntertainmentNews #popculture #paytv #cabletv #TV #TVnews #disrupt #disruptor #bizmodels #businessmodel #businessmodels #sportsbiz #disruptivetechnology #biz #X #media #mediaman
Streaming vs Cable Channel news; Writers Strike shines more light; Streaming entertainment disruption to business models afoot
Most U.S and global streaming services continue to be unprofitable, with Neflix being the exception, with most studios still shooting for 2025 to break even. The subscriber televison business continues to decline in quality most people believe, but not all will admit. Sports and news media channels continue to seek out other options and business models.
On Friday morning, Charter Communications held a conference call with Wall Street analysts where it said it was prepared to abandon its video business if it couldn’t come to a “transformative” deal with The Walt Disney Co. to try and salvage the pay TV bundle. The company is one of the top pay TV providers domestically, with 14.7 million subscribers — just short of leader Comcast’s 14.9 million but above satellite rivals DirecTV (12.3 million) and Dish (6.9 million). Charter, like those other pay TV firms, has also lost video subs, about 200,000, in its latest quarter, per a Leichtman Research tally.
“We’re on the edge of a precipice. We’re either moving forward with a new collaborative video model, or we’re moving on,” Charter CEO Chris Winfrey said on the call. “This is not a typical carriage dispute. It’s significant for Charter, and we think it’s even more significant for programmers and the broader video ecosystem.”
Charter, in a Powerpoint presentation that accompanied the call, wrote that “programmers are caught in a self-imposed dilemma as they have moved content to their DTC products for short-term profit maximization and their management teams are not incentivized to drive business for the long-term,” arguing that studios like Disney and Warner Bros. Discovery chose to wreck their pay TV business (by moving most original shows to subscription video on-demand services, and pushing for higher and higher fees for sports channels) to pursue the streaming riches that Netflix promised.
“As an industry we failed to come together quickly to create that consumer friendly product,” Winfrey said. “Programmers then made high value content available for anyone to access on websites, and soon thereafter through emerging streaming applications such as Hulu, which was initially free. At the same time programmers believed that their content libraries could create so called incremental streaming service revenues by selling this content to Netflix.”
Media Man Wrap-Up
Something is going to give. It's a perfect storm approaching. This comes are most streaming TV viewers globally are turning off the paid services in favor of other freed channels such as Tubi @Tubi , YouTube @YouTube /YouTube Movies, and seeking out other TV streaming channels with more legacy content such as Australia's SBS On Demand @SBSOnDemand Some people are even focussing more on making more of their own content, or just spending more time in nature, at the beach and in non- tech endeavors.
(Sources: Wires, AP, The Hollywood Reporter, Variety, Charter Communications, The Wall Street Journal and X @X (formally Twitter buzz)
#streaming #streamingcontent #streamingentertainment #streamingnews #OTT #overthetop #VOD #showbiz #SAG #writerstrike #netflix #charter #subs #Subscription #subscribers #movienews #entertainment #EntertainmentNews #popculture #paytv #cabletv #TV #TVnews #disrupt #disruptor #bizmodels #businessmodel #businessmodels #sportsbiz #disruptivetechnology #biz #X #media #mediaman
This is professional wrestling. The gift of pro wrestling! EC3 is the gift in the NWA that just keeps giving! Sufferiing. Authentic. Blessed. Just call him champ.
NWA Twitter post reply
This is professional wrestling. The gift of pro wrestling! EC3 @therealec3 is the gift in the NWA that just keeps giving! Sufferiing. Authentic. Blessed. Just call him champ. #ChampionsAppreciationThread #NWA #nwa75
Wrestling Gaming News
FITE @FiteTV enters WrestleQuest @megacatstudios
RPG world
Commentary from Media Man: FITE enters the online based wrestling game world. Oh Yeah! Smart and big play says veteran mediia and gaming analysts. Wrestling and pop culture icons, a best of breed steaming platform and striking while the iron (and other weapons) are hot, recalling the late Randy Savage, Terry Funk and others. Seems that Netflix Games, a start-up type offering from Netflix has a new, aggressive, hip and winning attitude challenger on their hands. Flashback to the pro wrestling territory invasion days. Are you more of a Vince McMahon/Hulk Hogan type cat, or more of a rebel player like Colt Cabana @ColtCabana , Nick Aldis, Jeff Jarrett @RealJeffJarrett , Missing Link or Abdullah the Butcher? Who will survive the semi-hostile entry into the ultra-competitive world of pro wrestling gaming? FITE Founders w WrestleQuest Management vs 'The Goldust Trio' (look it up) with NWA @NWA roots. As the late Harley Race would say, "The name on the marque says wrestling"! Awaiting comments from CM Punk, Tony Khan, VKM and Josh Barnett (GCW) - not holding breath. Enough talk and hype. Ring the darn bell! #FITE #FITETV #WrestleQuest #megacatstudios #wrestlinggame #wrestlinggames #wrestling #prowrestling #wrestlingnews #gamerelease #gamers #PlayStation #Xbox #PlayStation4 #XboxOne #Switch #PC #Netflix #popculture #homeentertainment #entertainmentnews #gamesbiz #gamesbiz #win #media #mediaman
AEW's GM Tony Khan being a boss. OH&S! Leadership. Strong call. #AEWCollison
WWE's John Cena @JohnCena is actually P. T. Barnum! #WWEPayback #JohnCena #PTBarnum
WWE Twitter
"So whatever political stroke I have. Whatever chips I had. I cashed them in. And I hope this is not a decision that I regret"... Cody Rhodes @CodyRhodes #WWEPayback
FITE Twitter reply
Grayson Waller @GraysonWWE followed closely by Rhea "Bloody" Ripley @RheaRipley_WWE Sorry Rhea. Maybe both should meet and duke it out for Aussie bragging rights! Dynamite from Down Under vs Aussie Eradicator? Or Waller and partner vs Ripley and partner? Dom? How about it Hunter? @TripleH #FITE #GraysonWaller #RheaRipley
FITE TV Facebook
All Elite Wrestling enters a new era by default. Sometimes in the combat sports and entertainment sector less is more. More is sometimes less! Insider commentary. Team players. Less dramas. The business of show business. Keeping the fights in the ring and political matters to a minimal or nill element. Action in the squared circle. Leadership by AEW top brass Tony Khan. Booked, promoted and pumped.
Media Man Streaming Blog
Streaming vs Cable Channel news; Writers Strike shines more light; Streaming entertainment disruption to business models afoot
Most U.S and global streaming services continue to be unprofitable, with Neflix being the exception, with most studios still shooting for 2025 to break even. The subscriber televison business continues to decline in quality most people believe, but not all will admit. Sports and news media channels continue to seek out other options and business models.
On Friday morning, Charter Communications held a conference call with Wall Street analysts where it said it was prepared to abandon its video business if it couldn’t come to a “transformative” deal with The Walt Disney Co. to try and salvage the pay TV bundle. The company is one of the top pay TV providers domestically, with 14.7 million subscribers — just short of leader Comcast’s 14.9 million but above satellite rivals DirecTV (12.3 million) and Dish (6.9 million). Charter, like those other pay TV firms, has also lost video subs, about 200,000, in its latest quarter, per a Leichtman Research tally.
“We’re on the edge of a precipice. We’re either moving forward with a new collaborative video model, or we’re moving on,” Charter CEO Chris Winfrey said on the call. “This is not a typical carriage dispute. It’s significant for Charter, and we think it’s even more significant for programmers and the broader video ecosystem.”
Charter, in a Powerpoint presentation that accompanied the call, wrote that “programmers are caught in a self-imposed dilemma as they have moved content to their DTC products for short-term profit maximization and their management teams are not incentivized to drive business for the long-term,” arguing that studios like Disney and Warner Bros. Discovery chose to wreck their pay TV business (by moving most original shows to subscription video on-demand services, and pushing for higher and higher fees for sports channels) to pursue the streaming riches that Netflix promised.
“As an industry we failed to come together quickly to create that consumer friendly product,” Winfrey said. “Programmers then made high value content available for anyone to access on websites, and soon thereafter through emerging streaming applications such as Hulu, which was initially free. At the same time programmers believed that their content libraries could create so called incremental streaming service revenues by selling this content to Netflix.”
Media Man Wrap-Up
Something is going to give. It's a perfect storm approaching. This comes are most streaming TV viewers globally are turning off the paid services in favor of other freed channels such as Tubi @Tubi , YouTube @YouTube /YouTube Movies, and seeking out other TV streaming channels with more legacy content such as Australia's SBS On Demand @SBSOnDemand Some people are even focussing more on making more of their own content, or just spending more time in nature, at the beach and in non- tech endeavors.
(Sources: Wires, AP, The Hollywood Reporter, Variety, Charter Communications, The Wall Street Journal and X @X (formally Twitter buzz)
Box OfficeNews: 'Equalizer 3' tops North American box office with $34.5 million
Equalizer infiltrates to become the top movie in North America, earning $34.5 million in receipts per Box Office Mojo.
Trailing in second is Barbie with $10.6 million, followed by Blue Beetle in 3rd with $7.3 million, Gran Turismo in number 4 position at $6.6 million and Oppenheimer at 5 with $5.5 million. Then its Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles: Mutant Mayhem at 6 with $4.8 million, Bottoms at 7 with $3 million, Meg 2: The Trench on 8 with $2.9 million, Strays at 9 with $2.5 million and Talk to Me on 10 with $1.8 million. Check the Timex! @timex as per Equalizer speak.
#BoxOffice #boxofficenews #movienews #movies #entertainment #entertainmentnews #popculture #Equalizer3 #Equalizer #Barbie #BlueBeetleMovie #GranTurismoMovie #Oppenheimer #TMNT #TMNTMovie #BottomsMovie #Meg2TheTrench #strays #TalkToMe #showbiz #biz #media
Wrestling: AEW @AEW All Out returns to the United Center in Chicago, Illinois. Sept 3, 2023
Orange Cassidy vs Jon Moxley for the AEW International Title. Luchasaurus vs. Darby Allin - TNT Title. Miro vs Powerhouse Hobbs. Kris Statlander vs Ruby Soho - TBS Championship. “The Cleaner” Kenny Omega vs. Konosuke Takeshita.
AEW World Champion MJF & Adam Cole vs.
Dark Order (Alex Reynolds & John Silver) - ROH Tag-Team Title
Samoa Joe vs. Shane Taylor ROH World Television Championship
“Absolute” Ricky Starks vs. “The American Dragon” Bryan Danielson - No DQ Strap Match
Tag Team Battle: NJPW STRONG Open Weight Champion Eddie Kingston & ROH Pure Champion Katsuyori Shibata vs Blackpool Combat Club (ROH World Champion Claudio Castagnoli & Wheeler Yuta)
Eight-Man Fight:
AEW World Tag Team Champions FTR (Cash Wheeler & Dax Harwood) and The Young Bucks (Matt & Nick Jackson) vs BULLET CLUB GOLD (Austin Gunn, Colten Gunn, Jay White, & Juice Robinson)
ALL OUT 2023: ZERO HOUR...
-AEW World Trios Championship Match: The Acclaimed (Anthony Bowens, Daddy Ass, & Max Caster)(c) vs. Jay Lethal, Jeff Jarrett, & Satnam Singh
ROH Women's World Champion Athena, Diamante, & Mercedes Martinez vs. Hikaru Shida, Skye Blue, and Willow Nightingale
Over Budget Charity Battle Royale: Winner gives $50K to the charity of their choice
& more
#AEWAllOut #AEW #wrestling #prowrestling #combatsports #sportsnews #entertainment #popculture #showbiz #PPV #payperview #liveevent
#forthewin #trend #trending #media
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Pro Wrestling. WWE Payback gets thumbs up. AEW All In and AEW All Out gets strong thumbs up
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All Out: Mox
@JonMoxley
vs Orange Cassidy
@orangecassidy
:
Via FITE
@FiteTV
"Look at Moxley. Looks like he got attacked by a grizzly bear..Kinda of did" Taz
@OfficialTAZ
"Death Rider Moxley".."The heart of that man"
"Father forgive me for what I am about to do"
"Cassidy on the train tracks" Nigel McGuinness
@McGuinnessNigel
"Saying finish me off"
"The reign of Jon Moxley begins tonight"
"Jon Moxley is a wild thing" NG
"The backpack gets heavy, light"
"That highlander death rider. Realization setting in"
"This athlete, he's a different breed"
"And New AEW International Champion Jon Moxley" Justin Roberts
@JustinRoberts
"Thank you for joining us because AEW is the home of professional wrestling"
#AEWAllOut #AEW #AllEliteWrestling #AEWInternational #FITE #OrangeCassidy #JonMoxley #wrestling #prowrestling #andnew #EntertainmentNews #popculture #PPV #trend #trending #win #X #media
Bitcoin/Cryptocurrent News
Elon Musk Revealed To Be ‘Quietly’ Funding Crypto Rival To Bitcoin Amid Price Crash
Elon Musk, the TeslaTSLA @Tesla billionaire who embarked on a mission to transform Twitter into the X "everything app" last year, has been eyeing a major "PayPal update" that could cause bitcoin and crypto price chaos.
The bitcoin price rally this year has stalled in recent weeks—though crypto traders are braced for a "crazy" September—dragging down crypto prices and Elon Musk's "fav" bitcoin rival dogecoin, a meme-based fork of bitcoin created as a "joke."
Now, Musk has been revealed to have been "quietly" funding dogecoin development—even as the dogecoin price has collapsed 90% from its all-time high, crashing along with bitcoin and other cryptocurrencies.
Before snatching Twitter (now X @X ) last year for a staggering $44 billion, Musk considered creating "a new social-media platform based on the blockchain" that "could have a payment system using dogecoin, the semi-serious cryptocurrency whose development he had been quietly funding," Musk biographer Walter Isaacson wrote in an excerpt of his new book, titled simply Elon Musk, published in the Wall Street Journal.
The level of Musk's funding or investment in dogecoin isn't clear but he has previously said he wants to "upgrade" dogecoin to "beat bitcoin hands down" and "become the currency of Earth."
In July, Musk, who has said he personally owns the cryptocurrencies bitcoin, ethereum and dogecoin, quietly added the dogecoin Ð symbol to his X account amid a flurry of interactions with dogecoin fan accounts—with bitcoin and crypto market watchers predicting Musk's plans for X could be an "absolute game-changer."
Dogecoin which blasted into the crypto top ten in 2021 alongside a meme and influencer-fueled rally, crashed back along with the bitcoin price and other major cryptocurrencies through 2022 but has held onto some of its gains, making the combined dogecoin network worth around $9 billion.
In recent months, Musk has reportedly been plotting with Wall Street executives to turn X (Twitter) into an "updated version of PayPal" and has recently been on a state money transmitting license acquiring spree.
So customers, are you ready for "The Everything App" with crypto plus on the side and much more from X Corp!
#XCorp #X #ElonMusk #dogecoin #everythingapp #socialmedia #socialmedianews #socialmediawars #socialmediatrends #fintech #technews #innovation #disrupt #disruptor #popculture #trend #trends #trending #buzz #media
WWE @WWE Payback. September 2, 2023. Results:
Becky Lynch def Trish Stratus – Steel Cage Match
LA Knight def The Miz. Special Ref: John Cena
Rey Mysterio def Austin Theory – United States Championship Match
Finn Bálor & Damian Priest def Kevin Owens & Sami Zayn – Undisputed WWE Tag Team Championship Match
Rhea Ripley def Raquel Rodriguez – WWE Women’s World Championship Match
Seth “Freakin” Rollins def. Shinsuke Nakamura – WWE World Heavyweight Championship Match
Other
The Grayson Waller Effect. Cody Rhodes and Jey Uso
Media Man says moderate thumbs up
#WWEPayback #Payback #WWE #wrestling #prowrestling #sportsentertainment #PLE #PPV #liveentertainment #sportsbiz #sportsnews #entertainmentnews #results #popculture #broadcast #media
WWE @WWE Payback. September 2, 2023. Results:
Becky Lynch def Trish Stratus – Steel Cage Match
LA Knight def The Miz. Special Ref: John Cena
Rey Mysterio def Austin Theory – United States Championship Match
Finn Bálor & Damian Priest def Kevin Owens & Sami Zayn – Undisputed WWE Tag Team Championship Match
Rhea Ripley def Raquel Rodriguez – WWE Women’s World Championship Match
Seth “Freakin” Rollins def. Shinsuke Nakamura – WWE World Heavyweight Championship Match
Other
The Grayson Waller Effect. Cody Rhodes and Jey Uso
Media Man says moderate thumbs up
#WWEPayback #Payback #WWE #wrestling #prowrestling #sportsentertainment #PLE #PPV #liveentertainment #sportsbiz #sportsnews #entertainmentnews #results #popculture #broadcast #media
SEJ's Julia on some basic and useful strategies for growing organic website traffic. Usability, visibility, technical, research and more. Thumbs up. #sey #searchenginejournal #seo #searchengineoptimization #seomarketing #seomarketingtips #organicseo #organic #organictraffic #organictrafficboost #onlinemarketing #onlinebiz #biz #digital #onlinenews #technews #media
Some basic and useful strategies for growing organic website traffic. Usability, visibility, technical, research and more. #sej #searchenginejournal #seo #searchengineoptimization #seomarketing #seomarketingtips #organicseo #organic #organictraffic #organictrafficboost #onlinemarketing #onlinebiz #biz #digital #onlinenews #technews #media #mediaman
Some basic and useful strategies for growing organic website traffic. Usability, visibility, technical, research and more. #sej #searchenginejournal #seo #searchengineoptimization #seomarketing #seomarketingtips #organicseo #organic #organictraffic #organictrafficboost #onlinemarketing #onlinebiz #biz #digital #onlinenews #technews #media #mediaman
Wrestling: WWE @WWE RAW. Sept. 4, 2023
Gunther @Gunther_AUT vs Chad Gable @WWEGable
Intercontinental Title Match
Will history be made?
#WWERaw #WWE #wweic #wrestling #prowrestling #gunther #chadcable #combatsports #sportsnews #entertainment #EntertainmentNews #sportsbiz #popculture #USA #TV #media
Popular culture (or "pop culture") refers in general to the traditions and material culture of a particular society. In the modern West, pop culture refers to cultural products such as music, art, literature, fashion, dance, film, cyberculture, television, and radio that are consumed by the majority of a society's population. Popular culture is those types of media that have mass accessibility and appeal. The term "popular culture" was coined in the mid-19th century, and it referred to the cultural traditions of the people, in contrast to the "official culture" of the state or governing classes. In broad use today, it is defined in qualitative term - pop culture is often considered a more superficial or lesser type of artistic expression. #popculture #popularculture #society #socialmedia #culture #TV #music #art #literature #fashion #dance #film #cyberculture #radio #population #commercial #massmedia #trends #trending #media #mediaman
All Elite Wrestling
@AEW
All Out Media Scrum:
"I think it's been the most challenging week for for me both personally and professionally but it's not all down to wrestling either. There's a lot going on. There's been a lot of highs. I think it's been hard to get to this point. There's been challenges. In other sports its been a hard week. It's a busy week for me. It's been one of the busiest weeks of my life. I think ever it's fair to say. But this week's busy for me every year. You have the English Football transfer window. In this case the Premier League transfer window closed this week so I have not slept a lot this week anyway".. Tony Khan, GM, All Elite Wrestling
"I feel if you’re going to be canceled, this is the culture to be canceled by. I just find that all so silly. I don’t think about it. I don’t know what it means to be canceled. I know that over the years everything has been the same for me". "I make my movies. What has changed is the presentation of the films. You know, I work and it’s the same routine for me. I write the script, raise the money, make the film, shoot it, edit it, it comes out. The difference is not is not from cancel culture. The difference is the way they present the films. It’s that that’s the big change." - Woody Allen #WoodyAllen #quote #movies #CancelCulture #showbiz #entertainment #entertainmentnews #media
“I just grew up watching a lot of movies. I’m attracted to this genre and that genre, this type of story, and that type of story. As I watch movies I make some version of it in my head that isn’t quite what I’m seeing – taking the things I like and mixing them with stuff I’ve never seen before” - Quentin Tarantino #QuentinTarantino #Tarantino #quote #movies #story #entertainment #entertainmentnews #showbiz #popculture #media
"It's very much up to you, how you shape your life. I mean, I missed out on human relationships. But looking at relationships that I've seen along the way, I don't think I've missed much" Lemmy #Lemmy #quote #motorhead #life #music #popculture #entertainment #media
"I studied everyone in the business of entertainment: Dr. Dre, Diddy, everyone. Rob Dyrdek was big for me. He would get 2 million views a week on 'Rob and Big,' and from that sprung everything: DC shoes, Monster Energy, 'Fantasy Factory,' everything" Jake Paul #JakePaul #quote #entertainment #entertainmentnews #showbiz #brands #merch #marketing #popculture #culture #biz #sportsbiz #media
“The people who multitask the most tend to be impulsive, sensation-seeking, overconfident of their multitasking abilities, and they tend to be less capable of multitasking.” - Rand Fishkin #RandFishkin #quote #multitask #multitasking #biz #work #media
"The more that you read, the more things you will know. The more that you learn, the more places you'll go" Dr. Seuss #DrSeuss #quote #read #know #learn #places #life #mindset #world #media
"In the modern media age we are rarely surprised by what we see. Whether it's on television or film or in the theatre, everything is so advertised, so trailed, that most entertainment is merely what you thought it was going to be like" Rowan Atkinson #RowanAtkinson #quote #media #television #film #theatre #advertises #trailed #mediaagent #entertainment #entertainmentnews #showbiz #popculture #media
Gary Wright (April 26, 1943 – September 4, 2023). Rest In Peace...
Dream Weaver By Gary Wright
Ooh, dream weaver
I believe you can get me through the night
Ooh, dream weaver
I believe we can reach the morning light
#GaryWright #RIPGaryWright #dreamweaver #musician #composer #entertainment #entertainmentnews #showbiz #popculture #media
AEW @AEW real life pro wrestling tag-team match coming up on AEW Dynamite #AEWDynamite
"Show his ofter tonight live on Monday Night RAW only on the USA Network at 8/7 central" Byron Saxton @ByronSaxton ... "Thank you" - Chad Gable @WWEGable #WWERaw
Qantas CEO Alan Joyce has brought forward his retirement by two months after a tumultuous last few weeks for the Australian national carrier #Qantas #qantaspolitics #politics #biz #media
"A man who suffers before it is necessary, suffers more than is necessary" Lucius Annaeus Seneca #Seneca #man #suffers #life #mindset #world #mbs #media
Sky News Australia @SkyNewsAust increases audience to 11 million Australians each month after launching new digital content offerings #skynews #skynewsaustralia #australiannews #qualitynews #authentic #credability #realnews #realview #onlinenews #popculture #news #newsmedia #media
“Big thanks to everyone who reached out and kept my spirits up. This ain’t a setback, just all part of the comeback.” - Daniel Ricciardo @danielricciardo , Professional Driver, Red Bull Racing @redbullracing #DanielRicciardo #quote #redbullracing #redbull #motorsport #F1 #formulaone #comeback #sportsbiz #SportsNews #popculture #biz #win #getwellsoon #legend #aussie #media
"A lot of people say, 'What set the Attitude Era up?' or, 'What started the Attitude Era?' To me - and I was allegedly the leader of it - sports entertainment, pro wrestling, whatever you want to call it has always had an attitude. So, why that particular generation got labeled, I don't know" Stone Cold Steve Austin, WWE @WWE wrestling legend #StoneColdSteveAustin #SteveAustin #quote #AttitudeEra #WWE #WWF #wrestling #prowrestling #sportsentertainment #attitude #combatsports #entertainment #sportsbiz #showbiz #popculture #legend #sportsnews #history #PPV #payperview #media
"We shall not cease from exploration, and the end of all our exploring will be to arrive where we started and know the place for the first time" T. S. Eliot #TSEliot #quote #exploration #exploring #know #place #world #mbs #media
“Big ideas come from the unconscious. This is true in art, in science, and in advertising. But your unconscious has to be well informed, or your idea will be irrelevant. Stuff your conscious mind with information, then unhook your rational thought process” – David Ogilvy #DavidOgilvy #Ogilvy #ideas #bigideas #unconscious #advertising #science #idea #information #art #creative #creativity #biz #media #mediaman
"I wish everyone well, but you need to focus on yourself. You need to stop putting your hand out. Everyone wants hand outs. Everyone wants things for free. You've got to put in the work. You've got to grind. You've got go through the struggle, and you've got to get it" Conor McGregor #ConorMcGregor #quote #focus #MMA #UFC #mixedmartialarts #work #hardwork #biz #sportsbiz #mindset #sports #media
"Nothing comes from nothing. You must continuously feed the inner beast that sparks and inspires." – George Lois #GeorgeLois #quote #nothing #sparks #inspires #motivation #mindset #work #biz #mbs #media
"I know there's a history here. I don't expect us to be friends overnight. Best buddies, whatever it is. I just wanted to tell you straight to your face man, I'm really proud of you" - Sami Zayn @SamiZayn to Jimmy Uso @WWEUsos #WWERaw
Wrestling:
WWE @WWE RAW
Drew McIntyre and Matt Riddle vs The Viking Raiders. Tornado Tag Team Match
#WWERaw #WWE #wwetagteam #wwetornado #wrestling #prowrestling #combatsports #sportsentertainment #entertainment #entertainmentnews #popculture #USD #TV #broadcasting #win #media
Wrestling: WWE
@WWE
RAW
Gunther
@Gunther_AUT
def Chad Gable
@WWEGable
- Intercontinental Title Match
"Champions advantage tonight for Gunther"
"You take out the legs, you take out the power" Michael Cole
@MichaelCole
"This is once again a dominant performance from Gunther" Wade Barrett
@StuBennett
"Chad Gable an in-ring machine" WB
"And a lariat clothesline.. history" MC
"The Honky Tonk Man moves to second place after 35 years" MC
#WWERaw #wwe #wweic #wrestling #prowrestling #wrestlers #combatsports #popculture #entertainment #ringgeneral #legends #champion #AndStill #USA #Austria #TV #media #mediaman
Wrestling News
WWE @WWE Raw. Results. Sept. 4, 2023
Gunther def Chad Gable
The Viking Raiders def Drew McIntyre & Matt Riddle
Ricochet def Shinsuke Nakamura
Shayna Baszler def Zoey Stark
Raquel Rodriguez def Chelsea Green
JD McDonagh def Sami Zayn
Confrontation: Shinsuke Nakamura and Seth “Freakin” Rollins
Segment: The Judgement Day
Segment: MIZ TV
#WWERaw #WWE #wrestling #prowrestling #JudgementDay #wrestlingnews #wrestlingpromotion #combatsports #sportsbiz #entertainment #entertainmentnews #showbiz #popculture #trends #trending #USA #TV #broadcast #streaming #streamingentertainment #sportsstreaming #media #mediaman
"If you're not that big pay-per-view star, shut up and fight" Dana White, UFC @UFC top brass #DanaWhite #quote #UFC #MMA #PPV #payperview #payperviews #fight #star #combatsports #sportsbiz #biz #success #mindset #mbs #media
Wrestling News
WWE NXT @WWENXT results: September 5, 2023
NXT Women’s Champion Tiffany Stratton def Kiana James
Ilja Dragunov def Oro Mensah
Nathan Frazer def Duke Hudson - NXT Global Heritage Invitational
Tyler Bate def Dabba-Kato
Mustafa Ali def Dragon Lee
Butch vs Axiom. 12-minute draw - NXT Global Heritage Invitational
Thea Hail def Gigi Dolin
Bron Breakker def Von Wagner
#WWENXT #NXT #WWE #wrestling #wrestlingnews #wrestlingresults #prowrestling #sportsentertainment #combatsports #entertainment #entertainmentnews #popculture #sportsbiz #sportsnews #streaming #media
MMA / UFC @UFC News
"I feel stronger, I feel faster, more explosive, I’m hitting harder. Expect to see me at my best. Expect to see a masterclass, a showcase in true fighting. I’m gonna make this look easy, really easy" - Israel Adesanya (re Vs Sean Strickland - UFC 293)
Videos
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dju4RzTQyGw&ab_channel=UFC
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Dvukz1iJdhA&ab_channel=UFC
#UFC293 #UFC293Embedded #UFC #Embedded #UFCSydney #UFCAustralia #quotes #Adesanya #Strickland #MMA #mixedmartialarts #combatsports #sportsbiz #sportsnews #sportsmedia #popculture #media
UFC News. "She's a little bad ass and beats up guys in the gym"! Dana White
WWE NXT. Respect. Fade to black!
“I have learned that any fool can write a bad ad, but that it takes a real genius to keep his hands off a good one.” – Leo Burnett #leoburnett #quote #ad #advertising #advert #genius #good #adnews #adbiz #creativity #biz #media #mediaman
“That’s the kind of ad I like, facts, facts, facts.” – Samuel Goldwyn #SamuelGoldwyn #quote #facts #factsfactsfacts #ad #advertising #adnews #adbiz #media #mediaman
“If you can’t explain it to a six year old, you don’t understand it well enough yourself” – Albert Einstein #AlbertEinstein #Einstein #quote #understand #media
Text links and niche news articles remain simple yet extremly effective in online news, online advertising and online media space. Pop culture to combat sports, trending topics and beyond. Trending doesn't have to be as hard as you think it may be says media vet #textlinks #trending #SEO #ai #x #media #mediaman
Flashback to Facebook circa July 2020
The advertising boycott battering Facebook is unlike anything the social-media giant has faced in its 16-year history: Three days in, 800 companies worldwide have pulled millions of dollars in advertising from the social network, with brands from Coca-Cola to Ford to global conglomerate Unilever demanding that Facebook monitor hate speech more aggressively #facebook #meta #MarkZuckerberg #meta #socialmedia #socialmedianews #socialmediawars #socialmediatrends #bigtech #technews #flashback #ads #brands #onlineadvertising #popculture #news #newsmedia #media
"To clear our platform’s name on the matter of anti-Semitism, it looks like we have no choice but to file a defamation lawsuit against the Anti-Defamation League … oh the irony!" - Elon Musk, X @X Corp #ElonMusk #quote #X #XCorp #platform #adl #socialmedia #socialmedianews #socialmediawars #news #newsmedia #politics #media
“It was probably good for the industry that he made those changes” - Mark Zuckerberg. (Meta has since laid off more than 20,000 workers, part of an industry-wide trend.) #markzuckerberg #quote #ElonMusk #twitter #X #XCorp #socialmedia #socialmedianews #socialmediaplatforms #platforms #onlinenews #HR #management #bigtech #technews #media #mediaman
“Don’t tell me how good you make it; tell me how good it makes me when I use it.” – Leo Burnett #LeoBurnett #quote #good #ad #advertising #adbiz #creativity #creativenews #creativebiz #media #mediaman
“Advertising is the ability to sense, interpret . . . to put the very heart throbs of a business into type, paper and ink.” – Leo Burnett - #LeoBurnett #quote #advertising #ability #business #type #paper #ink #ad #ads #advertising #adbiz #advertisingbiz #advertisingnews #copy #creativity #popculture #biznews #media #mediaman
“Advertising works most effectively when it’s in line with what people are already trying to do. And people are trying to communicate in a certain way on Facebook – they share information with their friends, they learn about what their friends are doing – so there’s really a whole new opportunity for a new type of advertising model within that.” – Mark Zuckerberg, creator of Facebook #markzuckerberg #quote #facebook #advertising #ads #onlineads #onlineadvertising #socialmedia #platforms #communication #comms #friends #advertisingmodel #businessmodel #biz #bigtech #media
Cable News Finally Seeks Exit From Pay TV Bundle (excerpt)
The dirty little secret about cable news is that Fox News, MSNBC, CNN and all the other players benefit greatly from each other’s existence. The competition is intense, in both ratings and mindshare, but the business that has powered these channels is the pay-TV carriage fee. Fox News benefits because avid MSNBC or CNN viewers, who either don’t care about Fox or actively loathe it, are nonetheless paying north of $2 per month to the channel. MSNBC and CNN benefit because Fox’s large audience subsidizes their channels. via Alex Weprin, The Hollywood Reporter @THR
#THR #cablenews #cabletv #paytv #subscribertv #subscribertelevision #OTT #overthetop #streaming #streamingbiz #bundle #tvbundle #newsbiz #mainstream #mainstreammedia #FOX #foxnews #MSNBC #CNN #businessmodel #businessmodels #disrupt #disruption #biz #broadcast #broadcasters #broadcasting #media
Charter vs Disney
“Disney and Charter have the opportunity to work together on transforming the industry for the long-term benefit of both companies and consumers — but we are either moving forward together, or moving on,” Charter told an investor call. #charter #disney #cabletv #subscriptiontv #paytv #overthetop #subscribertv #newsbiz #broadcast #broadcasters #video #multichannel #programmers #programming #broadcasting #businessmodel #disrupt #disruptors #content #biz #media
SEL Meta Facebook 6th September 2023
SEL's Nicola on Meta's Facebook and Instagram in the European market. Re online advertising. There's an old expression that comes to mind.."Once bitten twice shy", or if that's not quite hitting the sweet spot, how about "Fool me once, shame on you. Fool me twice, shame on me". European lawmakers and citizens remain most cautious about 'The Big M' and 'FB'. Technology companies and former customers/users have a long memory. Perhaps Europe may be more friendly to X that will become "The Everything App"? Who will step up and fill the void? LinkedIn remains flow of information friendly so credit where credit is due. PS: Ad blockers remain a popular tool to block out online ads from intrusive ad-filled websites also. Big shifts in the air as big tech shake-ups continue in Silicon Valley and beyond the black stump, Iron Mountain, to the digital divide. Gonzo big tech readership contribution for the day. Back to core business of online publishing with a moderate amount of ads, publicity and project management.
SEL August 2023 Meta
SEL's Nicola on Meta's Facebook and Instagram in the European market. Re online advertising. There's an old expression that comes to mind.."Once bitten twice shy", or if that's not quite hitting the sweet spot, how about "Fool me once, shame on you. Fool me twice, shame on me". European lawmakers and citizens remain most cautious about 'The Big M' and 'FB'. Technology companies and former customers/users have a long memory. Perhaps Europe may be more friendly to X that will become "The Everything App"? Who will step up and fill the void? LinkedIn remains flow of information friendly so credit where credit is due. PS: Ad blockers remain a popular tool to block out online ads from intrusive ad-filled websites also. Big shifts in the air as big tech shake-ups continue in Silicon Valley and beyond the black stump, Iron Mountain, to the digital divide. Gonzo big tech readership contribution for the day. Back to core business of online publishing with a moderate amount of ads, publicity and project management.
'NCIS: Sydney' to premiere in November
U.S and global media giant CBS has announced that NCIS: Sydney will premiere November 13th at 10 p.m. EDT on CBS. The show premieres on Paramount+ down under in Australia on November 10.
The Aussie spinoff stars Olivia Swann, Todd Lasance, Sean Sagar, Tuuli Narkle, Mavournee Hazel and William McInnes. In the show, U.S. NCIS agents and AFP (Australian Federal Police) join forces to investigate naval crimes in Australian waters.
The original flagship NCIS will enter its 21st season once the SAG-AFTRA and WGA strikes resolve. NCIS has seen spinoffs NCIS: Los Angeles, NCIS: New Orleans and the most recent being NCIS: Hawai'i.
NCIS: Sydney will also stream on Paramount+ in the United States once episodes air on CBS.
Critics (isn't everyone a...) tend to believe this will be a success for Paramount/Parmount Plus in the somewhat embattled streaming entertainment sector as many folks are watching their budgets more than ever.
#NCIS #NSICSydney #CBS #Paramount #ParamountPlus #streaming #streamingseries #streamingbiz #entertainment #entertainmentnews #popculture #showbiz #media
SEJ LinkedIn and Facebook re Cryptocurrency games Google August 2023
SEJ's Matt on Google updating it's online advertising policy regarding cryptocurrency, crypto based games and casino themed/geared games, NFT games, casino games with crypto payment systems and more. You get the idea. The policy has been updated so read the fine print. If one screws up one will not automatically be cancelled (per cancel culture), but rather you have 7 days to get your ship deck in order and have the bad actor/bad apple walk the plank and disappear, ready for a fresh voyage into the still murky waters of the cryptocurrency online advertising world. Innovation is one thing but don't be a dastardly pirate ala Pirate Bay or your ship will soon sink. Bad actors will not be tolerated. Did something just whisper about a Stake themed story on the Gambling911 site where the loot went missing in the past 48 hours or so? Interesting timing maties. Far safer and calmer seas in being a media and online media agent than being an online cryptocurrency casino in the current turbulent waters I would suggest. When in doubt don't do it, or consult with Captains Parrot and First Mate before hand. If you must write to Google and read the T&Cs. At last resort hire a lawyer. Good luck and fair winds. The ripple effect! Open 4 business.
MMA / UFC @UFC News:
MMA fighter Sean Strickland punches Israel Adesanya fan on day one in Australia
Bondi Junction, Sydney a one hit wonder for SS and Izzy fan!
Strickland punched an Israel Adesanya fan in the stomach while in Australia for UFC 293 fight week.
“Boom, right in the guts” Strickland..“I’d only been in Australia a day and already I’d committed an assault. Initially, I thought the guy was coming up for a photo. Because anybody who wants a photo, man, I love the fans. But if you wanna come up to me and run your f…ing mouth, I’ll smack you like I smack anybody else".
“Uppercut to his stomach. Then I walked away. But if I see the guy again, man, no problems. ... I’ll thank him for not pressing charges.” #UFC293 #UFC #UFCNews #UFCSydney #UFCAustralia #SeanStrickland
#IsraelAdesanya #combatsports #mmafans #thefan #onepunch #BondiJunction #streetfight #boom #photo #photoopp #mmanews #combatsports #sportsbiz #satire #popculture #aussie #sportsbusiness #trend #trending #buzz #hype #publicity #thankyou #media
"I look at Google and think they have a strong academic culture. Elegant solutions to complex problems" - Mark Zuckerberg #MarkZuckerberg #quote #google #searchengine #culture #solutions #problems #digital #tech #algorithm #media
"After all the stuff that I've been through, I'm trying to rebuild my brand and be true to who I am, and be authentic, and make the truest, realest content that I can" Logan Paul @LoganPaul : Social media influencer and podcaster (Impaulsive @impaulsive ) #LoganPaul #quote #brand #authentic #content #socialmedia #Influencer #popculture #podcaster #media
"I always say fitness is the first step to greatness. And I try to encourage my fans to be on the same page as that. Because fitness is the first step to setting a habit that you necessarily don't want to do but are still committed to doing every single day. And so I think that's why I always, always try to get a workout in" - Jake Paul @jakepaul , Social media influencer and boxer #JakePaul #quote #fitness #greatness #habit #committed #committment #workout #work #socialmedia #Influencer #boxing #popculture #sports #sportsbusiness #biz #media
"When I was first starting to achieve success in the WWE @WWE , I got to be surrounded by the last class of true greats, and they all had little tips and secrets. You learn a lot from watching somebody work" John Cena @JohnCena #JohnCena #quote #success #WWE #wrestling #tips #secrets #combatsports #sportsbiz #entertainment #popculture #biz #work #mindset #attitude #media
“A brand for a company is like a reputation for a person. You earn reputation by trying to do hard things well.” – Jeff Bezos #JeffBezos #quote #amazon #brand #brands #branding #reputation #marketing #biz #biznewes #image #media #mediaman
UFC Open Workouts. "Who knows what this guy can do:?!
“The UFC @UFC says I must do some open work outs tonight at 540.. If you bring gloves I’ll spar you! Just don’t fucking cut me! Lmao” – Sean Strickland @SStricklandMMA via X @X yesterday #seanstrickland #quote #UFC293 #UFCSydney #UFCAustralia #UFC #UFCOpenWorkouts #MMA #mixedmartialarts #combatsports #sports #popculture #trending #media
“2 hours in customs…. Australia don’t want to be here as much as you don’t want me here. We will get through this together and then you guys can go back to being… actually I’ll wait till get through customs lol.” - Sean Strickland @SStricklandMMA , UFC @UFC professional fighter
Sean ‘Tarzan’ Strickland will challenge Israel ‘Stylebender’ Adesanya @stylebender for the UFC Middleweight title at UFC 293. Venue: Qudos Bank Arena. Sydney Olympic Park, Sydney, Australia. Sunday September 10, 2023
#seanstrickland #quote #UFC #tarzan #UFC293 #UFCSydne #UFCAustralia #ufcnews #IsraelAdesanya #Adesanya #AdesanyaStrickland #MMA #combatsports #sportsbiz #sportsbusiness #sportsnews #popculture #media
"Fight you for the centre Jack". "Comon bro, we're both boxers". "Oh yeah, thata boy". "I knew I'd like you". "You just can't fall". #UFC293
MMA / UFC @UFC News
'Stylebender' Israel Adesanya defends his middleweight title vs Sean Strickland at UFC 293 this Sunday September 10th in the west of Sydney, Australia
Probed about how and who he ranks among the all-time greats.
"I was chasing that, I was chasing the greatest of all time and I still think I’m one of the greatest of all time, but I put Alex Volkanovski as the greatest of all time in my eyes".. "I see the work he does, he’s my buddy, I love the way he fights and he’s one of my favorite fighters in history."
#MMAnews #UFCNews #UFCMedia #UFCAustralia #IsraelAdesanya #Stylebender #seanstrickland #AlexVolkanovski #Volk #Goat #combatsports #sportsbiz #sportsnews #legends #popculture #media
Google Cloud
Out with the old. Cloud with the new.
Are you "woke"?!
According to new data from media tracking group Streem, “woke” has now laid its roots into the media. The media monitoring company found the terms “woke”, “wokeness” and “wokeism” have been used more than 35,000 times across the Australian media in the past year. #woke #wokeness #wokeism #newsmedia #newsbiz #popculture #culture #media #mediaman
MMA/UFC @UFC News/Insider Goss: Adesanya vs Strickland
“He’s a what? A former Nazi?!!? No way.” Israel Adesanya on Sean Strickland’s past
“Tim! Did you know Sean was a former Neo Nazi?”
“I had no idea”...“I’ll do some deep diving on him, because this is breaking news.
“Wow…he’s gonna loooove me, then. Wooo, is he gonna love me.”
“It’s only when the cameras are around that he tries all this sh*t,“But when I’m around, he doesn’t bark at me like that.
“And you know I keep receipts. So I smacked him, he does nothing, then when we’re onstage, he’s like, ‘I’ll come down there right now’.
“But there was no security backstage. He could’ve turned around and we could’ve gone right there.”
#UFC293 #AdesanyaStrickland #seanstrickland #IsraelAdesanya #UFCSydneey #UFCAustralia #MMA #mixedmartialarts #combatsports #sportsnews #sportsbiz #entertainment #entertainmentnews #showbiz #popculture #worldnews #media
“Brand is just a perception, and perception will match reality over time.” – Elon Musk @ElonMusk , CEO of X Corp, SpaceX and Tesla. #ElonMusk #quote #brand #perception #X #XCorp #SpaceX #Tesla #xAI #branding #marketing #advertising #adbiz #brandnews #popculture #biz #media
“The greatest thing to be achieved in advertising, in my opinion, is believability, and nothing is more believable than the product itself.” – Leo Burnett #LeoBurnett #quote #believability #belief #product #ads #adveritsing #adbiz #adnews #adindustry #advertisingindustry #advertisingbiz #marketing #pr #biz #media #mediaman
Pro Wrestling and USA Wrestling News Update
Gable Steveson @GableSteveson Steps Back from 2023 World Championships
USA Wrestling has revealed that 2020 Olympic gold medalist Gable Steveson will not be participating in the upcoming 2023 Senior World Championships set for September 16-24 in Belgrade, Serbia. Steveson, a Minneapolis native, had previously signaled his return to freestyle wrestling with a victory at the 2023 U.S. Open in Las Vegas and a subsequent win at Final X in Newark, N.J.
Steveson has appeared on the NXT @WWENXT pro wrestling broadcast a handful of time over the past year. He's done some promos, one or two match interference and had officially one match. The sports legend has a love and passion for pro wrestling and the NXT contract has enabled more financial stability.
Steveson's absence from the tournament clears the way for Mason Parris to step in as his replacement in the 125 kg men's freestyle category. Based in Ann Arbor, Mich., Parris holds number 2 position on the 2023-24 U.S. Senior Men’s Freestyle National Team. This event marks his inaugural appearance at a Senior World Championships representing Team USA.
2020 Olympic champion Gable Steveson (Minneapolis, Minn./Gopher WC RTC) has notified USA Wrestling that he will not be competing in the 2023 Senior World Championships at 125 kg in Belgrade, Serbia in September.
Replacing Steveson in the 125 kg position in men’s freestyle at the World Championships is Final X runner-up Mason Parris (Ann Arbor, Mich./Titan Mercury WC/Cliff Keen WC). Parris, who is No. 2 on the 2023-24 U.S. Senior Men’s Freestyle National Team, will be competing in his first Senior World Championships for Team USA.
Steveson returned to freestyle wrestling for the first time since the Olympic Games in Tokyo when he won the 2023 U.S. Open in Las Vegas in April, then secured his position on the 2023 U.S. Senior World Team with his victory at Final X in Newark, N.J. in June.
Parris will compete at the Senior World Championships in Belgrade, Serbia, September 16 and 17.
Parris was a 2019 Junior World champion in men’s freestyle at 125 kg, competing in Tallin, Estonia. Other freestyle achievements include a 2022 U.S. Senior Open title, runner-up in 2023 Final X, second place at the 2023 U.S. Open, runner-up at the 2021 World Team Trials and a third-place finish at the 2020 U.S. Olympic Team Trials. Parris most recently won a gold medal at the United World Wrestling Ranking Tournament in Hungary.
He has a 2023 NCAA champion for Michigan at 285 pounds. Parris won the 2023 Dan Hodge Trophy as the nation’s top college wrestler, going undefeated for the Wolverines with a 33-0 record, with 21 bonus point wins.
Parris was a 2021 NCAA runner-up. He was also fifth in the 2022 NCAA Championships. In 2020, when the NCAA Championships were cancelled, Parris was named NWCA First-Team All-American.
A native of Lawrenceburg, Ind., Parris won three Indiana state high school titles for Lawrenceburg High School.
#GableSteveson #prowrestling #wrestling #USAwrestling #WWE #WWENXT #combatsports #sportsnews #sportsbiz #olympics #olympicgames #NCAA #sportsentertainment #entertainment #entertainmentnews #popculture #legend #media
Pro Wrestling Dream Match via AEW @AEW Dynamite -
September 6, 2023
Le Sex Gods (Chris Jericho @IAmJericho & Sammy Guevara @sammyguevara ) def Aussie Open (Kyle Fletcher & Mark Davis)
Jericho hits Fletcher with the Judas Effect for the win.
"Sammy Guevara desperatly needs the tag"
"What a shot right there by Chris"
"Sterio forearm smashes Jericho"
"That's that athletism of Guevara that I mentioned before guys" Don Callis @TheDonCallis
"That is why Aussie Open one of the highest regarded tag-teams from around the world" Excalibur @ShutUpExcalibur
"Perfectly done right there by Sammy" Taz @OfficialTAZ
"Chris Jericho...friendly fire"..
"Jericho showboating, hit his own man"
"No, I think its narcissist behavior what I'm seeing, it's all about him" - Don Callis
“Sammy wants nothing to do with Jericho at this point in time” Excalibur
“I’m sure they can patch it up” Taz
“The cracks in their relationship widening” Excalibur
Video highlights via AEW Official YouTube:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7yjr4k4ZEWA&ab_channel=AllEliteWrestling
#AEWDynamite #AEW #AllEliteWrestling #DreamMatch #wrestling #prowrestling #LeSexGods #AussieOpen #aewtagteam #aewtagteams #tagteamwrestling #professionalwrestling #combatsports #entertainmentnews #sportsbiz #sportsnews #popculture #story #storyline #storytelling #forthewin #broadcast #multimedia #video #highlights #ratings #media
Australian Streaming By The Numbers
Netflix had 6.1 million subscribers, down 3 per cent, while Amazon Prime Video was up 9 per cent to 4.5 million. Disney+ crept up 1 per cent to 3.1 million, and Stan rose 2 per cent to 2.6 million. Foxtel’s Binge rose 22 per cent to 1.5 million, Paramount+ rose 41 per cent to 1.5 million and Kayo Sports jumped 8 per cent to 1.4 million. *Figures include unpaid subscriptions.
#streaming #australianstreaming #streamingbiz #streamingentertainment #Netflix #Amazon #PrimeVideo #Stan #Foxtel #Binge #ParamountPlus #KayoSports #entertainment #entertainmentnews #streamingnews #showbiz #streamingtv #subscribe #subscribers #popculture #aussie #media
Search Engine/Advertising News
Each year, Google pays more than $100 million to Australian news publishers under the News Media Bargaining Code. #google #searchengine #googlenews #advertisingnews #adbiz #alphabet #australiannews #newsmedia #newspapers #newspublishers #socialmedia #bigtech #newsbiz #media
Pro Wrestling
“And once again, it’s a regretful moment what happened. But Tony Khan made his decision. And like I said, CM Punk was a big part of AEW for the time he was here, and if you’re going to go out, he went out on top for sure by having this good match with Samoa Joe in a sold-out stadium, not sold out, but the highest selling ticket seller of all time. So. That’s my thoughts on that.” Chris Jericho via Talk Is Jericho @TalkIsJericho #ChrisJericho #quote #CMPunk #talkisjericho #AEW #allelitewrestling #AEWAllIn #wrestling #prowrestling #wrestlingnews #wrestlingpodcast #podcast #sportsbiz #sportsnews #popculture #media
The Mike Douglas Show. Terry Funk and Sylvester Stallone. 1978. (For educational purposes). #themikedouglasshow #mikedouglas #terryfunk #sylvesterstallone #tv #legends #entertainment #popculture #media #mediamanculture #mediamanentertainment #mediamanlegends #mediamanmovies #mediamantelevision #mediamanint
Combat Sports: UFC @UFC Media
Israel Adesanya: 'He Does Not Care and That is What Makes Him Dangerous'. UFC 293
Video
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=P0GdFUfOrCE&ab_channel=UFC
#UFC293 #UFCSydney #UFCAustralia
#IsraelAdesanya #seanstrickland #combatsports #MMA #sportsbiz #video #media
"One thing I can't prove, but I firmly believe is that two men were put on this earth - one threw a punch and a third guy came over and watched. And that happened before anybody ever threw or kicked a ball" Dana White, UFC @UFC prez #DanaWhite #quote #UFC #MMA #fighting #sportsbiz #combatsports #culture #world #media
SEJ Google Sites August 2023
SEJ's Roger on the situation regarding Google sites for SEO purposes! This article explains much. We own and operate many mainstream websites done with Adobe Dreamweaver and such and a handful of Google Sites also. Our main and traditional coded websites are massively more popular than the Google Sities template created. When we first discovered Google Sites we had big expectations, but learned the hard way. It was a minimum financial and time investment with Google Sites. Many folks would have expected the Google branded Sites to take off, given the owner and that was putting money in the pockets of Google but the internet can and does work is mysterious ways. Squarespace is buying Google Sites, if the deal hasn't already gone through. Interesting investment. Spread the risk as always. What a web we weave.
EA Sports UFC
Sean Strickland @SStricklandMMA for the win. Let's F'n Go! #UFC5 #UFC293 #seanstrickland
EA Sports UFC 5. As Real As It Gets. Sean Strickland for the win. Let's F'n Go!
Be extremely subtle, even to the point of formlessness. Be extremely mysterious, even to the point of soundlessness. Thereby you can be the director of the opponent's fate. Sun Tzu #SunTzu #quote #theartofwar #artofwar #subtle #mysterious #director #mindset #strategy #media
Gamification: the application of typical elements of game playing (e.g. point scoring, competition with others, rules of play) to other areas of activity, typically as an online marketing technique to encourage engagement with a product or service. "gamification is exciting because it promises to make the hard stuff in life fun" #gamification #games #gamesbiz #gamesindustry #gaming #gamebiz #biz #innovation #popculture #media #mediaman
Agency: an organization, company, or bureau that provides a particular service. The media agency has been creating and executing online advertising, online publicity and online news campaigns for over two decades. He is the head of the advertising and creative agency #agency #agent #ads #pr #popculture #sportsbiz #adbiz #mediaagent #mediabiz #media #mediaman #mediamanint
"We're not marketing the fight" - Jake Paul @jakepaul re potentially vs Logan Paul @LoganPaul via BS w/ Jake Paul @BSJakePaul
Video
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vbOMdYhMj2s&ab_channel=BSw%2FJakePaul
#JakePaul #LoganPaul #bsjakepaul #jakepaulpodcast #PaulBros #JakePaulLoganPaul #popculture #sports #combatsports #dreammatch #broadcaster #boxer #Influencers #socialmedianews #sportsbiz #biz #buzz #media
"Logan's @LoganPaul a solid dude man. You can tell he's done a bit of wrestling and that when he was younger, so he's still got a stong big base. Even on the bottom there's a couple of positions. You really feel he's strong, when he wanted to get up, he could get up. Good body awareness, so he's been there before. Yeah, maybe a UFC @UFC or MMA fight soon" - Alexander Volkanovski @alexvolkanovski
"Dana White, let's go"! - Jake Paul
Video (Official Alexander Volkanovski YouTube Channel)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2W77Fi9bRSA&ab_channel=AlexanderVolkanovski
#AlexanderVolkanovski #Volk #LoganPaul #UFC #ufctraining #training #workout #workoutvideo #video #combatsports #wrestling #MMA #sportsbiz #sportsnews #media
"Wrestlers tend to do good in MMA because they tend to be just some tough guys. It's not a karate situation where they grew up their whole life punching the air; in a wrestling situation, you grab a hold of another human being every day" - Chael Sonnen @ChaelSonnen #ChaelSonnen #quote #wrestlers #MMA #karate #wrestling #combatsports #UFC #sports #media
"There are so many reasons, not just for me, but for the fans".. "He's always been a fantastic person, There's layers to people. And when people are just so hung up on the outer layers of what a person can be, you get stuck there. And if you want to stay there, that's great. But when you get to know the core of a person, that's where I like to hang out. To me, Punk's been nothing but great." Zelina Vega @ZelinaVegaWWE on CM Punk (via Newsday) #ZelinaVega #quote #wrestling #prowrestling #CMPunk #popculture #sportsbiz #media
Wrestling Business Podcast Newsbyte
Could a leading pro wrestling promotion sue a wrestling news themed podcaster of note? Fans, workers and the world may know sooner rather than later. A Twitter (now X @X birdie told us) #wrestlingbusiness #wrestlingpodcaster #wrestlingpodcasts #wrestling #prowrestling #podcaster #podcasting #popculture #sportsbiz #media
MMA/Pro Wrestling News
UFC @UFC And WWE @WWE To Close Merger Next Week, Make New York Stock Exchange Debut As TKO Group
UFC remains world's number one combat sports promotion in almost all metrics
WWE remains world's number one pro wrestling promotion in all metrics
Endeavor Group management enjoyed strong relationship and mutual respect for WWE's Vince McMahon many years ago; Led to official talks...
UFC parent Endeavor Group and WWE advised they expect to close the planned merger of UFC and WWE on September 12th. That’s ahead of schedule as Endeavor stated in August it expected the deal to close in mid-to-late September. This can be viewed as a positive sign.
Endeavor and WWE announced a deal last spring for the Ari Emanuel-led firm to take control of WWE and merge it into a new, stand-alone entity with UFC. The pro wrestling and mixed martial arts powerhouse will be called TKO Group Holdings and trade on the New York Stock Exchange. Valued at $21 billion, TKO will be a subsidiary of Endeavor, with 51% control. WWE (Raw, SmackDown) will control 49%.
Emanuel will be CEO. Dana White will continue as president of UFC.
Vince McMahon, WWE’s longtime leader, executive chairman and major shareholder, who masterminded the deal with Endeavor, was set as executive chair of the new company’s board. In early August, WWE announced federal law enforcement agents had executed a search warrant and served a federal grand jury subpoena on McMahon although no charges had been brought. WWE CEO Nick Khan also advised then that McMahon was on a medical leave of absence until further notice following spinal surgery.
WWE launched an internal probe of McMahon in 2022 to investigate allegations of payments to women, which it found had totaled close to $20 million and that caused it to revise several quarterly financial statements. The probe concluded last November and McMahon paid the company $17.4 million for costs incurred.
“As previously disclosed on June 17, 2022, a Special Committee of the Board of Directors was formed on June 15, 2022 to investigate allegations of misconduct by Vince McMahon. As previously disclosed, the Special Committee investigation was completed during the fourth quarter of 2022. However, related government investigations remain ongoing,” the company said in SEC filing August 2.
The vast majority of pro wrestling fans and media are excited about the merger. Some staff in the WWE are understood to have some mixed feelings with the deal as in the history of company mergers it's not uncommon for some jobs to be lost for cost efficiencies. The higher one performers, in the ring, and/or in the office and corporate environment, the safer their job would likely be.
Staff, management and wrestlers continue to step up to impress the powers that be. At this stage nobody wants to hear the famous words heard from time to time, "We wish you well with your future endeavours".
Buzz remains strong for the WWE coming off record breaking numbers for a string of its recent premium live events (formally known as Pay-Per-Views), and the UFC is currently presenting a very solid card in Australia - UFC 293, coming off Fight Week down under. UFC media and media related events have been packed and have achieved worldwide and strong industry news coverage. You can bet the UFC (and WWE) powers that be are watching closely - we already know they follow the news, online news and social media buzz.
Little wonder wrestlers and legends to be such as John Cena, Grayson Waller and Logan Paul fit so well into the WWE marketing and media machine. Pub, sports bar, watercooler and cafe talk includes potential dream matches with the UFC's 'Bam Bam' (into The Bloodline), Volk vs Stone Cold Steve Austin, and Sean Strickland has the "killer heel or mega babyface" persona, just as long as WWE PR can control the beast. Everything is a risk, especially in the world of MMA meets UFC, but TKO and the brains trust has managed things beautifully over the course of this history making deal says Media Man.
#UFC #WWE #Endeavor #TKO #TKOGroup #EndeavorGroup #UFC293 #NYSE #AriEmanuel #DanaWhite #VinceMcMahon #wrestling #prowrestling #WWERaw #SmackDown #MMA #combatsports #sportsbiz #wrestlingnews #mmanews #entertainment #EntertainmentNews #popculture #PLE #PPV #payperview #merger #biz #mediadeal #trends #buzz #media
Not quite the Indian death lock! Pedigree Indian variation! #WWESuperstarSpectacle
Pro Wrestling
WWE @WWE SmackDown. September 8, 2023
AJ Styles @AJStylesOrg vs Jimmy Uso @WWEUsos
Charlotte Flair @MsCharlotteWWE and Shotzi @ShotziWWE vs Damage CTRL and as usually the case, more surprises, confrontations and high drama in and around the squared circle as competitors chase gold by just about any means necessary!
#SmackDown #WWESmackDown #WWE #wrestling #prowrestling #combatsports #entertainment #entertainmentnews #popculture #FOX #TV #streaming #media
Dana White Says Mark Zuckerberg, Elon Musk Fight 'Probably Not' Happening; The highly-anticipated Mark Zuckerberg vs. Elon Musk fight is all but cooked ...
'cause Dana White says the billionaire brawl is "probably" never going to happen. The UFC honcho -- who got involved in negotiations after the two tech nerds agreed to take their beef to the cage -- was pessimistic when asked Thursday about whether the potential matchup would actually happen ... pretty much killing all hpe of seeing the bout come to fruition. “I never say never, but probably not," Dana told Charly Arnolt on "OutKick The Morning." via TMZ Sports @TMZ_Sports #DanaWhite #TMZ #TMZSports #MarkZuckerberg #ElonMusk #zuckmusk #UFC #MMA #popculture #sportsnews #sportsbiz #media
Wrestling and Surfing Connection!
Hulk Hogan @HulkHogan tells Joe Rogan @joerogan :
"Wishes He Was Laird Hamilton". "I wanted to be him."
"That's the surfer guy right?" Hogan asks.
"Yeah, he's a freak, like a real physical freak. The guy's a maniac about training and recovery and nutrition," Rogan answers.
"This is really gonna sound weird to say because I've never admitted this in front of anybody, but I wanted to be him."
Rogan : "You wanted to be Laird Hamilton?"
"When I saw him ride those big waves bro. That big, tall, blond guy that was built like crazy. I said, man, I could have been him instead of me". Hogan.
"That's crazy, 'cause you're Hulk Hogan," Rogan says.
"Could you imagine riding one of those waves, bro? The rush?"
"I have several friends who are big wave surfers and I am in awe" Rogan.
"On a short board. I mean that's insane. Bro, you fall off, you might not come out of that thing". Hogan.
"Do you surf?" Rogan's co-host.
Hogan says his former lawyer, who was president of the Malibu Surf Club, taught him to surf on "little baby two to three-foot breakers."
He'd also rent boards and surf Diamond Head when he'd visit Hawaii.
Video/Audio via Spotify
https://open.spotify.com/episode/2SydVEJ8apGliqKX1W2SWS?si=Z2QNZ5spSx6OcBDPaLNnYw&nd=1
#JoeRogan #HulkHogan #joeroganeexperience #wrestling #prowrestling #surfing #LairdHamilton #health #lifestyle #wellbeing #lifestyle #stories #FearFactor #walkertexasranger #podcast #popculture #sports #biz #streaming #mbs #media
Combat Sports; Hype rises for Tyson Fury @Tyson_Fury vs Francis Ngannou via media
“World champion in boxing,” Ngannou to Fury.
“Because in fighting, I think you are very limited in general. Bro, you’re very limited.”
“I think I could beat you in a cage” Fury.
“I would kick your ass in a cage, no problem. I’ll beat you in a boxing ring and then I’ll kick your ass in a cage. 100 percent. “I’ll beat you at boxing, and I’ll beat you in a cage. No problem. I’ll beat him at boxing and I’ll beat him at a cage fight, no two ways about it.”
“You can’t even think about that,” Ngannou said. “Focus on boxing for right now.”
Video
Tyson Fury vs Francis Ngannou | KICKOFF PRESS CONFERENCE (Top Rank Boxing @trboxing YouTube)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-ohY5vso_oE&ab_channel=TopRankBoxing
#TysonFury #Francis #Ngannou #FuryVsNgannou #toprankboxing #boxing #boxingnews #boxingmedia #video #multimedia #quotes #sportsbiz #sportsnews #hype #mediaconference #PPV #payperview #streaming #popculture #sportsbiz #trend #trends #buzz #media
“Advertising, as a single entity is capable of creating vast changes in our social structure, simply does not exist. Its impact is too diffuse, too omnidirectional.” – William Hesse #WilliamHeesse #quote #advertising #creating #social #biz #advertisingbusiness #ads #media #mediaman
Glory Kickboxing. To the victor goes the glory. The Man In The Arena. #glorykickboxing #kickboxing #collision6 #collision #glory #combatsports #boxing #martialarts #fighting #fite #sportsbiz #streaming #sportsmarketing #broadcasting #biz #sportsnews #winwin #media
UFC 293 News
"Sydney, it's been too long. We're delighted to be back down under in this great sporting nation"...
Video/Multimedia via Official UFC @UFC YouTube Channel
UFC 293: Live Weigh-In Show
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FBFvGoyYkN0&ab_channel=UFC
#UFC293 #UFC #UFCSydney #UFCAustralia #UFCWeighIn #MMA #combatsports #sportsnews #sportsbiz #sportsmarketing #livesports #sportsnews #sportsmedia #trend #trending #hype #letsgo #seanstrickland #forthewin #andnew #media
UFC 293 News
"Sydney, it's been too long. We're delighted to be back down under in this great sporting nation"...
Video/Multimedia via Official UFC @UFC YouTube Channel
UFC 293: Live Weigh-In Show
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FBFvGoyYkN0&ab_channel=UFC
#UFC293 #UFC #UFCSydney #UFCAustralia #UFCWeighIn #MMA #combatsports #sportsnews #sportsbiz #sportsmarketing #livesports #sportsnews #sportsmedia #trend #trending #hype #letsgo #seanstrickland #forthewin #andnew #media
Wrestling with Freddie Prince!
"I know Japan is watching and loving it ... I think it's really awesome" Prinze said on "Wrestling with Freddie," while adding that Nakamura cutting promos in Japanese, to diss Seth Rollins, only heightened his sense of anticipation for their match at Payback. "This was my match of the week. I know I said the girls [Becky Lynch and Trish Stratus] stole the show, but this was my match of the week. The story that these guys told — this was like old, old-school wrestling. Before the '80s got goofy and everyone got characters ... [it] was like '70s wrestling where you pick a body part, and beat the living hell out of that body part. This was like [an] old school Jerry The King Lawler territory match, where like in the interview he says, 'I know he's hurt his back, and I'm going after it.' This is exactly what these guys did." "If that's the story, then holy s–t, they just saved this and made it special," Prinze added. "Otherwise, the Seth Rollins thing can get old — 'I wrestle every week' — but if it's him and his pride [against Nakamura] ... that's really cool. That's the story they told in the ring as well" #WWEPayback #WWE #FreddiePrince #wrestlingwithfreddie #SethRollins #ShinsukiNakamura #wrestling #prowrestling #combatsports #podculture #podcast #wrestlingpodcast #entertainment #showbiz #media
“The only people who care about advertising are the people who work in advertising” – George Parker #GeorgeParker #quote #advertising #ads #adnews #adbiz #media #mediaman
“Creativity about life, in all aspects, I think, is still the secret of great creative people.” – Leo Burnett #LeoBurnett #quote #creative #creativity #advertising #ads #biz #life #media
"I am in the fighting game. I don't care about anything else. I don't watch the news, I don't care about politics, I don't care about other sports. I don't care about anything I don't need to care about. This is my sport: it is my life. I study it; I think about it all the time. Nothing else matters" - Conor McGregor @TheNotoriousMMA , UFC @UFC and combat sports legend #conormcgregor #quote #fighting #UFC #MMA #news #politics #sport #study #focus #mindset #sportsbiz #media
Combat Sports News
UFC @UFC 293. Sunday, 10th September, 2023
Sydney, Australia
Israel Adesanya @stylebender vs Sean Strickland @SStricklandMMA for The Middleweight Title
Tai Tuivasa @bambamtuivasa vs Alexander Volkov @AlexDragoVolkov
Manel Kape vs Felipe dos Santos
Justin Tafa vs Austen Lane
Tyson Pedro sv Anton Turkalj
Undercard:
Carlos Ulberg vs Jung Da-Un
Jack Jenkins vs Chepe Mariscal
Jamie Mullarkey vs John Makdessi
Nasrat Haqparast vs Landon Quinones
Mike Mathetha vs Charlie Radtke
Shane Young vs Gabriel Miranda
Kevin Jousset vs Kiefer Crosbie
#UFC293 #UFCSydney #UFCAustralia #UFC #seanstrickland #forthewin #MMA #ufcnews #ufcmedia #mmamedia #mmanews #mixedmartialarts #combatsports #sportsnews #sportsbiz #PPV #payperview #entertainment #popculture #broadcast #USA #Aussie #trend #trending #media
Combat Sports News:
UFC @UFC 293. Sunday, 10th September, 2023 Sydney, Australia
Israel Adesanya aka "The Cringe Lord" per SS quote, or aka "The Stylebender" vs Sean Strickland @SStricklandMMA aka "Tarzan" for The Middleweight Title
The vast majority of Aussie fight fans have really taken a liking to Tarzan er Strickland, whose verbal punches sting almost as hard as his hits in the Octagon (or on the street or anywhere else).
USA/Australian Alliance vs China for the main event says some segments of fans and news media; Not much mention of New Zealand. Monster vs Nails and 'The Puppy King'. Cheers to a hell of a tough fight for the (current) champ and challenger.
Tai "Bam Bam" Tuivasa @bambamtuivasa vs Alexander Volkov @AlexDragoVolkov
#UFC293 #UFCSydney #UFCAustralia #UFC #seanstrickland #Tarzan #IsraelAdesanya #Stylebender #CringeLord
#forthewin #MMA #ufcnews #ufcmedia #mmamedia #mmanews #mixedmartialarts #combatsports #sportsnews #sportsbiz #PPV #payperview #entertainment #popculture #broadcast #USA #Aussie #trend #trending #media
Quotes in the spirit of UFC @UFC Fight Week down under in Sydney, Australia
The Art Of War, by Sun Tzu
“Victorious warriors win first and then go to war, while defeated warriors go to war first and then seek to win”
“If you know the enemy and you know yourself, you need not fear the result of a hundred battles"
"If the freedom of speech is taken away then dumb and silent we may be led, like sheep to the slaughter" - George Washington
"War - An act of violence whose object is to constrain the enemy, to accomplish our will" - George Washington
#UFC293 #UFCSydney #UFCAustralia #UFC #quotes #suntzu #theartofwar #georgewashington #MMA #combatsports #USA #Australia #China #sportsbiz #sportsnews #popculture #world #worldnews #trend #trends #totrend #seanstrickland #forthewin #AndNew #buzz #media
Quotes in the spirit of UFC @UFC Fight Week down under in Sydney, Australia
The Art Of War, by Sun Tzu
“Victorious warriors win first and then go to war, while defeated warriors go to war first and then seek to win”
“If you know the enemy and you know yourself, you need not fear the result of a hundred battles"
"If the freedom of speech is taken away then dumb and silent we may be led, like sheep to the slaughter" - George Washington
"War - An act of violence whose object is to constrain the enemy, to accomplish our will" - George Washington
#UFC293 #UFCSydney #UFCAustralia #UFC #quotes #suntzu #theartofwar #georgewashington #MMA #combatsports #USA #Australia #China #sportsbiz #sportsnews #popculture #world #worldnews #trend #trends #totrend #seanstrickland #forthewin #AndNew #buzz #media
Red Bull Racing
Discussion Takeaways include: "The sum is greater than the parts"
"Grow a passionate fan base"
"I think we're just scratching the surface"
"It's about capitalizing on the opportunity"
"We think Red Bull helps us achieve that".
ONE Championship. By infographics and numbers. Demonstrates the areas that the promotion is number one in. Smart move. KO.
#onechampionship #one #martialarts #mma #mixedmartialarts #infographic #sportsnews #sportsmarketing #sportsbiz #sportsbusiness #bizdev #broadcasting #liveevents #audience #media
Pro Wrestling. WWE @WWE SmackDown
"Soak all this in. Take in that 15 minutes of fame., 'cause when I'm done with you The Miz @mikethemiz ain't gunna waste his time" Austin Theory @_Theory1 to LA Knight @RealLAKnight
"God you guys are cute together. If your done boring everybody why don't I show you incells how to do this. "Whose this guy to my right"? "Mush mouth moron. yeah! Whose this guy to the left? A cross-eyed halfwit. Yeah! But I tell you what, if you two crotch goblems wanna come on up and get srerved we can make that happen right now. TD Garden right here. TD Garden stands on legends way. And in a very legedary way Austin Theory at just 26 year old, you can get your gester kicked tonight with everybody sayin' LA Knight Yeah! Knight to Theory and Grayson Waller @GraysonWWE
#SmackDown #WWESmackDown #wrestling #prowrestling #LAKnight #AustinTheory #GraysonWaller #entertainment #popculture #FOX #TV #media
"Tarzan" to def "Stylebender" for the "upset"! Round 4. #UFC293
UFC post reply
"Well you know guys. I'm good at support. Not because you like me. Just 'cause Izzy sucks. When I respect your country more than Izzy does its easy to support me. Well you guys, I'm going to have a *ucking war for you guys and I'm gunna *uckin loose some brain cells for you *ucking guys. Thank you for showing me all the love. Thank you" - Sean Stickland #UFC293 #seanstrickland
WWE @WWE SmackDown
The Brawling Brutes vs The Judgment Day
#SmackDown #WWESmackDown #WWE #wrestling #prowrestling #BrawlingBrutes #JudgementDay #FightNight #combatsports #entertainment #EntertainmentNews #popculture #FOX #TV #media
" @WWEAsuka making it pretty clear what she wants" Michael Cole @MichaelCole
"I need to brush up on my Japanese but it's very apparent that Askua wants the championship that is hanging over Iyo Sky's shoulder. The very same championship that Iyo captured while cashing in her Money In The Bank at the expense of Asuka, Charlotte and Bianca Belair" Corey Graves @WWEGraves #SmackDown
MMA/Pro Wrestling News
UFC
@UFC
And WWE
@WWE
To Close Merger Next Week, Make New York Stock Exchange Debut As TKO Group
UFC remains world's number one combat sports promotion in almost all metrics
WWE remains world's number one pro wrestling promotion in all metrics
Endeavor Group management enjoyed strong relationship and mutual respect for WWE's Vince McMahon many years ago; Led to official talks...
UFC parent Endeavor Group and WWE advised they expect to close the planned merger of UFC and WWE on September 12th. That’s ahead of schedule as Endeavor stated in August it expected the deal to close in mid-to-late September. This can be viewed as a positive sign.
Endeavor and WWE announced a deal last spring for the Ari Emanuel-led firm to take control of WWE and merge it into a new, stand-alone entity with UFC. The pro wrestling and mixed martial arts powerhouse will be called TKO Group Holdings and trade on the New York Stock Exchange. Valued at $21 billion, TKO will be a subsidiary of Endeavor, with 51% control. WWE (Raw, SmackDown) will control 49%.
Emanuel will be CEO. Dana White will continue as president of UFC.
Vince McMahon, WWE’s longtime leader, executive chairman and major shareholder, who masterminded the deal with Endeavor, was set as executive chair of the new company’s board. In early August, WWE announced federal law enforcement agents had executed a search warrant and served a federal grand jury subpoena on McMahon although no charges had been brought. WWE CEO Nick Khan also advised then that McMahon was on a medical leave of absence until further notice following spinal surgery.
WWE launched an internal probe of McMahon in 2022 to investigate allegations of payments to women, which it found had totaled close to $20 million and that caused it to revise several quarterly financial statements. The probe concluded last November and McMahon paid the company $17.4 million for costs incurred.
“As previously disclosed on June 17, 2022, a Special Committee of the Board of Directors was formed on June 15, 2022 to investigate allegations of misconduct by Vince McMahon. As previously disclosed, the Special Committee investigation was completed during the fourth quarter of 2022. However, related government investigations remain ongoing,” the company said in SEC filing August 2.
The vast majority of pro wrestling fans and media are excited about the merger. Some staff in the WWE are understood to have some mixed feelings with the deal as in the history of company mergers it's not uncommon for some jobs to be lost for cost efficiencies. The higher one performers, in the ring, and/or in the office and corporate environment, the safer their job would likely be.
Staff, management and wrestlers continue to step up to impress the powers that be. At this stage nobody wants to hear the famous words heard from time to time, "We wish you well with your future endeavours".
Buzz remains strong for the WWE coming off record breaking numbers for a string of its recent premium live events (formally known as Pay-Per-Views), and the UFC is currently presenting a very solid card in Australia - UFC 293, coming off Fight Week down under. UFC media and media related events have been packed and have achieved worldwide and strong industry news coverage. You can bet the UFC (and WWE) powers that be are watching closely - we already know they follow the news, online news and social media buzz.
Little wonder wrestlers and legends to be such as John Cena, Grayson Waller and Logan Paul fit so well into the WWE marketing and media machine. Pub, sports bar, watercooler and cafe talk includes potential dream matches with the UFC's 'Bam Bam' (into The Bloodline), Volk vs Stone Cold Steve Austin, and Sean Strickland has the "killer heel or mega babyface" persona, just as long as WWE PR can control the beast. Everything is a risk, especially in the world of MMA meets UFC, but TKO and the brains trust has managed things beautifully over the course of this history making deal says Media Man.
UFC @UFC 293. Sydney, Australia.
Tyson Pedro @tyson_pedro_ def Anton Turkalj. Round 1. KO
Justin Tafa @Justin_Tafa def Austen Lane. Round 1. TKO.
Tai Tuivasa @bambamtuivasa vs Alexander Volkov. Tai for the win?!
#UFC293 #UFC #UFCSydney #UFCAustralia #SticklandAdesanya #Stylebender #TysonPedro #JustinTafa #BamBam #Tuivasa #MMA #combatsports #dogdayafternoon #wholetthedogsout #dog #popculture #trend #trends #trending #buzz #forthewin #andnew #media
UFC @UFC 293. Sydney, Australia
Sean Strickland @SStricklandMMA def Israel Adesanya @stylebender
"I dunna man. I might still be dreaming" SS
The MW division has officially been shaken up! Sean Strickland is the CHAMP! per UFC social media
#UFC293 #UFC #UFCSydney #UFCAustralia #SticklandAdesanya #seanstrickland #Stylebender #MMA #combatsports #AndNew #dogdayafternoon #wholetthedogsout #dog #popculture #trend #trends #trending #buzz #forthewin #andnew #media
UFC Asia Twitter
"*ucking legend. What the *uck is this?! What is this? Am I *ucking dreaming. Am I gunna wake up? Somebody hit me. Oh my god you guys. Never in a million years did I think I'ld be here man. Like I don't *ucking cry much but I'm trying to keep my *hit together right now"... "You guys know, Izzy's a bad *otherfucker you guys. You don't fight that guy with I dunno how many highlight reel knockouts. He's beat the majority of my friends. He's beat pretty easily so. Man, I was even doubting myself at times. But you know, I gotta say the fans in Australia, you guys motivated me. Not even joking around, when I'm walking in here and I'm hearing you guys yelling it *ucking fueled me you guys. *uck, I want to thank you guys for this win, 'cause you "ucking motivated me" - Sean Strickland @SStricklandMMA #UFC293 #AndNew
Media Man Int Twitter
"*ucking legend. What the *uck is this?! What is this? Am I *ucking dreaming. Am I gunna wake up? Somebody hit me. Oh my god you guys. Never in a million years did I think I'ld be here man. Like I don't *ucking cry much but I'm trying to keep my *hit together right now"... "You guys know, Izzy's a bad *otherfucker you guys. You don't fight that guy with I dunno how many highlight reel knockouts. He's beat the majority of my friends. He's beat pretty easily so. Man, I was even doubting myself at times. But you know, I gotta say the fans in Australia, you guys motivated me. Not even joking around, when I'm walking in here and I'm hearing you guys yelling it *ucking fueled me you guys. *uck, I want to thank you guys for this win, 'cause you "ucking motivated me" - Sean Strickland @SStricklandMMA (Image credit: UFC @UFC ) #UFC293 #ANDNEW #SeanStrickland #quote #UFC #UFCSydney #UFCAustralia #MMA #sportsnews #combatsports #media #mediaman
"*ucking legend. What the *uck is this?! What is this? Am I *ucking dreaming. Am I gunna wake up? Somebody hit me. Oh my god you guys. Never in a million years did I think I'ld be here man. Like I don't *ucking cry much but I'm trying to keep my *hit together right now"... "You guys know, Izzy's a bad *otherfucker you guys. You don't fight that guy with I dunno how many highlight reel knockouts. He's beat the majority of my friends. He's beat pretty easily so. Man, I was even doubting myself at times. But you know, I gotta say the fans in Australia, you guys motivated me. Not even joking around, when I'm walking in here and I'm hearing you guys yelling it *ucking fueled me you guys. *uck, I want to thank you guys for this win, 'cause you "ucking motivated me" - Sean Strickland
@SStricklandMMA
(Image credit: UFC
@UFC
) #UFC293 #ANDNEW #SeanStrickland #quote #UFC #UFCSydney #UFCAustralia #MMA #sportsnews #combatsports #media #mediaman
UFC @UFC 293: Post-Fight Press Conference
Press Conference
"Good to be back in Sydney. Thanks to all his hard work and ah love of the sport. How *ucking crazy is this game! How crazy is this game? 23 years when I'm looking at the internet and reading all the bullshit, and all these people who think they know about fighting.. and I'm not *ucking siting here acting like I thought this was going to happen here tonight. But what do I always say - don't judge a fight until t happens. You never know what the hell's going to happen in this batshit nutty sport".. - Dana White @DanaWhite , UFC president
Video
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RpxZdLcsbIE&ab_channel=UFC
Interview
"Nah, nay, it's cool man. I won, I got paid. I got a bonus. I'm a happy guy you know. Yeah its good you guys, it's fun. I love to fight. Here's the thing guys. I'm excited 'cause I won".. Sean Strickland @SStricklandMMA
Video
Sean Strickland: 'You Start To Realize I'm A Way Better Boxer Than You' | UFC 293
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=13xQaX_gp5E&ab_channel=UFC
#UFC293 #UFC #UFCSydney #UFCAustralia #SticklandAdesanya #Stylebender #SeanStrickland #Strickland #Tarzan #DanaWhite #AndNew #UFCChampion #legend #MMA #combatsports #dogdayafternoon #wholetthedogsout #popculture #trend #trends #trending #buzz #forthewin #andnew #media
SEJ Linkedin and Facebook re AI ChatGPT SEO
Search Engine Journal's Ryan Jones asks ChatGPT about the future of AI SEO. That's one of the better AI Bot answers given to a human that I'm aware of. I was expecting something like out of '2001: A Space Oddessey' ala HAL 9000 vs Dave Bowman, but this was good. I have concerns about other subjects ChatGPT may get asked about however. That's a good bot. Keep learning!
“It is not the critic who counts; not the man who points out how the strong man stumbles, or where the doer of deeds could have done them better. The credit belongs to the man who is actually in the arena, whose face is marred by dust and sweat and blood; who strives valiantly; who errs, who comes short again and again, because there is no effort without error and shortcoming; but who does actually strive to do the deeds; who knows great enthusiasms, the great devotions; who spends himself in a worthy cause; who at the best knows in the end the triumph of high achievement, and who at the worst, if he fails, at least fails while daring greatly, so that his place shall never be with those cold and timid souls who neither know victory nor defeat.”
UFC 293. "Tarzan" def "Stylebender". 5 rounds by unanimous decision. "Well you guys, I give up so many brain cells". "I love you guys"..:How you live your life"..."Thank you". Sean Strickland.
UFC @UFC 293 results. Sydney, Australia.
September 10, 2023
Sean Strickland defeats Israel Adesanya by Unanimous Decision (49-46, 49-46, 49-46)
Alexander Volkov defeats Tai Tuivasa by Submission (Ezekiel choke) at 4:37 of Round 2
Manel Kape defeats Felipe dos Santos by Unanimous Decision (30-27, 29-28, 29-28)
Justin Tafa defeats Austen Lane by TKO (strikes) at 1:22 of Round 1
Tyson Pedro defeats Anton Turkalj by TKO (strikes) at 2:12 of Round 1
Carlos Ulberg defeats Da Woon Jung by Submission (rear-naked choke) at 4:49 of Round 3
Chepe Mariscal defeats Jack Jenkins by Verbal Submission (arm injury) at 3:19 of Round 2
Jamie Mullarkey defeats John Makdessi by Unanimous Decision (29-28, 29-28, 29-28)
Nasrat Haqparast defeats Landon Quinones by Unanimous Decision (30-27, 30-27, 30-27)
Charlie Radtke defeats Blood Diamond by Unanimous Decision (29-27, 29-27, 29-27)
Gabriel Miranda defeats Shane Young by Submission (neck crank) at 0:59 of Round 1
Kevin Jousset defeats Kiefer Crosbie by Submission (rear-naked choke) at 4:49 of Round 1 (Credit: UFC) *for educational and entertainment purposes.
Much respect to all competitors
#UFC293 #UFCSydney #UFCAustralia #UFC #Adesanya #Strickland #AndNew #UFCChampion #Tarzan #MMA #combatsports #sportsnews #sportsmedia #popculture #media
Movie Box Office
'Nun II' tips her habit at North American box office with $32.6 million; God bless
From the nunnery and chuch to the dark side - The Conjuring horror franchise, The Nun II, is the numero uno movie in North America, earning $32.6 million in receipts this weekend. The good guys at at Box Office Mojo continue in their tradition of dishing up timely and quality goods er numbers. Good and bad news still tends to travel fast, be it via pigeon, dove or bot postman.
The Equalizer 3 sneaks into 2nd spot at $12.1 million, followed by My Big Fat Greek Wedding 3 in third with $10 million, Jawan at No. 4 with $6.2 million and Barbie still has her doll face on at No. 5 with $5.9 million.
Blue Beetle in 6th place with $3.8 million, Gran Turismo ideling along in 7th position with $3.4 million, Oppenheimer on 8th with $3 mill, Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles: Mutant Mayhem in 9 Talk to Me on 10th.
Pretty average figures compared to a few months back, let alone the roaring 80s when going to the movies - drive in or theatre was all the rage, pre internet, VOD or other tech whizbangs.
How did you movie and starts rate this weekend? That's showbiz and the show must go on, even when the bean counters haven't got as many beans to count.
#boxoffice #movieboxoffice #movienews #entertainment #entertainmentnews #showbiz #popculture #buzz #Nun2 #TheEqualizer3 #MyBigFatGreekWedding3 #trends #trending #biz #media
11th September 2023
Social Media News
Meta's Facebook traffic to news publishers has dived 50 percent this year
Web traffic from Facebook to Aussie publishers has crashed by about 50 per cent since the start of this year, as the Meta-owned platform escalates its pivot away from news. This is despite it having nujmerous months left in its multi-million dollar deals with media firms.
Figures compiled for internal use by several local publishers and data from analytics platform SimilarWeb show a precipitous fall in the amount of traffic reaching news articles published locally from Facebook in the last 9 months. 9 lives? Maybe, maybe not.
The "social media wars" as the Media Man Group coined them continue for infinity at this stage of the game of big tech business and beyond.
#socialmedia #socialmedianews #socialmediawars #facebook #meta #socialmediaplatforms #news #newswebsites #newschannels #facebookchannels #facebookfeeds #newsfeeds #newsbiz #bigtech #onlinepublishing #ads #onlineads #onlineadvertising #onlinemarketing #onlinebiz #biz #trend #trends #ai #aussiebigtech #Aussie #media #mediaman
Wrestling / WWE @WWE RAW News
Rhea Ripley @RheaRipley_WWE vs Raquel Rodriguez @RaquelWWE "Dirty" Dominik is banned!
Gunther @Gunther_AUT Intercontinental Title celebration "The Ring General" - Imperium!
Cody Rhodes @CodyRhodes to appear with more intel for the WWE Universe
#WWERAW #WWE #wweic #wwewomen #wrestling #prowrestling #sportsentertainment #womenswrestling #sportsnews #entertainment #EntertainmentNews #showbiz #popculture #USA #austria #broadcast #broadcasting #TV #media
Wrestling Dream Match:
Gunther @Gunther_AUT vs Cody Rhodes @CodyRhodes in a WWE @WWE ring?!
Will the powers that be allow it to happen?!
#dreammatch #WWE #WWERAW #Gunther #CodyRhodes #wrestling #prowrestling #fantasybooking #dfs #dailyfantasy #booker #bookerman #sportsbiz #combatsports #entertainment #popculture #fight #winwin #winwinwin #media
"...Questions Kevin Owen character.." Dominik Mysterio @DomMysterio35
"You know what.. Enough!" Damian Priest. @ArcherOfInfamy Fans: Booooooooooooo! #WWERaw
"When are you going to decide that your on these guys level"? Fit Finley, wrestling legend. Advice given to WWE @WWE 's Grayson Waller #WWEAfterTheBell #AfterTheBell #wwepodcasts #GraysonWaller #GWEffect
Pro Wrestling: WWE @WWE RAW
Jey Uso @WWEUsos and Kevin Owens @FightOwensFight vs Judgement Day
"Samoan drop and Priest @ArcherOfInfamy going to roll out of harms way. And here comes Finn Balor @FinnBalor going to run into a kick by Jey as well"... Michael Cole @MichaelCole
#WWERaw #WWE #wrestling #prowrestling #JudgementDay #wwetagteam #entertainmentnews #popculture #USA #TV #broadcast #media
Wrestling: WWE @WWE RAW
"Jey Uso @WWEUsos is in the Judgement Day and there's not a darn thing you can do about it" - Dominik Mysterio @DomMysterio35 to Cody Rhodes @CodyRhodes ..flicks Rhodes tie
#WWERAW #WWE #DirtyDom #JudgementDay #JeyUso #CodyRhodes #wrestling #prowrestling #promo #entertainment #popculture #showbiz #USA #TV #broadcast #media
Pro Wrestling: WWE @WWE RAW
Women's Wrestling: Femme Fatales!
"An answer to this onslaught but she might not need one" Wade Barrett @StuBennett
"And Zoey Stark @ZoeyStarkWWE comes in an a kick to the face drops Piper Viven @pipernivenwwe "... Michael Cole @MichaelCole
"And again this alliance that seemed to be fostered last week continues now with Zoey Stark and Shayna Bazler @QoSBaszler "...
#WWERaw #WWE #wwetagteams #wrestling #prowrestling #womenswrestling #shooters #mma #combatsports #femmefatal #femmefatals #faction #entertainmentnews #popculture #sportsbiz #USA #TV #broadcast #media
WWE @WWE RAW
The Miz @mikethemiz vs Akira Tozawa @TozawaAkira
"As entertaining as Miz has been playing The Joker @jokermovie , acting the fool over the past few weeks, make no mistake - Miz is a guy who has won it all in the WWE for a reason" - Wade Barrett @StuBennett
"Oh my goodness, Miz and been miserable since LA Knight @realLAKnight arrive on the scene here in WWE".. Michael Cole @MichaelCole
#WWERAW #WWE #wrestling #prowrestling #sports #combatsports #entertainment #entertainmentnews #popculture #yeah #Miz #wrestlingnews #USA #TV #broadcast #media
All Elite Wrestling @AEW wins Media Man 'Wrestling Promotion Of The Month'; GM Tony Khan makes strong management decisions over the past few months and breaks world record for paid attendance in the UK last month at All In. Aims to build upon momentum. Credit where credit is due. FITE TV @FiteTV enjoys a positive media buzz riding off the buzz of AEW success. Combat sports and wrestling promotions benefiting from extra media buzz covering the UFC @UFC Middleweight Title change in Sydney, Australia. #allelitewrestling #aew #tonykhan #wrestling #prowrestling #wrestlingpromotion #promotionofthemonth #sportsentertainer #wrestlingnews #wrestlingpromotions #popculture #sportsnews #media #mediamancombat #mediamanculture #mediamanentertainment #mediamanpromo #mediamansports #mediamanwrestling #mediamanint
LinkedIn MLW Court Baurer
Global strategy and campaign pays dividends for MLW. AEW also got a one up on the world's leading promotion in overseas territory - the UK. With the Internet Matrix Of Things the audience finds you! There's a customer bord every minute - P.T. Barnum...something to that effect. Win-Win-Win!
“The Simpsons” @TheSimpsons are returning with new episodes.
In honor of the 35th season of the animated series, Fox released an extended trailer Monday.
“Feeling worthless at work, Homer volunteers to be a school crossing guard,” reads a description of the new season’s first episode. “But when his safety squad receives too much funding, the crossing guards become a force to be feared in the all-new “Homer’s Crossing” episode of ‘The Simpsons.’”
The show, featuring Homer Simpson, his wife Marge, and their children Bart, Lisa and Maggie, is the longest-running primetime scripted show in television history.
“This season Marge experiences a series of nightmares about young Bart’s childhood coming to an end; Homer accidentally volunteers for a school crossing guard position; sixty years in the future, Lisa recounts the story of how Homer was scapegoated for a power outage that plunged Springfield into darkness days before Thanksgiving; and the annual chilling trilogy “Treehouse of Horror XXXIV” is back!” a press release about the extended trailer states.
James L. Brooks, Matt Groening, Matt Selman and Al Jean serve as the executive producers on “The Simpsons” which is a Gracie Films Production in association with 20th Television.
#TheSimpsons #Homer #Simpsons #Fox #entertainment #entertainmentnews #populture #TV #trends #media
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Pro Wrestling Semi-Retired Legendary Executive And Promoter Eric Bischoff @EBischoff On All Elite Wrestling Collission TV Ratings and the Punk factor
Bischoff pro wrestling themed podcasts 83 Weeks @83Weeks and Strictly Business offer great insights for casual, hardcore wrestling fans, media analysts.
AEW top brass (GM) Tony Khan made the announcement of cult-like pro wrestling legend of sorts, CM Punk, leaving live challenger promotion on the September 2nd edition of AEW Collision.
In an interesting sequence of events the show delivered the worst ratings in history via TNT.
Collision averaged 345,000 viewers across the 2-hour broadcast, with approx 90,000 people tuning out as soon as the Punk announcement was delivered to an already ruckes crowd.
Eric Bischoff has advised media his thoughts on the situation, timing, chain of events etc..
"I think people are making too big a deal [out of it]. Before you jump to the conclusion that 89,000 people left because of CM Punk... I think that's a giant leap into fantasy land. It could have been for other reasons, it had nothing to do with CM Punk".
"What was the lead-in for that show? That's the first thing I would want to know. I think there was a fair amount of curiosity about what is Tony gonna do? People who might not watch Collision decided to tune in and get a real-time update about what the situation was because it got a lot of press."
"I predicted it months ago ... it opened up with 800,000 and before Punk got let go, it was bouncing around 400,000 or 500,000 viewers. It wasn't like it was setting the world on fire to begin with and we all knew that when college football became a thing, it was gonna take another big hit".."I don't think Punk's departure ultimately will have as much of an impact on Collision as people think it did, because it didn't have a positive impact on the show, to begin with... he wasn't as big of a draw as people think he is."
The Punk departure has opened the door for Punk to negotiate with numerous other pro wrestling promotions if he chooses to. It appears unlikely Punk will return to professional mixed martial arts, after a brave but poor showing (2 lossed from 2 fights) in the UFC in what seems like a lifetime ago - 2016 and 2018. Punk has also don a limited amount of MMA commentary in the past and some low to moderate level acting work. Some of his body of work is listed on IMDb under his real name Phill Brooks.
Speculation remains whether he will turn up at former employeer WWE at some point, which would offer some short to medium term buzz for the WWE, or if WWE will pass up the unique opportunity that presents.
Numerous wrestling themed podcasters including Corney, Konnan (with Disco), Meltzer, Busted Open and a swag of others have been using the news and fodder to fuel their already passionate fan base as every man and his dog (perhaps Izzy's also per UFC SS banter), has an opinion as to what to do with Punk? Misfits Boxing - perhaps as a commentor, a return to Marvel as a special contributor, cosplay expo special attraction?! Brand endorsements: Pepsi and more! Punk Energy?! The Punk Podcast Channel?! Fans and the industry remain mainly thankful for the creation and contribution of Punk, with a couple of exceptions - such is the pro wrestling biz and life in general. Thank you Punk.
#EricBishoff #CMPunk #wrestling #prowrestling #wrestlingpodcast #wrestlingpodcasts #wrestlingnews #entertainment #entertainmentnews #gonzo #combatsports #MMA #sportsbiz #popculture #promoters #ratings #tvratings #podcasts #Influencers #sportsbiz #sportsmarketing #sportsbusiness #sportsmedia #socialmedia #trends #trending #buzz #biz #media
Promoter: someone who tries to encourage something to happen or develop:
a promoter of peace
a person who organizes and arranges sports and musical events:
a wrestling and mixed martial arts promoter
a boxing/rock concert promoter
a promoter of media, online advertising and advertising services
a promoter of free speech, freedom of thought and expression
#promoter #promoters #promotions #sportspromoter #combatsports #wrestling #wrestlingpromoter #publisher #ads #advertising #sportsbiz #adbiz #seo #newsmedia #newsbiz #popculture #trends #buzz #media #mediaman
Promoter: someone who tries to encourage something to happen or develop:
a promoter of peace
a person who organizes and arranges sports and musical events:
a wrestling and mixed martial arts promoter
a boxing/rock concert promoter
a promoter of media, online advertising and advertising services
a promoter of free speech, freedom of thought and expression
#promoter #promoters #promotions #sportspromoter #combatsports #wrestling #wrestlingpromoter #publisher #ads #advertising #sportsbiz #adbiz #seo #newsmedia #newsbiz #popculture #trends #buzz #media #mediaman
WWE's @WWE Triple H and NXT's @WWENXT Shawn Michaels tie for Media Man 'Creative Of The Month' award #tripleh #shawnmichaels #wwe #nxt #wwenxt #wrestling #prowrestling #creative #creativeofthemonth #creativity #popculture #entertainmentnews #sportsnews #wrestlingnews #showbiz #storyline #storylines #characters #audience #connection #emotions #content #buzz #trends #ratings #media #media #mediaman #mediamanint
ENDEAVOR ANNOUNCES CLOSE OF UFC® AND WWE® TRANSACTION TO CREATE TKO GROUP HOLDINGS, A PREMIUM SPORTS AND ENTERTAINMENT COMPANY
September 12, 2023
New Company to Begin Trading Today, September 12, on the New York Stock Exchange Under “TKO” Ticker Symbol
BEVERLY HILLS, Calif. & STAMFORD, Conn.--(BUSINESS WIRE)-- Endeavor Group Holdings, Inc. (NYSE: EDR) (“Endeavor”) and World Wrestling Entertainment, Inc. (previously NYSE: WWE) (“WWE”) today announced the close of their previously announced agreement and the launch of TKO Group Holdings, Inc. (NYSE: TKO) (“TKO”).
TKO brings together UFC, the world’s premier mixed martial arts organization, and WWE, an integrated media organization and the recognized global leader in sports entertainment, to create a new premium sports and entertainment company serving more than one billion young and diverse fans1, reaching viewers in 180 countries, and producing more than 350 annual live events. Through this combination, TKO will leverage Endeavor’s expertise in areas including domestic and international media rights, ticket sales and yield optimization, event operations, global partnerships, licensing, and premium hospitality to drive revenue growth.
“The creation of TKO marks an exciting new chapter for UFC and WWE as leaders in global sports and entertainment,” said Ariel Emanuel, CEO of Endeavor and TKO. “Given their continued connectivity to the Endeavor network, we are confident in our ability to accelerate their respective growth and unlock long-term sustainable value for shareholders. With UFC and WWE under one roof, we will provide unrivaled experiences for more than a billion passionate fans worldwide.”
“This is the culmination of a decades-long partnership between Endeavor and WWE across strategic initiatives including talent representation and media rights. Given our collaborative, trusted relationship and Endeavor’s incredible track record of success growing UFC, we believe WWE is optimally positioned for future growth and success as part of TKO,” said Vince McMahon, Executive Chairman of TKO. “Our focus remains on delivering for our fans across the globe as we take the business to the next level alongside UFC and Endeavor.”
TKO will begin trading today on the New York Stock Exchange under the ticker symbol “TKO,” with Endeavor holding a 51% controlling interest in the new company and existing WWE shareholders holding a 49% interest in the new company, on a fully diluted basis.
Leadership Team
As previously announced, TKO is led by:
Ariel Emanuel, Chief Executive Officer, who continues as Chief Executive Officer of Endeavor;
Mark Shapiro, President and Chief Operating Officer, who continues as President and Chief Operating Officer of Endeavor;
Andrew Schleimer, Chief Financial Officer; and
Seth Krauss, Chief Legal Officer, who continues as Chief Legal Officer of Endeavor.
Dana White is now Chief Executive Officer of UFC and Lawrence Epstein remains Senior Executive Vice President and Chief Operating Officer of UFC. Nick Khan continues at WWE in the role of President.
The Board of Directors of TKO is led by Vince McMahon as Executive Chairman of the Board and consists of 11 members, including Mr. Emanuel, Mr. Shapiro, and Mr. Khan, in addition to the following directors:
Peter C.B. Bynoe, Senior Advisor at DLA Piper LLP;
Egon P. Durban, Co-Chief Executive Officer of Silver Lake;
Steven R. Koonin, Chief Executive Officer of the Atlanta Hawks, LLC;
Jonathan A. Kraft, President of the Kraft Group LLC;
Sonya E. Medina, President and Chief Executive Officer of Reach Resilience;
Nancy R. Tellem, Executive Chairperson and Chief Media Officer of Eko; and
Carrie Wheeler, Chief Executive Officer and a board member of Opendoor Technologies Inc.
Advisors
Morgan Stanley & Co. LLC and Goldman Sachs & Co. LLC served as financial advisors to Endeavor, Latham & Watkins LLP served as legal advisor to Endeavor, and Alvarez & Marsal served as integration advisor to Endeavor. The Raine Group served as lead financial advisor to WWE. J.P. Morgan and Moelis & Company LLC served as financial advisors to WWE. Paul, Weiss, Rifkind, Wharton & Garrison LLP served as legal advisor to WWE, and Kirkland & Ellis LLP served as legal advisor to WWE’s controlling stockholder, McMahon.
About Endeavor
Endeavor (NYSE: EDR) is a global sports and entertainment company, home to many of the world’s most dynamic and engaging storytellers, brands, live events and experiences. The company is comprised of industry leaders including entertainment agency WME; and sports, fashion, events and media company IMG. Endeavor is also the majority owner of TKO Group Holdings (NYSE: TKO), a premium sports and entertainment company comprising UFC and WWE. The Endeavor network specializes in talent representation, sports operations & advisory, event & experiences management, media production & distribution, experiential marketing and brand licensing.
About TKO
TKO Group Holdings, Inc. (NYSE: TKO) is a premium sports and entertainment company that comprises UFC, the world’s premier mixed martial arts organization, and WWE, an integrated media organization and the recognized global leader in sports entertainment. Together, our organizations reach more than 1 billion TV households in approximately 180 countries, and we organize more than 350 live events year-round, attracting over one million fans. TKO is majority owned by Endeavor Group Holdings, Inc. (NYSE: EDR), a global sports and entertainment company.
About UFC®
UFC® is the world’s premier mixed martial arts organization (MMA), with more than 700 million fans and 228 million social media followers. The organization produces more than 40 live events annually in some of the most prestigious arenas around the world, while broadcasting to over 900 million TV households across more than 170 countries. UFC’s athlete roster features the world’s best MMA athletes representing more than 80 countries. The organization’s digital offerings include UFC FIGHT PASS®, one of the world’s leading streaming services for combat sports. UFC is part of TKO Group Holdings (NYSE: TKO), and is headquartered in Las Vegas, Nevada. For more information, visit UFC.com and follow UFC at Facebook.com/UFC, Twitter, Snapchat, Instagram and TikTok: @UFC.
About WWE®
WWE, part of TKO Group Holdings (NYSE: TKO), is an integrated media organization and the recognized global leader in sports entertainment. The company consists of a portfolio of businesses that create and deliver original content 52 weeks a year to a global audience. WWE is committed to family-friendly entertainment on its television programming, premium live events, digital media, and publishing platforms. WWE’s TV-PG programming can be seen in more than 1 billion homes worldwide in 25 languages through world-class distribution partners including NBCUniversal, FOX Sports, TNT Sport, Sony India and Rogers. The award-winning WWE Network includes all premium live events, scheduled programming and a massive video-on-demand library and is currently available in more than 180 countries. In the United States, NBCUniversal’s streaming service, Peacock, is the exclusive home to WWE Network. Additional information on WWE can be found at wwe.com and corporate.wwe.com.
Website Disclosure
Investors and others should note that TKO announces material financial and operational information to its investors using press releases, SEC filings and public conference calls and webcasts, as well as its Investor Relations site at investor.tkogrp.com. TKO may also use its website as a distribution channel of material information about the Company. In addition, you may automatically receive email alerts and other information about TKO, UFC and WWE when you enroll your email address by visiting the “Investor Email Alerts” option under the Resources tab on investor.tkogrp.com.
Cautionary Statement Regarding Forward-Looking Statements
This press release contains forward-looking statements within the meaning of the Private Securities Litigation Reform Act of 1995, Section 27A of the Securities Act of 1933, as amended, and Section 21E of the Securities Exchange Act of 1934, as amended. These forward-looking statements generally include statements regarding transaction between Endeavor and WWE resulting in the formation and launch of TKO, including statements regarding expected synergies, impacts and benefits of the transaction, future opportunities, and other statements regarding TKO’s future expectations, beliefs, plans, objectives, results of operations, financial condition and cash flows, or future events or performance. All statements other than statements of historical facts contained in this communication may be forward-looking statements. In some cases, you can identify forward-looking statements by terms such as “may,” “will,” “outlook,” “should,” “expects,” “plans,” “anticipates,” “could,” “intends,” “targets,” “projects,” “contemplates,” “believes,” “estimates,” “predicts,” “potential” or “continue” or the negative of these terms or other similar expressions. The forward-looking statements in this communication are only predictions. Endeavor and TKO management have based these forward-looking statements largely on their current expectations and projections about future events and financial trends that management believes may affect its business, financial condition and results of operations. These statements are neither promises nor guarantees and involve known and unknown risks, uncertainties and other important factors that may cause actual results, performance or achievements to be materially different from what is expressed or implied by the forward-looking statements, including, but not limited to: there may be difficulties with the integration and in realizing the expected benefits of the transaction; Endeavor and TKO may need to use resources that are needed in other parts of its business to do so; there may be liabilities that are not known, probable or estimable at this time; integration of the UFC and WWE businesses may result in the diversion of management’s time and attention; expected synergies and operating efficiencies attributable to the transaction may not be achieved within its expected time-frames or at all; there may be significant integration costs in connection with the transaction; and risks inherent to the business may result in additional strategic and operational risks, which may impact Endeavor’s and TKO’s risk profiles, which each company may not be able to mitigate effectively. In addition, a number of important factors could cause Endeavor’s or TKO’s actual future results and other future circumstances to differ materially from those expressed in any forward-looking statements, including but not limited to those important factors discussed in Part I, Item 1A “Risk Factors” in Endeavor’s or WWE’s Annual Report on Form 10-K for the fiscal year ended December 31, 2022, as any such factors may be updated from time to time in other filings with the SEC, including without limitation, Endeavor’s and WWE’s Quarterly Report on Form 10-Q for the quarterly period ended June 30, 2023, WWE’s final prospectus on Form 424(b)(3) filed with the SEC on August 22, 2023 as any such factors may be further updated from time to time in TKO’s other filings with the Securities and Exchange Commission (the “SEC”), accessible on the SEC’s website at www.sec.gov and TKOs investor relations site at investor.tkogrp.com. Forward-looking statements speak only as of the date they are made and, except as may be required under applicable law, neither Endeavor nor TKO undertake any obligation to update or revise any forward-looking statements, whether as a result of new information, future events or otherwise.
1 Derived from third-party survey data and are based on (i) adults age 18 or older who indicated a Top 2 Box score (i.e., chose one of the two most favorable response options) when surveyed regarding UFC and WWE, respectively, and (ii) internet users age 16-64 who indicated they “regularly follow” or “regularly watch” when surveyed regarding UFC and WWE, respectively.
Investor Contacts:
For Endeavor
James Marsh
investor@endeavorco.com
For WWE
Seth Zaslow
seth.zaslow@wwecorp.com
For TKO
Seth Zaslow
investor@tkogrp.com
Media Contacts:
For Endeavor
Brunswick Group
Endeavor@brunswickgroup.com
For WWE
Chris Legentil
chris.legentil@wwecorp.com
For TKO
press@tkogrp.com
Source: Endeavor Group Holdings
Endeavor @Endeavor Announces Close of UFC® @UFC and WWE® @WWE Transaction to Create TKO Group Holdings, a Premium Sports and Entertainment Company
New Company to Begin Trading Today, September 12, on the New York Stock Exchange Under “TKO” Ticker Symbol
BEVERLY HILLS, Calif. & STAMFORD, Conn.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Endeavor Group Holdings, Inc. (NYSE: EDR) (“Endeavor”) and World Wrestling Entertainment, Inc. (previously NYSE: WWE) (“WWE”) today announced the close of their previously announced agreement and the launch of TKO Group Holdings, Inc. (NYSE: TKO) (“TKO”).
TKO brings together UFC, the world’s premier mixed martial arts organization, and WWE, an integrated media organization and the recognized global leader in sports entertainment, to create a new premium sports and entertainment company serving more than one billion young and diverse fans1, reaching viewers in 180 countries, and producing more than 350 annual live events. Through this combination, TKO will leverage Endeavor’s expertise in areas including domestic and international media rights, ticket sales and yield optimization, event operations, global partnerships, licensing, and premium hospitality to drive revenue growth.
“The creation of TKO marks an exciting new chapter for UFC and WWE as leaders in global sports and entertainment,” said Ariel Emanuel, CEO of Endeavor and TKO. “Given their continued connectivity to the Endeavor network, we are confident in our ability to accelerate their respective growth and unlock long-term sustainable value for shareholders. With UFC and WWE under one roof, we will provide unrivaled experiences for more than a billion passionate fans worldwide.”
“This is the culmination of a decades-long partnership between Endeavor and WWE across strategic initiatives including talent representation and media rights. Given our collaborative, trusted relationship and Endeavor’s incredible track record of success growing UFC, we believe WWE is optimally positioned for future growth and success as part of TKO,” said Vince McMahon, Executive Chairman of TKO. “Our focus remains on delivering for our fans across the globe as we take the business to the next level alongside UFC and Endeavor.”
TKO will begin trading today on the New York Stock Exchange under the ticker symbol “TKO,” with Endeavor holding a 51% controlling interest in the new company and existing WWE shareholders holding a 49% interest in the new company, on a fully diluted basis.
Leadership Team
As previously announced, TKO is led by:
Ariel Emanuel, Chief Executive Officer, who continues as Chief Executive Officer of Endeavor;
Mark Shapiro, President and Chief Operating Officer, who continues as President and Chief Operating Officer of Endeavor;
Andrew Schleimer, Chief Financial Officer; and
Seth Krauss, Chief Legal Officer, who continues as Chief Legal Officer of Endeavor.
Dana White is now Chief Executive Officer of UFC and Lawrence Epstein remains Senior Executive Vice President and Chief Operating Officer of UFC. Nick Khan continues at WWE in the role of President.
The Board of Directors of TKO is led by Vince McMahon as Executive Chairman of the Board and consists of 11 members, including Mr. Emanuel, Mr. Shapiro, and Mr. Khan, in addition to the following directors:
Peter C.B. Bynoe, Senior Advisor at DLA Piper LLP;
Egon P. Durban, Co-Chief Executive Officer of Silver Lake;
Steven R. Koonin, Chief Executive Officer of the Atlanta Hawks, LLC;
Jonathan A. Kraft, President of the Kraft Group LLC;
Sonya E. Medina, President and Chief Executive Officer of Reach Resilience;
Nancy R. Tellem, Executive Chairperson and Chief Media Officer of Eko; and
Carrie Wheeler, Chief Executive Officer and a board member of Opendoor Technologies Inc.
Advisors
Morgan Stanley & Co. LLC and Goldman Sachs & Co. LLC served as financial advisors to Endeavor, Latham & Watkins LLP served as legal advisor to Endeavor, and Alvarez & Marsal served as integration advisor to Endeavor. The Raine Group served as lead financial advisor to WWE. J.P. Morgan and Moelis & Company LLC served as financial advisors to WWE. Paul, Weiss, Rifkind, Wharton & Garrison LLP served as legal advisor to WWE, and Kirkland & Ellis LLP served as legal advisor to WWE’s controlling stockholder, McMahon.
About Endeavor
Endeavor (NYSE: EDR) is a global sports and entertainment company, home to many of the world’s most dynamic and engaging storytellers, brands, live events and experiences. The company is comprised of industry leaders including entertainment agency WME; and sports, fashion, events and media company IMG. Endeavor is also the majority owner of TKO Group Holdings (NYSE: TKO), a premium sports and entertainment company comprising UFC and WWE. The Endeavor network specializes in talent representation, sports operations & advisory, event & experiences management, media production & distribution, experiential marketing and brand licensing.
About TKO
TKO Group Holdings, Inc. (NYSE: TKO) is a premium sports and entertainment company that comprises UFC, the world’s premier mixed martial arts organization, and WWE, an integrated media organization and the recognized global leader in sports entertainment. Together, our organizations reach more than 1 billion TV households in approximately 180 countries, and we organize more than 350 live events year-round, attracting over one million fans. TKO is majority owned by Endeavor Group Holdings, Inc. (NYSE: EDR), a global sports and entertainment company.
About UFC®
UFC® is the world’s premier mixed martial arts organization (MMA), with more than 700 million fans and 228 million social media followers. The organization produces more than 40 live events annually in some of the most prestigious arenas around the world, while broadcasting to over 900 million TV households across more than 170 countries. UFC’s athlete roster features the world’s best MMA athletes representing more than 80 countries. The organization’s digital offerings include UFC FIGHT PASS®, one of the world’s leading streaming services for combat sports. UFC is part of TKO Group Holdings (NYSE: TKO), and is headquartered in Las Vegas, Nevada. For more information, visit UFC.com and follow UFC at Facebook.com/UFC, Twitter, Snapchat, Instagram and TikTok: @UFC.
About WWE®
WWE, part of TKO Group Holdings (NYSE: TKO), is an integrated media organization and the recognized global leader in sports entertainment. The company consists of a portfolio of businesses that create and deliver original content 52 weeks a year to a global audience. WWE is committed to family-friendly entertainment on its television programming, premium live events, digital media, and publishing platforms. WWE’s TV-PG programming can be seen in more than 1 billion homes worldwide in 25 languages through world-class distribution partners including NBCUniversal, FOX Sports, TNT Sport, Sony India and Rogers. The award-winning WWE Network includes all premium live events, scheduled programming and a massive video-on-demand library and is currently available in more than 180 countries. In the United States, NBCUniversal’s streaming service, Peacock, is the exclusive home to WWE Network. Additional information on WWE can be found at wwe.com and corporate.wwe.com.
Website Disclosure
Investors and others should note that TKO announces material financial and operational information to its investors using press releases, SEC filings and public conference calls and webcasts, as well as its Investor Relations site at investor.tkogrp.com. TKO may also use its website as a distribution channel of material information about the Company. In addition, you may automatically receive email alerts and other information about TKO, UFC and WWE when you enroll your email address by visiting the “Investor Email Alerts” option under the Resources tab on investor.tkogrp.com.
Cautionary Statement Regarding Forward-Looking Statements
This press release contains forward-looking statements within the meaning of the Private Securities Litigation Reform Act of 1995, Section 27A of the Securities Act of 1933, as amended, and Section 21E of the Securities Exchange Act of 1934, as amended. These forward-looking statements generally include statements regarding transaction between Endeavor and WWE resulting in the formation and launch of TKO, including statements regarding expected synergies, impacts and benefits of the transaction, future opportunities, and other statements regarding TKO’s future expectations, beliefs, plans, objectives, results of operations, financial condition and cash flows, or future events or performance. All statements other than statements of historical facts contained in this communication may be forward-looking statements. In some cases, you can identify forward-looking statements by terms such as “may,” “will,” “outlook,” “should,” “expects,” “plans,” “anticipates,” “could,” “intends,” “targets,” “projects,” “contemplates,” “believes,” “estimates,” “predicts,” “potential” or “continue” or the negative of these terms or other similar expressions. The forward-looking statements in this communication are only predictions. Endeavor and TKO management have based these forward-looking statements largely on their current expectations and projections about future events and financial trends that management believes may affect its business, financial condition and results of operations. These statements are neither promises nor guarantees and involve known and unknown risks, uncertainties and other important factors that may cause actual results, performance or achievements to be materially different from what is expressed or implied by the forward-looking statements, including, but not limited to: there may be difficulties with the integration and in realizing the expected benefits of the transaction; Endeavor and TKO may need to use resources that are needed in other parts of its business to do so; there may be liabilities that are not known, probable or estimable at this time; integration of the UFC and WWE businesses may result in the diversion of management’s time and attention; expected synergies and operating efficiencies attributable to the transaction may not be achieved within its expected time-frames or at all; there may be significant integration costs in connection with the transaction; and risks inherent to the business may result in additional strategic and operational risks, which may impact Endeavor’s and TKO’s risk profiles, which each company may not be able to mitigate effectively. In addition, a number of important factors could cause Endeavor’s or TKO’s actual future results and other future circumstances to differ materially from those expressed in any forward-looking statements, including but not limited to those important factors discussed in Part I, Item 1A “Risk Factors” in Endeavor’s or WWE’s Annual Report on Form 10-K for the fiscal year ended December 31, 2022, as any such factors may be updated from time to time in other filings with the SEC, including without limitation, Endeavor’s and WWE’s Quarterly Report on Form 10-Q for the quarterly period ended June 30, 2023, WWE’s final prospectus on Form 424(b)(3) filed with the SEC on August 22, 2023 as any such factors may be further updated from time to time in TKO’s other filings with the Securities and Exchange Commission (the “SEC”), accessible on the SEC’s website at www.sec.gov and TKOs investor relations site at investor.tkogrp.com. Forward-looking statements speak only as of the date they are made and, except as may be required under applicable law, neither Endeavor nor TKO undertake any obligation to update or revise any forward-looking statements, whether as a result of new information, future events or otherwise.
1 Derived from third-party survey data and are based on (i) adults age 18 or older who indicated a Top 2 Box score (i.e., chose one of the two most favorable response options) when surveyed regarding UFC and WWE, respectively, and (ii) internet users age 16-64 who indicated they “regularly follow” or “regularly watch” when surveyed regarding UFC and WWE, respectively.
#TKO #TKOGroup #WWE #UFC #Endeavor #EndeavorGroup #NYSE #wrestling #prowrestling #MMA #mixedmartialarts #sportsbiz #sportsmarketing #sportsbusiness #sportspromotion #sportsnews #PPV #payperview #PLE #PremiumLiveEvents #entertainment #entertainmentnews #sportsnews #media
Wrestling/MMA News
"Listen, we only have respect for Phil. We appreciate his run here. We appreciate what he did and tried to do with the UFC. Not many people can actually get in there and do what he did. So, when we have respect for Phil, we wish him nothing but the best.” - Nick Khan, WWE @WWE / TKO Group @TKOGrp via ESPN @espn (Marc Raimondi) #NickKhan #quote #CMPunk #PhilBrooks #WWE #UFC #wrestling #wrestlingnews #prowrestling #mmanews #ESPN #sportsentertainment #sportsbiz #sportsnews #media
"I say this all the time. The key to being succesful in life is knowing what you want to do. Once you know who you are and you know exactly what it is you want to do, you get up every day and you grind until you get it, and she (Laura Sanko) is the pefect example of that. What's she's done in a short amount of time is amazing" - Dana White @danawhite , UFC @UFC CEO #DanaWhte #quote #UFC #TKO #success #MMA #martialarts #sportsbiz #sportsbusiness #sportsnews #sportspromotions #sportsnews #selfdevelopment #mindset #motivation #work #hardwork #focus #vision #mbs #media
Wrestling News: WWE NXT @WWENXT September 12, 2023
Becky Lynch @BeckyLynchWWE def Tiffany Stratton @tiffstrattonwwe - NXT Women's Title
Ilja Dragunov def Wes Lee
Damon Kemp, Charlie Dempsey & Drew Gulak defeated Myles Borne, Brooks Jensen & Josh Briggs
Lyra Valkyria def Dana Brooke
Tyler Bate def Axiom
The Creed Brothers (Brutus & Julius Creed) def Edris Enofe & Malik Blade
Nathan Frazier def Akira Tozawa
Confrontation: Bron Breakker and Baron Corbin
Confrontation: Dominik Mysterio andCarmelo Hayes
Segment: Joe Gacy and Ava
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Video Highlights
Becky Lynch is the NEW NXT Women’s Champion: NXT highlights, Sept. 12, 2023
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uVbv2p8fmNM&ab_channel=WWE
#WWENXT #NXT #NXTWomensChampion #NXTWomen #wrestling #prowrestling #combatsports #entertainment #entertainmentnews #popculture #AndNew #sportsnews #broadcast #TV #media #mediaman
12th September 2023
Mojahed Fudailat Facebook (and an email via Facebook)
Ah Ah Ah Ah! And New! Haha. Comon. Sorry about that : ) Great sporting art. Get's the nod for Media Man 'Animation Of The Month'. Cheers from Sydney, Australia.
Pro Wrestling Dream Match will happen at AEW @AEW WrestleDream
Bryan Danielson vs Zack Sabre Jr
Seattle, Washington. Sunday, October 1, 2023
WrestleDream promises to be special and will honor Japanese pro wrestling and martial arts legend Antonio Inoki
Video Feature via AEW Official YouTube Channel
It's official! Bryan Danielson will face Zack Sabre Jr at AEW WrestleDream on Oct 1st in Seattle!
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=roS8VfK6l6c&ab_channel=AllEliteWrestling
#AEW #AllEliteWrestling #AEWWrestleDream #dreamatch #dreammatches #BryanDanielson #ZackSabreJr #AntonioInoki #Inoki #wrestling #prowrestling #combatsports #PPV #ppvs #payperview #legend #legends #wrestlinglegends #tribute #fantasybooking #livesports #entertainment #entertainmentnews #popculture #sportsnews #broadcast #media #mediaman
TKO. Vince McMahon. New York Stock Exchange. Opening bell (For educational purposes) #tko #tkogroup #vincemcmahon #wwe #nyse #wrestling #prowrestling #promoter #legend #boardofdirectors #management #sportsnews #sportsbiz #sportsmarketing #businessnews #history #openingbell #openforbusiness #media #mediamanbusiness #mediamancombat #mediamanculture #mediamanentertainment #mediamanmma #mediamansports #mediamanwrestling #mediamanint
SEJ September 2023
SEJ's Robert with great insight and research into content marketing. Purpose. Intent. Audience. Connection. Experiences. Testing. Follow-up. Improvement. Re-test. Calculate numbers. Repeat the process. Success!
Combat Sports Gonzo Scribes For The Hunter S. Thompson in us all...
The combat sports world including its cousin, pro wrestling, can be dog eat dog at times, borrowing from some banter from new UFC
@UFC
Middleweight Champion Sean "Tarzan" Strickland
@SStricklandMMA
, The People's Champ of MMA. You've got a king of the pack in the UFC, WWE
@WWE
and others. Then there's the challenger brands. You've sometimes also got a board of directors type set-up as per todays official TKO Group
@TKOGrp
mega and historical deal complete with a bell ringing at the New York Stock Exchange
@NYSE
. WWE enjoys a rich history in New York. Once upon a time a Vince McMahon Sr told a young Vince, "Vinnie, The Garden will always be The Garden". (A gem worth scouring YouTube for folks). Throwing a bone and a different type than Moondog Spot and Moondog Red had grown a custom to a few decades ago (dog years included). Life and businesses can be full of non coincidences, plays on words/double meanings, industry jargon and carny (carnival/circus like terms), and this is most certainly the case in and around pro wrestling and mixed martial arts.
Here's a few terms in no particular order, as as per John Cena
@JohnCena
Instagram (and Elon Musk's X
@X
), they are open to interpretation but many hardcores know exactly what they mean:
Amateur
Anti-hero
Angle
Big Ten
Brawler
Blood RiverGreen
Booker
Babyface
Belt
Booker
Botch
Box office
Broadway
Cartoonish
Champion
Cheap Heat
Chump
Clown
Competitive
Creative
Carney
Colour
Corney
Contender
Cult Following
Curtain Jerker
Cross-over
Catch phrase
Chosen One
Dog-House
Double Turn
Dirt sheets
DQ
Draw
Enhancement Talent
Exhibition
Fan Favourite
Favor
Fall Guy
Fighting Champion
Gate
Gorilla Position
Good Hand
Hardway
Hot-Tag
Headliner
Heat
Heels
Independents
Insider
It Factor
Jab
Juice
Journeyman
Kimura
Legit
Luchador
Mid-Cars
Kayfabe
Octagon
Over The Top/OTT
Outsider
Mark
Merch
Meltzer
Monster
Money Mark
NCAA
Phantom Title Change
Piledriver
Pinfall
Potato
Potential
Promoter
Promo
Papered
Protected (champion)
Pay-Per-View
Pencil
Pound 4 Pound
Premium Live Event
Rafters
Red Turns To Green
Reversal
Rigged
Ring-in
Robbed
Screw-job
Scripted
Scorecards
Sell-out
Sharks
Sleeper
Slam
Squash
Storyline
Subs
Superman
Suplex City
Shooters
Strap
Stoppage
Stretchers
Submission Hold
Talent
Territory
Tomato
Top Of The Card
Turn
Teaser
Triangle Choke
Undisputed
Universe
VKM
Workhorse
X signal
Zoo
*In a future tweet/post we may elaborate more in what some of these terms mean as some readership may struggle with a few of the super-inside stuff.
#wrestling #prowrestling #MMA #mixedmartialarts #combatsports #KO #submission #promoter #win #fighters #legends #contenders #soldout #sellout #PPV #payperview #streaming #sportsbiz #popculture #gonzo #gonzojournalism #scribe #scribes #mediarights #media #mediaman #mediamanint
Pro Wrestling/MMA Dream/Nightmare Match:
Ultimate Warrior (WWF now WWE) and Tito Ortiz (UFC) vs Vince McMahon and Dana White - Money (and check) Bank In The Bank Rules! Don't Come Monday special stipulation!
*inspired by Chael "The Bad Guy" Sonnen @ChaelSonnen podcast!
*gonzo themed based on (some) real life events in front of audience and absolutely behind the curtain!
*screw-job of a different nature
*Survivor Series. Real Head/Food On The Table situation
*The House Always Wins, almost without expection
(cross-over audience/readership between WWE and UFC/MMA may be more significant than first thought says Media Man)
Chael Sonnen Official YouTube
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NtiYgdH1NXY&ab_channel=ChaelSonnen
#prowrestling #wrestling #MMA #UFC #ChaelConnen #WWE #dreammatch #nightmarematch #mmapodcast #podcast #legends #GOAT #fantasybooking #gonzo #gonzojournalism #behindthecurtain #moneyinthebank #headofthetable #sportsbiz #kayfabe #fantasybooking #bookerman #podcastofthemonth #sportsentertainment #sportsbiz #popculture #wrestlingmma #crossover #sportspodcast #Influencer #showbiz #biz #sportsnews #buzz #media
SEL's Roger with a more unusual type of article. It's literally a glitch in 'The (Google) Matrix'! See, 'The Matrix' is real as we've been saying for a couple of decades. Google's Morpheus and SEJ's Neo the bad and dirty code sorted. One trace of bad code can spoil the entire process - from web cradle to grave, and beyond. Watch out the for sentinels that 'They" have likely sent. Good crawlers vs bad crawlers. You get the idea. Neo vs Agent Smith continues. Another day in the life of the Wild West of the World Wide Web. Free your mind (and back to work). Gonzo and pop culture reference for the day. Dragula ('The One) track hits! Agent Smith knocks on door. Escape The Matrix! Web 3 activate. All systems are go commander. Agent Tingle out.
Facebook report techical Media Man International Facebook
https://www.facebook.com/mediamaninternational/
Nick Khan, WWE
“This morning, we announced that WWE and the UFC have officially come together to form TKO Group Holdings, creating a new premium sports and entertainment company. TKO will begin trading today on the New York Stock Exchange under the ticker symbol “TKO.”
A big thank you to all of you for the hard work and commitment that helped us achieve this milestone.
As we now begin this transition, we will be in touch with more details. In the interim, we will be communicating with each of you regarding new policies and procedures. HR will also be available to answer any and all questions you may have.
We know when companies undergo change it can feel like uncertain times. The special culture that WWE has cultivated over its long history is what has allowed our business to flourish and we will be preserving that as WWE and UFC both continue to grow together as part of TKO.
As always, well continue to focus on the work throughout this transition and make sure to communicate with all of you throughout the process. Thank you, Nick Khan.”
Pro Wrestling/WWE News - September 12, 2023
“This morning, we announced that WWE @WWE and the UFC @UFC have officially come together to form TKO Group Holdings, creating a new premium sports and entertainment company. TKO will begin trading today on the New York Stock Exchange under the ticker symbol “TKO.”
A big thank you to all of you for the hard work and commitment that helped us achieve this milestone.
As we now begin this transition, we will be in touch with more details. In the interim, we will be communicating with each of you regarding new policies and procedures. HR will also be available to answer any and all questions you may have.
We know when companies undergo change it can feel like uncertain times. The special culture that WWE has cultivated over its long history is what has allowed our business to flourish and we will be preserving that as WWE and UFC both continue to grow together as part of TKO.
As always, well continue to focus on the work throughout this transition and make sure to communicate with all of you throughout the process. Thank you, Nick Khan.”
#NickKhan #WWE #Endeavor #TKO #TKOGroup #UFC #wrestling #prowrestling #wrestlingnews #wwenews #MMA #combatsports #sportsnews #sportsbiz #combatsports #popculture #newsmedia #biz #media
Wrestling / WWE @WWE / TKO Group @TKOGrp News
“This is the culmination of a decades-long partnership between Endeavor and WWE across strategic initiatives, including talent representation and media rights. Given our collaborative, trusted relationship and Endeavor’s incredible track record of success growing UFC, we believe WWE is optimally positioned for future growth and success as part of TKO. Our focus remains on delivering for our fans across the globe as we take the business to the next level alongside UFC and Endeavor.” - Vince McMahon #VinceMcMahon #quote #WWE #Endeavor #TKO #TKOGroup #UFC #wrestling #prowrestling #MMA #combatsports #sportsentertainment #sportsnews #entertainmentnews #biznews #NYSE #newsmedia #media
Tampa Bay to host 2024 Royal Rumble
WWE, part of TKO Group Holdings, in conjunction with the Tampa Bay Rays, Visit St. Pete/Clearwater and the Tampa Bay Sports Commission, announced that Tampa Bay will host the 37th Royal Rumble in 2024.
WWE will head to town for an entire weekend of events across St. Petersburg, Clearwater and Tampa, Fla., highlighted by the Royal Rumble on Saturday, Jan. 27 at Tropicana Field in St. Petersburg. Two days later, Monday Night Raw will emanate from Amalie Arena in Tampa on Jan. 29. This marks the first time that Royal Rumble will be held in Tampa Bay in front of fans since 1995.
“Tampa Bay has long been a terrific market for WWE,” said WWE Executive Vice President of Live Events John Porco. “Thanks to our partners at the Tampa Bay Rays, Visit St. Pete/Clearwater and the Tampa Bay Sports Commission, we look forward to a fantastic schedule of events in January.”
“We are excited to welcome WWE back to Tropicana Field for the 2024 Royal Rumble,” said Tampa Bay Rays President Matt Silverman. “The Royal Rumble will provide first-class sports entertainment to both those seeing the action in person and watching as part of a worldwide television audience. This event will bring visitors from around the globe to experience the beauty of our area and all it has to offer.”
“As a leader in event production and promotion, we are thrilled to collaborate with WWE to bring Royal Rumble to our destination,” Caleb Peterson, Visit St. Pete/Clearwater Senior Business Development Manager. “We look forward to welcoming all of the WWE fans to our community, a community that will certainly match their energy and enthusiasm for sports entertainment. A special thank you to our community partners - the Tampa Bay Rays, City of St. Petersburg, and Tampa Bay Sports Commission - for their role in creating this unique opportunity for our destination.”
“Team Tampa Bay loved hosting WrestleMania 37 two years ago and we’re now beyond excited to have the opportunity to collaborate again with our longtime friends at WWE,” said Rob Higgins, Tampa Bay Sports Commission Executive Director. “Royal Rumble Weekend in January of 2024 will be a phenomenal regional effort that spans Pinellas and Hillsborough Counties including both Tropicana Field and Amalie Arena. Together, we’re focused on making sure that WWE Universe is treated to a weekend that’s filled with memories that last a lifetime.”
Royal Rumble will be headlined by the 30-Man and 30-Woman Royal Rumble matches, with the winners of both receiving a Championship Match opportunity at WrestleMania 40.
In addition, official Royal Rumble Priority Passes will soon be available through exclusive partner On Location, giving fans the opportunity to purchase ticket packages before they go on sale to the general public. Royal Rumble Priority Passes will offer fans the chance to be ringside for every exhilarating moment, including premium seating, all-inclusive pre-show hospitality with WWE Superstar appearances, ringside photo opportunities, exclusive merchandise, deluxe accommodations, and much more. Click here to receive exclusive pre-sale access before Royal Rumble Priority Passes go on sale. For more information, please call 855-346-7388.
More information on the ticket on-sale will be announced in the coming weeks. Learn more about registering for pre-sale opportunities.
Wrestling News
Tampa Bay to host 2024 Royal Rumble
WWE @WWE , part of TKO Group Holdings @TKOGrp , in conjunction with the Tampa Bay Rays, Visit St. Pete/Clearwater and the Tampa Bay Sports Commission, announced that Tampa Bay will host the 37th Royal Rumble in 2024.
WWE will head to town for an entire weekend of events across St. Petersburg, Clearwater and Tampa, Fla., highlighted by the Royal Rumble on Saturday, Jan. 27 at Tropicana Field in St. Petersburg. Two days later, Monday Night Raw will emanate from Amalie Arena in Tampa on Jan. 29. This marks the first time that Royal Rumble will be held in Tampa Bay in front of fans since 1995.
“Tampa Bay has long been a terrific market for WWE,” said WWE Executive Vice President of Live Events John Porco. “Thanks to our partners at the Tampa Bay Rays, Visit St. Pete/Clearwater and the Tampa Bay Sports Commission, we look forward to a fantastic schedule of events in January.”
“We are excited to welcome WWE back to Tropicana Field for the 2024 Royal Rumble,” said Tampa Bay Rays President Matt Silverman. “The Royal Rumble will provide first-class sports entertainment to both those seeing the action in person and watching as part of a worldwide television audience. This event will bring visitors from around the globe to experience the beauty of our area and all it has to offer.”
“As a leader in event production and promotion, we are thrilled to collaborate with WWE to bring Royal Rumble to our destination,” Caleb Peterson, Visit St. Pete/Clearwater Senior Business Development Manager. “We look forward to welcoming all of the WWE fans to our community, a community that will certainly match their energy and enthusiasm for sports entertainment. A special thank you to our community partners - the Tampa Bay Rays, City of St. Petersburg, and Tampa Bay Sports Commission - for their role in creating this unique opportunity for our destination.”
“Team Tampa Bay loved hosting WrestleMania 37 two years ago and we’re now beyond excited to have the opportunity to collaborate again with our longtime friends at WWE,” said Rob Higgins, Tampa Bay Sports Commission Executive Director. “Royal Rumble Weekend in January of 2024 will be a phenomenal regional effort that spans Pinellas and Hillsborough Counties including both Tropicana Field and Amalie Arena. Together, we’re focused on making sure that WWE Universe is treated to a weekend that’s filled with memories that last a lifetime.”
Royal Rumble will be headlined by the 30-Man and 30-Woman Royal Rumble matches, with the winners of both receiving a Championship Match opportunity at WrestleMania 40.
In addition, official Royal Rumble Priority Passes will soon be available through exclusive partner On Location, giving fans the opportunity to purchase ticket packages before they go on sale to the general public. Royal Rumble Priority Passes will offer fans the chance to be ringside for every exhilarating moment, including premium seating, all-inclusive pre-show hospitality with WWE Superstar appearances, ringside photo opportunities, exclusive merchandise, deluxe accommodations, and much more. Click here to receive exclusive pre-sale access before Royal Rumble Priority Passes go on sale. For more information, please call 855-346-7388.
More information on the ticket on-sale will be announced in the coming weeks. Learn more about registering for pre-sale opportunities.
(Source: WWE)
#RoyalRumble #WWERoyalRuble #WWE #TKO #TKOGroup #TampaBay #TampaBaySports #Tampa #wwenews #wwemedia #wrestling #prowrestling #PLE #PremiumLiveEvent #PPV #sportsentertainment #sportsnews #entertainmentnews #liveentertainment #livesports #media
Squawk on the Street Twiter post reply
"There's nothing more important that sports content and live events. We do 350 live events with production. We have a billion in fan base".. - TKO CEO Ari Emanuel #TKO #TKOGroup #WWE #UFC #squawkonthestreet
MMA / UFC @UFC News
“Nobody gave a *hit about Strickland a week ago, and now he’s hot as can be.”.. “That’s the thing with this sport. First of all, in boxing, when a guy who’s a 7-to-1 underdog is fighting, he loses every time. The 7-to-1 dog loses every time. Not in (MMA). Anything is possible in this sport. Last week (with) Strickland, everybody was like, ‘Oh, this fight sucks. This is *ullshit.’ Now everybody’s swinging on him, you know what I mean, and he’s the man.” - Dana White, UFC CEO #DanaWhite #quote #UFC #seanstrickland #Tarzan #UFC293 #UFCChampion #UFCSydney #MMA #combatsports #mmanews #sportsnews #sportsbiz #sportsmedia #popculture #entertainmentnews #trends #buzz #media
"The biggest thrill in the world is entertaining the public, there is no bigger thrill than that" - Vince McMahon #VinceMcMahon #quote #entertainment #entertaining #wrestling #prowrestling #sportsentertainment #wwe #entertainmentnews #popculture #sportsbiz #showbiz #biz #media
"Yeah that was flying around a little bit tonight"... "I think these guys get a little excited, and you make bad mistakes. Radtke did the same thing...and you know me, we didn't run over to him and said 'You better apologize'...he did that on his own. When he came backstage, he was embarrassed...he felt like he was treated like s*** and all that stuff, got emotional for whatever reason.
"We make mistakes. I'm not holier than thou, either, so we've all been in positions where we've made mistakes and it's how you recover from it and how you carry yourself after you make a mistake, he came out and apologized on his own free will, we didn't tell him to do anything. The fact that he did that means that he means it...I'm sure some people accept his apology and some people won't." - Dana White, UFC - September 10, 2023 #DanaWhite #quote #UFC #UFC293 #MMA #Radtke #Kape #ufcnews #ufcmedia #combatsports #sportsbiz #sportsbusinss #life #selfdevelopment #PPV #payperview #popculture #newsmedia #media
"If you don't get noticed, you don't have anything. You just have to be noticed, but the art is in getting noticed naturally, without screaming or without tricks" - Leo Burnett #LeoBurnet #quote #advertising #ads #adbiz #creativity #art #biz #media
“The creative process requires more than reason. Most original thinking isn't even verbal. It requires 'a groping experimentation with ideas, governed by intuitive hunches and inspired by the unconscious.' The majority of business men are incapable of original thinking because they are unable to escape from the tyranny of reason. Their imaginations are blocked.” - David Ogilvy #DavidOgilvy #Ogilvy #quote #creative #original #ideas #thinking #imagination #ads #advertising #creativity #adbiz #adnews #creativity #popculture #agency #agent #biz #media
Boxing Bag. Sean Strickland. (For educational purposes). Credit: Sean Strickland #seanstrickland #boxingbag #boxing #mma #fighting #legend #behindthescenes #media #mediaman #mediamanboxing #mediamanlegends #mediamanmma #mediamansports #mediamanwrestling #mediamanint
Nigerian Influencers Join the Crypto Experience with Sportsbet.io
Press Release: Three Nigerian influencers have Joined the Sportsbet.io team as the company continues to expand its team of ambassadors.
September 14, 2023, London, UK — Sportsbet.io has announced the signing of three high-profile Nigerian personalities as part of the ongoing campaign. TV and radio star Dadaboy, cryptocurrency coach Tola Joseph Fadugbagbe and betting guru Winnerbet are the latest players to ‘Join the Crypto Experience’
Who are the Ambassadors?
Ehizojie, known as Dadaboy, is a Nigerian TV and radio personality who has amassed hundreds of thousands of followers and fans online. He is host of Africa Now Radio on Apple Music and has his own podcast, The Dadaboy Show.
Dadaboy, Brand Ambassador for Sportsbet.io, stated:
“Like Sportsbet.io, I’m all about providing fun, fast and fair entertainment to my audience, whether it's on TV, radio or my podcast. Sportsbet.io is the best place to play, and I look forward to sharing some exclusive promotions over the coming months.”
Meanwhile, Lagos-based Tola Joseph Fadugbagbe is cryptocurrency coach and mentor who has built a strong following via his insight and analysis, including as founder of educational platform Crypto Masterclass.
Tola Joseph Fadugbagbe, Brand Ambassador at Sportsbet.io, stated:
“When it comes to crypto, knowledge is power, and that’s why my partnership with Sportsbet.io is such a great match. We both understand that education around this technology is vital, and I’ll be working hard to show my community the advantages they can enjoy when they choose to bet with cryptocurrency.”
Finally, betting influencer, crypto enthusiast and digital market Ewoma Chris Ejegreh, known as Winnerbet, also joins the team. Winnerbet has established a strong following online for his betting tips.
Ewoma Chris Ejegreh, Brand Ambassador at Sportsbet.io, stated:
“My followers are always on the lookout for the best odds and promotions, and by teaming up with Sportsbet.io, I’ll be able to share these with them going forward. Sportsbet.io is my favorite place to play, and it is a real honor to work closely with them as an ambassador.”
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There are only 300 spots available in the exclusive scheme. Last month, crypto trader Grey Jabesi and lifestyle influencer Amara Kanu became the latest entrants, joining the likes of Aussie cricket legend Brett Lee and Brazilian World Cup winner Denilson.
Anyone who believes that they would make a great Sportsbet.io ambassador can learn more about the program, and apply at: https://jointhecryptoexperience.io/
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TKO @TKOGrp / WWE @WWE / Wrestling News: Nick Khan quotes
“The conversations are just beginning now. Everybody wanted to make sure that we got all the regulatory approvals in place. Department of Justice approval, SEC approval, a couple of international approvals that we needed and obviously, we got all of those.
“The conversations are happening now. Yes, what everyone envisions is, can you set up an all-star TKO weekend where SmackDown goes on Friday, UFC on Saturday with pay-per-view, and WWE goes with a premium live event on Sunday. Can you do that from the same city? Certainly, a lot of cost efficiencies there in terms of production, but a lot of revenue efficiencies in terms of upside there as well.”
“Certainly, the fighters and WWE superstars stay separate. Could you have a Ronda Rousey or Brock Lesnar come along who can cross from one to the other? Sure, but that’s a once-in-a-decade type of thing. In terms of production, [UFC Exec VP/Operations & Production] Craig Borsari and [WWE Line Producer] Kevin Dunn, they’ve had a number of conversations on those efficiencies, how it might look, how it might work. Hopefully, we have some news on that in a couple of months.”
“Ideally, what we like, especially if you look at the international expansion of WWE’s premium live events and UFC’s already expansion, you could see a lot of events of ‘WWE is going at 3pm eastern from an international location, UFC is going at 8 eastern domestically,’ or the opposite of that.
“We like that too because you have two gates, two merchandise, in theory, if you get a government subsidy for the international or domestic show, you have that and boom, both events are right there. By planning in advance, I don’t believe we’ll trip over each other in any way.”
#NickKhan #quote #quotes #TKO #WWE #UFC #Endeavor #wrestling #prowrestling #SmackDown #WWESmackDown #sportsentertainment #MMA #combatsports #PPV #payperview #payperviews #PLE #liveentertainment #livesports #wrestlingnews #sportsnews #mmanews #sportsbiz #popculture #biz #biznews #trends #buzz #media #mediaman
Wrestling News
WWE @WWE SmackDown. September 15, 2023
John Cena @JohnCena returns as the special guest on "The Grayson Waller @GraysonWWE Effect"
World class pro wrestling, sports entertainment, high drama, twists and turns, atmosphere, family and faction confronations. Expect the unexpected! #WWESmackDown #SmackDown #WWE #TKO #wrestling #prowrestling #JohnCena #GraysonWaller #GWEffect #wrestlingnews #sportsbiz #sportsnews #entertainmentnews #popculture #FOX #trends #buzz #hype #media
News Corp On AI
Robert Thomson told a San Francisco conference last week that as well as potentially wiping out jobs, the use of AI in newsrooms could have a social cost, by generating “rubbish” content. “The danger is, it’s rubbish in, rubbish out, and, in this case, rubbish all about”.
#newscorp #newscorpaustralia #RobertThomson #AI #ArtificialInteligence #newsmedia #newsbiz #media #mediaman
“That is the trouble with many inventors; they lack patience. They lack the willingness to work a thing out slowly and clearly and sharply in their mind, so that they can actually ‘feel it work.’ They want to try their first idea right off; and the result is they use up lots of money and lots of good material, only to find eventually that they are working in the wrong direction. We all make mistakes, and it is better to make them before we begin.” - Nikola Tesla #NikolaTesla #Tesla #quote #investors #patience #work #mind #idea #ideas #result #money #biz #world #universe #media
SEJ Google AI September 2023
SEJ's Kristi on Google Gemini and it's potential and apparent entry into the AI search sector. Of course one should consider the source of Intel. Can we suggest that Search Engine Journal would have a more balanced and probing dig into Google and it's new AI product than they may do themselves? (In an unbiased way). What's really under the hood? Strong tech detail and a modest amount of hype seems to be part for the course of AI Search News and upcoming launches. Reminds us somewhat of the Bitcoin, Blockchain and Fintech sector. X Corp top brass has of course spotted the news. All companies want their AI search to be the most trusted one right?! The nature of our business in and around online publishing with some niche SEO, advertising and PR type services means it's smart for us to keep a tab on the AI sector. Awareness. Research. Respond accordingly. Adjust the sails and rudder if need be. Surfing and swimming, not drowning. In the midst of chaos lies opportunity. Staying the course for the Internet Matrix Of Things Holy Grail. AI, another tool for the hunter instinct in all of us. Man/human vs machine or Man/human with machine? Humans, as said in some.movies and life situations, careful what one washes for. Peace out from HQ.
UFC @UFC 30th Anniversary Q&A w/ Brandon Moreno, Chito Vera & Tatiana Suarez! | Noche UFC
Guest fighters Brandon Moreno, Marlon 'Chito' Vera and Tatiana Suarez
Video
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Gxepm8A2zHQ&ab_channel=UFC
#UFC #NocheUFC #NocheMexicana #UFCMexico #MMA #ufcqanda #ufcmedia #sportsbiz #sportsnews #media
WWE @WWE SmackDown. September 15, 2023
John Cena @JohnCena to appear on Grayson Waller Effect
LA Knight @RealLAKnight vs The Miz @mikethemiz - rematch
Asuka @WWEAsuka vs Bayley @itsBayleyWWE
AJ Styles @AJStylesOrg vs Finn Bálor @FinnBalor
#SmackDown #WWESmackDown #WWE #wrestling #prowrestling #combatsports #sportsentertainment #entertainment #EntertainmentNews #popculture #FOX #TV #broadcasting #buzz #trend #trends #media
WWE @WWE SmackDown. September 15, 2023
Wrestling Legends The Rock @TheRock and John Cena @JohnCena headline red hot show in excellent segments with plenty of action for vast fanbase
Finn Bálor def AJ Styles
The Street Profits def Cruz Del Toro & Joaquin Wilde
LA Knight def The Miz
Asuka def Bayley
Segment: The Grayson Waller Effect with John Cena
Backstage Segment: Paul Heyman @HeymanHustle and Solo Sikoa
Confrontation: LWO and The Street Profits
#SmackDown #WWESmackDown #PatMcafee #TheRock #DwayneJohnson #JohnCena #wrestling #prowrestling #sportsbiz #entertainment #EntertainmentNews #PopCulture #FOX #TV #broadcast #trends #trending #trendingnow #media #mediaman
MMA Rankings for the UFC @UFC
Pound For Pound
*subject to change. Subjective. Draft.
* Approx 90 percent accurate
*Not decided where new UFC Middleweight Champion Sean Strickland should rank, coming off his victory over Izzy. Should it be #1, 2, 3, 4, 5 or other position?
1. Alexander Volkanovski
UFC featherweight champion
Record: 26-2
Last: W (TKO3) Yair Rodriguez, July 8, 2023
2. Islam Makhachev
UFC lightweight champion
Record: 24-1
Last: W (UD) Alexander Volkanovski, Feb. 11, 2023
3. Jon Jones
UFC heavyweight champion
Record: 27-1, 1 NC
Last: W (Sub1) Ciryl Gane, March 4, 2023
4. Leon Edwards
UFC welterweight champion
Previous ranking: 5
Record: 21-3, 1 NC
Last: W (MD) Kamaru Usman, March 18, 2023
5. Charles Oliveira
UFC lightweight
Previous ranking: 6
Record: 34-9, 1 NC
Last: W (TKO1) Beneil Dariush, June 10, 2023
6. Kamaru Usman
UFC welterweight
Previous ranking: 7
Record: 20-3
Last: L (MD) Leon Edwards, March 18, 2023
7. Israel Adesanya
UFC middleweight
Previous ranking: 4
Record: 24-3
Last: L (UD) Sean Strickland, Sept. 9, 2023
8. Alexandre Pantoja
UFC flyweight champion
Record: 26-5
Last: W (SD) Brandon Moreno, July 8, 2023
9. Sean O'Malley
UFC bantamweight champion
Record: 17-1, 1 NC
Last: W (TKO2) Aljamain Sterling, Aug. 19, 2023
10. Aljamain Sterling
UFC bantamweight
Record: 22-4
Last: L (TKO2) Sean O'Malley, Aug. 19, 2023
UFC Women's Pound For Pound Rankings
1. Zhang Weili
UFC strawweight champion
Record: 24-3
Last: W (UD) Amanda Lemos, Aug. 19, 2023
2. Valentina Shevchenko
UFC flyweight
Record: 22-4
Last: L (Sub4) Alexa Grasso, March 4, 2023
3. Alexa Grasso
UFC flyweight champion
Record: 16-3
Last: W (Sub4) Valentina Shevchenko, March 4, 2023
4. Erin Blanchfield
UFC flyweight
Record: 12-1
Last: W (UD) Taila Santos, Aug. 26, 2023
5. Carla Esparza
UFC strawweight
Record: 19-7
Last: L (Sub2) Zhang Weili, Nov. 12, 2022
Next: TBD
6. Yan Xiaonan
UFC strawweight
Record: 17-3
Last: W (KO1) Jessica Andrade, May 6, 2023
7. Kayla Harrison
PFL lightweight
Record: 15-1
Last: L (UD) Larissa Pacheco, Nov. 25, 2022
8. Larissa Pacheco
PFL lightweight champion
Record: 22-4
Last: W (TKO1) Olena Kolesnyk, Aug. 18, 2023
9. Tatiana Suarez
UFC strawweight
Record: 10-0
Last: W (Sub2) Jessica Andrade, Aug. 5, 2023
10. Seika Izawa
Rizin super atomweight champion
Previous ranking: 8
Record: 11-0
Last: W (Sub1) Claire Lopez, July 30, 2023
#UFC #ufcrankings #ufcratings #UFCp4p #ufcpoundforpount #MMA #mmanews #ufcnews #mixedmartialarts #combatsports #sports #sportsnews #sportsbiz #sportsmarketing #PPV #payperview #payperviews #entertainment #popculture #trends #news #x #media
UFC Pound For Pound Rankings
1. Alexander Volkanovski
UFC featherweight champion
Record: 26-2
Last: W (TKO3) Yair Rodriguez, July 8, 2023
2. Islam Makhachev
UFC lightweight champion
Record: 24-1
Last: W (UD) Alexander Volkanovski, Feb. 11, 2023
3. Jon Jones
UFC heavyweight champion
Record: 27-1, 1 NC
Last: W (Sub1) Ciryl Gane, March 4, 2023
4. Leon Edwards
UFC welterweight champion
Previous ranking: 5
Record: 21-3, 1 NC
Last: W (MD) Kamaru Usman, March 18, 2023
5. Charles Oliveira
UFC lightweight
Previous ranking: 6
Record: 34-9, 1 NC
Last: W (TKO1) Beneil Dariush, June 10, 2023
6. Kamaru Usman
UFC welterweight
Previous ranking: 7
Record: 20-3
Last: L (MD) Leon Edwards, March 18, 2023
7. Israel Adesanya
UFC middleweight
Previous ranking: 4
Record: 24-3
Last: L (UD) Sean Strickland, Sept. 9, 2023
8. Alexandre Pantoja
UFC flyweight champion
Record: 26-5
Last: W (SD) Brandon Moreno, July 8, 2023
9. Sean O'Malley
UFC bantamweight champion
Record: 17-1, 1 NC
Last: W (TKO2) Aljamain Sterling, Aug. 19, 2023
10. Aljamain Sterling
UFC bantamweight
Record: 22-4
Last: L (TKO2) Sean O'Malley, Aug. 19, 2023
UFC Women's Pound For Pound Rankings
1. Zhang Weili
UFC strawweight champion
Record: 24-3
Last: W (UD) Amanda Lemos, Aug. 19, 2023
2. Valentina Shevchenko
UFC flyweight
Record: 22-4
Last: L (Sub4) Alexa Grasso, March 4, 2023
3. Alexa Grasso
UFC flyweight champion
Record: 16-3
Last: W (Sub4) Valentina Shevchenko, March 4, 2023
4. Erin Blanchfield
UFC flyweight
Record: 12-1
Last: W (UD) Taila Santos, Aug. 26, 2023
5. Carla Esparza
UFC strawweight
Record: 19-7
Last: L (Sub2) Zhang Weili, Nov. 12, 2022
Next: TBD
6. Yan Xiaonan
UFC strawweight
Record: 17-3
Last: W (KO1) Jessica Andrade, May 6, 2023
7. Kayla Harrison
PFL lightweight
Record: 15-1
Last: L (UD) Larissa Pacheco, Nov. 25, 2022
8. Larissa Pacheco
PFL lightweight champion
Record: 22-4
Last: W (TKO1) Olena Kolesnyk, Aug. 18, 2023
9. Tatiana Suarez
UFC strawweight
Record: 10-0
Last: W (Sub2) Jessica Andrade, Aug. 5, 2023
10. Seika Izawa
Rizin super atomweight champion
Previous ranking: 8
Record: 11-0
Last: W (Sub1) Claire Lopez, July 30, 2023
Pro Wrestling Legend Chris Jericho goes on record regarding CM Punk Departure From All Elite Wrestling
Via Talk Is Jericho @TalkIsJericho Podcast, AEW All In including Punk discussion
"I don't want to dwell on this or talk about it but I should address it. Of course, CM Punk no longer with AEW, and Wembley was his last match, what a way to go out". "I did talk to him briefly. I was going to do a Frankensteiner off the top and I know that he does that sometimes so I was just curious if he was doing it. I went and talked to him for a bit and asked him if he was doing it, he wasn't. Then I told him I was going to do the GTS with a straight face and I think for a second he thought that I was going to and I was joking of course."
"I did see him that day and once again, it's a regretful moment what happened but Tony Khan made his decision. Like I said, CM Punk was a big part of AEW for the time he was here and if you're going to go out, he went out on top, for sure."
At time of publication it's understood that Punk has both supporters and detractors in the WWE. At least some of the higher up management at WWE are keen to see Punk return. Many wrestling fans have been speculating on real life dream matches should Punk return to the world's leading professional wrestling promotion, now part of TKO. WWE has recently signed Nia Jax and almost certainly Jade Cargill. 'The Rock' appeared on today's Friday Night SmackDown and appears to be certainly heading for a showdown (finally) with cousin Roman Reigns. WWE wants to gets its ratings up for numerous reasons including to impress the likes of FOX, Disney/ESPN and Amazon. Investors and the New York Stock Exchange also have a vested interest to see WWE continue its boon as we near closer to what's known as "The Road To WrestleMania", with a stop-over in Royal Rumble season.
Talk Is Jericho Podcast Channel (Apple)
https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/talk-is-jericho/id767016946
#ChrisJericho #quote #quotes #wrestling #prowrestling #wrestlinglegend #wrestlinglegends #wrestlingpodcasts #podcast #AEW #AllEliteWrestling #CMPunk #sportsentertainment #combatsports #sportsnews #sportsbiz #entertainment #entertainmentnews #streaming #broadcast #buzz #X #newsmedia #media
SEJ Google update Sept 2023
SEJ's Roger on Google. Re if a site loses website traffic, machine learned content, rankings and.more. Google remains king of the search engine in the vast majority of categories despite numerous AI competitors so if your business has anything to do with popularity/rankings on the web it's smart to read up and keep your finger on the pulse. Published via LinkedIn so LI and the Microsoft folks are certainly across updates of this nature also. It's Spy vs Spy as per the iconic section of MAD Magazine. Their Tech Special is quite the collectors item also. Back to the web publishing and online entrepreneurial business activities!
MMA/Wrestling News : Caged Fury Fighting Championships @CFFCMMA
Commentary by John Morgan and CM Punk (Phil Brooks) @CMPunk
"Look who I ran into backstage" - Morgan
"Yeah, I got some time on my hands, for the next two months" - Brooks
"What do you wanna talk about?" - Brooks
#MMA #mmanews #mixedmartialarts #CMPunk #PhilBrooks #JohnMorgan #CagedFury #CFFC #sportsnews #sportsbiz #wrestling #wrestlingnews #mmapromotion #sportspromotion #promotions #entertainment #entertainmentnews #popculture #buzz #trends #broadcast #broadcasting #X #media #mediaman
Pro Wrestling Dream Match Tipped To Become Reality At All Elite Wrestling @AEW : 'WrestleDream'
FTR vs Aussie Open.
October 1, 2023. Seattle, Washington
AEW Official YouTube Channel
https://www.youtube.com/AEW
Video
Aussie Open set their sights on the AEW World Tag Team Champions! | 9/16/23, AEW Collision
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kxPrZn2GFq0&ab_channel=AllEliteWrestling
#AEW #AllEliteWrestling #AEWWrestleDream #WrestleDream #dreammatch #wrestling #prowrestling #AussieOpen #FTR #aewtag #combatsports #sportsbiz #sportsnews #PPV #payperview #payperviews #FITE #FITETV #streaming #popculture #showbiz #biz #X #media #mediaman
Pro Wrestling Dream Match: Roman Reigns @WWERomanReigns vs Dwayne "The Rock" Johnson @TheRock finally may become reality in a WWE @WWE ring
WrestleMania Season has come early - sort of! The dream match wrestling fans across the globe have been waiting for may actually happen at the upcoming WrestleMania @WrestleMania
This past Friday Night SmackDown 'The Rock' finally showed up to largely a very positive responce. He even got a "Welcome home" from long time rival John Cena @JohnCena
Traditonally with pro wrestling mega matches that are worthy of WrestleMania status, the headliner match or matches get a storyline with usually some confrontations, angles, twists and turns in the lead up.
Reigns remains 'Head Of The Table' and the Tribal Chief of 'The Bloodline'. The trials and tribulations of Reigns and his stable of Samoans are well documented and the numerous crime scenes over the past 3 years have the fingerprints of puppet master and self appointed "Evil Genius" Paul Heyman @HeymanHustle written all over them.
WWE announcers such as Michael Cole @MichaelCole , Corey Graves @WWEGraves and Kevin Patrick @kev_egan sometimes speak of "recruitment drives" as WWE factions look for further strength in numbers. This can strengthen the position much like a Hollywood or MMA agent with numerous world class talents on the books.
Wrestling politics can play in the success of a pro wrestlers (and managers) career, not to mention the always potential threat of talent leaving for a rival faction or promoter!, with or without a Hollywood Writers Strike!
Johnson's return to the WWE appears very timely, and this news fresh off the official launch of TKO @TKOGrp which is akin to a parent of both the WWE and UFC @UFC. Back in 2009 Johnson put the UFC's BMF title around the waist of MMA legend Jorge Masvidal @GamebredFighter
WWE Universal Champion Reigns and cousin, Johnson, can both be described as BMF'er. Johnson is no stranger to colourful language, this week giving the hint to the WWE live audience to chant A hole at Austin Theory @_Theory1 The WWE lockeroom is getting "the rub" from Johnson, but upstart and gold contender Grayson Waller @GraysonWWE may say otherwise. The Aussie Dynamite has been blowing up things and people in the WWE and may have something to say about the potential possibility of others stealing his spotlight, and so may "American Nightmare" Cody Rhodes @CodyRhodes for that matter. Rhodes may look to cash in on a fatigued Johnson, Rhodes and/or Rolllins @WWERollins come WrestleMania, Day 1 or Day 2!
Hollywood's loss (for now) appears to be the WWE Unviverses' gain. The match of the decade continues to near to reality by the day.
WWE, TKO, Reigns, Rock, BFK'ers abound. A perfect storm is brewing. WWE bean-counters, fans and WWE co-workers win. The Samoan American connection is alive and well. Chiefs, elders and fans, brace yourself for a wrestling war of electrifiying consequences. It's just about pick 'em time.
#WWESmackDown #WWE #WrestleMania #WrestleMania40 #RomanReigns #TribalChief #DwayneJohnson #TheRock #CodyRhodes #WWEUniverse #TKO #BMF #wrestling #prowrestling #sportsentertainment #sportsbiz #sportsnews #PLE #PPV #payperview #entertainment #entertainmentnews #popculture @showbiz #trend #trends #buzz #X #media
‘Wrestlers’ Is Here to Rip Your Freakin’ Head Off
The new doc series from the creator of Last Chance U and Cheer is an underdog story pulsing with adrenaline.
From the right corner of the ring, an oiled-up baby face enters with a stone-cold glare and a juicy flex. From the left, a sneering heel climbs through the ropes under floodlights, only to be met with jeers and hisses from the darkness of the stands. What happens next isn’t just a fight; it’s a story. It’s Shakespearean drama. It’s bloody theater that also happens to be more true to life than you’d think.
Wrestlers, the new doc series from director Greg Whiteley (Last Chance U, Cheer) and BBC Studios Los Angeles takes you right to the center of the fight. It doesn’t only depict the brawls between ambitious athletes managing their stressful lives off the ring (though watching a rage-fueled fighter and a hardened vet go head-to-head in a violent, hair-pulling tussle is thrilling –– especially when you consider they’re mother and daughter). The fight at the center of the story is even more intense: Legendary wrestler Al Snow is attempting to keep professional wrestling league Ohio Valley Wrestling (OVW) afloat, navigating the brutal waters of mounting debt and the power struggles of new ownership.
The seven-episode series is intimate, emotional, and offers a behind-the-scenes look at the world of professional wrestling, revealing the hardship and sacrifice that goes into creating this highly complex feat of performance art and athleticism.
What is Ohio Valley Wrestling?
OVW is located in Louisville, Kentucky, and once served as a premiere training ground for aspiring pro wrestlers like Brock Lesnar, John Cena, Dave Bautista, The Miz, and Randy Orton. In recent years, OVW has struggled to keep its doors open, prompting Snow to sell a majority stake to a group of local businesses — one of whom is Matt Jones, one of the most popular radio personalities in the state of Kentucky.
Who Are the Wrestlers at Ohio Valley Wrestling?
The cast of Wrestlers is comprised of OVW legends like Ca$h Flo, Mr. PEC-tacular, Mahabali Shera, Hollyhood Haley J, and more. To learn more about the babyfaces, heels and bosses at OVW — including their signature moves — check out our Wrestlers cast guide.
Wait, what’s a babyface?
In wrestling, a babyface (also known as a “face”) is a heroic “good guy” or fan favorite. Typically, they’ll play it fair in the ring and avoid cheating or dirty manuevers. The babyfaces in Wrestlers include Ca$h Flo and the Amazing Maria James. The babyfaces perform relative to the heels in any given match, and sometimes wrestlers shift between the two identities, depending on their narrative arc.
So what’s a heel?
Simply put, a heel is a villain — a bad boy, a nasty girl, or anyone who fights dirty in the ring. The heels in Wrestlers include Hollyhood Haley J and Freya the Slaya.
“In wrestling, you’re going to do the same things you do when you tell any story and have a protagonist and an antagonist,” Al Snow told Tudum. “We've got to explain to the audience what the context of the story is, [and help them] understand the challenge that's facing our protagonist, and what the antagonists are trying to prevent.”
In other words: If nothing else, wrestling is a story of good versus evil — and who prevails depends on the day.
Watch Wrestlers on Netflix now.
Video
Wrestlers | Official Trailer | Netflix
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hY9CISx70Oo&ab_channel=Netflix
Websites
Netflix: Wrestlers
https://www.netflix.com/au/title/81592264
Ohio Valley Wrestling
https://ovwrestling.com
(Credit: Netflix/OVW)
‘Wrestlers’ Is Here to Rip Your Freakin’ Head Off
The new doc series from the creator of Last Chance U and Cheer is an underdog story pulsing with adrenaline.
From the right corner of the ring, an oiled-up baby face enters with a stone-cold glare and a juicy flex. From the left, a sneering heel climbs through the ropes under floodlights, only to be met with jeers and hisses from the darkness of the stands. What happens next isn’t just a fight; it’s a story. It’s Shakespearean drama. It’s bloody theater that also happens to be more true to life than you’d think.
Wrestlers, the new doc series from director Greg Whiteley (Last Chance U, Cheer) and BBC Studios Los Angeles takes you right to the center of the fight. It doesn’t only depict the brawls between ambitious athletes managing their stressful lives off the ring (though watching a rage-fueled fighter and a hardened vet go head-to-head in a violent, hair-pulling tussle is thrilling –– especially when you consider they’re mother and daughter). The fight at the center of the story is even more intense: Legendary wrestler Al Snow @TheRealAlSnow is attempting to keep professional wrestling league Ohio Valley Wrestling (OVW) @ovwrestling afloat, navigating the brutal waters of mounting debt and the power struggles of new ownership.
The seven-episode series is intimate, emotional, and offers a behind-the-scenes look at the world of professional wrestling, revealing the hardship and sacrifice that goes into creating this highly complex feat of performance art and athleticism.
What is Ohio Valley Wrestling?
OVW is located in Louisville, Kentucky, and once served as a premiere training ground for aspiring pro wrestlers like Brock Lesnar, John Cena, Dave Bautista, The Miz, and Randy Orton. In recent years, OVW has struggled to keep its doors open, prompting Snow to sell a majority stake to a group of local businesses — one of whom is Matt Jones, one of the most popular radio personalities in the state of Kentucky.
Who Are the Wrestlers at Ohio Valley Wrestling?
The cast of Wrestlers is comprised of OVW legends like Ca$h Flo, Mr. PEC-tacular, Mahabali Shera, Hollyhood Haley J, and more. To learn more about the babyfaces, heels and bosses at OVW — including their signature moves — check out our Wrestlers cast guide.
Wait, what’s a babyface?
In wrestling, a babyface (also known as a “face”) is a heroic “good guy” or fan favorite. Typically, they’ll play it fair in the ring and avoid cheating or dirty manuevers. The babyfaces in Wrestlers include Ca$h Flo and the Amazing Maria James. The babyfaces perform relative to the heels in any given match, and sometimes wrestlers shift between the two identities, depending on their narrative arc.
So what’s a heel?
Simply put, a heel is a villain — a bad boy, a nasty girl, or anyone who fights dirty in the ring. The heels in Wrestlers include Hollyhood Haley J and Freya the Slaya.
“In wrestling, you’re going to do the same things you do when you tell any story and have a protagonist and an antagonist,” Al Snow told Tudum. “We've got to explain to the audience what the context of the story is, [and help them] understand the challenge that's facing our protagonist, and what the antagonists are trying to prevent.”
In other words: If nothing else, wrestling is a story of good versus evil — and who prevails depends on the day.
Watch Wrestlers on Netflix now.
Video
Wrestlers | Official Trailer | Netflix
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hY9CISx70Oo&ab_channel=Netflix
Websites
Netflix: Wrestlers
https://www.netflix.com/au/title/81592264
Ohio Valley Wrestling
https://ovwrestling.com
(Credit: Netflix/OVW)
#Wrestlers #WrestlersNetflix #OVW #AlSnow #wrestling #prowrestling #streaming #popculture #trends #Trending #TrendingNow #media
Combat Sports News
UFC @UFC Noche Results:
Alexa Grasso (48-47) and Valentina Shevchenko (48-47) fight to a split draw (47-47)
Jack Della Maddalena (29-28, 29-28) defeats Kevin Holland (29-28) by split decision
Raul Rosas Jr defeats Terrance Mitchell by TKO, Round 1, :54
Daniel Zellhuber defeats Christos Giagos by submission, anaconda choke, Round 2, 3:26
Kyle Nelson (29-28, 29-28, 30-27) defeats Fernando Padilla by unanimous decision
Loopy Godinez defeats Elise Reed by submission, rear naked choke, Round 2, 3:38
Roman Kopylov defeats Josh Fremd by TKO (body shot) at 4:44 of Round 2
Edgar Chairez versus Daniel Lacerda declared a no decision at 3:47 of Round 1
Tracy Cortez (30-27, 30-27, 29-28) defeats Jasmine Jasudavicius by unanimous decision
Charlie Campbell defeats Alex Reyes by TKO (right hand) at 3:38 of Round 1
Josefine Knutsson (30-24, 30-25, 30-27) defeats Marnic Mann by unanimous decision
Videos
UFC YouTube
https://www.youtube.com/ufc
Noche UFC: Post-Fight Press Conference
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dJrM6yp2r-M&ab_channel=UFC
Alexa Grasso: 'I Hope Every September 16th We Can Have a Card Like This' | Noche UFC
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WqYOHs7tvfQ&ab_channel=UFC
Alexa Grasso Octagon Interview | Noche UFC
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CCN6z-gM3W0&ab_channel=UFC
Noche UFC: Pre-Fight Panel
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OuSXblxM1IQ&t=85s&ab_channel=UFC
#UFCNoche #NocheUFC #UFCResults #ufcwomen #MMA #mixedmartialarts #AlexaGrasso
#ValentinaShevchenko #sportsnews #sportsmedia #popculture #PPV #payperview #trend #trending #buzz #X #media
Black Superman - 'Muhammad Ali', By Johnny Wakelin
Lyrics
This here's the story of Cassius Clay
Who changed his name to Muhammad Ali
He knows how to talk and he knows how to fight
And all the contenders were beat out of sight
Sing, Muhammad, Muhammad Ali
He floats like a butterfly and stings like a bee
Mohammed, the black superman
Who calls to the other guy I'm Ali catch me if you can
Now all you fight fans, you've got to agree
There ain't no flies on Muhammad Ali
He fills the arena wherever he goes
And everyone gets what they paid for
Muhammad, was known to have said
You watch me shuffle and I'll jab off your head
He moves like the black superman
And calls to the other guy I'm Ali catch me if you can
He says I'm the greatest the worlds ever seen
The heavyweight champion who came back again
My face is so pretty you don't see a scar
Which proves I'm the king of the ring by far
Sing, Muhammad, Muhammad Ali
He floats like a butterfly and stings like a bee
Mohammed, the black superman
Who calls to the other guy I'm Ali catch me if you can
Sing, Muhammad, Muhammad Ali
He floats like a butterfly and stings like a bee
Muhammad, the black superman
Who calls to the other guy I'm Ali catch me if you can
I'm Ali catch me if you can
Audio
https://music.apple.com/us/album/black-superman-muhammad-ali/286163209
#BlackSuperman #MuhammadAli #Ali
#JohnnyWakelin #boxer #boxing #legend #popculture #media
"I'm more into MMA than any other sport. I watch a lot of the UFC @UFC fights. I have since it first came onto the scene" - Jason Statham #JasonStatham #quote #MMA #UFC #combatsports #sportsnews #sportsmedia #popculture #media
"Video is growing very quickly on Facebook. A lot of people compare that to YouTube. I think that kind of makes sense. YouTube isn't the only video service, but I think it's the biggest, and it probably makes more sense to compare Facebook video to YouTube rather than Netflix because that's a completely different kind of content" - Mark Zuckerberg #MarkZuckerberg #quote #Facebook #Meta #YouTube #video #videoservice #Netflix #content #socialmedia #socialmedianews #socialmediatrends #socialmediawars #socialmediaplatforms #platforms #innovation #bigtech #tech #innovation #popculture #internet #media
Combat Sports News
UFC @UFC Noche
Women’s flyweight champion Alexa Grasso defended her championship vs Valentina Shevchenko.
The bout went the distance with both competitors coping a bruising in the five-round affair.
Many MMA insiders and hardcore fans are asking questions about the judges scorecards.
A split draw! (48-47, 47-48, 47-47). You could see a look in the eyes of Shevchenko.
One judge giving Grasso the final round 10-8 despite Shevchenko dominating the majority of the round.
Shevchenko spoke with UFC/MMA living legend Daniel "DC" Cormier.
“I think it really was 3-2 on my side, but I think judges felt a little bit of pressure because it was Mexican Independence Day”.
“In a fair fight, in a fair competition, victory would be mine.”
They used to say in the fight game, "That's boxing", but now they may also say, "That's MMA in a foreign land", or something to that effect. We're all heard of the expression "hometown advantage", be it football, or other. A re-match appears on the cards, this time perhaps on U.S soil, or some other place. MMA will survive. Stay hungry!
#UFC #UFCNoche #ufcwomen #NocheUFC #AlexaGrasso #ValentinaShevchenko #sportsnews #sportsbiz #ufcnews #ufcmedia #fighting #sportsmedia #combatsports #popculture #entertainment #showbiz #PPV #payperview #payperviews #Mexico #trend #trending #X #media
Combat Sports News
UFC @UFC Noche
Women’s flyweight champion Alexa Grasso defended her championship vs Valentina Shevchenko.
The bout went the distance with both competitors coping a bruising in the five-round affair.
Many MMA insiders and hardcore fans are asking questions about the judges scorecards.
A split draw! (48-47, 47-48, 47-47). You could see a look in the eyes of Shevchenko.
One judge giving Grasso the final round 10-8 despite Shevchenko dominating the majority of the round.
Shevchenko spoke with UFC/MMA living legend Daniel "DC" Cormier.
“I think it really was 3-2 on my side, but I think judges felt a little bit of pressure because it was Mexican Independence Day”.
“In a fair fight, in a fair competition, victory would be mine.”
They used to say in the fight game, "That's boxing", but now they may also say, "That's MMA in a foreign land", or something to that effect. We're all heard of the expression "hometown advantage", be it football, or other. A re-match appears on the cards, this time perhaps on U.S soil, or some other place. MMA will survive. Stay hungry!
#UFC #UFCNoche #ufcwomen #NocheUFC #AlexaGrasso #ValentinaShevchenko #sportsnews #sportsbiz #ufcnews #ufcmedia #fighting #sportsmedia #combatsports #popculture #entertainment #showbiz #PPV #payperview #payperviews #Mexico #trend #trending #X #media
"Beliefs have the power to create and the power to destroy. Human beings have the awesome ability to take any experience of their lives and create a meaning that disempowers them or one that can literally save their lives" Tony Robbins #TonyRobbins #quote #beliefs #power #experience #lives #life #create #mindset #attitude #mbs #biz #world #media
"Back when the UFC @UFC first started, I wanted to see what MMA was all about; at the time, I was training with Tank Abbott, and so I went to see him fight. While at the fight, I saw this guy fighting that I just crushed in high school wrestling, and I thought, 'Hey, I'm a street fighter, and I have a wrestling background,' so I gave it a shot" -Tito Ortiz #TitoOrtiz #quote #UFC #MMA #martialarts #wrestling #fighting #sports #sportsbiz #combatsports #media
"The problem is that with blogging, the model is publish first, maybe fact-check later. In newspapers, the model is you fact check first and then publish. But those models are merging" - Craig Newmark @craignewmark #CraigNewmark #Craigslist #quote #blogging #blogs #blogger #publish #factcheck #publish #models #businessmodels #businessmodel #newspapers #newsmedia #onlinepublishing #onlinenews #media
"Accept the things to which fate binds you, and love the people with whom fate brings you together, but do so with all your heart" - Marcus Aurelius #MarcusAurelius #quote #stoic #philosopher #stoicism #Roman #RomanEmpire #Rome #Italy #fate #life #heart #mindset #widsom #mbs #media
"We have a very wide range of content, but the brand-newest movies, what's happening with those is a $30 pay-per-view option - not from Netflix but from DirecTV and others - of movies that are in the theater" - Reed Hastings #ReedHastings #quote #netflix #content #movies #payperview #PPV #directtv #entertainment #homeentertainment #popculture #streaming #showbiz #biz #media
"You always think as an organization, obviously if you're in sports, you want to be with ESPN. ESPN is it. But you don't really realize how good ESPN is and how big their platform really is until you're in it: Dana White, UFC @UFC #DanaWhite #quote #UFC #ESPN #MMA #combatsports #platform #sports #network #sportsnews #sportsbiz #media
Media Man: Under The Water Cooler
Sydney HQ.
Up to approx 30 degrees
Combat sports are red hot right now
WWE
@WWE
and UFC
@UFC
under TKO
@TKOGrp
banner as per NYSE
@NYSE
Wrestling Match Of The Decade wheels in motion for WrestleMania: Roman Reigns
@WWERomanReigns
vs Dwayne "The Rock" Johnson
@TheRock
John Cena
@JohnCena
and Johnson escape fallout from Hollywood writers strike!
MMA: The UFC Sean Strickland
@SStricklandMMA
era is here. Izzy has been advised by many to rest up, rethink his political allegiance and messaging with China. Will he ever live down the "Dog Day Afternoon" in Sydney, Australia! Pro MMA can be a dog eat dog business and SS's mind games got to "The Last Stylebender". Was the fight already lost for Izzy before the "Let's Fn Go"?
UFC Nucho in Mexico. Grasso vs Shevchenko. Draw says judges! Oops. Re-match next time on U.S soil?!
Hot Temp's In Sydney, Australia see pause on bush burn-offs likely for a few days as mini heatwave hits.
Water safety reminder: Beach, rockpools, anywhere around water.
Work/Biz/Life Balance: If working with screens/computers try 15 mins break from screen for every hour on. Protect eyes, head, well-being. A walk around the block and an extra glass of water can work wonders. Water and coffee in the office (but not too close to keyboards)!
Washington, USA: Political basketcases?! USA set for an authentic leader in office. Many of the most suitable candidates work in private enterprise? Too good for the Oval Office?! A bit like some in the land down under of Australia, but not quite as obvious.
New South Wales government of Australia scores big praise by Sydney, Australia sports loving fans. About 3 or so more UFC events to hit Sydney within the next 4 years.
PPV (Pay-Per-View) business models, offerings to get some revamp thanks to TKO (WWE and UFC) deal; What percentage of WWE fans also watch at least some UFC? A higher percentage than the amount of UFC fans who also watch some WWE! Not all exactly or speculative numbers are in the public domain and can we suggest some are hidden - at least in part. Back in the Optus Vision days we used to get our hands on much raw data, thanks to my old bosses and the marketing and PPV department. Many industries have trade secrets, much like the Google Algorithm or KFC's "eleven secret herbs and spices"!
Alt news and niche news finding audiences in Australia, US, Canada, Europe, while many in society has tuned out or largely turned off "TV News" and other "mainstream aka lamestream"; Sky News Australia
@SkyNewsAust
is an exception to the rule. Sky boasts an interaction with 11.1 million Aussie's each month. Multiplatform strategy works a charm, with quality and authentic journalism - funny about that hey!!! "Happy to help further spread the good and authentic news"..Anon journo type overheard around the watercooler.
24-hour News Cycle vs Always On via The Internet..
Too much news going on all the time? Part of the reason the Media Man Group often updates X
@X
(formally Twitter) and blogs such as Media Man Int Blogger and Media Man Blogger quicker than news going live to it's flagship websites. Evergreen content strategy works a treat as well as unique perspectives and some gonzo journalism type reporting seldom found in mainstream news. The Google Algorithm is friendly to this business model so it's a Win-Win-Win!
Yes, we are still taking on some select PR and advertising campaigns. Email is if you have something you want the world to know about. There's an old expression that goes something like, "If you have the money we have the time"!
Seriously, we love the once great craft of journalism. The decline of the industry is well documented.. Hat's off to the authentic journos who continue to scribe and sniff out a good story. Journos vs AI! That's a big rabbit hole ain't it.
Remember in this sometimes crazy world, Heath is wealth and time and energy are most valuable resources.
LinkedIn: For more professional (whatever that is anyway) scribes and media presentation check us out via LinkedIn. Greg Tingle, Founder and Director, Media Man Int and Media Man Australia. LI is a MM multi-time 'Social Media Platform Of The Month' winner and finalist (and so it Twitter, now X, right Elon Musk and Linda Yaccarino.
Thanks for stopping by Media Man. Beach to Bush Telegraph via The Internet Superhighway. Wrestling and surfin' the web and beyond. Seagulls and Kangaroos ahead!
#news #newsbiz #PopCulture #combatsports #WWE #UFC #TKO #WrestleMania #gonzo #gonzojournalism #onlinenews #watercooler #watercoolernews #newsroom #sky #skynews #realnews #realviews #nichenews #niche #agent #agency #scribe #blog #blogs #platforms #biz #balance #search #ai #letsgo #forthewin #AndStill #PPV #payperview #streaming #info #intel #scoops #RabbitHole #worldnews #mediabiz #adbiz #buzz #media #mediaman
SEO and online news developments on the horizon
Google to remove "How to (get) rich" results
Google working on another AI search engine
X (X Corp) working on "The Everything App"; Will have a fintech/online banking type functionality
Bloggers want X to have a full blown blogging solution
Will X also start selling website design and development packages ala Google Domains sale to Squarespace
More "alternative media" news websites and alt social media platforms rising up as much of society further moves away from "mainstream media" aka "legacy media"
Become the "go-to* on your line of business.
Build it and they will come (with the right SEO, SEM, meta-tags, webcode and patience)!
Have fun in biz or at work or it's just not worth it.
The winning mindset. Mindset is much of "The Secret"
Plug into trends and hot topics. Become part of the pop culture discussion!
Disrupt the market, unique selling points and solutions,.and seize the day!
Box Office News
Not exactly a record setting week for the movie/theatre biz but the show must go on!
'Nun II' maintains top spot in North American box office for another weekend.
The Nun II is the top movie in North America for a second weekend, earning an extra $14.7 million in receipts, Box Office Mojo has announced.
A Haunting in Venice - $14.5 million #AHauntingInVenice
The Equalizer 3 - $7.2 million #TheEqualizer3
My Big Fat Greek Wedding - $4.7 million #MyBigFatGreekWedding3
Barbie - $4 million #BarbieTheMovie
Jawan - $2.49 million #Jawan
Blue Beetle - $2.48 million #BlueBeetle
Gran Turismo - $2.4 million #GranTurismoMovie
Oppenheimer - $2.1 million #Oppenheimer
Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles: Mutant Mayhem - $2 million #TeenageMutantNinjaTurtles
#TheNun2 #popculture #movienews #boxoffice #movieboxoffice #entertainment #entertainmentnews #showbiz #biz #media
SEL YouTube September 2023
SEL's Nicola on YouTube AI. Alphabet/YouTube is on a roll..More great AI developments.. YouTube Shorts are working a charm for us. Brand logos/images rule.. Improved AI for content, movie and streaming show subtitles and more.. YouTube is now in contention for our 'Social Media Platform Of The Month' awards based on pure merit. YouTube getting on the front foot before X Corp goes ballistic with X and "The Everything App"..Will Amazon Prime Video, Dailymotion and/or Rumble have a counter hold and strike back at this? Stay tuned for the ongoing "social media wars" as we call them. The customer (and YouTube wins).
SEJ Googles Search Relations September 2023
SEJ's Matt on domain names. Lots of considerations. All part of the branding experience and strategy. Many more elements to consider.. For example, we have a strong portfolio of names and websites and none of the names get old or out of date. The names from Media Man fit in with a wide array of matters, but it's obvious there's a strong news media perspective. Business and world conditions do change but news and media remains a staple of society and the web. Domain names and now websites remain very affordable so business entrepreneurs can take more risks without having to bet the ranch. Google Domains recently sold to Squarespace if you didn't hear already. That news broke approx 2 months ago. Keep spreading the risk, start spitfires and seize the day. Did we say be Google - Alphabet friendly? Yes, with the right amount of AI, X Corp, social media and so on. Trust the gut and use your head in the sometimes crazy world. Another winning number by Search Engine Journal.
SEL Prepare For Season September 2023
SEL's Jonathan on peak season (for many, but not all) business, goods, services and other sectors. The vast majority of businesses have high and low sectors. We work in and around sports, combat sports, ads/pr, pop culture and related. An advantage of not having a shopfront, warehouse etc etc is the cost saving as well as risk minimization..In addition online news and information based outfits can plug into and generate what is widely know as "evergreen content"..For eg, this rich history of boxing, pro wrestling and martial arts never gets old or out of date. Sports business, sports memorabilia, sports content streaming and such remain popular all year round. This type of content can help drive online based sales of boxing and MMA gloves, mouthguards, home gyms, sports DVDs, ring attire and even broadcasting equipment such as podcast kits, Google Cast and you get the picture. Having previously owned a restaurant I'm all too aware of the challenges faced by many more traditional type businesses. SEO continues to be of benefit to most sectors. We're even helping out many agencies and their clients and associates with this as folks know the importance of it all year round. Spread the risk with paid, organic and other. Win-Win-Win!
Wrestling With Energy. Cheers to Flair with a Woooooo and Jake Paul, the Prime Heel. Let's F Go!
Great news Sarah. At present I'm working from the home office alot. A telephone call. Linkedin/Google or Zoom chat and potential off the record and then on the record interview could be great. Potentially you interview myself, Then perhaps I interview you. I've been starting to look into how to record Zoom or Google Video chats/discussions. I'm only semi-technical, despite running a network of high traffic websites. Maybe a consultant project could be in order. Tuesday to Thursday 10am to 3pm are my best time windows at present. You could record the suitable part of our chat/interview, and then it could go in the portfolios for you, your company, and myself. That would be double news/exposure/reach etc etc. I'm only virtually every day at present, so you have my my draft schedule. Let's make it happen! : ) Cheers, Greg
Cage Fury Fighting Championships great action shots. Many fight fans also enjoyed much of the commentary and banter from CM Punk (Phil Brooks) and his broadcasting colleagues/ Great team effort. Plug earned.
Media Man: Under The Water Cooler
Sydney HQ.
Up to approx 30 degrees
Combat sports are red hot right now
WWE
@WWE
and UFC
@UFC
under TKO
@TKOGrp
banner as per NYSE
@NYSE
Wrestling Match Of The Decade wheels in motion for WrestleMania: Roman Reigns
@WWERomanReigns
vs Dwayne "The Rock" Johnson
@TheRock
John Cena
@JohnCena
and Johnson escape fallout from Hollywood writers strike!
MMA: The UFC Sean Strickland
@SStricklandMMA
era is here. Izzy has been advised by many to rest up, rethink his political allegiance and messaging with China. Will he ever live down the "Dog Day Afternoon" in Sydney, Australia! Pro MMA can be a dog eat dog business and SS's mind games got to "The Last Stylebender". Was the fight already lost for Izzy before the "Let's Fn Go"?
UFC Nucho in Mexico. Grasso vs Shevchenko. Draw says judges! Oops. Re-match next time on U.S soil?!
Hot Temp's In Sydney, Australia see pause on bush burn-offs likely for a few days as mini heatwave hits.
Water safety reminder: Beach, rockpools, anywhere around water.
Work/Biz/Life Balance: If working with screens/computers try 15 mins break from screen for every hour on. Protect eyes, head, well-being. A walk around the block and an extra glass of water can work wonders. Water and coffee in the office (but not too close to keyboards)!
Washington, USA: Political basketcases?! USA set for an authentic leader in office. Many of the most suitable candidates work in private enterprise? Too good for the Oval Office?! A bit like some in the land down under of Australia, but not quite as obvious.
New South Wales government of Australia scores big praise by Sydney, Australia sports loving fans. About 3 or so more UFC events to hit Sydney within the next 4 years.
PPV (Pay-Per-View) business models, offerings to get some revamp thanks to TKO (WWE and UFC) deal; What percentage of WWE fans also watch at least some UFC? A higher percentage than the amount of UFC fans who also watch some WWE! Not all exactly or speculative numbers are in the public domain and can we suggest some are hidden - at least in part. Back in the Optus Vision days we used to get our hands on much raw data, thanks to my old bosses and the marketing and PPV department. Many industries have trade secrets, much like the Google Algorithm or KFC's "eleven secret herbs and spices"!
Alt news and niche news finding audiences in Australia, US, Canada, Europe, while many in society has tuned out or largely turned off "TV News" and other "mainstream aka lamestream"; Sky News Australia
@SkyNewsAust
is an exception to the rule. Sky boasts an interaction with 11.1 million Aussie's each month. Multiplatform strategy works a charm, with quality and authentic journalism - funny about that hey!!! "Happy to help further spread the good and authentic news"..Anon journo type overheard around the watercooler.
24-hour News Cycle vs Always On via The Internet..
Too much news going on all the time? Part of the reason the Media Man Group often updates X
@X
(formally Twitter) and blogs such as Media Man Int Blogger and Media Man Blogger quicker than news going live to it's flagship websites. Evergreen content strategy works a treat as well as unique perspectives and some gonzo journalism type reporting seldom found in mainstream news. The Google Algorithm is friendly to this business model so it's a Win-Win-Win!
Yes, we are still taking on some select PR and advertising campaigns. Email is if you have something you want the world to know about. There's an old expression that goes something like, "If you have the money we have the time"!
Seriously, we love the once great craft of journalism. The decline of the industry is well documented.. Hat's off to the authentic journos who continue to scribe and sniff out a good story. Journos vs AI! That's a big rabbit hole ain't it.
Remember in this sometimes crazy world, Heath is wealth and time and energy are most valuable resources.
LinkedIn: For more professional (whatever that is anyway) scribes and media presentation check us out via LinkedIn. Greg Tingle, Founder and Director, Media Man Int and Media Man Australia. LI is a MM multi-time 'Social Media Platform Of The Month' winner and finalist (and so it Twitter, now X, right Elon Musk and Linda Yaccarino.
Thanks for stopping by Media Man. Beach to Bush Telegraph via The Internet Superhighway. Wrestling and surfin' the web and beyond. Seagulls and Kangaroos ahead!
Pro Wrestling
WWE @WWE Raw. September 18, 2023
Jey Uso @WWEUsos vs Drew McIntyre @DMcIntyreWWE
Dominik Mysterio @DomMysterio35 vs Cody Rhodes @CodyRhodes
Shinsuke Nakamura @ShinsukeN vs Ricochet @KingRicochet
#WWERAW #WWE #wrestling #prowrestling #TKO #combatsports #JeyUso #DrewMcIntyre #DirtyDom #CodyRhodes #ShinsukeNakamura #Ricochet #sportsnews #sportsbiz #entertainment #entertainmentnews #popculture #showbiz #USA #TV #broadcast #broadcasting #trends #trending #buzz #X #media
Pro Wrestling
WWE @WWE RAW: Results
Cody Rhodes def “Dirty” Dominik Mysterio
Kofi Kingston def Ivar
Shinsuke Nakamura def Ricochet
“Big” Bronson Reed def Chad Gable
Tommaso Ciampa def Giovanni Vinci
Drew McIntyre def Jey Uso
Shayna Baszler and Zoey Stark vs Piper Niven and Chelsea Green - No contest
Becky Lynch def Natalya - NXT @WWENXT Women's Title
#WWERAW #WWE #wrestling #prowrestling #WWENXT #TKO #combatsports #JeyUso #DrewMcIntyre #DirtyDom #CodyRhodes #ShinsukeNakamura #Ricochet #sportsnews #sportsbiz #entertainment #entertainmentnews #popculture #showbiz #USA #TV #broadcast #broadcasting #trends #trending #buzz #X #media
WWE NXT @WWENXT September 19, 2023
Carmelo Hayes (NXT Champion) @Carmelo_WWE vs Dominik Mysterio @DomMysterio35 (North American Champion)
Roxanne Perez vs Lola Vice
Tyler Bate vs Butch
Joe Coffey vs Duke Hudson
Special Apperance: Becky Lynch @BeckyLynchWWE , NXT Women's Champion
and behind the scenes scoops. The stories behind the matches!
#WWENXT #NXT #wrestling #prowrestling #wrestling #prowrestling #combatsports #sportsnews #entertainment #popculture #TV #broadcast #broadcasting #trend #trends #buzz #media
FITE Twitter
What do you dream about? AEW @AEW WrestleDream on October 1, 2023. Real life pro wrestling dream matches become reality! #AEWWrestleDream #FITE
Pro Wrestling
WWE NXT @WWENXT September 19, 2023
Butch def Tyler Bate - NXT Global Heritage Invitational
Roxanne Perez def Lola Vice
Duke Hudson def Joe Coffey - NXT Global Heritage Invitational
Carmelo Hayes vs “Dirty” Dominik Mysterio. No contest!
Joe Coffey def Nathan Frazer & Duke Hudson - NXT Global Heritage Invitational Triple Threat Match
Becky Lynch & Lyra Valkyria def Kiana James & Tiffany Stratton
#prowrestling #WWENXT #NXT #wrestling #wrestlingresults #wrestlingnews #combatsports #sportsnews #sportsentertainment #popculture #entertainment #entertainmentnews #showbiz #TV #trend #trending #buzz #media
MMA / UFC @UFC News
Nevada State Athletic Commision planning to take action following controversial 10-8 scorecard in Alexa Grasso vs Valentina Shevchenko bout, part of 'Noche'
Headlining the event was a flyweight title fight between current champion Alexa Grasso (16-3 MMA) and Valentina Shevchenko (23-4 MMA). The somewhat controversial ruling at the outcome of the bout was a split draw!
Some insiders and hardcore fans pointed the finger at Mike Bell who ultimately was unable to find a winner, thereby causing the draw.
The result of the high profile match has attracted heat and a critcal eye from fighters and fans alike.
The NSAC (Nevada State Athletic Commission), in the aftermatch of the decision, is going to hold a refresher session for licensed judges.
It was well known sports reporter Ariel Helwani who broke the news on ‘X‘ @X (formally Twitter) with:
“Nevada State Athletic Commission will be holding a special 10-8 training session for all licensed judges on Wednesday, I’m told. Of course, this is in light of Saturday’s scorecard controversy.”
While the NSAC has not issued a public statement concerning the controversial scorecard, it appears that they are taking the 10-8 criteria seriously.
The 10-8 criteria written into the Unified Rules of MMA, can be seen below:
“A score of 10-8 does not require a fighter to dominate their opponent for 5 minutes of a round. The score of 10-8 is utilized by the judge when the judge sees verifiable actions on the part of either fighter. Judges shall ALWAYS give a score of 10-8 when the judge has established that one fighter has dominated the action of the round, had duration of the domination and also impacted their opponent with either effective strikes or effective grappling maneuvers that have diminished the abilities of their opponent.”
“Judges must CONSIDER giving the score of 10–8 when a fighter shows dominance in the round even though no impactful scoring against the opponent was achieved. MMA is an offensive based sport. No scoring is given for defensive maneuvers. Using smart, tactically sound defensive maneuvers allows the fighter to stay in the fight and to be competitive. Dominance of a round can be seen in striking when the losing fighter continually attempts to defend, with no counters or reaction taken when openings present themselves. Dominance in the grappling phase can be seen by fighters taking DOMINANT POSITIONS in the fight and utilizing those positions to attempt fight ending submissions or attacks. If a fighter has little to no offensive output during a 5 minute round, it should be normal for the judge to consider awarding the losing fighter 8 points instead of 9.”
“Judges must CONSIDER giving the score of 10–8 when a fighter IMPACTS their opponent significantly in a round even though they do not dominate the action. Effectiveness in striking or grappling which leads to a diminishing of a fighter’s energy, confidence, abilities and spirit. All of these come as a direct result of negative impact. When a fighter is hurt with strikes, showing a lack of control or ability, these can be defining moments in the fight. If a judge sees that a fighter has been significantly damaged in the round the judge should CONSIDER the score of 10–8.”
X remains one of the most popular social media platforms across the globe for the combat sports and pop culture sector, with many in and around mixed martial arts and pro wrestling making X they're first port of call due to its "non woke" and pro freedom of speech approch. Numerous other social media platforms have unfairly applied censorship over the combat sports sector, as well as targeting the health and well-being, medical and political news arenas. X won over the industry for social media news.
Now, the combat sports world awaits the update from the NSAC probe! Gonzo: Not So Accussing Clutz! Word Life/World Play as per wrestling legend John Cena, who is signed to the WWE, part of TKO, as is the UFC officially, as of last week. History was made in, around and outside of the Octagon, even up to the New York Stock Exchange. Will history repeat? They used to say "That's Boxing", now its a bit like, "That's MMA when there's a home turf advantage". Part satire and part gonzo, part authentic. Up to interpretation - the art of the deal! May the best man/woman win.
#UFCNoche #NocheUFC #UFC #ufcwomen #Grasso #Shevchenko #MMA #combatsports #fighting #wrestling #NSAC #femmes #sportsnews #sportsbiz #entertainment #entertainmentnews #PPV #payperview #biz #trend #trends #buzz #media
"It is fascinating (WWE-UFC merger). It will be interesting to see what happens in the world of sports, combat sports, and pro wrestling. I love pro wrestling, it’s an amazing business. I think there are a lot of really exciting things happening with sports media rights" - Tony Khan, All Elite Wrestling @AEW #TonyKhan #quote #AEW #AllEliteWrestling #wrestling #prowrestling #sports #combatsports #sportsmedia #mediarights #broadcast #broadcasting #sportsbiz #sportsnews #sportsmedia #mediabiz #media
Pro Wrestling
“Well, Jade had a great match on Friday night on AEW Rampage and it was a great match against Kris Statlander. Kris Statlander retained the TBS Championship on Rampage on Friday night and I thought that was a great match. Definitely one of the best matches I’ve seen either of them have. And I thought a really great main event for the show.”
“As far as Jade goes, I can’t really comment on that except to say that Jade’s been a great wrestler for AEW and certainly [is] always welcome in AEW. You know, could always be somebody we would always love to work with here in AEW.” - Tony Khan, All Elite Wrestling @AEW
#TonyKhan #quote #AEW #AllEliteWrestling #JadeCargill #wrestling #prowrestling #KrisStatlander #TBS #TBSChampionship #dreammatch #dreammatches #mainevent #promoter #wrestlingpromoter #combatsports #sportsbiz #sportsnews #entertainment #entertainmentnews #popculture #biz #media
SEL's Nicola on Google quietly rising prices. Yes we noticed. What can happen is customers get hooked and get in too deep to get out. Google are not the first, nor will they be the last to move into this grey and murky territory. Over a decade ago we were helping out folks whose Facebook ad campaigns got out of control and what a headache that was. Back then Facebook has more real people working in the online advertising department also. It's called big tech for a reason folks. Enter The Matrix at own risk folks. Once bitten, twice shy. Three times not a charm. Aw well, once can always cancel, but good luck with that. Google it!
SEL's Amy on the virtual casino er I mean Google online ad based mouse trap. Yes, much like a casino, the house (almost) always wins (unless the punters er customers go elsewhere). We enjoy a love -hate relationship with Alphabet's Google. I fine most times they provide quality..Their Algorithm loves our network and projects so we love them back..99 percent of the time organic results beat paid we find and also a good spread of evergreen content works a charm, especially in and around pop culture, combat sports and the like. Knowledge is power. Don't be manipulated! Or, if you are, at least you realize something isn't quite right. The battle between Man/human vs machine continues..Humans for the win!
JohnWallStreet
Hypersonic Air Travel..Sounds sexy but it can also be a practical solution for those who work in and around the pro sports and live sports and entertainment sector. You can't be everywhere at once - not even with a holographic, so here's the next best thing - at a price. Next to perfect perhaps for high level UFC, WWE, PFL and NFL executives and players. Must fly quick..off to Dubai again via Sydney..No time to waste says Sydney media owner. UAE fast and even faster,.as the crow flys..Fast. Faster. Fastest as per sports documentaries and beyond the sound of speed..Hyper pumped sports biz media.
SEJ Google Off The Record podcast September 2023
SEJ's Matt with findings analysis as per Google Search 'Off The Record' with John Mueller and Gary Illyes. Takeaways include keep adding quality content to websites, remove poor quality,. follow Google guidelines/policy, don't do anything not ethical, be the authority, expert.and go-to in your field, stay up-to-date with trends and developments and connect with the audience while having consisting of content matching with business purposes. "Everything that gets less than 7 clicks" - change/improve or remove. "No gibberish" - ie "like if a cat ran over the keyboard". "People are looking for these sites anyway, regardless of what we are doing" "You see a blog post about SEO and then that blog post in linking to search engine.. that is a good hint that X dotcom may be imporant". "Can be really helpful about.. getting index.. people are linking to these sites". "We don't disclose what individual content". "Don't duplicate"
"If you have actually reviewed, like the potato peeler, that's helpful"
"Potato Pellets dotcom. Why would we index that?"
"We review translation and we see things"! "You can always improve the site and get out of the crawling jail" "If you have a site like X, it's very hard to figure out what are the pages that are lower quality". Now setting aside time to listen to the entire podcast. Update: now on second listening to help make sure it sinks in. Media, no cat mess here folks!. Thanks SEJ and Google
SEJ's Matt with findings analysis as per Google Search 'Off The Record' with John Mueller and Gary Illyes. Takeaways include keep adding quality content to websites, remove poor quality, follow Google guidelines/policy, don't do anything not ethical, be the authority, expert, and go-to in your field, stay up-to-date with trends and developments and connect with the audience while having consistency of content matching with biz purposes. "Everything that gets less than 7 clicks" - change/improve or remove. "No gibberish" - ie "like if a cat ran over the keyboard". "People are looking for these sites anyway, regardless of what we are doing" "You see a blog post about SEO and then that blog post in linking to search engine.. that is a good hint that X dotcom may be imporant". "Can be really helpful about.. getting index.. people are linking to these sites". "We don't disclose what individual content". "Don't duplicate""If you have actually reviewed, like the potato peeler, that's helpful". "Potato Pellets dotcom. Why would we index that?"
"We review translation and we see things"! "You can always improve the site and get out of the crawling jail" "If you have a site like X, it's very hard to figure out what are the pages that are lower quality". Now setting aside time to listen to the entire podcast. Update: now on second listening to help make sure it sinks in. Media, no cat mess here folks!
SEL Twitter X September 2023
SEL's Nicola on Meta's Verified. No prizes for where they got that idea from hey! Old quote: "There's hardly an original idea left in the world". Now published on X @X (formally Twitter). Social media friendly wars continue. All good fodder for those who work in and around the sector. Got to fill up those webpages and social media channels with something. X marks the spot for instant news #SEL #meta #metaverified #verified
Search Engine and Website News and Tips
Google Search @googlesearchc 'Off The Record' with John Mueller and Gary Illyes
Takeaways include keep adding quality content to websites, remove poor quality, follow Google @google guidelines/policy, don't do anything not ethical, be the authority, expert, and go-to in your field, stay up-to-date with trends and developments and connect with the audience while having consistency of content matching with biz purposes.
"Everything that gets less than 7 clicks" - change/improve or remove.
"No gibberish" - ie "like if a cat ran over the keyboard". "People are looking for these sites anyway, regardless of what we are doing"
"You see a blog post about SEO and then that blog post in linking to search engine.. that is a good hint that X dotcom may be imporant".
"Can be really helpful about.. getting index.. people are linking to these sites".
"We don't disclose what individual content".
"Don't duplicate"
"If you have actually reviewed, like the potato peeler, that's helpful". "Potato Peeler dotcom. Why would we index that?"
"We review translation and we see things"!
"You can always improve the site and get out of the crawling jail"
"If you have a site like X, it's very hard to figure out what are the pages that are lower quality"
#googlesearch #googlesearchoftherecord #OfftheRecord #searchengine #seotips #googlepodcast #podcastofthemonth #searchpodcast #seo #sem #searchenginemarketing #content #contenttips #contentnews #websites #index #crawl #crawler #inded #indexed #webdev #quality #reviews #performance #results #onlinemarketing #onlinenews #technews #webbiz #media
Combat Sports / UFC @UFC News
Former UFC Middleweight Champion Israel "The Last Stylebender" Adesanya quotes via YouTube
“That just felt like a bad dream”. “Feeling it, and seeing it are completely different. I called Eugene [Bareman] right afterwards and we talked, same thing, we’re quietly confident. [The fight was] surprisingly fast. I didn’t even know it was the last round, I was like ‘This is the last round? *uck’. I was like okay, vamanos, I needed to do something.”
“It was just the way I felt in the fight, it wasn’t, eh. It was eh. It was also the way he worked. He never let me get into my rhythm at all… Just wasn’t able to get my rhythm because of his pressure, he was right there constantly. Whenever I was setting him up, because he’s right there, his coach would help him and I’d just be like ‘*uck’.”
“It was just a good gameplan from their end. For me, I wasn’t able to adjust on the fly.”
“The belt’s never mattered to me. I mean, it does obviously, but how many times have I said it’s just a fancy tiara that brings more money and this and that, rah, rah, rah".
“One of those where you, not even a nightmare. A nightmare is like, ‘Oh *hit. *uck.’ A nightmare, you’re scared. I was just like, you try to hit the guy, and it just felt like noodle arms. Like, ‘What the *uck.’ It just felt like a bad dream. Feeling it and watching it were completely different. I called Eugene (Bareman) right after and we talked and the same thing. We’re quietly confident.”
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Israel Adesanya Breaks His Silence After Loss To Sean Strickland at UFC 293
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Sydney casino sale off the cards as Star reports $2.4b loss
Star Entertainment Group chief executive Robbie Cooke says the embattled wagering operator is no longer planning to offload its flagship Sydney casino, claiming the business is in a more viable position.
Mr Cooke assured Star was in a better position to ride the wave of weak consumer discretionary spending and hefty regulatory penalties as he reaffirmed a commitment made to the NSW government to maintain headcount at the Pyrmont casino in exchange for a tax breather.
“When [former NSW treasurer] Matt Kean proposed the increase in our casino duty ... it was set at a level which just put the business in a non-viable position. Back then we were facing the need to do a strategic review of the Sydney operation”.
Mr Cooke said the damage to the company’s social licence was felt by team members but assured investors the business was stabilising despite the high level of regulatory uncertainty. “We’re seeing a consistency in performance,” he said, flagging the return of complimentary drinks to VIP members.
“We are hopeful the reintroduction of complimentary drinks ... does bring back an uplift in some business as it attracts more people to our private gaming rooms”.
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WWE returns to Australia with Elimination Chamber: Perth
WWE, a TKO Group Holdings company, in partnership with the Western Australian Government through Tourism Western Australia, today announced its long-awaited return to Australia for a globally televised Premium Live Event (PLE). WWE Elimination Chamber: Perth will take place at Optus Stadium in Perth, Western Australia, on Saturday, February 24, 2024. This will mark WWE’s first event in Australia since 2018 and the only PLE in the Asia-Pacific region in 2024.
Fans across the globe interested in an exclusive presale opportunity can register now at www.wwe.com/au2024-presale
Located in the heart of Perth, the capital of Western Australia – a famed travel destination with a globally renowned record in hosting cultural and sporting events – the multi-purpose world-class Optus Stadium opened in 2018 and has hosted a multitude of sports and entertainment events including the Australian Football League Grand Final, State of Origin, Ed Sheeran’s ‘¸’ tour, Taylor Swift’s ‘Reputation’ tour, Eminem’s ‘Rapture’ tour, U2’s ‘Joshua Tree’ tour, the Red Hot Chili Peppers and the upcoming Australian-exclusive Coldplay ‘Music of the Spheres’ tour.
“Perth is the perfect location for a major WWE Premium Live Event in Australia, following a series of record-breaking WWE events in iconic international destinations,” said WWE Senior Vice President Chris Legentil. “With a week full of WWE events and experiences, we hope to leave a lasting memory for Western Australia and the entire WWE Universe.”
“Hosting WWE in Perth is a real coup for our state as it will shine a global spotlight on Western Australia to billions of viewers worldwide, attract thousands of out-of-state visitors to WA and create an incredible atmosphere in the city for the local community and visitors alike,” said the Hon. Rita Saffioti MLA, Western Australia’s Deputy Premier and Minister for Tourism. “The WA Government, through Tourism WA, is proud to support this exclusive event that will generate millions of dollars for the local economy and highlight WA as a world-class events destination. I encourage everyone to Western Australia for WWE to extend their trip to explore more of our wondrous state as part of this once in a lifetime opportunity.”
Commenting on the historic announcement, WWE Women’s World Champion and Australian native Rhea Ripley said: “I’m beyond proud to represent Australia every single time I step inside a WWE ring and to bring a Premium Live Event to Perth is a dream come true. Get ready Australia, because Mami is coming home.”
The 2023 WWE Elimination Chamber from the Bell Centre in Montreal broke multiple company records. Viewership of the event saw a 54 percent increase versus the prior record set in 2022. It also marked new high points for gate, merchandise and sponsorship.
WWE Elimination Chamber: Perth will be broadcast live in approximately 165 countries in 25 languages and seen in more than 1 billion homes. Information regarding general ticket onsale and further event updates will be available in the coming weeks.
Additionally, Priority Pass ticket packages will soon be available from On Location, offering fans the chance to be ringside for every exhilarating moment including premium seating, pre-show hospitality with WWE Superstar appearances, ringside photo opportunities, exclusive merchandise and more. Starting today, fans can place a deposit to secure access ahead of the general public. To learn more about Priority Passes or to place a deposit, please visit
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To learn more about travel package opportunities and place a deposit on a trip to Perth, please visit Sportsnet Holidays at www.sportsnetholidays.com/wwe-elimination-chamber-perth
For more information, stick with WWE.com or visit www.westernaustralia.com
WWE and Tourism Western Australia acknowledge the traditional custodians throughout Western Australia and their continuing connection to the land, waters and culture. We pay our respects to all Aboriginal peoples; Elders past, present and emerging.
(Source: WWE)
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Rupert Murdoch to step down as chair of News Corp and Fox
The Australian-born media tycoon has announced he will step down from News Corp and Fox and hand over the reins to his son, Lachlan.
Rupert Murdoch has announced he will step down from his leadership roles at News Corporation and Fox after a seven-decade career.
The Australian-born media tycoon, who began his career at an Adelaide newspaper, will hand over the reins to his eldest son, Lachlan Murdoch.
Lachlan will become sole chair of News Corp and continue as executive chair and chief executive officer of Fox Corporation.
Mr Murdoch, 92, will remain as chairman of both companies until November, leaving after the firms’ respective annual general meetings. He will then take on the role of chairman emeritus.
“For my entire professional life, I have been engaged daily with news and ideas, and that will not change,” Mr Murdoch said in a memo to all staff.
“But the time is right for me to take on different roles, knowing that we have truly talented teams and a passionate, principled leader in Lachlan who will become sole chairman of both companies.”
Mr Murdoch said he was leaving both firms in “robust health”. He called his successor a “passionate, principled leader”.
Lachlan Murdoch praised his father’s “remarkable 70-year career,” and congratulated him on “the enduring legacy he leaves to the companies he founded”.
From Adelaide to NYC
Mr Murdoch, a Melburnian, got his start in the media when he took over the running of Adelaide tabloid newspaper The News following the death of his father Sir Keith Murdoch in 1952.
His successful turnaround of The News laid the foundation of the modern News Corporation and Fox.
Under Mr Murdoch, the business expanded across Australia, buying up newspapers in major capital cities. The Australian broadsheet was launched in 1964.
In the 1960s, News Corp entered the US and UK markets, becoming one of the globe’s most influential media organisations.
Along the way News picked up one of Hollywood’s biggest film studios, 20th Century Fox, before its sale in 2019.
Its Fox television network created global hits including The X Files and The Simpsons.
The company split in 2012, forming the current News Corporation and what would eventually be known as Fox Corp. Mr Murdoch remained as chairman of both separately listed companies.
In Australia, News Corp owns news.com.au along with titles including The Daily Telegraph, Herald Sun and Sky News as well as a majority share in Foxtel. Overseas, The Sun, The Times, Wall Street Journal and New York Post newspapers, Harper Collins books and Fox News all come under firms Mr Murdoch helms.
He has been awarded the Companion of the Order of Australia for services to the media and to newspaper publishing.
‘Truly proud’
In his memo to staff, Mr Murdoch said he was “truly proud of what we have achieved collectively through the decades”.
“I owe much to my colleagues, whose contributions to our success have sometimes been unseen outside the company but are deeply appreciated by me,” he said.
“Whether the truck drivers distributing our papers, the cleaners who toil when we have left the office, the assistants who support us or the skilled operators behind the cameras or the computer code, we would be less successful and have less positive impact on society without your day-after-day dedication.’
Mr Murdoch added that “our companies are in robust health, as am I”.
“Our opportunities far exceed our commercial challenges. We have every reason to be optimistic about the coming years – I certainly am, and plan to be here to participate in them.”
However, he sounded a note of caution about free speech.
“The battle for the freedom of speech and, ultimately, the freedom of thought, has never been more intense.
“My father firmly believed in freedom, and Lachlan is absolutely committed to the cause.
“Self-serving bureaucracies are seeking to silence those who would question their provenance and purpose.
“Elites have open contempt for those who are not members of their rarefied class. Most of the media is in cahoots with those elites, peddling political narratives rather than pursuing the truth.”
‘Remarkable 70-year career’
Mr Murdoch said, in his “new role”, he would still be involved every day in “the contest of ideas”.
“Our companies are communities, and I will be an active member of our community,” he wrote. “I will be watching our broadcasts with a critical eye, reading our newspapers and websites and books with much interest, and reaching out to you with thoughts, ideas, and advice. When I visit your countries and companies, you can expect to see me in the office late on a Friday afternoon.”
Lachlan Murdoch congratulated his father on his “remarkable 70-year career”.
“We thank him for his vision, his pioneering spirit, his steadfast determination, and the enduring legacy he leaves to the companies he founded and countless people he has impacted,” he wrote in a statement.
“We are grateful that he will serve as chairman emeritus and know he will continue to provide valued counsel to both companies.”
Rupert Murdoch announces transition to new role of Chairman Emeritus of Fox Corporation and News Corp.
'For my entire professional life, I have been engaged daily with news and ideas, and that will not change'
Media mogul Rupert Murdoch is transitioning from his roles as Chair of Fox Corporation and Executive Chairman of News Corp, he announced on Thursday.
Murdoch, 92, informed colleagues in a letter Thursday of his decision, noting he was in good health. He will officially make the transition in November, and his son Lachlan will become the sole chairman of both companies.
"I am writing to let you all know that I have decided to transition to the role of Chairman Emeritus at Fox and News," Murdoch wrote. "For my entire professional life, I have been engaged daily with news and ideas, and that will not change. But the time is right for me to take on different roles, knowing that we have truly talented teams and a passionate, principled leader in Lachlan who will become sole Chairman of both companies. Neither excessive pride nor false humility are admirable qualities. But I am truly proud of what we have achieved collectively through the decades, and I owe much to my colleagues, whose contributions to our success have sometimes been unseen outside the company but are deeply appreciated by me.
"Whether the truck drivers distributing our papers, the cleaners who toil when we have left the office, the assistants who support us or the skilled operators behind the cameras or the computer code, we would be less successful and have less positive impact on society without your day-after-day dedication. Our companies are in robust health, as am I. Our opportunities far exceed our commercial challenges. We have every reason to be optimistic about the coming years — I certainly am, and plan to be here to participate in them."
Murdoch went on to say the battle over freedom of speech and freedom of thought had never been more intense, and he said his family remained firmly committed to that cause. He criticized both contemptuous elites and the media in "cahoots" with them for pushing narratives rather than seeking the truth.
"In my new role, I can guarantee you that I will be involved every day in the contest of ideas," he wrote.
Lachlan Murdoch released an announcement congratulating his father and the legacy he’s left at his enormously influential companies.
"On behalf of the FOX and News Corp boards of directors, leadership teams, and all the shareholders who have benefited from his hard work, I congratulate my father on his remarkable 70-year career," said Lachlan Murdoch. "We thank him for his vision, his pioneering spirit, his steadfast determination, and the enduring legacy he leaves to the companies he founded and countless people he has impacted. We are grateful that he will serve as Chairman Emeritus and know he will continue to provide valued counsel to both companies."
Murdoch’s media empire includes FOX News Channel, which launched in 1996 under News Corp and quickly established itself as a leader in 24-hour news coverage. It recently celebrated its 25th anniversary and has consistently dominated its competition in the ratings, becoming one of the most influential and closely watched news sources in the world.
Murdoch was Executive Chairman of 21st Century Fox from 2015 to the closing of the merger of 21st Century Fox and The Walt Disney Company in March 2019. Murdoch served as CEO of 21st Century Fox from its inception as News Corporation in 1979 until 2015 and as its Chairman from 1991 to 2015.
Murdoch’s career has leaped continents as he’s put his stamp on the entire globe.
In 1954 in his mid-20s, Murdoch took control of News Limited, a public corporation based in his home nation of Australia and previously run by his father, Sir Keith Murdoch. From there, his company bought and founded Australian newspapers and then looked internationally, gaining control of the U.K.'s News of the World and The Sun in 1969, and subsequently buying several U.S. publications, including the New York Post and The Village Voice.
In 1980, News Corporation was established to consolidate international operations of its growing roster of newspapers, magazines and television assets. By 1985, Murdoch took ownership of Twentieth Century Fox as well as some regional television stations in some major U.S. markets.
The FOX Broadcasting company was launched in 1986, and by 1996, FOX Sports was a smashing success and FOX Network had become the top-ranked television group in the country.
In 2019, led by Mr. Murdoch, Fox Corporation was launched as a standalone, publicly traded company following the separation of 21st Century Fox in a deal that yet again redefined the U.S. media landscape. As Fox Corporation, the company produces and distributes content through such brands as FOX News Media, FOX Sports, FOX Entertainment, FOX Television Stations and Tubi Media Group.
Murdoch has been awarded the Companion of the Order of Australia (A.C.) for services to the media and to newspaper publishing in particular. In 2014, he was inducted into the Television Academy Hall of Fame. He and his family have made contributions to various educational, cultural, and medical charitable organizations throughout the U.S., the U.K., Australia, Asia and Israel.
High Stakes of company name
Two stars of Australia’s new economy – the similarly named share trading platform Stake and online cryptocurrency casino juggernaut stake.com – are locked in a life-or-death court battle over naming rights amid growing concerns the gambling outfit has major plans for its home country.
Stake the share platform launched legal action in the Federal Court in August seeking to enforce its trademarks and stop stake.com, a multibillion-dollar enterprise, from using that name for its business in Australia.
The fast-growing Sydney-based share trading platform, the third-largest broker in the country, alleges that the casino group stake.com has been breaking Australian consumer law and has misled consumers through the use of its brand in Australia and its marketing, including its sponsorship of the Alfa Romeo team and the sale of apparel.
Stake the share trading platform, which owns the URL stake.com.au, alleges stake.com’s use of the name in Australia has potentially led to consumers believing the two brands are related when they are not.
The share trading platform Stake, founded in 2017 by entrepreneurs Dan Silver and Matt Leibowitz, alleges there is a threat that more consumers could be misled if stake.com is allowed to continue with its plans to grow its business significantly in Australia under the brand name Stake.
The casino group, led by Melbourne-based twenty-somethings billionaires Ed Craven and Bijan Tehrani, is expected to seek to have the matter summarily dismissed.
A spokesperson for stake.com said: “We are aware of a frivolous claim lodged in the Federal Court by Stakeshop, which in part claims that our global Formula One team sponsorship impinges on their ability to sell trucker hats.”
“We are proud of the global stake.com brand. As a group, we abide by the laws of the countries in which we operate, and do not offer our stake.com platform to Australian customers. We believe the claim has no legal merit and will vigorously defend our rights.”
The court case has shed new light on stake.com’s expansion plans for Australia, where it remains blocked to Australian users.
Court documents reveal the casino group has sought to buy the stake.com.au website from the sharemarket trading platform business. According to the court documents, the casino group has also registered several Australian website domains for its Australian expansion and applied to register a slew of trademarks including Stake Australia, Stake Bet and Stake Casino.
The Federal Court action comes after years of simmering tensions between the two groups over the use of stake.com’s name in Australia.
Stake.com was established in 2017 but flew under the radar in Australia until late 2021, when this masthead revealed the local origins of the business that had grown to be one of world’s largest online casinos, processing hundreds of billions of bets on sports, virtual table games and online slot machines.
In early 2022, stake.com signed hip-hop megastar Drake as its lead ambassador. Later in 2022 it signed a multi-year deal to become lead jersey sponsor for English Premier League team Everton FC as well as its sponsorship of Alfa Romeo’s F1 team.
The significant increase in stake.com’s marketing and media presence was noticed at the share trading platform group that built its user base during the COVID-inspired boom in Gen Y and Gen Z investors, thanks in part to its ultra-low cost brokerage fee model, savvy marketing and the broadening into other financial services including a superannuation product.
A spokesman for Stake the share trading platform said that since the group was founded in Australia it had built a client base of more than 500,000 and more than $2.5 billion in assets under management.
“Over the past six years, we have established a trusted and culturally relevant Australian brand that reflects our dedication to meeting customer needs. It permeates all parts of our business, spanning products, content, internal culture, customer interactions and much more, making it our most valuable asset. We are committed to protecting the Stake brand and the high level of consumer trust associated with it,” the spokesman said.
“We are concerned by the threatened use of the Stake brand in Australia by stake.com in relation to gambling, casino and sports betting services, due to the potential for customer confusion and damage to our brand and reputation.”
Stake.com is not available in Australia but according to court documents, the group is already making arrangements for a major expansion in this country and is seeking a sports betting licence.
In October 2022, stake.com casino executive Brais Pena Sanchez contacted Stake share trading founder Silver on LinkedIn and arranged a video conference meeting where the pair discussed Stake the share platform selling its Australian URL, stake.com.au, to the Curacao-registered, Australian-operated casino group.
During those discussions, Sanchez – the casino group’s chief strategy officer – informed Silver that stake.com planned to launch in Australia under the name Stakebet, or similar, according to court documents. A deal never ensued and the website remains owned by the share trading platform.
Tensions flared again in early 2023 after stake.com the casino was announced as the new team sponsor for Formula 1 team Alfa Romeo, sparking a flurry of legal letters between the two groups ahead of the Melbourne race.
According to the court documents, the casino group’s lawyers assured the share trading Stake that it would not use its logo in conjunction with the Melbourne Grand Prix and did not intend to display the name on any vehicles or uniforms or as part of the Alfa Romeo team name.
However, the share trading Stake alleges that during the four days of the Grand Prix, Stake casino logos appeared on banners for official team merchandise, the team display and on signs at the event and in the race program.
In May, Stake.com was applying to register a large number of new trademarks for goods and services. This included Stake Australia, Stake Bookie, Stake Betting, Stake Gaming, Stake Esports, Stake Casino, Stake Sportsbook, Stake Bet, Stake Punt, Stake Sports, Stake Pokes and Stake Slots.
The casino group has also registered a series of Australian website names under the “.au” domain including stakebet.au; stakecasino.au, stakesports.au and playstake.au.
The case continues.
Expend4bles @expendables
A new generation of stars join the world’s top action stars for an adrenaline-fueled adventure in Expend4bles.
Reuniting as the team of elite mercenaries, Jason Statham, Dolph Lundgren, Randy Couture, and Sylvester Stallone are joined for the first time by Curtis “50 Cent” Jackson, Megan Fox, Tony Jaa, Iko Uwais, Jacob Scipio, Levy Tran, and Andy Garcia. Armed with every weapon they can get their hands on and the skills to use them, The Expendables are the world’s last line of defense and the team that gets called when all other options are off the table. But new team members with new styles and tactics are going to give “new blood” a whole new meaning.
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JASON STATHAM
SYLVESTER STALLONE
CURTIS “50 CENT” JACKSON
MEGAN FOX
DOLPH LUNDGREN
TONY JAA
IKO IWAIS
RANDY COUTURE
JACOB SCIPIO
LEVY TRAN
with ANDY GARCIA
A new generation of stars join the world’s top action stars for an adrenaline-fueled adventure in Expend4bles. Reuniting as the team of elite mercenaries, Jason Statham, Dolph Lundgren, Randy Couture, and Sylvester Stallone are joined for the first time by Curtis “50 Cent” Jackson, Megan Fox, Tony Jaa, Iko Uwais, Jacob Scipio, Levy Tran, and Andy Garcia. Armed with every weapon they can get their hands on and the skills to use them, The Expendables are the world’s last line of defense and the team that gets called when all other options are off the table. But new team members with new styles and tactics are going to give “new blood” a whole new meaning.
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EXPEND4BLES (2023) Official Clip 'Jumbo Shrimp' - Jason Statham, Sylvester Stallone
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Make no mistake, Rupert Murdoch will still be calling the shots
Rupert Murdoch may have technically stepped back from running the media empire he built over many decades, but don’t be fooled by his new title of chairman “emeritus” of News Corp and Fox – an honorary title typically retained after retirement from academia – he will still be calling the shots.
Rupert made that clear with the statement that he will continue to “be involved every day in the contest of ideas” despite – technically – retiring from the board of both companies. What the announcement does do is embed his chosen heir, Lachlan Murdoch, as the undisputed successor.
But as Rupert draws even closer to the end of his reign as the most influential media figure the world has ever seen, he cannot escape the karmic irony that will emerge from his family’s own succession battle when he does die: the man who has anointed prime ministers and presidents on both sides of the Atlantic will not control the fate of his own family business.
News Corp has been asked if Rupert can still attend board meetings in this role as chairman emeritus, and if there is any boardroom business he will now be precluded from attending.
The announcement only underlines how he hopes his family’s succession drama will end. Lachlan has been on prominent display all year – starting from when plans to merge the two arms of the media empire, Fox Corp and News Corp, fell apart.
“As you know, my father and I reached the conclusion that exploring a combination with News Corp is not optimal for shareholders of Fox or News Corp at this time,” Lachlan told the market in February.
Fellow investors turned up their noses at a deal that many felt was designed to do nothing more than consolidate Lachlan’s control of the family business.
The family has gotten used to running the two businesses, with a combined market capitalisation of about $US27 billion ($42 billion), as their personal fiefdom despite owning a minority stake in both.
Murdoch’s control of the super shares that dominate voting rights at both Fox and News Corp gives the family about 40 per cent of votes despite owning just 14 per cent of each.
Rupert’s determination to maintain an iron grip on the group by means fair and foul may have been triggered by the precariousness of his own control of the family’s holding.
From the time he took control in 1952 until the early 1990s, Rupert effectively shared control of the family stake with three sisters; Helen, Anne and Janet. They had equal shares of the business alongside Rupert but effectively deferred control to their brother.
In the 1990s, Rupert succeeded in finally gaining control with a deal to buy out his own siblings.
But control of the voting rights is only in Lachlan and Rupert’s hands while the family patriarch is alive.
Ironically, the heir apparent has his mother to thank for this fact.
Trouble emerged in April 1998, when Rupert ended his 30-year marriage to Anna Murdoch to pursue his new love interest, Wendy Deng.
A furious Anna took her time in reaching a settlement with Rupert that could have, technically at least, given her half of his multibillion-dollar fortune under California law.
With potentially new heirs on the horizon, Anna played the long game on behalf of her three children and stepdaughter Prudence – as she revealed to the Australian Women’s Weekly in a rare interview in February 2000.
“I’m very comfortable and my children are protected and that was really what I was most anxious about – that my children and their inheritance would be protected. And that’s what took so long – between the separation and the divorce – to get that right,” she said.
The trusts that guard the Murdoch family’s control of the media empire are shrouded in secrecy, but enough details have emerged to shape the bargain that was made between the warring husband and wife.
The four adult children were given equal votes via representatives on the board of the trust that control the Murdoch family shares.
Rupert had equal votes to the children, but the changes meant he no longer rules unencumbered.
In a 2006 interview on the Charlie Rose talk show, Murdoch, a spry 75-year-old at that time, confirmed for the first time that his older children would control the company’s future when he dies.
“It’s really up to them,” he told Rose. “If I go under a bus tomorrow, it will be the four of them who will have to decide which one should lead.”
The only challenge to this equilibrium came from Deng who sought equal status for her daughters Chloe and Grace.
Rupert dangled $150 million in front of his four eldest children. It was enough to ensure the economic benefits of the trust were now split six ways: Deng’s daughters Chloe and Grace would get a cut of the spoils without any of the control. As Anna demanded, the votes remain with the eldest four who will collectively determine the family’s control of Fox and News Corp.
You don’t need to be a fan of Succession to appreciate the problems here. The family feuding has been writ large in print.
Lachlan’s brother, James, has effectively exiled himself from the media group after the film business, and other assets, were sold off to Disney last year but has made clear his dissatisfaction with the right-wing tilt of the media group – and its climate change coverage.
Their sister Elisabeth, has also been sidelined and left to start up yet another media business on her own. Prudence, the eldest sibling with the lowest profile, is the only one who has not been seen to seek leadership of the business and is viewed as supportive of Lachlan.
A plan for Lachlan to buy out his siblings was apparently scuttled, according to a New York Times report in 2019 when he baulked at the deal that could have guaranteed his future.
Any thoughts that Lachlan can count on the continuing support of Prudence and Elisabeth to keep the media empire on its current path was shattered with the aftermath of Donald Trump’s election loss which is still playing out in the courts for Fox News.
Fox Corp agreed to a billion dollar-plus defamation settlement with Dominion over claims it helped rig the election, but only after damaging internal emails and text messages came to light revealing how the network deliberately pandered to the false allegations of a stolen election to retain its Trump-supporting viewers.
It highlighted the invidious position Rupert and Lachlan found themselves in with the extremist right-wing audience they had cultivated at the network, now holding Fox captive. Smartmatic, another voting equipment company, is suing Fox for $US2.7 billion.
According to Lachlan Murdoch biographer, Paddy Manning, it has only made the other three siblings more determined to bring Fox to heel and assert control over the two media companies.
“There is an intention, on the part of the other siblings, to reassert control of the trust the moment Rupert dies, and to do it in a way which promotes and enhances democracies around the world rather than undermines them,” Manning says, highlighting one of the main points from his book.
But another Murdoch veteran, Australian Financial Review journalist Neil Chenoweth, is not sure the old sibling alliances – which has traditionally seen Prudence aligned with Lachlan, and Elisabeth with James – would dissolve that easily and trigger the ejection of Lachlan when they all control the family trust.
“I just can’t see that happening,” he says.
There are many different scenarios that could play out, according to Chenoweth. The four siblings would be expected to sit down and vote to distribute the billions of dollars worth of Disney shares they received from the movie giant’s takeover of Fox’s film business last year.
What if they vote to disperse the Fox and News Corp shares as well?
“That’s what would bring the Murdoch control of those companies to an end … it seems to be unlikely but the Murdoch family relationships [are] so complex, that it’s hard to know,” Chenoweth says.
Poker player admits to lying about terminal cancer to raise money to enter tournament
GoFundMe reportedly notified those who donated they would be getting refunds
An amateur poker player who said he was diagnosed with terminal stage 4 colon cancer has come clean.
Rob Mercer claimed he had the debilitating disease to raise money to enter the World Series of Poker Main Event. Mercer is now saying he lied about the diagnosis.
"I did lie about having colon cancer. I don’t have colon cancer. I used that to cover my situation," he told the Las Vegas Review-Journal. "What I did was wrong. I shouldn’t have told people I have colon cancer. I did that just as a spur-of-the-moment thing when someone asked me what kind of cancer I had.
"I’m sorry for not being honest about what my situation was. If I would have done that from Day 1, who knows what would have happened."
The 37-year-old California native started a GoFundMe in June to help him make his lifelong goal of getting to the World Series of Poker. The final buy-in for the event is $10,000, and he received contributions between $30,000 and $50,000, according to the Review-Journal.
World Series of Poker officials have yet to comment on the issue.
Mercer said he had no plans to return any of the money because he believes he has undiagnosed breast cancer. He said the GoFundMe reached out to him to tell him he violated the terms of service and people who donated were reportedly told they would be getting refunds.
Mel Gibson's 'John Wick' TV series casting defended by director after backlash: 'Not my business'
Movie star Mel Gibson returns to the screen in a 'John Wick' TV series
The director of "The Continental: From the World of John Wick" defended casting Mel Gibson in the prequel TV series, saying "personal life stuff" is not his business.
Albert Hughes, who directed two of the three upcoming episodes, chose Gibson through the "usual" process.
"I cast [Gibson] based on his past work that I grew up on," Hughes told the New York Post. "And I think he fit the role perfectly. I think once fans see it, they’ll understand why. The personal stuff is not my business to talk about."
He chose Gibson to play the role of Cormac, who manages the New York Continental in the show, which will premiere Friday.
Gibson's casting has received some backlash on social media.
"john wick without keanu (and with mel gibson) is not john wick at all," one user on X, formerly Twitter, wrote.
Another added, "I'm so angry at this because I wanted to watch Katie McGrath (and I like John Wick movies), but I can't stomach watching Mel Gibson ever again."
"Torn honestly," one user wrote. "Love the John Wick franchise but despise and loathe Mel Gibson."
"It was the usual [casting] process," Hughes explained to TVLine. "In Hollywood, it’s always about, like, the five names for one role, and then you go about systematically seeing who’s available, whose people respond. …
"The personal life stuff, that’s not my place to get into."
Chad Stahelski, who directed the "John Wick" film franchise, is serving as the executive producer of the show.
"I was always a fan of the ‘John Wick’ movies, and what [Stahelski] and [star Keanu Reeves] did," Hughes told the New York Post.
"I said, ‘Man, it looks like they’re having fun. I want to have fun. You don’t want someone imitating Keanu Reeves and Chad Stahelski. You already have that, and it’s done wonderfully well. [The show is] in the same world, but on a different road."
Gibson has been largely shut out of Hollywood following an arrest for DUI in 2006, during which the "Passion of the Christ" director went on an antisemitic rant. In 2010, tapes of Gibson shouting the N-word and other racist remarks at his girlfriend at the time, Oksana Grigorieva, were leaked.
The actor later apologized for the antisemitic rant.
"There is no excuse, nor should there be any tolerance, for anyone who thinks or expresses any kind of antisemitic remark," Gibson said at the time in a statement obtained by The New York Times.
"I want to apologize specifically to everyone in the Jewish community for the vitriolic and harmful words that I said to a law enforcement officer the night I was arrested on a DUI charge," the statement continued. "I am a public person, and when I say something, either articulated and thought out, or blurted out in a moment of insanity, my words carry weight in the public arena."
Many Rose makes her OnlyFans free for limited time
WWE released Mandy Rose the day after she dropped the NXT Championship due to her having launched an adult website without permission. Nevertheless, the former Tough Enough contestant would get the last laugh after it was later revealed she had become a millionaire off her content. And now, having recently moved from FanTime to OnlyFans, she is seemingly attempting to rebuild her subscriber base by making access to her account free of charge. However, thirsty wrestling fans must act quickly, as no-cost memberships are only available for a limited time.
WWE News: Speculation over Vince McMahon future following TKO merger
With the merger of WWE and UFC into TKO Group Holdings, Vince McMahon's once ironclad grasp on WWE is slipping.
Dan Primack of Axios pointed out in a story Thursday that a recent SEC filing stated that all of McMahon's shares for the sale are registered for sale, meaning investors can purchase all of McMahon's 28.84 million shares, likely netting McMahon around $3 billion without the usual red-tape and limitations that would normally come with a sale. Essentially, should McMahon decide he finally wants to retire — or the recent federal search warrant and grand jury subpoena served to him were to find any allegations of wrongdoing — McMahon would have an easy exit from the company without endangering TKO's ability to sell McMahon's shares.
Primack cites the phrasing in the SEC filing, which says McMahon and other parties (including WWE President Nick Khan) "will be selling stockholders in this offering," noting that the phrasing is so concrete that it leaves very little wiggle room for McMahon to retain control without those shares. Primack also labels McMahon as both the company's greatest strength, due to his experience, and its greatest liability, as he was already forced into retirement once over hush money payments to former employees and now has a federal investigation hanging over his head.
McMahon was recently on hand for an employee staff meeting following the merger, where it was said that the septuagenarian executive looked frail, walking with a cane to the podium before addressing the staff.
Chris Jericho: AEW is 'absolutely' better than it was a month ago
Jericho was a guest on Tuesday's episode of Busted Open Radio.
Chris Jericho believes AEW is "absolutely" a better place than it was a month ago.
On Tuesday, Jericho was a guest on Busted Open Radio. Though CM Punk wasn't mentioned by name, the conversation turned to how the backstage altercation at All In overshadowed AEW's historic Wembley Stadium show for some fans.
Jericho addressed whether he was frustrated by how fast news of the incident between Punk and Jack Perry got out.
It's wrestling though, man. It's only rock 'n' roll. I think people like to focus on negative. I remember when I got into the fight with Goldberg in Milwaukee [in 2003], it was out on whatever version of the internet was then 10 minutes later... So it's not like this is the first time there's been incidents backstage. It happens. I just think now with social media that people want to jump on the negative.
Jericho said the backstage issues within AEW have been rectified. He noted that there are so many positive things going on in AEW, but sometimes that gets a little bit downplayed and the negative gets focused on.
We know the issues. The issues have been rectified. But the point is, it's like -- there’s so much positive things going on. And those things are always kind of a little bit downplayed. But it’s the negative that gets focused on. I know what’s going on in the locker room, and we know what areas we need to work on. I mean, negative press is negative press.
Once again, you still got, out of those 81,000 people [at Wembley Stadium], how many people know what even happened or even really care? You know what I mean, the hardcore, and the journalists, and the guys who do this care. And we should. But there’s also fans --- not just 81,000, how about being number one on cable once again four weeks in a row? Number one -- the number one show out of all shows [on Wednesday], is AEW.
So to me, that’s a huge positive that also gets kind of lost in the shuffle because somebody’s in a bad mood one day, or whatever it might be. It happens, it’s wrestling. We’re all gypsies, tramps, and thieves, and there’s gonna be issues from time to time.
Bully Ray asked Jericho if AEW is better now than it was a month ago.
Yes. Yes, absolutely.
AEW announced on September 2 that Punk's contract had been terminated with cause following the All In incident.
Jericho is facing his protege Sammy Guevara on Dynamite Grand Slam this Wednesday night. It's the first one-on-one match that Jericho and Guevara have ever had against each other.
Foxtel slams proposal to put women’s sport on free TV list - September 18, 2023
Putting women’s sports on a government list designed to keep key games freely accessible for Australians would be a mistake, entrenching a “grass ceiling” on the players and sporting codes, Foxtel says.
The Albanese government is reviewing the “anti-siphoning list”, a law introduced in the 1990s to prevent key sports from being put behind pay TV paywalls. The legislation lists the key sporting events that must sell their broadcast rights to free-to-air networks.
After a surge in support for the Matildas at the FIFA Women’s World Cup last month, which broke Australian free-to-air TV viewing records, the government rushed to put their future games on the list.
But that does not solve a complex situation where Australians view shows on subscription platforms such as Netflix, through free broadcast services like 9Now or 10 Play, or on the likes of YouTube.
Two key players in the mix, subscription broadcaster, Foxtel and Free TV, which represents the Seven, Nine and Ten networks, have very different visions for what the future of sports rights negotiations should look like.
Foxtel commissioned a paper by research firm Charles River Associates that concluded that, in most cases, women’s AFL, NRL, FIFA Women’s World Cup, cricket, netball and basketball were already more accessible than their male counterparts.
“The benefits of explicitly including women’s sports on the anti-siphoning list would likely be symbolic at most: there would be no practical effect on the extent to which these sports are freely available to the public because they would be freely available anyway,” CRA’s Geoff Edwards wrote.
“The only clear beneficiaries would be the [free-to-air] broadcasters, which would face less competition for rights to televise listed women’s sports.”
Less competition would drive down the price of broadcast rights, reducing investment by codes and salaries for female athletes, Mr Edwards wrote – a “grass ceiling”.
Last month, the government released a set of three proposals for how the scheme could work. They include a more streamlined free-to-view approach – which would allow subscription streamers to buy sports as long as they were made free for viewers, to keeping just free-to-air aerial viewing enshrined as free – essentially the same as the law is now.
Finally, it proposed expanding it to prioritise the broadcasters’ streaming apps, like Seven’s 7plus and Nine’s 9Now. Nine is owned by Nine Entertainment, the publisher of The Australian Financial Review.
Free TV said the government’s preferred proposal, which ensures sports are available for free on aerial television for broadcasters, don’t go far enough. Major broadcasters are increasingly seeing their audiences – and revenue – move to their digital streaming services.
“The government’s preferred model would allow the most attractive livestreaming rights to be cherry-picked by online content service providers,” Free TV wrote in its submission. “Local TV services would not be able to earn sufficient revenue to acquire the rights to any iconic sporting events included on the anti-siphoning list.”
Free TV chief executive Bridget Fair said Foxtel’s proposal was a marketing tactic. “This model must be seen for what it is – a marketing strategy to loss lead with a small number of sports in front of a paywall in the hope of driving increased subscriptions,” she said.
SBS, meanwhile, said the government should broaden the anti-siphoning list to include streaming platforms, and expand the list of sports from its current 1900 to 2800 to include more women’s and para-sports events.
Submissions were due by Sunday. The government will put forward legislation by the end of the year.
UFC News and Odds
Odds for Prochazka vs. Pereira, Pantoja vs. Royval and Covington vs. Edwards
The UFC President announced a trio of title bouts for the upcoming 295 and 296 cards that already have sportsbook operates licking their chops, SportsBetting.ag among them.
SportsBetting.ag set odds for Jiri Prochazka vs. Alex Pereira and Alexander Pantoja vs. Brandon Royval Thursday morning.
The third fight confirmed, Leon Edwards vs. Colby Covington, had long been speculated and odds were initially released way back on March 19.
In March, Covington opened as a -190 favorite (Edwards +165), but was bet down to -130 (Edwards +110) within 24 hours. Currently, the odds are flipped as Covington is now the underdog.
White also stirred controversy this week by demanding that a fight judge be investigated following a UFC Fight Night: Grasso vs. Shevchenko 2 decision. The UFC boss
“When I found out that one of the judges scored 10-8, I’m like, this guy should be fucking investigated for this,” aid White. This is the craziest shit I’ve ever seen in my life.”
“I started to talk to people, I guess there’s a seminar tomorrow with the athletic commission on 10-8s, so hopefully they can get this cleared up,” added White, alluding to a forthcoming meeting of the Nevada Athletic Commission.
UFC title challenger, and former champion, Valentina Shevchenko also expressed outrage at the scorecard that resulted in her not reclaiming the UFC’s 125 lb belt.
“From my experience, a 10-8 is when one fighter completely cannot not do nothing,” said Shevchenko during her post-fight press conference. “It’s like running around, waiting, looking for an escape from the Octagon; it’s miserable. In the fifth round, it was, like, four minutes or however many minutes in stand-up, and she didn’t land one punch. She could only take the back position in the last minute, minute and a half. I don’t remember now. But even there, it was not damage. It wasn’t too much damage to succeed with this 10-8.”
Fight Odds
Alex Pereira -110
Jiri Prochazka -120
Brandon Royval +200
Alexander Pantoja -260
Colby Covington +125
Leon Edwards -145
'WWE SmackDown' leaving Fox, returning to USA in '24
One big part of the WWE’s media rights package has been decided, as the Friday night “WWE SmackDown” series will leave Fox next year and return to USA. The five-year deal, which officially starts in October 2024, will be announced officially later this morning. Specific financials were not released. As part of the deal, NBC has committed to produce four primetime specials per year that will run on its broadcast network. “WWE Smackdown” had been on USA from 2016 to 2019, when it moved over to Fox.
ONE TO GO: This move leaves the Monday night “WWE Raw” as the last package WWE needs to sell. “Raw” is WWE’s top property and has generated a lot of interest from both traditional linear TV companies and digital players. NBCU is still in talks to renew its “Raw” deal. After all, “Raw” has anchored Monday nights on USA for the better part of 20 years; USA also carries “WWE NXT;” NBC carries WWE Network on Peacock; and it just cut this “SmackDown” deal. But even as the market for sports rights has tightened due to the cord cutting trends, other companies have engaged in talks, including Disney and Amazon. Sources say there is potential for “Raw” to move off of Monday nights as part of a new deal, though nothing has been decided yet.
TKO STOCK DROPS: Sources told the WSJ that the value of the pact is “roughly $1.4 billion, which is about a 40% increase over the deal WWE had with Fox.” Despite that increase, Wall Steet did not respond well to the deal, as shares of TKO -- the new holding company for WWE and the UFC -- dropped around 15% on Thursday to close at $85.97 (TKO went public just over a week ago at $102/share).
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How Many Households are Passionate ESPN Viewers?
While multiple industry sources have told us Disney and Charter hope to reach a deal before the kick-off of Monday Night Football this evening (link), we have been getting a lot of investor questions on the underlying popularity of ESPN. Disney released a stat last week that 71% of Charter subscribers tune into a Disney broadcast station or cable network in the average month. As we have learned from many of the digital companies in our coverage universe, the word “watch” can be highly manipulated (remember the Netflix 2 minute definition). In turn, we decided to dig deeper into the actual household viewership of ESPN.
While the current Disney/Charter blackout involves far more than ESPN, we see very little content outside of ESPN that cannot be replaced with one of Disney’s streaming services (Disney Channel content has moved to Disney+, FX content has moved to Hulu, etc). While losing ABC TV stations certainly matters, it is important to remember that Charter’s geographic overlap with Disney’s owned and operated ABC TV stations is quite low. In fact, we believe less than two million of Charter’s 14 million residential video customers are impacted by the current ABC blackout, whereas all 14 million Charter residential subscribers are without ESPN.
Whether we are talking about ESPN’s leverage in the current Charter carriage battle or ESPN’s ability to one day go direct-to-consumer, what matters is the amount of households that cannot live without ESPN. While Nielsen is associated with publishing viewership and ratings for specific programming, they also track how many households watch at least 6 minutes, 1+ hour, 3+ hours, 6+ hours, 9+ hours, 12+ hours and 15+ hours of a given broadcast or cable network each month. Given the timing of specific live sports programming, monthly household viewership of ESPN varies widely, with the peak month (January) double the yearly average and multiples of the trough month.
We doubt anyone who watches less than 3 hours of ESPN in a month (effectively one live game) would switch video providers due to a blackout, let alone broadband providers. We have heard that less than 40% of US households watch at least 3 hours of ESPN in their biggest month, with half that level in the average month. The really shocking statistic is what happens when you adjust the viewership bar to 6+ hours of ESPN monthly, with only 20% of US households in the peak month and well under half that level in the average month. While ESPN has strong overall viewership whether we are talking about Charter subscribers or the country as a whole, it comes from a small segment of passionate sports fans. Just 1% of US households watch over 12 hours of ESPN in the average month.
What Could This Imply for Charter?
Charter will have a much more difficult time adding new subscribers (gross adds) if ESPN is actually gone forever (not to mention ABC in markets where Charter and ABC O+O stations overlap). While the sell-in of video from broadband gross adds has been falling as Charter’s broadband bundling focus shifts from video to mobile (as LightShed’s Walt Piecyk has pointed out), there will be an impact. Does not having ESPN give a potential gross broadband add a reason to look elsewhere, at least where quality alternatives exist? Things certainly have changed with the popularity of vMVPDs, so it is not totally clear.
Looking purely at Charter’s existing residential video subscriber base of 14 million (14.7 million with commercial video), the question is how many will leave Charter if the ESPN/ABC blackout is permanent? We suspect somewhere between 20-40% ultimately churn (based on the 20% watch 6+ hours to 40% watch 3+ hours). However, it will take time, as the trigger to leave will likely be tied to programming you cannot live without, which builds throughout Q4 into January. But even if one assumes the mid-point of 30% of video subs ultimately leave (~4 mm video subs), Charter could save well over $1.3 billion, as their annual programming expense to Disney is a reported $2.2 billion today. (Note: we are assuming a 17% contribution margin on video)
Switching video providers is quite easy today, with an array of vMVPDs that can be added with a few clicks and a credit card and the consumer ending up with a cheaper and technologically superior video experience to any facilities-based MVPD. Broadband is not as easy to replace and is certainly more time consuming. In turn, the critical question is even if Charter lost 4 million residential video subs, how many broadband subs would they lose? Would 1 in 10 switch? 1 in 5 switch? Unless it was 1 in 2, Charter would come out financially ahead in the short-intermediate term in the Disney/ESPN/ABC blackout. (Note: we are assuming an 80% contribution margin on broadband)
Therefore, focusing purely on the math, all signs point to Disney needing to cave as Charter could, at least in theory, survive a permanent blackout, whereas Disney (and ESPN in particular) cannot survive with fixed and rising sports programming costs.
Why Disney Should Cave and What it Implies for ESPN’s DTC Future?
While we continue to doubt a permanent blackout, the relatively narrow viewership of ESPN illustrates why Charter is so focused on reducing the packaging penetration requirements in a new distribution agreement with Disney (likely from 80%+ today to 50% or less over several years, as we discussed in our post last week here), as well as how challenged Disney is in taking ESPN fully direct-to-consumer as we anticipate in late 2025.
We continue to believe Disney will cave on Charter’s packaging penetration requirements knowing they plan to take ESPN DTC. The far bigger unknown is whether they are willing to cave on providing Charter subscribers their ad-supported streaming services at no incremental cost as they currently do for Hulu + Live TV subscribers;
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Sydney casino sale off the cards as Star reports $2.4b loss - 29th August 2023
Star Entertainment Group chief executive Robbie Cooke says the embattled wagering operator is no longer planning to offload its flagship Sydney casino, claiming the business is in a more viable position.
Mr Cooke assured Star was in a better position to ride the wave of weak consumer discretionary spending and hefty regulatory penalties as he reaffirmed a commitment made to the NSW government to maintain headcount at the Pyrmont casino in exchange for a tax reprieve.
“When [former NSW treasurer] Matt Kean proposed the increase in our casino duty ... it was set at a level which just put the business in a non-viable position. Back then we were facing the need to do a strategic review of the Sydney operation,” Mr Cooke told The Australian Financial Review.
“Given now that the new government has actually done a comprehensive review of the duty regime, and we’ve now got certainty and that has meant we have a viable proposition, jobs are no longer at threat and we no longer need to do that strategic review. That’s no longer on the agenda.”
Mr Cooke’s comments follow Star’s $2.4 billion annual loss, slashing more than $2 billion from the value of its three casinos.
A potential AUSTRAC fine, four class actions and two revoked state casino licences weighed on the embattled casino operator’s 2023 financial year, culminating in a $2.2 billion non-cash impairment of The Star Sydney, The Star Gold Coast and Treasury Brisbane.
Mr Cooke said the damage to the company’s social licence was felt by team members but assured investors the business was stabilising despite the high level of regulatory uncertainty. “We’re seeing a consistency in performance,” he said, flagging the return of complimentary drinks to VIP members.
“We are hopeful the reintroduction of complimentary drinks ... does bring back an uplift in some business as it attracts more people to our private gaming rooms.”
Treasurer’s reprieve
Revenue climbed 22 per cent to $1.9 billion for the 2023 financial year, a figure which was affected the previous year by COVID-19 restrictions. Statutory earnings before interest, tax, depreciation and amortisation excluding any significant items was slightly above previously announced guidance at $317 million for the year ending June 30, an increase of $79 million.
But it was the move by NSW Treasurer Daniel Mookhey this month to defer duty rates for poker machines until 2030 that has taken the potential sale of Star’s flagship asset off the table.
Star engaged Barrenjoey Capital Partners as part of a strategic review of its Sydney property in April, an asset it has poured $1.3 billion into over more than a decade. Mr Cooke said the company’s $100 million program (which resulted in 500 job losses) and NSW tax reprieve took the Sydney sale off the agenda.
The delay to tax increases – which will lift duty rates by up to 51.6 per cent – is conditional on Star maintaining a workforce of more than 3000 at its flagship Sydney casino. “We’re very comfortable with the commitments ... we’ve cycled through that softness and maybe that’s what Crown’s now experiencing,” Mr Cooke said.
Star’s Sydney casino revenue increased 27 per cent to $978 million for the year, driven by a large increase in non-gaming revenue. EBITDA climbed 57 per cent to $127 million.
Star is continuing to refinance its debt, and the adjusted NSW casino duty rates will help with this process. Christina Katsibouba, Star’s chief financial officer, said the group needed refinancing to improve flexibility.
“There is quite a lot of interest and quite a variety of proposals as well. We are open-minded about the best structure for the refinance,” Ms Katsibouba said. Mr Cooke said he had not approached major shareholder Bruce Mathieson about refinancing the business.
Star is still waiting on the outcome of legal action launched by AUSTRAC for alleged breaches of anti-money laundering and counter-terrorism laws and four class actions. It has provisioned for a $150 million penalty. Its rival, Crown Resorts, was fined $450 million.
Mr Cooke said he had no visibility over an investigation by Queensland’s office of liquor and gaming into Star’s Queen’s Wharf joint venture partner, Chow Tai Fook Enterprises, and the impact it could have on Star’s operation.
The regulator is assessing whether it is a suitable casino owner after an ABC investigation raised the Chinese firm’s alleged links to organised criminal associations. “We’re not aware of the detail of that review ... we don’t know what the likely outcome is. We really just have to wait and see,” M Cooke said.
Star’s share price has dropped more than 60 per cent this year, but was up 6 per cent at $1 in afternoon trading. The group did not pay a final dividend.
The Biggest Sports Teams
Gamification: Gallup research reveals that baseball was America’s favorite spectator sport from its debut survey in 1937 until deep into the 1960s, when football wrestled the number one spot away — a position it has held ever since. Today, football is huge business, with the latest Forbes list of most valuable sports teams dominated by football teams.
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Ticket sales, merchandise and sponsorships all drive huge revenues for NFL teams — but it’s the TV deals that are truly game changing. The sport itself is well-suited for modern marketing, with advertisements easily insertable between plays, helping the league secure the most lucrative TV sports deal to date — a whopping $112 billion, 11-year contract that has come into effect this season.
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30 out of the world's 50 most valuable sports teams are NFL franchises, with the Dallas Cowboys' $9bn valuation topping the list. The biggest in baseball — the iconic New York Yankees — notched up a $7.1bn valuation, ahead of the LA Dodgers ($4.8bn) and Boston Red Sox ($4.5bn). But the number of MLB teams on Forbes' list has remained at a record low level, with only 5 making the cut this year, down from 12 in 2015.
(Chartr)
Elon Musk reveals Twitter takeover driven by ‘woke mind virus’ - September 5, 2023
Elon Musk was driven to take over Twitter after fearing his transgender daughter had been infected with a “woke mind virus” incubated on the social media platform.
Mr Musk had initially rushed to embrace the news when Jenna, formally known as Xavier, transitioned at age 16.
But when she later cut him out of her life entirely, he knew he had a fight on his hands, a battle that would eventually culminate in the world’s richest man buying Twitter for $44 billion.
The Tesla owner believed his child had been radically transformed by the $US50,092 ($87,000) a year liberal school she attended in California.
“She went beyond socialism to being a full communist and thinking that anyone rich is evil,” Mr Musk said.
In an interview with Walter Isaacson for his upcoming biography, Elon Musk, the Space X billionaire, said he saw the same mentality had enveloped Twitter.
He believed it had been infected by a mindset that suppressed right-wing and anti-establishment voices. His solution was to buy it.
“Unless the woke mind virus, which is fundamentally anti-science, anti-merit, and anti-human in general, is stopped, civilisation will never become multi-planetary,” Mr Musk told Mr Isaacson.
After purchasing Twitter, Mr Musk’s erratic and unpredictable leadership saw him quickly reinstate the previously banned accounts of right-wing agitators including Donald Trump and Kanye West.
Now, an excerpt of his upcoming book, published this week in The Wall Street Journal, gives an astonishing insight into how the deal unfolded, lifting the curtain on how haphazard texts and video-gaming played into the drama.
More than 20 years ago, Mr Musk started X.com, which he had envisioned as an “everything app”.
When the firm merged with Confinity to create what would become PayPal, Mr Musk pushed for the service to be called X.com. His peers were dubious, thinking it sounded like seedy adult services, and pushed for the alternative. Mr Musk lost.
Speaking recently, Mr Musk said: “If you want to just be a niche player, PayPal is a better name. But if you want to take over the world’s financial system, then X is the better name.”
With $10 billion cash in his pocket from expiring Tesla stock, Mr Musk asked the “easy question” of what product he liked. “It was Twitter,” he said.
In January 2022, he told his personal business manager, Jared Birchall, to start buying shares.
Despite his businesses, Tesla, SpaceX and Starlink, all outperforming their rivals and soaring in value, Mr Musk was still unfulfilled in April 2022.
Shivon Zilis, a director of Neuralink, Mr Musk’s AI firm and the mother of his twins, told him: “You don’t have to be in a state of war at all times. Or is it that you find greater comfort when you’re in periods of war?”
Mr Musk said his “default settings” include always wanting “to push my chips back on the table or play the next level of the game”.
He said in April: “Twitter could become what X.com should have been, and we can help save free speech in the process.”
Mr Musk called Twitter chief executive Parag Agrawal and the pair met for dinner with chairman of the board Bret Taylor on March 31, 2022. Mr Musk was invited to join the board, and he agreed.
The tech billionaire described Mr Agrawal as a “really nice guy” but said Twitter “needs a fire-breathing dragon”.
But on April 6 he told his fellow PayPal founders Luke Nosek and Ken Howery in the Tesla factory in Austin, Texas, that his involvement was “a recipe for trouble”, adding: “It’s very clear that the inmates are running the asylum.”
He argued it would be good for democracy but Mr Howery probed whether it “should be like a telephone system, where the words that go in one end come out exactly the same on the other end?”
“Or do you think this is more like a system that is governing the discourse of the world, and maybe there should be some intelligence put into the algorithm that prioritises things?”
Mr Musk suggested charging people to be verified to eliminate bots, bring in cash and help transform it into a payments platform – fulfilling his “original vision” for X.com.
What to do about Twitter
Mr Musk flew to billionaire Larry Ellison’s Hawaiian island, Lanai, where he spent four days contemplating what to do about Twitter.
It was there, at 3.32am local time, that he posted the antagonistic tweet which asked whether the platform was dying.
Mr Agrawal sent Mr Musk a text 90 minutes later, saying: “You are free to tweet ‘Is Twitter dying?’ or anything else about Twitter, but it’s my responsibility to tell you that it’s not helping me make Twitter better in the current context.”
At 5am local time, Mr Musk landed a second blow, replying: “What did you get done this week?” before adding: “I’m not joining the board. This is a waste of time. Will make an offer to take Twitter private.”
Mr Agrawal and Mr Taylor both asked to talk, with the latter saying: “Do you have five minutes, so I can understand the context?”
Mr Musk said: “Fixing Twitter by chatting with Parag won’t work. Drastic action is needed.”
He later said he had the realisation “I didn’t want to be co-opted and be some sort of Quisling on the board”.
At that point, Mr Musk had not given up on the idea of starting a new social media company, an idea he had discussed with his brother, Kimbal.
“I think a new social-media company is needed that is based on the blockchain and includes payments,” he texted him.
Within hours he had changed his mind, he was going to buy the company outright. He texted Mr Birchall: “There is no way to fix the company as a 9 per cent shareholder.”
Mr Musk then flew to Vancouver to link up with his girlfriend Claire Boucher, the performance artist known as Grimes.
The purpose of the trip was to introduce their son, X, to her parents. But Mr Musk was focused on the Twitter deal, so she made the trip herself.
Back in the hotel, Mr Musk texted his decision to Mr Taylor: “I have decided to move forward with taking Twitter private.” The tycoon unwound by playing a video game until 5.30am, before tweeting: “I made an offer.”
Mr Musk then set about trying to find investors to finance the deal. Kimbal declined but billionaire Larry Ellison was more accommodating, having already signalled his interest.
He was ready to invest a billion or whatever Mr Musk decided into Twitter, something he had not used for a decade. The Tesla tycoon even had to reset Mr Ellison’s password.
Sam Bankman-Fried, who was later charged after the collapse of his cryptocurrency exchange FTX but denies wrongdoing, was also interested. Mr Musk was unenthusiastic.
Undeterred, Mr Bankman-Fried texted Mr Musk, saying he was “really excited about what you’ll do with TWTR”. He was ready to turn the $100 million worth of shares he already held in Twitter into a stake in the new company once it went private.
“Sorry, who is sending this message?” Mr Musk texted back.
Again, undeterred Mr Bankman-Fried rang Mr Musk. The 30-minute call did not go well.
“My bulls--t detector went off like red alert on a Geiger counter,” Mr Musk recalled. “He was talking like he was on speed or Adderall, a mile a minute. I was thinking, ‘Dude, calm down.’”
Mr Bankman-Fried was equally unimpressed, thinking Mr Musk was “nuts”.
It ended with Mr Bankman-Fried neither investing in the company nor even converting his existing shares into a stake in the new enterprise.
Initial euphoria
Mr Musk raised the cash, and his plans were accepted by the Twitter board at the end of April.
Initially, the tech tycoon was euphoric. “I am very excited about finally implementing X.com as it should have been done, using Twitter as an accelerant!” he texted.
Within days the doubts emerged. “I will need to live at Twitter HQ. This is a super tough situation. Really bumming me out,” he told Walter Isaacson.
Mr Musk’s growing belief that Twitter had been lying about its number of users was reinforced by a whistleblower and others. He was convinced the $44 billion offer was too high and throughout September was on the phone to his lawyers as Twitter went to court trying to force Mr Musk to honour the offer.
“They are s---ing bricks about the dumpster fire they’re in,” he said of the Twitter board. “I cannot believe that the judge will railroad the deal through.”
But Mr Musk’s lawyers saw things differently, warning him he would lose if the case went to court.
“Arguably, I should just pay full price because these people running Twitter are such blockheads and idiots,” Mr Musk said. “The potential is so great. There are so many things I could fix.” The deal was closed in October.
Unimpressed with office visit
Days before completing the formalities, Mr Musk visited Twitter’s 10-storey Art Deco headquarters in San Francisco.
There were coffee bars, a yoga studio, and a games arcade. Signs on the staff lavatories read “Gender diversity is welcome here” and cabinets were stuffed with T-shirts bearing the slogan “Stay Woke”. Staff could work from home and were allowed a “mental day of rest” every month.
Mr Musk was not impressed. His preferred buzzword was “hardcore”.
Under the agreement, Mr Agrawal and senior Twitter executives were entitled to severance pay and to take their share options. Mr Musk was not happy, believing that they had misled him while negotiating the deal.
He proposed to bring the agreement forward by a few hours, giving him a window to sack them before they could cash in the stock options.
The deal was closed at 4.12 pm Pacific time. At the same time, Mr Musk’s assistant delivered dismissal letters to Mr Agrawal and his three deputies. Six minutes later, Mr Musk’s top security man turned up at the conference room to tell them that their email was cut off and to escort them out of the building.
Mr Agrawal had tried to resign.
“But we beat him,” said Mr Musk’s lawyer, Alex Spiro.
The Rock’s WWE Return Draws Massive Social Media Views - 18th September 2023
The Rock’s return to WWE on SmackDown has led to an incredible of social media views for the company.
Fans who attended WWE SmackDown in Denver last Friday were in for a treat when Dwayne “The Rock” Johnson made his return to WWE after being away for several years.
Pat McAfee started the show with a promo when he was rudely interrupted by former US Champion Austin Theory, whom Pat had defeated at WrestleMania 38. After Theory claimed it was Austin Theory’s show, Pat told Austin this will never be Austin Theory’s show, this will be the People’s Show and do you know what that means? That’s what led to the appearance of “The People’s Champion” known as The Rock.
It was not an advertised return for The Rock, who was in the state of Colorado earlier on Friday with Pat McAfee on Pat’s ESPN/YouTube show. The two men also attended the Colorado Buffaloes football game in Boulder, CO on Saturday night. Since Rock and McAfee were in Colorado, they made their way to Smackdown too.
The Rock led the crowd in chanting that Austin Theory was an “a**hole” which led to the censors on FOX being used, but the fans seemed to enjoy it. Theory tried to do an attack, but The Rock handled him with a spinebuster and People’s Elbow. McAfee did his own People’s Elbow followed by the two men celebrating with the crowd.
Despite not being advertised, The Rock’s return obviously led to a lot of attention among WWE fans who likely alerted their friends about the future Hall of Famer being on the show.
The Rock’s SmackDown return led to massive amount of views on social media
According to WWE, The Rock’s appearance on SmackDown has been viewed across the company’s social media channels over 103 million times!
On WWE’s YouTube channel, the clip of The Rock’s segment has over 4 million views while a clip of a brief Rock-John Cena segment has nearly 2 million views. Those are very high numbers for WWE’s YouTube channel.
In an interview with McAfee earlier on Friday, The Rock said he’s open to the possibility of wrestling at WrestleMania 40 while also admitting that he nearly competed at WrestleMania 39 against Roman Reigns.
WWE Wants Cristiano Ronaldo At Crown Jewel
Cristiano Ronaldo could be set for a sensational appearance in WWE.
WWE is set to return to Saudi Arabia for one of its major shows when Crown Jewel takes place on the 4th of November. 2022’s edition of Crown Jewel was headlined by Logan Paul challenging Roman Reigns for the Undisputed WWE Universal Championship with Reigns picking up the win to continue his historic title reign.
ohn Cena is already being advertised for the show which would see him return to the Middle East for the first time in five years but now it seems the company is looking to extend its reach into the soccer world.
Diario AS has reported that WWE is looking to bring in former Manchester United and Real Madrid star Cristiano Ronaldo for the show “at any cost.”
WWE could benefit from Cristiano Ronaldo’s huge profile in Saudi Arabia
Following the controversial end of Ronaldo’s second spell at Manchester United which saw his contract terminated in November 2022, it was announced that as of the 1st of January 2023, the iconic star would join Saudi team Al-Nassr for a reported 200 million Euros a year.
Ronaldo joining the Saudi Pro League opened the floodgates for many other major players making the switch to the country with lucrative contracts on offer. Critics will point to the money spent to attract major players are further evidence of sportswashing especially as the Saudi government through its Public Investment Fund took 75% stakes in four of the nation’s top clubs including Ronaldo’s Al-Nassr.
Cristiano Ronaldo wouldn’t be the first soccer player to appear at a WWE show with former Wimbledon tough guy turned actor Vinnie Jones appearing for the company in the late nineties in the UK alongside Stone Cold Steve Austin. Ronaldo’s former Manchester United teammate Wayne Rooney famously slapped Wade Barrett from ringside during a show in Manchester after Barrett repeatedly insulted the star.
All Elite Wrestling: WrestleDream - Broadcast via PPV on October 1. Via FITE and others
The following matches are advertised for the AEW WrestleDream pay-per-view event that will be held on Sunday, October 1 in Seattle, Washington at Climate Pledge Arena.
-Bryan Danielson vs. Zack Sabre Jr.
-Swerve Strickland vs. Hangman Page
-“FTR” Dax Harwood and Cash Wheeler vs. “Aussie Open” Kyle Fletcher and Mark Davis for the AEW Tag Team Titles
-Katsuyori Shibata defends the ROH Pure Championship
-MJF and Adam Cole defend the ROH Tag Titles against the winners of a four-way tag match
The PPV special will include a beautiful tribute feature to the late, great Antonia Inoki, one of the most instrimential figures in the history of pro wrestling and combat sports promoting.
SmackDown Returns to USA Network as Part of Five-Year Agreement Between WWE and NBCUniversal - September 21, 2023
It was announced via a press release on Thursday morning that SmackDown was returning to the USA Network in October 2024. Therefore, it seemed like the network would be the primary home of WWE’s television going forward. However, according to the Wall Street Journal, that may not be the case, as it’s now believed the network won’t be renewing the rights to both Raw and NXT, with them apparently paying as much for SmackDown as the two other shows combined.
“With “SmackDown” returning to USA, the network isn’t expected to renew the rights to “Raw” and “NXT,” two other WWE shows it currently carries, according to some of the people. The deal for “Smackdown” is likely to cost USA as much as the rights for “Monday Night Raw” and “NXT,” one of the people familiar with the matter said.”
Wall Street Journal
The USA Network has a longstanding history with WWE dating back to 1977 when broadcasts of Madison Square Garden events would be aired on the network. Subsequently, they would begin airing WWF All American Wrestling weekly in September 1983 and, since then, have more often than not featured WWE programming.
Press Release
WWE to Make NBC Primetime Debut with Launch of Four Network Specials
STAMFORD, Conn.--(BUSINESS WIRE)-- WWE, part of TKO Group Holdings, Inc. (NYSE: TKO), and NBCUniversal have agreed to a five-year domestic media rights partnership that will bring Friday NightSmackDown back to USA Network beginning October 2024. Additionally, beginning in the 2024/25 season, WWE will produce four primetime specials per year that will air on NBC, marking the first time WWE will air on the network in primetime.
SmackDown will come exclusively to NBCU as one of television’s longest-running programs, regularly rating as the No. 1 show in the 18-49 advertising demographic on Friday nights and featuring many WWE Superstars including John Cena, Roman Reigns, Bianca Belair, Charlotte Flair, and Rey Mysterio.
“NBCUniversal has been a tremendous partner of WWE for decades,” said WWE President Nick Khan. “We are excited to extend this longstanding relationship by bringing SmackDown to USA Network on Friday nights and look forward to debuting multiple WWE special events annually on NBC.”
“It’s a privilege and thrill to continue NBCU’s decades-long partnership with WWE which has helped cement USA Network’s consistent position as the top-rated cable entertainment network in live viewership” said Frances Berwick, Chairman, NBCUniversal Entertainment. “With Friday nights on USA, primetime specials on NBC, and the WWE hub on Peacock, we’ll continue to use the power of our portfolio to super-serve this passionate fanbase.”
As part of WWE and NBCUniversal’s longstanding relationship, USA Network is currently home to WWE NXT and WWE Monday Night Raw, which is the #2 cable entertainment program in 2023 in the 18-49 demo. Demonstrating the deeply engaged WWE audience on USA, WWE NXT (+27%) and WWE Monday Night Raw (+15%) are up double-digits year-over-year in the target demographic. WWE Monday Night Raw and WWE NXT will continue to air on USA Network through September 2024.
In addition, since 2021, Peacock has been the exclusive home of WWE Network in the U.S. where Peacock subscribers can stream thousands of hours of on-demand programming from WWE including original series, groundbreaking documentaries, fan-favorite shows from the WWE archives, and premium live events like WrestleMania, Survivor Series, Royal Rumble, Summer Slam,and more. WWE continues to drive high engagement on the platform, with this April’s WrestleMania 39 livestream delivering a record-breaking weekend for Peacock as its highest weekend usage to-date.
About WWE
WWE, part of TKO Group Holdings (NYSE: TKO), is an integrated media organization and the recognized global leader in sports entertainment. The company consists of a portfolio of businesses that create and deliver original content 52 weeks a year to a global audience. WWE is committed to family-friendly entertainment on its television programming, premium live events, digital media, and publishing platforms. WWE’s TV-PG programming can be seen in more than 1 billion homes worldwide in 25 languages through world-class distribution partners including NBCUniversal, FOX Sports, TNT Sport, Sony India and Rogers. The award-winning WWE Network includes all premium live events, scheduled programming and a massive video-on-demand library and is currently available in approximately 165 countries. In the United States, NBCUniversal’s streaming service, Peacock, is the exclusive home to WWE Network. Additional information on WWE can be found at wwe.com and corporate.wwe.com.
About NBCUniversal
NBCUniversal is one of the world’s leading media and entertainment companies. We create world-class content, which we distribute across our portfolio of film, television, and streaming, and bring to life through our theme parks and consumer experiences. We own and operate leading entertainment and news brands, including NBC, NBC News, MSNBC, CNBC, NBC Sports, Telemundo, NBC Local Stations, Bravo, USA Network, and Peacock, our premium ad-supported streaming service. We produce and distribute premier filmed entertainment and programming through Universal Filmed Entertainment Group and Universal Studio Group, and have world-renowned theme parks and attractions through Universal Destinations & Experiences. NBCUniversal is a subsidiary of Comcast Corporation.
About TKO
TKO Group Holdings, Inc. (NYSE: TKO) is a premium sports and entertainment company that comprises UFC, the world’s premier mixed martial arts organization, and WWE, an integrated media organization and the recognized global leader in sports entertainment. Together, our organizations reach more than 1 billion TV households in approximately 170 countries, and we organize more than 350 live events year-round, attracting over one million fans. TKO is majority owned by Endeavor Group Holdings, Inc. (NYSE: EDR), a global sports and entertainment company.
ENDEAVOR ANNOUNCES CLOSE OF UFC® AND WWE® TRANSACTION TO CREATE TKO GROUP HOLDINGS, A PREMIUM SPORTS AND ENTERTAINMENT COMPANY
09/12/2023
New Company to Begin Trading Today, September 12, on the New York Stock Exchange Under “TKO” Ticker Symbol
BEVERLY HILLS, Calif. & STAMFORD, Conn. (September 12, 2023) – Endeavor Group Holdings, Inc. (NYSE: EDR) (“Endeavor”) and World Wrestling Entertainment, Inc. (previously NYSE: WWE) (“WWE”) today announced the close of their previously announced agreement and the launch of TKO Group Holdings, Inc. (NYSE: TKO) (“TKO”).
TKO brings together UFC, the world’s premier mixed martial arts organization, and WWE, an integrated media organization and the recognized global leader in sports entertainment, to create a new premium sports and entertainment company serving more than one billion young and diverse fans1, reaching viewers in 180 countries, and producing more than 350 annual live events. Through this combination, TKO will leverage Endeavor’s expertise in areas including domestic and international media rights, ticket sales and yield optimization, event operations, global partnerships, licensing, and premium hospitality to drive revenue growth.
“The creation of TKO marks an exciting new chapter for UFC and WWE as leaders in global sports and entertainment,” said Ariel Emanuel, CEO of Endeavor and TKO. “Given their continued connectivity to the Endeavor network, we are confident in our ability to accelerate their respective growth and unlock long-term sustainable value for shareholders. With UFC and WWE under one roof, we will provide unrivaled experiences for more than a billion passionate fans worldwide.”
“This is the culmination of a decades-long partnership between Endeavor and WWE across strategic initiatives including talent representation and media rights. Given our collaborative, trusted relationship and Endeavor’s incredible track record of success growing UFC, we believe WWE is optimally positioned for future growth and success as part of TKO,” said Vince McMahon, Executive Chairman of TKO. “Our focus remains on delivering for our fans across the globe as we take the business to the next level alongside UFC and Endeavor.”
TKO will begin trading today on the New York Stock Exchange under the ticker symbol “TKO,” with Endeavor holding a 51% controlling interest in the new company and existing WWE shareholders holding a 49% interest in the new company, on a fully diluted basis.
Leadership Team
As previously announced, TKO is led by:
Ariel Emanuel, Chief Executive Officer, who continues as Chief Executive Officer of Endeavor;
Mark Shapiro, President and Chief Operating Officer, who continues as President and Chief Operating Officer of Endeavor;
Andrew Schleimer, Chief Financial Officer; and
Seth Krauss, Chief Legal Officer, who continues as Chief Legal Officer of Endeavor.
Dana White is now Chief Executive Officer of UFC and Lawrence Epstein remains Senior Executive Vice President and Chief Operating Officer of UFC. Nick Khan continues at WWE in the role of President.
The Board of Directors of TKO is led by Vince McMahon as Executive Chairman of the Board and consists of 11 members, including Mr. Emanuel, Mr. Shapiro, and Mr. Khan, in addition to the following directors:
Peter C.B. Bynoe, Senior Advisor at DLA Piper LLP;
Egon P. Durban, Co-Chief Executive Officer of Silver Lake;
Steven R. Koonin, Chief Executive Officer of the Atlanta Hawks, LLC;
Jonathan A. Kraft, President of the Kraft Group LLC;
Sonya E. Medina, President and Chief Executive Officer of Reach Resilience;
Nancy R. Tellem, Executive Chairperson and Chief Media Officer of Eko; and
Carrie Wheeler, Chief Executive Officer and a board member of Opendoor Technologies Inc.
Advisors
Morgan Stanley & Co. LLC and Goldman Sachs & Co. LLC served as financial advisors to Endeavor, Latham & Watkins LLP served as legal advisor to Endeavor, and Alvarez & Marsal served as integration advisor to Endeavor. The Raine Group served as lead financial advisor to WWE. J.P. Morgan and Moelis & Company LLC served as financial advisors to WWE. Paul, Weiss, Rifkind, Wharton & Garrison LLP served as legal advisor to WWE, and Kirkland & Ellis LLP served as legal advisor to WWE’s controlling stockholder, McMahon.
About Endeavor
Endeavor (NYSE: EDR) is a global sports and entertainment company, home to many of the world’s most dynamic and engaging storytellers, brands, live events and experiences. The company is comprised of industry leaders including entertainment agency WME; and sports, fashion, events and media company IMG. Endeavor is also the majority owner of TKO Group Holdings (NYSE: TKO), a premium sports and entertainment company comprising UFC and WWE. The Endeavor network specializes in talent representation, sports operations & advisory, event & experiences management, media production & distribution, experiential marketing and brand licensing.
About TKO
TKO Group Holdings, Inc. (NYSE: TKO) is a premium sports and entertainment company that comprises UFC, the world’s premier mixed martial arts organization, and WWE, an integrated media organization and the recognized global leader in sports entertainment. Together, our organizations reach more than 1 billion TV households in approximately 180 countries, and we organize more than 350 live events year-round, attracting over one million fans. TKO is majority owned by Endeavor Group Holdings, Inc. (NYSE: EDR), a global sports and entertainment company.
About UFC®
UFC® is the world’s premier mixed martial arts organization (MMA), with more than 700 million fans and 228 million social media followers. The organization produces more than 40 live events annually in some of the most prestigious arenas around the world, while broadcasting to over 900 million TV households across more than 170 countries. UFC’s athlete roster features the world’s best MMA athletes representing more than 80 countries. The organization’s digital offerings include UFC FIGHT PASS®, one of the world’s leading streaming services for combat sports. UFC is part of TKO Group Holdings (NYSE: TKO), and is headquartered in Las Vegas, Nevada. For more information, visit UFC.com and follow UFC at Facebook.com/UFC, Twitter, Snapchat, Instagram and TikTok: @UFC.
About WWE®
WWE, part of TKO Group Holdings (NYSE: TKO), is an integrated media organization and the recognized global leader in sports entertainment. The company consists of a portfolio of businesses that create and deliver original content 52 weeks a year to a global audience. WWE is committed to family-friendly entertainment on its television programming, premium live events, digital media, and publishing platforms. WWE’s TV-PG programming can be seen in more than 1 billion homes worldwide in 25 languages through world-class distribution partners including NBCUniversal, FOX Sports, TNT Sport, Sony India and Rogers. The award-winning WWE Network includes all premium live events, scheduled programming and a massive video-on-demand library and is currently available in more than 180 countries. In the United States, NBCUniversal’s streaming service, Peacock, is the exclusive home to WWE Network. Additional information on WWE can be found at wwe.com and corporate.wwe.com.
What Is SEO?
SEO stands for “search engine optimization.” In simple terms, SEO means the process of improving your website to increase its visibility in Google, Microsoft Bing, and other search engines whenever people search for:
Products you sell.
Services you provide.
Information on topics in which you have deep expertise and/or experience.
The better visibility your pages have in search results, the more likely you are to be found and clicked on. Ultimately, the goal of search engine optimization is to help attract website visitors who will become customers, clients or an audience that keeps coming back.
What you’ll learn in this guide:
How SEO differs from SEM and PPC
Why SEO is important
SEO types and specializations
How SEO works
How to learn SEO
How is SEO different from SEM and PPC?
SEM and PPC are two other common terms you will read about a lot here on Search Engine Land and hear about in the larger search marketing community.
Read on to learn more about both of these terms and how they’re related to SEO.
SEO vs. SEM
SEM stands for search engine marketing – or, as it is more commonly known, search marketing.
Search marketing is a type of digital marketing. It is an umbrella term for the combination of SEO and PPC activities meant to drive traffic via organic search and paid search.
Put simply, search marketing is the process of gaining traffic and visibility from search engines through both paid and unpaid efforts.
So how do SEO and SEM differ? Technically they aren’t different – SEO is simply one-half of SEM:
SEO = driving organic traffic from search engines.
SEM = driving organic and paid traffic from search engines.
Now, this is where things get a bit confusing.
Today, many people use SEM interchangeably with PPC (which we’ll talk about in the next section).
This idea seems to undercut SEO. However, SEO is marketing, just like PPC is marketing.
Here’s the best way to think about SEO and SEM:
Imagine SEM is a coin. SEO is one side of that coin. PPC is on the flip side.
SEO vs. PPC
PPC stands for pay-per-click – a type of digital marketing where advertisers are charged whenever one of their ads gets clicked on.
Basically, advertisers bid on specific keywords or phrases that they want their ads to appear for in the search engine results. When a user searches for one of those keywords or phrases, the advertiser’s ad will appear among the top results.
So again, if we think of search marketing as a coin, SEO and PPC are two sides of the same coin – SEO is the unpaid side, PPC is the paid side.
Another key point: it’s important never to think of it as “SEO vs. PPC” (i.e., which one is better) because these are complementary channels. It’s not an either-or question – always choose both (as long as your budget allows it).
As we mentioned before, the terms SEM and PPC are used within the industry interchangeably. However, that isn’t the case here on Search Engine Land.
Whenever we mention “SEM,” it will be because we’re referring to both SEO (organic search) and PPC (paid search).
If you’re curious about the history behind how “SEM” came to mean “PPC” at the exclusion of SEO, you can dig deeper into these articles:
How Wikipedia Turned PPC / Paid Search Into SEM
Does SEM = SEO + CPC Still Add Up?
Why is SEO important?
SEO is a critical marketing channel. First, and foremost: organic search delivers 53% of all website traffic.
That’s one big reason why the global SEO industry is forecast to reach a staggering $122.11 billion by 2028. SEO drives real business results for brands, businesses and organizations of all sizes.
Whenever people want to go somewhere, do something, find information, research or buy a product/service – their journey typically begins with a search.
But today, search is incredibly fragmented. Users may search on traditional web search engines (e.g., Google, Microsoft Bing), social platforms (e.g., YouTube, TikTok) or retailer websites (e.g., Amazon).
In fact, 61% of U.S. online shoppers start their product search on Amazon, compared to 49% who start on a search engine like Google. Also of note from that same research:
32% start on Walmart.com.
20% start on YouTube.
19% start on Facebook.
15% start on Instagram.
11% start on TikTok.
Trillions of searches are conducted every year. Search is often the primary source of traffic for websites, which makes it essential to be “search engine friendly” on any platform where people can search for your brand or business.
What this all means is that improving your visibility, and ranking higher in search results than your competition, can positively impact your bottom line,
SEO is also incredibly important because the search engine results pages (or SERPs) are super competitive – filled with search features (and PPC ads). SERP features include:
Knowledge panels.
Featured snippets.
Maps.
Images.
Videos.
Top stories (news).
People Also Ask.
Carousels.
Another reason SEO is critical for brands and businesses: unlike other marketing channels, good SEO work is sustainable. When a paid campaign ends, so does the traffic. Traffic from social media traffic is at best unreliable – and a fraction of what it once was.
SEO is the foundation of holistic marketing, where everything your company does matters. Once you understand what your users want, you can then implement that knowledge across your:
Campaigns (paid and organic).
Website content.
Social media properties.
SEO is a channel that drives the traffic you need to achieve key business goals (e.g., conversions, visits, sales). It also builds trust – a website that ranks well is generally regarded as authoritative or trustworthy, which are key elements Google wants to reward with better rankings.
Types of SEO
There are three types of SEO:
Technical SEO: Optimizing the technical aspects of a website.
On-site SEO: Optimizing the content on a website for users and search engines.
Off-site SEO: Creating brand assets (e.g., people, marks, values, vision, slogans, catchphrases, colors) and doing things that will ultimately enhance brand awareness and recognition (i.e., demonstrating and growing its expertise, authority and trustworthiness) and demand generation.
You maintain 100% control over content and technical optimizations. That’s not always true with off-site (you can’t control links from other sites or if platforms you rely on end up shutting down or making a major change), but those activities are still a key part of this SEO trinity of success.
Imagine SEO as a sports team. You need both a strong offense and defense to win – and you need fans (a.k.a., an audience). Think of technical optimization as your defense, content optimization as your offense, and off-site optimization as ways to attract, engage and retain a loyal fanbase.
Technical optimization
Optimizing the technical elements of a website is crucial and fundamental for SEO success.
It all starts with architecture – creating a website that can be crawled and indexed by search engines. As Gary Illyes, Google’s trends analyst, once put it in a Reddit AMA: “MAKE THAT DAMN SITE CRAWLABLE.”
You want to make it easy for search engines to discover and access all of the content on your pages (i.e., text, images, videos). What technical elements matter here: URL structure, navigation, internal linking, and more.
Experience is also a critical element of technical optimization. Search engines stress the importance of pages that load quickly and provide a good user experience. Elements such as Core Web Vitals, mobile-friendliness and usability, HTTPS, and avoiding intrusive interstitials all matter in technical SEO.
Another area of technical optimization is structured data (a.k.a., schema). Adding this code to your website can help search engines better understand your content and enhance your appearance in the search results.
Plus, web hosting services, CMS (content management system) and site security all play a role in SEO.
Content optimization
In SEO, your content needs to be optimized for two primary audiences: people and search engines. What this means is that you optimize the content your audience will see (what’s actually on the page) as well as what search engines will see (the code).
The goal, always, is to publish helpful, high-quality content. You can do this through a combination of understanding your audience’s wants and needs, data and guidance provided by Google.
When optimizing content for people, you should make sure it:
Covers relevant topics with which you have experience or expertise.
Includes keywords people would use to find the content.
Is unique or original.
Is well-written and free of grammatical and spelling errors.
Is up to date, containing accurate information.
Includes multimedia (e.g., images, videos).
Is better than your SERP competitors.
Is readable – structured to make it easy for people to understand the information you’re sharing (think: subheadings, paragraph length, use bolding/italics, ordered/unordered lists, reading level, etc.).
For search engines, some key content elements to optimize for are:
Title tags
Meta description
Header tags (H1-H6)
Image alt text
Open graph and Twitter Cards metadata
Off-site optimization
There are several activities that may not be “SEO” in the strictest sense, but nonetheless can align with and help contribute indirectly to SEO success.
Link building (the process of acquiring links to a website) is the activity most associated with off-site SEO. There can be great benefits (e.g., rankings, traffic) from getting a diverse number of links pointing at your website from relevant, authoritative, trusted websites. Link quality beats link quantity – and a large quantity of quality links is the goal.
And how do you get those links? There are a variety of website promotion methods that synergize with SEO efforts. These include:
Brand building and brand marketing: Techniques designed to boost recognition and reputation.
PR: Public relations techniques designed to earn editorially-given links.
Content marketing: Some popular forms include creating videos, ebooks, research studies, podcasts (or being a guest on other podcasts) and guest posting (or guest blogging).
Social media marketing and optimization: Claim your brand’s handle on any and all relevant platforms, optimize it fully and share relevant content.
Listing management: Claiming, verifying and optimizing the information on any platforms where information about your company or website may be listed and found by searchers (e.g., directories, review sites, wikis).
Ratings and reviews: Getting them, monitoring them and responding to them.
Generally, when talking about off-site, you’re talking about activities that are not going to directly impact your ability to rank from a purely technical standpoint.
However, again, everything your brand does matters. You want your brand to be found anywhere people may search for you. As such, some people have tried to rebrand “search engine optimization” to actually mean “search experience optimization” or “search everywhere optimization.”
SEO specialties
Search engine optimization also has a few subgenres. Each of these specialty areas is different from “regular SEO” in its own way, generally requiring additional tactics and presenting different challenges.
Five such SEO specialties include:
Ecommerce SEO: Additional SEO elements include optimizing category pages, product pages, faceted navigation, internal linking structures, product images, product reviews, schema and more.
Enterprise SEO: This is SEO on a massive scale. Typically this means dealing with a website (or multiple websites/brands) with 1 million+ pages – or it may be based on the size of the organization (typically those making millions or billions in revenue per year). Doing enterprise also typically means delays trying to get SEO changes implemented by the dev team, as well as the involvement of multiple stakeholders.
International SEO: This is global SEO for international businesses – doing SEO for multiregional or multilingual websites – and optimizing for international search engines such as Baidu or Naver.
Local SEO: Here, the goal is to optimize websites for visibility in local organic search engine results by managing and obtaining reviews and business listings, among others.
News SEO: With news, speed is of utmost importance – specifically making sure you get into Google’s index as quickly as possible and appear in places such as Google Discover, Google’s Top Stories and Google News. There’s a need to understand best practices for paywalls, section pages, news-specific structured data, and more.
How does SEO work?
If you found this page via Google search, you likely searched Google for [what is seo] or [seo].
This guide is published on Search Engine Land, an authoritative website with great expertise on and experience in the topic of SEO (we’ve been covering all SEO changes, big and small since 2006).
Originally published in 2010, our “what is SEO” page has earned a whopping 324,203 links.
Put simply, these factors (and others) have helped this guide earn a good reputation with search engines, which has helped it rank in Position 1 for years. It has accumulated signals that demonstrate it is authoritative and trustworthy – and therefore deserves to rank when someone searches for SEO.
But let’s look at SEO more broadly. As a whole, SEO really works through a combination of:
People: The person or team responsible for doing or ensuring that the strategic, tactical and operational SEO work is completed.
Processes: The actions taken to make the work more efficient.
Technology: The platforms and tools used.
Activities: The end product, or output.
Many other things factor into how SEO works. What follows is a high-level look at the most important knowledge and process elements.
Six critical areas, in combination, make SEO work:
1. Understanding how search engines work
Simply, if you want people to find your business via search – on any platform – you need to understand the technical processes behind how the engine works – and then make sure you are providing all the right “signals” to influence that visibility.
When talking about traditional web search engines like Google, there are four separate stages of search:
Crawling: Search engines use crawlers to discover pages on the web by following links and using sitemaps.
Rendering: Search engines generate how the page will look using HTML, JavaScript and CSS information.
Indexing: Search engines analyze the content and metadata of the pages it has discovered and add them to a database (though there’s no guarantee every page on your website will be indexed).
Ranking: Complex algorithms look at a variety of signals to determine whether a page is relevant and of high-enough quality to show when searchers enter a query.
But optimizing for Google search is different from optimizing for search other platforms like YouTube or Amazon.
Let’s take Facebook, for example, where factors such as engagement (Likes, comments, shares, etc.) and who people are connected to matter. Then, on Twitter, signals like recency, interactions, or the author’s credibility are important.
And further complicating things: search engines have added machine learning elements in order to surface content – making it even harder to say “this” or “that” resulted in better or worse performance.
2. Researching
Research is a key part of SEO. Some forms of research that will improve SEO performance include:
Audience research: It’s important to understand your target audience or market. Who are they (i.e., their demographics and psychographics)? What are their pain points? What questions do they have that you can answer?
Keyword research: This process helps you identify and incorporate relevant and valuable search terms people use into your pages – and understand how much demand and competition there is to rank for these keywords.
Competitor research: What are your competitors doing? What are their strengths and weaknesses? What types of content are they publishing?
Brand/business/client research: What are their goals – and how can SEO help them achieve those goals?
Website research: A variety of SEO audits can uncover opportunities and issues on a website that are preventing success in organic search. Some audits to consider: technical SEO, content, link profile and E-E-A-T.
SERP analysis: This will help you understand the search intent for a given query (e.g., is it commercial, transactional, informational or navigational) and create content that is more likely to earn rankings or visibility.
3. Planning
An SEO strategy is your long-term action plan. You need to set goals – and a plan for how you will reach them.
Think of it your SEO strategy as a roadmap. The path you take likely will change and evolve over time – but the destination should remain clear and unchanged.
Your SEO plan may include things such as:
Setting goals (e.g., OKRs, SMART) and expectations (i.e., timelines/milestones).
Defining and aligning meaningful KPIs and metrics.
Deciding how projects will be created and implemented (internal, external or a mix).
Coordinating and communicating with internal and external stakeholders.
Choosing and implementing tools/technology.
Hiring, training and structuring a team.
Setting a budget.
Measuring and reporting on results.
Documenting the strategy and process.
4. Creating and implementing
Once all the research is done, it’s time to turn ideas into action. That means:
Creating new content: Advising your content team on what content needs to be created.
Recommending or implementing changes or enhancements to existing pages: This could include updating and improving the content, adding internal links, incorporating keywords/topics/entities, or identifying other ways to optimize it further.
Removing old, outdated or low-quality content: The types of content that aren’t ranking well, driving converting traffic or helping you achieve your SEO goals.
5. Monitoring and maintaining
You need to know when something goes wrong or breaks on your website. Monitoring is critical.
You need to know if traffic drops to a critical page, pages become slow, unresponsive or fall out of the index, your entire website goes offline, links break, or any other number of potential catastrophic issues.
6. Analyzing, assessing and reporting on performance
If you don’t measure SEO, you can’t improve it. To make data-driven decisions about SEO, you’ll need to use:
Website analytics: Set up and use tools (at minimum, free tools such as Google Analytics, Google Search Console and Bing Webmaster Tools) to collect performance data.
Tools and platforms: There are many “all-in-one” platforms (or suites) that offer multiple tools, but you can also choose to use only select SEO tools to track performance on specific tasks. Or, if you have the resources and none of the tools on the market do exactly what you want, you can make your own tools.
After you’ve collected the data, you’ll need to report on progress. You can create reports using software or manually.
Performance reporting should tell a story and be done at meaningful time intervals, typically comparing to previous report periods (e.g., year over year). This will depend on the type of website (typically, this will be monthly, quarterly, or some other interval),
SEO is ongoing
SEO never ends. Search engines, user behavior and your competitors are always changing. Websites change and move (and break) over time. Content gets stale. Your processes should improve and become more efficient.
Bottom line: There’s always something you can be monitoring, testing or improving. Or, as Bruce Clay put it: SEO will only be done when Google stops changing things and all your competition dies.
How to learn SEO
Now that you understand more about what SEO is and how it works – how can you learn more?
Reading (or, if you prefer, watching or listening to) the latest SEO news, research, best practices and other developments should become one of your regular habits, whether it’s daily, weekly or monthly. You should also invest in attending at least one or two events per year.
The expectations and behavior of searchers are constantly evolving, which means algorithms are constantly changing to keep up. That, in combination with new breakthroughs in technology (look no further than the explosive rise of ChatGPT in late 2022 and the sudden addition of generative AI to search results in 2023).
‘Wrestlers’ Is Here to Rip Your Freakin’ Head Off
The new doc series from the creator of Last Chance U and Cheer is an underdog story pulsing with adrenaline.
From the right corner of the ring, an oiled-up baby face enters with a stone-cold glare and a juicy flex. From the left, a sneering heel climbs through the ropes under floodlights, only to be met with jeers and hisses from the darkness of the stands. What happens next isn’t just a fight; it’s a story. It’s Shakespearean drama. It’s bloody theater that also happens to be more true to life than you’d think.
Wrestlers, the new doc series from director Greg Whiteley (Last Chance U, Cheer) and BBC Studios Los Angeles takes you right to the center of the fight. It doesn’t only depict the brawls between ambitious athletes managing their stressful lives off the ring (though watching a rage-fueled fighter and a hardened vet go head-to-head in a violent, hair-pulling tussle is thrilling –– especially when you consider they’re mother and daughter). The fight at the center of the story is even more intense: Legendary wrestler Al Snow is attempting to keep professional wrestling league Ohio Valley Wrestling (OVW) afloat, navigating the brutal waters of mounting debt and the power struggles of new ownership.
The seven-episode series is intimate, emotional, and offers a behind-the-scenes look at the world of professional wrestling, revealing the hardship and sacrifice that goes into creating this highly complex feat of performance art and athleticism.
What is Ohio Valley Wrestling?
OVW is located in Louisville, Kentucky, and once served as a premiere training ground for aspiring pro wrestlers like Brock Lesnar, John Cena, Dave Bautista, The Miz, and Randy Orton. In recent years, OVW has struggled to keep its doors open, prompting Snow to sell a majority stake to a group of local businesses — one of whom is Matt Jones, one of the most popular radio personalities in the state of Kentucky.
Who owns OVW?
The company is currently owned by Al Snow, Matt Jones, and Louisville mayor Craig Greenberg, all of whom are featured in the doc series. Learn more about the Wrestlers cast here.
Who Are the Wrestlers at Ohio Valley Wrestling?
The cast of Wrestlers is comprised of OVW legends like Ca$h Flo, Mr. PEC-tacular, Mahabali Shera, Hollyhood Haley J, and more. To learn more about the babyfaces, heels and bosses at OVW — including their signature moves — check out our Wrestlers cast guide.
Wait, what’s a babyface?
In wrestling, a babyface (also known as a “face”) is a heroic “good guy” or fan favorite. Typically, they’ll play it fair in the ring and avoid cheating or dirty manuevers. The babyfaces in Wrestlers include Ca$h Flo and the Amazing Maria James. The babyfaces perform relative to the heels in any given match, and sometimes wrestlers shift between the two identities, depending on their narrative arc.
So what’s a heel?
Simply put, a heel is a villain — a bad boy, a nasty girl, or anyone who fights dirty in the ring. The heels in Wrestlers include Hollyhood Haley J and Freya the Slaya.
“In wrestling, you’re going to do the same things you do when you tell any story and have a protagonist and an antagonist,” Al Snow told Tudum. “We've got to explain to the audience what the context of the story is, [and help them] understand the challenge that's facing our protagonist, and what the antagonists are trying to prevent.”
In other words: If nothing else, wrestling is a story of good versus evil — and who prevails depends on the day.
Watch Wrestlers on Netflix now.
Calvin's Corner: 'Ya...Nothing to See Here' Calvin Quips in Regard to Slew of Crypto Murders
'Ya...Nothing to See Here' Calvin Quips in Regard to Slew of Crypto Murders (September 14, 2023)
The following may not be suitable for all readers. Small children should be removed from the room.
Billionaire investor and BSV influencer Calvin Ayre is the latest to chime in on a series of high profile murders that have recently taken place in the world of cryptocurrencies.
And the deaths have been nothing short of gruesome.
"Stuffed down toilets, dismembered in suitcases — crypto has been the common denominator for several gruesome murders and mysterious deaths this year," blares the headline from Coin Telegraph Magazine.
Plumbers in Bulgaria discovered the decomposing remains of 41-year-old United States crypto mogul Christian Peev — suspected to have been battered to death with a dumbbell by a friend out of jealousy.
In Buenos Aries, crypto millionaire Fernando Pérez Algaba's body was discovered chopped up in a suitcase near a river bank by a group of children.
It doesn't end there.
Others involved in the world of cryptocurrencies have been killed in a helicopter crash in France and a fatal stabbing in the U.S. There was also a suspected suicide in South Korea.
Since November of 2022 we've seen ten suspicious deaths of those in the cryptocurrency community, and these are just the cases we know of.
Ken Gamble, the co-founder and executive chairman of financial crime intelligence firm IFW Global, tells the magazine he believes most of these deaths are linked to organized crime making its way into the world of digital currencies.
“What’s happening is that these organized crime groups, particularly the Chinese, have suddenly come into masses of money. They have had more money now than they’ve ever had traditionally,” said Gamble.
“They’re making so much money that it’s become extremely dangerous now […] they have to now reach out to more groups and more people to try and move the money — broadening their money laundering capabilities,” he added.
May be time to beef up the security and might want to avoid pissing off the wrong person as to not end up floating around inside the pipes of someone's toilet.
Calvin Announces New BSV Site and Encourages Consumers to Become Better Educated (September 12, 2023)
"BSVBlockchain.org has a new site up that is the best place in the world to go to learn about this amazing tech now. Still more stuff coming but the Association has done a great job on this already."
The new site can be found here.
The BSV Blockchain is billed as "Reliable open source software, providing the fundamental requirements for enterprise grade blockchain applications."
It focuses on the following three pillars:
Unified Compliance Approach
Explore our unified approach to regulatory compliance, recognizing that existing laws apply to all tokens on blockchain platforms. At BSV, we prioritize adherence to the comprehensive legal framework.
Streamlined Legal Compliance
Learn how BSV integrates legal compliance seamlessly into its blockchain ecosystem. We ensure that all transactions and interactions on our platform adhere to existing property, security, and criminal laws.
Transparent Regulatory Measures
Discover the transparency in our regulatory measures. We provide clear visibility into how we enforce compliance and uphold existing regulations to create a secure and trusted environment for our users.
BSV About to Change the World? (August 31, 2023)
Julian Goddard (the technical product lead at @nChainGlobal) nChain has been working on CBDC solutions for several months, with Goddard playing a part in the company’s projects since last year, he revealed.
One of the company’s guiding principles is flexibility, aware that governments will only integrate blockchain technology if it fits into their existing systems.
“We’re always trying to meet our customers’ requirements first, and where they don’t know [about blockchain nitty-gritty], we try to build our products as flexible as possible.”
As the technical product lead, Goddard is at the forefront of exploring new products that nChain develops. He says the company is currently working on “a new product that’s very exciting and is going to help change the world. It will make a difference to the way things work in the world.”
(Gambling911)
Stake.com Hack Was Done By North Korea, FBI Claims - 10 September, 2023
Last week's shocking hack of online gambling crypto site Stake.com to the tune of $41 million is being blamed on the North Koreans. It's not Stake.com asserting this but rather the FBI.
The massive breach took place on Monday September 4. Gambling911.com was among the first in the gaming space to report the story after it first emerged on a handful of crypto-focused news sites.
For several hours, the Drake-endorsed site suspended all deposits and withdrawals, leaving many users unable to access their funds, but by Monday evening it appeared to be business as usual at the popular wagering site.
The breach was first identified after crypto security firm Cyvers flagged multiple irregular transactions linked to Stake.com’s hot wallet.
The FBI linked the hack to North Korea's state-backed Lazarus Group. Stake.com, we should note, is not currently regulated in the US to take bets. The company, however, is linked to the popular streaming platform Kick.
In a press release shared on Wednesday, the U.S. domestic intelligence agency said that players from the cybercrime syndicate siphoned off funds from the platform to 33 addresses spread across Bitcoin [BTC], Ethereum [ETH], Polygon [MATIC] and Binance Chain [BNB].
Prior to the Stake.com breach, Lazarus was involved in a theft of $60 million from crypto payment providers Alphapo and Coins Paid.
F1 Red Bull Racing related News
'What they’ve done this year is impressive’ – Verstappen names key threat for Red Bull in Suzuka
Championship leader Max Verstappen arrived in Suzuka for the 2023 Japanese Grand Prix looking to put an underwhelming performance for Red Bull in Singapore behind him. But ahead of the action, Verstappen named a surprise team that he expected to cause Red Bull some headaches in Japan.
Fans were shocked in Singapore when both Verstappen and team mate Sergio Perez were unable to progress through to Q3, with Verstappen recovering to P5 in the race from 11th on the grid, as Perez took P8 from 13th.
Asked if he expected a return to Red Bull’s dominant pre-Singapore form this weekend – the team having won the first 14 races of the season on the bounce up until that point – Verstappen replied: “I mean, Singapore is so different to what we will experience here in terms of the way you set up the car, so I’m also not worried that a weekend like that will upset our weekend here.
“It was not our strongest weekend of course, but it’s important that now we just analyse everything and step by step, we’ll get there. But there’s also no real rush.
“[Suzuka] felt very nice on the simulator,” he added, “and normally that’s a good indication when everything comes quite easy, so I hope of course that it’s going to be exactly the same in real life.”
Rivals McLaren’s performance at high-speed tracks in recent races has been impressive, the team having been one of the squads to develop their car the most in 2023. And with Mercedes’ George Russell having earmarked McLaren and particularly Lando Norris as a threat this weekend, Verstappen was asked if they were on his and Red Bull’s radar.
“Honestly, what they have done this year is quite impressive, from where they started to where they are now,” said Verstappen. “So I, for sure, expect them to be strong. But of course, I hope to be ahead!”
Also hoping to be ahead was team mate Perez, who predicted a return to form for Red Bull around Suzuka – on a weekend where the team could clinch the 2023 constructors’ championship.
Asked if Red Bull would be back at the front this weekend, Perez replied: “That’s definitely the target. We still don’t understand fully what went wrong, or what went so wrong, in Singapore. We have some ideas but certainly this track is very different so there should not be a reason why we won’t be strong in Suzuka. Actually this should be one of the best circuits for us.”
AEW WrestleDream PPV update - Broadcast on October 1, 2023
AEW WrestleDream will take place on Sunday, October 1 at the Climate Pledge Arena in Seattle, Washington. The event is being held in honor of NJPW founder Antonio Inoki as it will take place on the one-year anniversary of his passing. AEW President Tony Khan announced WrestleDream during the All In media scrum, noting that this show will honor someone he has always looked up to – pro wrestling’s greatest dreamer. Khan also said he expects NJPW to work with AEW for the show as they are very supportive of the idea, and he’s hopeful more NJPW wrestlers will be added to the show. Below is the current card:
AEW World Tag Team Titles Match
Aussie Open (Kyle Fletcher, Mark Davis) vs. FTR (Dax Harwood, Cash Wheeler) (c)
ROH World Tag Team Titles Match
The Righteous (Vincent, Dutch) vs. AEW World Champion MJF and Adam Cole (c)
Dream Match
NJPW World Television Champion Zack Sabre Jr. vs. Bryan Danielson
The Trump loyalist trying to destroy Hunter Biden
A 27-year-old ex-junior Trump aid, Garrett Ziegler, is at the vanguard of a network of activists who want to take down the president’s son.
When Lunden Roberts needed an expert to help prove that Hunter Biden had the money to keep making substantial child support payments for their 4-year-old daughter, her legal team turned to Garrett Ziegler.
Ziegler doesn’t have a degree in personal finance. He doesn’t personally know the president’s son. But Ziegler, whose first job out of college was working as a low-level aide in the Trump White House, has fashioned himself into a Hunter Biden specialist, compiling personal and financial records from anywhere he can get them. Then, his nonprofit posts them online.
Ziegler claims this cache offers the fullest accounting of Hunter Biden’s life, from his battles with drug addiction to his sexual escapades to his business dealings. “In the Western world, I’m confident that nobody has dug into the American first family more than us,” he said recently on YouTube. “I’ve just become obsessed with studying the family.”
Ziegler, 27, enjoys a following of tens of thousands on social media and the attention of conservative media. He has made himself a chief antagonist of the younger Biden, prompting lawsuits, an Internal Revenue Service complaint and other legal pushback from Hunter Biden’s circle.
Ziegler is at the vanguard of a sprawling network of Biden antagonists, from right-wing media organisations to congressional leaders to MAGA activists, that is focused intensely on the president’s son. They see Hunter Biden’s activities as his father’s biggest political vulnerability, a conclusion reflected in the House GOP’s recent decision to launch an impeachment inquiry.
On Wednesday, Hunter Biden sued Ziegler in federal court in California, alleging that the activist had violated privacy laws and calling him “a zealot who has waged a sustained, unhinged and obsessed campaign against [Hunter Biden] and the entire Biden family for more than two years.”
His biggest project has been mining embarrassing information, including nude photos and videos.
Ziegler served as a staffer for Trump aide Peter Navarro, a hard-liner and election denier, and left the White House in early 2021. He then focused on President Biden’s son, turning his formidable energy to unearthing every detail he could. Ziegler received some of Hunter Biden’s financial records, saying he got them from someone who worked at Biden’s bank. He has delved into Hunter Biden’s business dealings. He even acquired a copy of the diary of Ashley Biden, Hunter’s sister.
His biggest project has been mining embarrassing information, including nude photos and videos, from what appears to be a personal laptop that Hunter Biden left at a repair shop in April 2019. Ziegler said in an interview that he got a hard drive with the purported contents of the laptop from Rudy Giuliani before the January 6, 2021, attack on the US Capitol.
In October 2022, Ziegler announced that the nonprofit he founded, Marco Polo, had published a voluminous report on the laptop, claiming to have unearthed at least 459 criminal or regulatory violations. This claim has not been verified, and Hunter Biden’s team dismisses it as absurd. (The Washington Post has also obtained a hard drive purportedly from the laptop and authenticated some of its contents.)
“We want [our report] to be on coffee tables and bookshelves and be brought out whenever you hear something in the news,” Ziegler said in the interview. On his Telegram page, where he has a following of about 100,000, he added, “We believe that it is the deepest digital colonoscopy ever performed on a sitting US first family.”
Ziegler has a smaller following than some better-known conservative firebrands. But that relatively low profile allows him to unleash inflammatory attacks with less scrutiny, says Jared Holt, who researches extremists for the Institute for Strategic Dialogue think tank.
“There’s an incentive for him to take the extra step and to be just a little more outrageous because it’s the sort of audience he’s cultivated and the part of the ecosystem he fits into,” Holt says.
My focus is never on Hunter Biden; it’s only Hunter’s relationship to Joe.
— Garrett Ziegler
Some of Hunter Biden’s associates worry that Ziegler, with his sometimes-wild theorising combined with an encyclopaedic knowledge of Hunter Biden’s history, will influence the public discussion as well as the House probes of the president’s son.
Ziegler argues that he is filling a vital role by scrutinising the Bidens, particularly because in his view Republicans are not going after Hunter Biden hard enough. “The right wing has totally f---ed up this response,” he says. “It’s been frustrating at the pace. Now we’re seven months in, and I don’t think they’ve subpoenaed Hunter.”
To Democrats, Ziegler and his efforts embody all that is wrong with an era when a single individual can use the internet to humiliate and smear his chosen target. Hunter Biden is a recovering drug addict who has experienced tragedy in his life, they say, and whatever his flaws, they have no bearing on the president’s performance.
Ziegler has “shown himself as a reckless, irresponsible chaos agent,” says Democrat congressman Eric Swalwell. At a hearing in July of the House judiciary committee, Swalwell raised concerns about Ziegler’s postings attacking federal law enforcement agents.
Ziegler contends that his aggressive actions are justified because his ultimate target is not Hunter Biden, but the president. He asserts that Hunter Biden has been involved for decades in shady business deals with China-based firms and the president has known about it, making the senior Biden beholden to China.
“My focus is never on Hunter Biden – it’s only Hunter’s relationship to Joe,” Ziegler says. “My whole obsession with the Bidens starts and ends with Joe. It doesn’t start and end with Hunter.”
Hunter Biden’s legal team has not taken kindly to Ziegler’s efforts. In his recent lawsuit, Hunter alleges that Ziegler and the other members of his nonprofit illegally hacked into portions of Biden’s laptop that were encrypted, saying they ignored demands to cease and desist, an allegation Ziegler disputes. Ziegler says he would not “honour” cease-and-desist requests in this matter because he believes his actions have been lawful.
Last February, Hunter Biden’s attorney Abbe Lowell challenged the tax-exempt status of Marco Polo’s parent company, ICU, writing to the IRS that it “has operated as little more than a thinly disguised political operation to attack the Biden administration and the Biden family.”
Ziegler says his personal criticism of the Bidens does not reflect the official views of his nonprofit.
Hunter Biden’s friend and benefactor Kevin Morris has also sued Ziegler, accusing him of harassment and doxing. After the child support settlement, for example, Ziegler posted the coordinates of Morris’ plane on his public Telegram page and speculated about Morris’ potential travels. Ziegler’s attorneys have argued in court filings that he was exercising his free-speech rights.
In one of his most notable moves, Ziegler joined the contentious child support case between Roberts, an Arkansas resident, and Hunter Biden over their 4-year-old daughter, Navy. Hunter Biden initially contested his paternity of the girl until a DNA test proved the relationship, and he has said he remembers little of his relationship with Roberts because it occurred when he was in a spiral of drug addiction.
Roberts’ lawyers, in seeking to have Ziegler designated an expert witness, contended in a court filing that he was “an expert in Hunter Biden, his life, finances, personal history, financial history, the Biden Companies, and the manner in which the Biden family interacts interpersonally and financially”.
Hunter Biden’s attorneys initially objected to Ziegler’s inclusion – complaining of his lack of relevant expertise, his “background”, and his purported grudge against the Biden family – but ultimately relented. Ziegler gave a deposition, which remains sealed, but he never testified publicly in the case. Hunter Biden and Roberts ultimately reached a settlement on child support.
More relevant to the just-launched impeachment inquiry is Hunter Biden’s business career, a subject that has been of great interest to Ziegler. Hunter Biden has denied wrongdoing in his financial dealings, and there has been no publicly available evidence connecting his father to criminal behaviour.
Federal prosecutors spent more than four years investigating the president’s son, reaching a deal in June for him to plead guilty to two minor tax crimes and admit to the facts of a gun offence. After that deal fell apart, the prosecutor investigating the case was named a special counsel, and he recently obtained an indictment against Hunter Biden on the gun charges, suggesting the case may go to trial.
Beyond the president’s son, Ziegler’s broader messaging often conveys a far-right worldview that derides certain groups.
He promotes posts of inflammatory memes and conspiracy theories. He has shared rhetoric saying that Christians are better than others and that white people have been particularly persecuted. He has promoted photoshopped images of women he dislikes in compromising positions with Hunter Biden.
Before working in the Trump administration, Ziegler had few ties to politics. Aside from his cousin Ron Ziegler, who was press secretary for President Richard M. Nixon, his family mostly worked in agriculture and insurance, he told his hometown newspaper in Illinois in 2018.
He graduated from St Louis University in 2018 with a degree in economics before moving to Washington. He and his wife, Allie, have since moved back to Illinois, where he portrays himself on social media as a devout Lutheran and family man.
In the White House, Ziegler worked for Navarro, one of Trump’s most outspoken advisers, who was recently convicted of contempt of Congress after he declined to cooperate with the House committee investigation into the January 6 attack.
In his White House role, Ziegler wrote reports about Chinese tariffs (which he argued the US should reciprocate), the COVID-19 pandemic (which he argued was planned) and the 2020 election (which he argued was stolen).
Ziegler eventually came to the attention of the January 6 committee, which questioned him about his role in a turbulent White House meeting shortly after the 2020 election that featured a confrontation between some Trump associates who were pushing the president to try to stay in power and a group of aides warning against it.
After being questioned by the committee in July 2022, Ziegler unleashed a 27-minute inflammatory tirade on his Telegram page calling the investigation discriminatory against white people and using sexist slurs to describe female ex-colleagues who cooperated with the committee.
“They see me as a young Christian who they can try to basically scare, right?” Ziegler said. Calling the probe “a Bolshevistic anti-White campaign”, Ziegler added he is “the least racist person that many of you have ever met, by the way”.
He has accused several Biden allies of being Bolsheviks, prompting Jonathan Greenblatt, the chief executive of the Anti-Defamation League, to note that such words are “often used as a code for Jews”. Ziegler rejected any criticism from the group, saying any ADL position is “probably a good indication of what I believe to be the exact opposite case”.
Ziegler also has posted, on his Telegram page, photos of his targets’ daughters wearing bathing suits or partying with friends, sometimes ridiculing the girls’ appearances. In other posts he has shared with his following, women are mocked for being bad drivers or purportedly being biologically unfit for military combat.
Ziegler says his attacks on the women are legitimate, even if they are private citizens, because their public photos are “degenerate”. He says he does not agree with every post he shares with his followers; he was joking when he forwarded memes about women’s driving skills, he says, but he does not believe women should serve on the military front lines.
Ziegler has also shared posts by white supremacist Nick Fuentes and claimed there is a “war on whites”. Liberal activist David Brock, whose group Facts First USA has tracked Ziegler’s online comments, says he has warned legislators, journalists and others about Ziegler’s rhetoric, urging them to keep their distance. “He doesn’t belong within 100 miles of Congress or a courtroom,” Brock says.
Ziegler says he does not agree with all of Fuentes’ views, but he does believe white people are unfairly persecuted, citing government efforts to seek a more diverse workforce. He is a “Christian and a nationalist”, he says, but not a Christian nationalist.
House Republicans are ramping up their efforts to investigate Hunter Biden, culminating in an instruction by Republican House Speaker Kevin McCarthy to House committees on September 12 to open an impeachment inquiry into President Biden centred on his son’s business dealings, some of the same areas Ziegler has probed.
Ziegler says he has made contacts within GOP congressional offices and given them copies of the report on Hunter Biden’s laptop, though he declined to name specific legislators.
Some members of Congress have publicly mentioned the report. Senator Ron Johnson from Wisconsin said in an interview with NBC that “you ought to read the Marco Polo report where they detail all kinds of potential crimes”. Congressman James Comer of Kentucky told Newsmax the “positive thing” about the report is its inclusion of banking records.
“The response has been obviously grateful” from Republicans receiving the report, Ziegler says. “Sometimes they’ve had an aversion to hearing me out – and then once they looked at our work or site ... ”.
At one recent congressional hearing, after Congresswoman Marjorie Taylor Greene displayed what appeared to be nude photos of Hunter Biden, Democrats noted that she had displayed the photos in the same order and with similar redactions as in the Marco Polo report. Greene’s office did not respond when asked if the photos came from Ziegler or his nonprofit, but he suggests they did.
“Some of our screenshots in the report were utilised,” Ziegler says. “So I’ve been somewhat pleased.”
(AFR)
Roman Reigns on the cover of Variety
YOUR Tribal Chief has allowed Sean O’Malley a rental property on the Island of Relevancy, as the UFC phemoenon joins Roman Reigns on the cover of Variety. The headline article covers the WWE- UFC merger as TKO Group Holdings ushers in a new era for both World Wrestling Entertainment and the Ultimate Fighting Championship.
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Friday 22nd September 2023
Pro Wrestling And Sports Broadcasting Legend Jim Ross On Pay-Per-Views and All Elite Wrestling @AEW
"I like the old format because the companies get an opportunity to build the anticipation for that pay-per-view, and the investment that fans need to make to enjoy it"..."I think the economy dictates a lot of that, you've got to have a great attraction at the top [of the card]. Attractions sell pay-per-views - it's just that simple. It's not the second or third match on the card, it's what's on the poster."
Ross gets the situation where AEW top brass Tony Khan would move across to a monthly PPV format, considering that the business model has served world's leading pro wrestling promotion, WWE, for decades.
"You've got to change with the times"... "I have no problem with that, either, but I just think that in the storytelling realm, we're better off with the opportunity to build stories and matches." - Jim Ross @JRsBBQ
AEW PPV's confirmed:
Revolution
Double or Nothing
Full Gear
All In
All Out
Forbidden Door
WrestleDream
The Media Man Group current supplier of AEW PPV's streamed into Australia is FITE @FiteTV - who remain ultra-impressive. Next cab off the rank is AEW WrestleDream broadcast out of the U.S on 10th October. The main event is Bryan Danielson @bryandanielson vs Zack Sabre Jr @zacksabrejr WrestleDream will also include a meaningful tribute to wrestling and combat sports legend Antonio Inoki. Long time pro wrestling fans will likely be at least partly aware of the historical significance of Inoki to the wrestling and mixed martial arts world. We won't spoil it, but rest assured both new and longer time fans will not be disapointed. We're totally pumped for this.
"The Road: What awaits ahead if I choose this road? Don't be afraid, or there will be no road. Take one step, for it will start a road and it will become the road. Go on without hesitation. And you will find your destivation" - Antonio Inoki.
Inoki Bombaye. Inoki Bombaye. Inoki Bombaye!
Muhammad Ali connection!
What a time to be a wrestling fan or work in and around the industry. Fans, don't miss this one and keep up the fighting spirit.
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"And while the law of competition may be sometimes hard for the individual, it is best for the race, because it ensures the survival of the fittest in every department" - Andrew Carnegie #AndrewCarngie #Carnegie #quote #competition #biz #business #survival #wisdom #world #media
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"The Road: What awaits ahead if I choose this road? Don't be afraid, or there will be no road. Take one step, for it will start a road and it will become the road. Go on without hesitation. And you will find your destination" - Antonio Inoki #AntonioInoki #Inoki #quote #wrestler #legend #wrestling #prowrestling #martialarts #road #destination #life #mbs #media
WWE @WWE SmackDown. September 22, 2023
John Cena @JohnCena will be seen!
Iyo Sky @Iyo_SkyWWE vs Asuka @WWEAsuka Empress vs Genius Of The Sky!- WWE Women's Title
Latino World Order (Rey Mysterio @reymysterio and Santos Escobar @EscobarWWE ) vs The Street Profits
(Angelo Dawkins and Montez Ford). Mexico vs USA
#SmackDown #WWESmackDown #WWE #wrestling #prowrestling #combatsports #JohnCena #LWO #wwewomen #dreamatch #dreammatches #entertainment #entertainmentnews #popculture #legend #legends #TV #FOX #trend #trending #buzz #X #media
"I used to hate old-timers who didn't praise the younger wrestlers, but you've got to pass the torch sometime. If you're old, that torch gets too heavy for you and you can't carry it, so it won't do you any good" - Randy Savage #randysavage #quote #machoman #wrestler #wrestlers #wrestling #prowrestling #combatsports #sportsbiz #entertainment #legend #media #mediaman
"No-one really feels self-confident deep down because it's an artificial idea. Really, people aren't that worried about what you're doing or what you're saying, so you can drift around the world relatively anonymously: you must not feel persecuted and examined. Liberate yourself from that idea that people are watching you" -Russell Brand #RussellBrand #quote #people #life #world #media
"As a longtime practitioner of yoga and a person who's been involved in physical fitness my whole life, I can tell you, yoga helps you achieve altered states of consciousness. It is not just stretching. The only way you can say that it's stretching is if you haven't done it, or that you haven't done it rigorously for a long period of time" - Joe Rogan #JoeRogan #quote #yoga #fitness #consciousness #time #wellbeing #health #sports #mbs #life #world #media
"A wise man should consider that health is the greatest of human blessings, and learn how by his own thought to derive benefit from his illnesses" - Hippocrates #hippocrates #quote #health #life #mbs #mindset #world #media
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WWE @WWE SmackDown. September 22, 2023
John Cena @JohnCena will be seen!
Iyo Sky @Iyo_SkyWWE vs Asuka @WWEAsuka Empress vs Genius Of The Sky!- WWE Women's Title
Latino World Order (Rey Mysterio @reymysterio and Santos Escobar @EscobarWWE ) vs The Street Profits
(Angelo Dawkins and Montez Ford). Mexico vs USA
#SmackDown #WWESmackDown #WWE #wrestling #prowrestling #combatsports #JohnCena #LWO #wwewomen #dreamatch #dreammatches #entertainment #entertainmentnews #popculture #legend #legends #TV #FOX #trend #trending #buzz #X #media
WWE @WWE SmackDown. September 22, 2023
John Cena @JohnCena will be seen!
Iyo Sky @Iyo_SkyWWE vs Asuka @WWEAsuka Empress vs Genius Of The Sky!- WWE Women's Title
Latino World Order (Rey Mysterio @reymysterio and Santos Escobar @EscobarWWE ) vs The Street Profits
(Angelo Dawkins and Montez Ford). Mexico vs USA
#SmackDown #WWESmackDown #WWE #wrestling #prowrestling #combatsports #JohnCena #LWO #wwewomen #dreamatch #dreammatches #entertainment #entertainmentnews #popculture #legend #legends #TV #FOX #trend #trending #buzz #X #media
News and Politics
As Murdoch acknowledged during the Dominion hearings: “Nobody wants Trump as an enemy”.
“We all know that Trump has a big following,” he added. “If he says: ‘Don’t watch Fox News’, maybe some don’t.”
#DonaldTrump #Trump #Murdoch #RupertMurdoch #LachlanMurdoch #newscorp #FoxNews #FOX #politics #USA #Australia #Aussie #worldnews #worldnews #trend #trends #buzz #newsmedia #media #mediaman
"Just wanted to inform everyone that I’m no longer with WWE". "Thank you for the memories and opportunities also thank you to all the fans for the support and love you give me every time I go out to the ring. See you all soon." - Matt Riddle #MattRiddle #Riddle #quote #WWE #wrestling #prowrestling #sportsbiz #popculture #entertainment #media
Cen-A Opportunity! Legend Killer - Legend Maker. Ying and Yang, Cause and Effect!
Pro Wrestling And Entertainment Industry Legend Chris Jericho (signed with AEW @AEW) Speaks Out via Busted Open Radio
"It's wrestling, though, man, you know? It's only rock and roll".
"People like to focus on [the] negative. I remember when I got into a fight with Goldberg in Milwaukee, it was out on whatever version of the internet was then 10 minutes later."
"Out of those 81,000 people, how many people know what ever happened, or ever really care?" "The hardcore [fans], and the journalists, and the guys who do this care, and we should. But there's also fans - not just 81,000, but how about being number one on cable, once again, four weeks in a row?"
#ChrisJericho #quote #quotes #AEW #wrestling #prowrestling #wrestlingfans #sportsbiz #entertainment #combatsports #popculture #legend #GOAT #podcast #showbiz #media
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David Rowe Illustrations
Citizen Kane, Murdoch adaption...Walter Parks Thatcher: [Quoting from Kane's letter] I think it would be fun to run a newspaper.
[Repeats the same line but with more aggravation in his voice]
Walter Parks Thatcher: I think it would be fun to run a newspaper.
[Looks directly into the camera]
Walter Parks Thatcher: Arggh! *A News Corp paper! Great newsy art.
SEJ
The Search Engine Journal Local Search Archives are akin to an online based worldwide learning center and virtual library with so many of the resources and learning materials to help one become successful in the search engine optimization, digital media and social media space. Outstanding. The archive remains relevant and is updated frequently as to keep up-to-date with new developments in the fast pasted world of the internet matrix of things. Top of the class to top of the rankings.
SEJ DALL-E September 2023
SEJ's Kristi on DALL-E3. The content generation looks particularly interesting. That's an area I could save time on and traditional thinking is that extra quality content will further drive more traffic, hence business to websites right? The numbers game meets resource allocation.
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High Stakes: The ‘life-or-death’ battle over a company name
Two stars of Australia’s new economy – the similarly named share trading platform Stake and online cryptocurrency casino juggernaut stake.com – are locked in a life-or-death court battle over naming rights amid growing concerns the gambling outfit has major plans for its home country.
Stake the share platform launched legal action in the Federal Court in August seeking to enforce its trademarks and stop stake.com, a multibillion-dollar enterprise, from using that name for its business in Australia.
The fast-growing Sydney-based share trading platform, the third-largest broker in the country, alleges that the casino group stake.com has been breaking Australian consumer law and has misled consumers through the use of its brand in Australia and its marketing, including its sponsorship of the Alfa Romeo team and the sale of apparel.
Stake the share trading platform, which owns the URL stake.com.au, alleges stake.com’s use of the name in Australia has potentially led to consumers believing the two brands are related when they are not.
The share trading platform Stake, founded in 2017 by entrepreneurs Dan Silver and Matt Leibowitz, alleges there is a threat that more consumers could be misled if stake.com is allowed to continue with its plans to grow its business significantly in Australia under the brand name Stake.
The casino group, led by Melbourne-based twenty-somethings billionaires Ed Craven and Bijan Tehrani, is expected to seek to have the matter summarily dismissed.
A spokesperson for stake.com said: “We are aware of a frivolous claim lodged in the Federal Court by Stakeshop, which in part claims that our global Formula One team sponsorship impinges on their ability to sell trucker hats.”
“We are proud of the global stake.com brand. As a group, we abide by the laws of the countries in which we operate, and do not offer our stake.com platform to Australian customers. We believe the claim has no legal merit and will vigorously defend our rights.”
The court case has shed new light on stake.com’s expansion plans for Australia, where it remains blocked to Australian users.
Court documents reveal the casino group has sought to buy the stake.com.au website from the sharemarket trading platform business. According to the court documents, the casino group has also registered several Australian website domains for its Australian expansion and applied to register a slew of trademarks including Stake Australia, Stake Bet and Stake Casino.
The Federal Court action comes after years of simmering tensions between the two groups over the use of stake.com’s name in Australia.
Stake.com was established in 2017 but flew under the radar in Australia until late 2021, when this masthead revealed the local origins of the business that had grown to be one of world’s largest online casinos, processing hundreds of billions of bets on sports, virtual table games and online slot machines.
In early 2022, stake.com signed hip-hop megastar Drake as its lead ambassador. Later in 2022 it signed a multi-year deal to become lead jersey sponsor for English Premier League team Everton FC as well as its sponsorship of Alfa Romeo’s F1 team.
The significant increase in stake.com’s marketing and media presence was noticed at the share trading platform group that built its user base during the COVID-inspired boom in Gen Y and Gen Z investors, thanks in part to its ultra-low cost brokerage fee model, savvy marketing and the broadening into other financial services including a superannuation product.
A spokesman for Stake the share trading platform said that since the group was founded in Australia it had built a client base of more than 500,000 and more than $2.5 billion in assets under management.
“Over the past six years, we have established a trusted and culturally relevant Australian brand that reflects our dedication to meeting customer needs. It permeates all parts of our business, spanning products, content, internal culture, customer interactions and much more, making it our most valuable asset. We are committed to protecting the Stake brand and the high level of consumer trust associated with it,” the spokesman said.
“We are concerned by the threatened use of the Stake brand in Australia by stake.com in relation to gambling, casino and sports betting services, due to the potential for customer confusion and damage to our brand and reputation.”
Stake.com is not available in Australia but according to court documents, the group is already making arrangements for a major expansion in this country and is seeking a sports betting licence.
In October 2022, stake.com casino executive Brais Pena Sanchez contacted Stake share trading founder Silver on LinkedIn and arranged a video conference meeting where the pair discussed Stake the share platform selling its Australian URL, stake.com.au, to the Curacao-registered, Australian-operated casino group.
During those discussions, Sanchez – the casino group’s chief strategy officer – informed Silver that stake.com planned to launch in Australia under the name Stakebet, or similar, according to court documents. A deal never ensued and the website remains owned by the share trading platform.
Tensions flared again in early 2023 after stake.com the casino was announced as the new team sponsor for Formula 1 team Alfa Romeo, sparking a flurry of legal letters between the two groups ahead of the Melbourne race.
According to the court documents, the casino group’s lawyers assured the share trading Stake that it would not use its logo in conjunction with the Melbourne Grand Prix and did not intend to display the name on any vehicles or uniforms or as part of the Alfa Romeo team name.
However, the share trading Stake alleges that during the four days of the Grand Prix, Stake casino logos appeared on banners for official team merchandise, the team display and on signs at the event and in the race program.
In May, Stake.com was applying to register a large number of new trademarks for goods and services. This included Stake Australia, Stake Bookie, Stake Betting, Stake Gaming, Stake Esports, Stake Casino, Stake Sportsbook, Stake Bet, Stake Punt, Stake Sports, Stake Pokes and Stake Slots.
The casino group has also registered a series of Australian website names under the “.au” domain including stakebet.au; stakecasino.au, stakesports.au and playstake.au.
The case continues.
Crown to launch digital self-exclusion scheme for casinos - July 2023
People with gambling problems will be able to ban themselves from Crown casinos over the internet instead of having to do so in person, as part of a wider overhaul of the group’s approach to harm minimisation.
Crown Resorts’ new safer gambling program also includes the establishment of a dedicated gambling policy team, which will monitor customer playing behaviour and create interventions to better prevent gambling harm from occurring.
Crown boss Ciaran Carruthers joined the business last year following an overhaul of Crown’s management, after a series of bruising inquiries into the company. Carruthers, who has led other global casino groups including Wynn Macau, said the new leadership of Crown was committed to making gambling safer, even if it meant less turnover in its casinos.
“I have been in this business for 34 years and I can tell you – no one does this,” Carruthers said.
“It is critically important to me that when I look at the long-term viability of this business that people see our resorts as entertainment to enjoy safely.”
Under the changes, customers will be able to block themselves from entering a Crown casino through a new digital self-exclusion portal. Those who wanted to ban themselves from Crown venues were previously required to visit, in person, a designated responsible gambling centre run by the group.
The group has also moved to cashless gaming at Crown Melbourne and Crown Sydney – a condition of its temporary gaming licences in NSW and Victoria– as well as introducing $10 maximum bet limits on poker machines at Crown Perth. The technological overhaul required to facilitate the changes has so far cost the business $13 million.
Carruthers pointed to changes Crown has already made which go beyond government regulation, such as encouraging customers to take breaks every three hours, as an indicator of its commitment to shifting problem gambling patterns.
The group said it wanted to establish advisory panels to work with state regulators and community groups to improve gambling harm education and share its research.
Carruthers conceded some aspects of its new approach to harm minimisation, called Crown PlaySafe, would not be welcomed by heavy gamblers. But he argued the changes would make the casinos more appealing to the general public.
Crown’s new head of gambling policy research, Dr Jamie Wiebe, said the most critical shift in the groups gambling policy was a move away from harm minimisation to prevention.
“We want to prevent a problem from ever happening,” she said.
The new program was unveiled just weeks after the Federal Court determined Crown will pay one of the biggest penalties in Australian corporate history to the financial crimes watchdog, after past anti-money laundering and counter-terrorism failings in its Perth and Melbourne casinos.
The $450 million fine is about five per cent of Crown’s last listed market capitalisation before it was taken private by Blackstone Capital for $8.9 billion in May last year.
In 2019, an investigation by this masthead and 60 Minutes revealed Crown had been infiltrated by international criminal syndicates and money launderers.
Crown was forced to overhaul its board, management and procedures to satisfy the regulators, who approved a conditional licence for Crown to operate its Barangaroo casino in June 2022. The conditional licence is valid until the end of this year.
Carruthers said the integrated hospitality offerings at Crown meant the casino could afford to embrace the shift.
“I want people to enjoy the experience of our casinos whether they’re coming for dining, casino or retail. I’m fairly agnostic across which one of those experience or how many of those experiences you want to enjoy,” he said.
Reclusive Sydney gambling mogul emerges as kingmaker in South Africa - September 2023
Reclusive online gambling mogul Martin Moshal is playing an increasingly influential role in a push to oust the South African government.
Mr Moshal, who lives on the exclusive Sydney Harbour row of Camp Cove alongside shopping centre billionaire Steven Lowy, is not on many rich lists but has made a fortune from online casino technology.
Herman Mashaba is the leader of ActionSA, one of a handful of opposition parties Mr Moshal has backed in the lead up to the 2024 South African national election. Mr Mashaba, known for taking a tough line on immigration and endorsing hard labour for prisoners, is hoping the gambling tycoon will continue his support.
“I wish he won’t give up on us and help us democratically remove the [incumbent African National Congress] and bring about a peaceful transition... please help ActionSA,” Mr Mashaba said in an interview with The Australian Financial Review.
“I have been lucky to have known Martin long before I went into politics,” he added. “I approached him and he was willing to back me up because he knows me as a capitalist... Martin was one of the first to come to the party.”
President Cyril Ramaphosa’s social democratic African National Congress party is set to come under pressure next year amid South Africa’s dire economic troubles. A senior party official has warned the country could become a failed state.
Mr Moshal is the largest individual political donor in South Africa in the last two years. He has given 46.5 million rand ($3.8 million), according to electoral records analysed by My Vote Counts, a non-profit advocating for more transparency in politics.
“Given the amounts donated it has become clear to us he now has a large stake in our politics,” said Robyn Pasensie, a researcher at the organisation.
The size of Mr Moshal’s wealth is unknown. He is extremely private and only admitted to his ownership of online gambling giant Betway after UK journalists traced his ownership back to offshore trusts. Mr Moshal did not respond to a request for comment.
Aside from ActionSA, Mr Moshal has donated to the Democratic Alliance (DA), Build One South Africa and said he also intends to support the Inkatha Freedom Party. Mr Moshal is ActionSA’s biggest backer. The Australian Financial Review is not suggesting Mr Moshal supports the party’s policies.
“I’m not saying these parties are all perfect, but we shouldn’t let perfect be the enemy of good... They are all far better than the government we have today,” Mr Moshal told The Jewish Report earlier this year.
“Pirkei Avot was my late dad – John Moshal’s – favourite part of the Talmud within which Rabbi Tarfon is quoted as saying, ‘It’s not up to you to finish the task, but you aren’t free to avoid it’.”
Mr Moshal said he believed South Africa needed a new government and was on its way to becoming a failed state.
“[This is a] government that’s corrupt, cannot provide basic security and opportunity to its citizens... we need the change of government and leadership that these parties can provide.”
ActionSA is known for advocating for life sentences and hard labour for serious offenders and also wants to repeal the ANC’s Broad-based Black Economic Empowerment (B-BBEE) policy, a form of affirmative action introduced post-apartheid.
“Martin knows my views on racial policies and how dangerous they are,” said Mr Mashaba, who started off in business and was the founder of African hair care brand, Black Like Me.
ActionSA has also been vocal on immigration, views labelled as “xenophobic” by some critics and politicians.
“We recognise that South Africa was built... on the back of migrants,” said Mr Mashaba. “But they must come here legally... you break our laws, we will send you back to your country, the country where you came from.”
One of South Africa’s main economic problems is mismanagement and corruption inside the country’s electricity utility Eskom. The utility has been forced to implement rolling blackouts, which have further stymied economic growth.
“If Eskom cannot run on a commercial basis then it must die a natural death,” Mr Mashaba said, adding changes were needed to give other companies the opportunity to compete.
Mr Moshal’s Entrée Capital is one of Israel’s most active funds in the Israeli VC space. He is the beneficiary of a trust which is the largest individual shareholder in Super Group, which became the parent of Betway and online casino brand Spin after a 2022 listing. The group reported net gaming revenue of €1.3 billion ($2.1 billion) in 2022.
“Moshal is one of the least visible betting entrepreneurs in the world,” Guardian reporter Rob Davis wrote in his book Jackpot: How Gambling Conquered Britain.
“Moshal made much of his fortune from his home in Durban where he patented a series of technological solutions for the online gambling world and developed them via his company Microgaming. The company has since become one of the industry’s leading software players”
A philanthropist, he sits on the capital management advisory committee of Sydney’s Moriah College, alongside Steven Lowy and former Babcock & Brown chief executive Phil Green. He is also a life trustee of the Moriah Foundation and previously donated to Israel’s SpaceIL project attempting to land spacecraft on the moon.
SkyCity puts aside $45m for potential AUSTRAC penalty - August 2023
SkyCity Entertainment set aside $45 million for a penalty if it is convicted of breaches of anti-money laundering and counterterrorism laws.
The financial crimes watchdog, AUSTRAC, lodged proceedings against SkyCity in December over alleged serious and systemic non-compliance with the laws at its Adelaide casino.
SkyCity said on Monday it was difficult to determine the size and timing of the penalty, given the proceedings are in the early stages. But it decided to lodge a $45 million provision on the basis that each breach attracts a maximum civil penalty of between $18 million and $22.2 million.
“Estimating the potential exposure to penalties with any degree of accuracy at this stage of that ongoing process remains challenging, particularly given the outcome is highly dependent on a range of factors which are not yet known,” a statement said.
AUSTRAC has alleged “serious noncompliance” with anti-money laundering laws against SkyCity, claiming the company allowed 59 suspicious patrons to churn more than $4 billion in dirty cash through its Adelaide casino. The independent review is on hold because of the Federal Court action.
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The company cut full-year earnings expectations at an investor day in May, with a slowdown in revenue from the international business and rising legal and compliance costs related to a crackdown on money laundering weighing on its bottom line. Analysts have provisioned about $50 million for the AUSTRAC fine, but there is no guarantee that will be enough.
In late May, SkyCity announced it would hire an independent expert to review its anti-money laundering and counter-terrorism programs. It is still waiting for South Australia’s investigation into whether it should hold a casino licence to recommence.
“Judgements in civil penalty proceedings bought by AUSTRAC to date demonstrate that the Court’s determination of the appropriate penalty ... is very specific to the fact in each case and that the Court will have regard to a broad range of factors,” SkyCity said.
SkyCity’s provision announcement coincided with a $45.6 million write-down of the Adelaide casino licence, which was attributed to the value and timing of future discounted cash flows.
The company said the impairment and provision were non-cash and would not affect earnings for fiscal year 2023. Earnings before interest, tax, depreciation and amortisation remain in line with guidance of $NZ300 million ($276.6 million) to $NZ310 million.
SkyCity’s provision comes a month after the federal court agreed on rival casino operator Crown’s $450 million fine for breaches of anti-money laundering and counter-terrorism laws. The fine is being paid over a two-year period without interest.
Shares closed on Friday at $2.09.
Hotel room rates plummet for F1 Las Vegas Grand Prix weekend - September 2023
Hotel room rates for Las Vegas Grand Prix weekend have fallen by nearly 60 percent in some cases since they were first posted last fall. But an industry expert says that does not necessarily mean interest in the event is failing to meet expectation.
When select Las Vegas resorts in November 2022 opened their booking schedules for race weekend, listed prices were as high as they have been seen in the city’s history. While still at higher than normal rates, a major decrease has occurred.
When a drop in booking pace occurs, it automatically triggers revenue management systems to suggest the lowering of room rates, according to Dr. Mehmet Erdem, professor of hotel operations and technology at UNLV’s William F. Harrah College of Hospitality.
Pennsylvania online casinos cross $5 billion in lifetime revenue - September 2023
Business is booming in Pennsylvania. The Keystone State is the clear market leader when it comes to online casino revenue within the US. After August’s total of $171.9 million, Pennsylvania surpassed the $5 billion threshold for lifetime revenue.
Pennsylvania online casinos are constantly upgrading and adding new content, and customers are responding. It doesn’t appear the market will be slowing down anytime soon, either.
Pennsylvania has set the US online casino revenue record four times over the last 11 months, and almost did so again. August’s revenue total of $171.9 million came second to March’s figure of $181.5 million. It was the second-best month of all time for any state with legal online casinos.
Atlantic City: Five-year turnaround of Ocean Casino Resort among city’s greatest successes - September 2023
In the winter of 2019, if any New Jersey sportsbook had tried to offer odds on the Atlantic City casino hotel then known as Ocean Resort Casino making it through another summer, no gambler in their right mind would have taken the bet.
Fast forward to the end of summer 2023, and the property now called Ocean Casino Resort is one of the city’s best performers. In fact, an argument can be made that Ocean’s rise to the upper echelon of the Atlantic City casino market is the most remarkable turnaround of any gambling parlor in history.
From its failed origins as Revel Casino Hotel to its seemingly doomed trajectory in February 2019, the $2.4 billion casino at the north end of the AC Boardwalk felt almost cursed (if you believe in that kind of stuff). But, apparently, the gambling gods decided Ocean was deserving of a better fate.
Once shunned by casino operators, responsible gaming campaign turns 25
At a time when problem gambling matters were rarely mentioned in gaming company boardrooms, Harrah’s Entertainment decided the issue needed to be raised on casino floors.
But it wasn’t just rival corporate executives that looked askance at the idea of employees learning how to spot signs that a customer might have a gambling problem.
“Our own lawyers tried to block it,” recalled Jan Jones Blackhurst, who was then a Harrah’s senior vice president. With the support of company CEO Phil Satre, she led Harrah’s launch of the casino industry’s first responsible gaming initiative in the mid-1990s.
“We had employees that wanted to be educated on the subject. They wanted to be able to help,” said Jones Blackhurst, who completed two terms as Las Vegas mayor before joining Harrah’s. “Maybe because I came out of politics. You have a responsibility to your communities, your customers and your employees. We believed it was the right thing to do.”
Sportsbooks ratchet up targeted advertising at start of NFL season
Shortly after the NFL forged authorized gaming partnerships with a host of leading sportsbooks in the 2021 offseason, operators began flooding the airwaves with a series of humorous spots that featured celebrities hawking their products.
Caesars Sportsbook spent lavishly on an ad package starring the Manning Brothers and actor J.B. Smoove as the eponymous emperor. During Super Bowl LVII last February, Kevin Hart expressed his displeasure for “taking the under” in a DraftKings spot while standing mere feet from WWE wrestler The Undertaker. Another commercial from FanDuel featured a live field goal attempt by former New England Patriots tight end Rob Gronkowski, one that drifted wide left of the upright at the last second.
Former lieutenant governor calls for Nevada Gaming Commission cyber briefing after MGM and Caesars hacks - September 2023
In light of cyberattacks on MGM Resorts International and Caesars Entertainment, former Nevada Lt. Gov. Brian Krolicki, now a Nevada Gaming Commission member, called for a briefing on the hacking incident to shed more light on what happened and how it can be prevented in the future.
The suggestion comes the same day the Massachusetts Gaming Commission met in executive session “to consider information related to an MGM cybersecurity issue.” It held a similar closed meeting on Monday.
After it returned to the public session on Thursday, the Commission entered into an executive session regarding security at MGM Springfield, according to the Commission agenda.
Krolicki made his comments at the end of Thursday’s five-hour meeting of the Nevada Gaming Commission. Since it was made during the public comment session, the commission could not take up the matter, but it’s likely the issue will return to the Commission and the Nevada Gaming Control Board at some point.
In the latest cyberattack that started being felt Sept. 10 and went into this week, hackers knocked slot machines out of commission and created havoc with ATMs and computer systems. MGM, which is reported by a Wall Street analyst to have lost between $4.2 million and $8.4 million a day with the hack, said its systems were operating normally across their properties nationwide as of Wednesday. Caesars reported it was hacked in late August and had customer information stolen but paid a $15 million ransom that avoided any shutdowns.
In December, the Commission approved cybersecurity regulations for the state’s gaming industry to protect operators’ information systems from attacks that could shutter casinos and compromise customer data. The rules went into effect Jan. 1. That approval came right after BetMGM reported that its customers’ personal information – including Social Security numbers – was obtained in an unauthorized manner and included information on their transactions.
In the regulations, casinos were required to do a risk assessment of their systems by the end of 2023 and take any necessary steps on an ongoing basis to ward off an attack. If any breach was successful that compromised player data, credit card information and other records, including that of employees, properties would be required to report it to gaming regulators within 72 hours.
“It would be important and enlightening given the recent events of the past week regarding cyber security and ransomware in particular at MGM and our friends at Caesars and look at how it impacts our world and regulatory responsibilities,” Krolicki said, later adding, “I think at some point in time when there’s the energy and understanding of what just happened if we could get some kind of briefing of what transpired that’s appropriate for public record and perhaps policies going forward of how do we avoid these things and if they do happen whether the reporting schemes on whether it was immediately reported to the Gaming Control Board. There are a lot of questions and a lot of publicity. It’s a global story, and I just think it would behoove all of us to get a good handle on what just happened.”
The Nevada Gaming Control Board released a statement on Sept. 13 saying Gov. Joe Lombardo and the board “are monitoring the cybersecurity incident with MGM Resorts and are in communication with company executives. Additionally, the Nevada Gaming Control Board remains in communication with other law enforcement agencies.”
Casino consultant Brendan Bussmann, managing partner of B Global, which tracks gaming boards and commissions, said the Massachusetts hearing won’t be the last and expects states across the country to hold similar sessions wanting to hear from MGM executives.
“Nevada is the second regulator that I know has raised their hand on this after Massachusetts,” Bussmann said. “It should be about what happened and how it happened, which should be considered confidential information. This is going to be a question that every regulator for both commercial gaming and tribal gaming is going to be concerned about. Since we’re still trying to figure out what happened, then we can see what tools we need as an industry to beef up our efforts on cyber-related events.”
While everyone is focused today on MGM and Caesars, this is not the first cyber attack, Bussmann said.
“This can go back to the Las Vegas Sands attacks in 2014 from the Iranians and any other data breaches that happened between then and now,” Bussmann said. “I would expect every state at a minimum has MGM and Caesars in it to at least say what happened and what can we do regulatory to help this and what can we do with testing and what can we do IT and host of things.”
Bussmann said the regulators can’t be reactionary but instead should get evidence on how it happened and use the best resources outside of the casino industry, such as security firms, to do it right.
“There’s no one better suited to regulate Nevada on this issue than the Gaming Control Board in working with law enforcement partners across the country,” Bussmann said.
Showbiz News from Hollywood; Screenwriters reach tentative deal with studios to end strike
The show must go on - eventually, anyway! With or without a dash of AI et al.
The Writers Guild of America, which represents thousands of Hollywood writers, advised Sunday PM that it has reached a tentative agreement on a new contract with the major entertainment studios, paving the way to end the 146-day strike that has brought television and film production to a standstill. That's right - 146 days! That's some kind of record.
"The WGA and [Alliance of Motion Picture and Television Produces] have reached a tentative agreement," according to an online WGA statement that discloses that more details will follow after the contract language has been finalized...ink had dried, you know the drum.
Though the AMPTP trade alliance of major film and television producers has yet to comment on the development, WGA described the contract to members in a letter as "exceptional." It contains "meaningful gains and protections for writers in every sector of the membership," it said.
The roughly 11,000 writers were demanding "economic fairness," streaming-service residuals and regulation on the use of AI (artificial intelligence) - take that, you bots!
"What we have won in this contract ... is due to the willingness of this membership to exercise its power, to demonstrate its solidarity, to walk side-by-side, to endure the pain and uncertainty of the past 146 days. It is the leverage generated by your strike, in concert with the extraordinary support of our union siblings, that finally brought the companies back to the table to make a deal," it said.
The language of the contract was being finalized, it said, with guild members to vote on whether to accept it in the coming days.
Union members are being advised that "no one is to return to work" unless specifically authorized by the guild.
"We are still on strike until then," it said, though it was suspending picketing.
The Hollywood writers went on strike early May after negotiations with the studios and streaming services fell through, following six weeks of talks, which brought a halt to television productions.
Many insiders as well as regular consumers of streaming media shows and other had noticed a dive in overall quality.
In mid-July, the Screen Actors Guild-American Federation of Television and Radio Artists joined the movement, shutting down any active studio productions.
The deal announced late Sunday does not mean the resumption of Hollywood productions, as SAG-AFTRA members remain on the picket lines, and WAG is encouraging its members to join in the actors' fight.
SAG-AFTRA issued a statement congratulating WGA on the deal it said it would review.
"We remain on strike in our TV/Theatrical contract and continue to urge the studio and streamer CEOs and the AMPTP to return to the table and make the fair deal that our members deserve and demand," it said.
The agreement was reached following a recent breach in a stalemate in negotiations, which began about mid-August.
The two sides were quiet until Sept. 14, when they said they had agreed to return to the negotiating table, and they have been hashing out a deal since Wednesday.
"After a nearly five-month long strike, I am grateful that the Writers Guild of American and the Alliance of Motion Picture and Television Producers have reached a fair agreement and I'm hopeful that the same can happen soon with the Screen Actors Guild," Los Angeles Mayor Karen Bass said in a statement.
"Now, we must focus on getting the entertainment industry, and all the small businesses that depend on it, back on their feet and stronger than every before."
The strike, which has waylaid productions for months, has hurt the bottom line of studios, with Warner Bros. Discovery telling the Securities and Exchange Commission earlier this month in a filing that the strikes have "negatively impacted" the company by a cost of up to $500 million. Some folks in and around the biz are pleased that that likes of a somewhat "woke and broken" Disney had lost so much money.
Under the watercooler Media heard, "More about fairness, distribution of funds, and a fair days pay for a fair days work. We showed the world and this script kind of wrote itself"!
Showbiz News from Hollywood; Screenwriters reach tentative deal with studios to end strike
The show must go on - eventually, anyway! With or without a dash of AI et al.
The Writers Guild of America, which represents thousands of Hollywood writers, advised Sunday PM that it has reached a tentative agreement on a new contract with the major entertainment studios, paving the way to end the 146-day strike that has brought television and film production to a standstill. That's right - 146 days! That's some kind of record.
"The WGA and [Alliance of Motion Picture and Television Produces] have reached a tentative agreement," according to an online WGA statement that discloses that more details will follow after the contract language has been finalized...ink had dried, you know the drum.
Though the AMPTP trade alliance of major film and television producers has yet to comment on the development, WGA described the contract to members in a letter as "exceptional." It contains "meaningful gains and protections for writers in every sector of the membership," it said.
The roughly 11,000 writers were demanding "economic fairness," streaming-service residuals and regulation on the use of AI (artificial intelligence) - take that, you bots!
"What we have won in this contract ... is due to the willingness of this membership to exercise its power, to demonstrate its solidarity, to walk side-by-side, to endure the pain and uncertainty of the past 146 days. It is the leverage generated by your strike, in concert with the extraordinary support of our union siblings, that finally brought the companies back to the table to make a deal," it said.
The language of the contract was being finalized, it said, with guild members to vote on whether to accept it in the coming days.
Union members are being advised that "no one is to return to work" unless specifically authorized by the guild.
"We are still on strike until then," it said, though it was suspending picketing.
The Hollywood writers went on strike early May after negotiations with the studios and streaming services fell through, following six weeks of talks, which brought a halt to television productions.
Many insiders as well as regular consumers of streaming media shows and other had noticed a dive in overall quality.
In mid-July, the Screen Actors Guild-American Federation of Television and Radio Artists joined the movement, shutting down any active studio productions.
The deal announced late Sunday does not mean the resumption of Hollywood productions, as SAG-AFTRA members remain on the picket lines, and WAG is encouraging its members to join in the actors' fight.
SAG-AFTRA issued a statement congratulating WGA on the deal it said it would review.
"We remain on strike in our TV/Theatrical contract and continue to urge the studio and streamer CEOs and the AMPTP to return to the table and make the fair deal that our members deserve and demand," it said.
The agreement was reached following a recent breach in a stalemate in negotiations, which began about mid-August.
The two sides were quiet until Sept. 14, when they said they had agreed to return to the negotiating table, and they have been hashing out a deal since Wednesday.
"After a nearly five-month long strike, I am grateful that the Writers Guild of American and the Alliance of Motion Picture and Television Producers have reached a fair agreement and I'm hopeful that the same can happen soon with the Screen Actors Guild," Los Angeles Mayor Karen Bass said in a statement.
"Now, we must focus on getting the entertainment industry, and all the small businesses that depend on it, back on their feet and stronger than every before."
The strike, which has waylaid productions for months, has hurt the bottom line of studios, with Warner Bros. Discovery telling the Securities and Exchange Commission earlier this month in a filing that the strikes have "negatively impacted" the company by a cost of up to $500 million. Some folks in and around the biz are pleased that that likes of a somewhat "woke and broken" Disney had lost so much money.
Under the watercooler Media heard, "More about fairness, distribution of funds, and a fair days pay for a fair days work. We showed the world and this script kind of wrote itself"!
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If 99pc of start-ups fail, how do AirTree and Blackbird make money?
Starting an ambitious technology company is undeniably hard, but fresh data suggests failure rates aren’t as high as parts of the industry say.
On a darkened screen, a line of text lays out the stakes for The New Hustle, a 2017 documentary series: “Over 92 per cent of start-ups fail. What separates those who don’t?”
Six years later, the production company behind that feature, Founder Films, was back with a new documentary series called Founder on the same topic. This time, the odds seemed to be stacked even higher against start-up founders. “Ninety-nine per cent of start-ups fail,” the on-screen text from the documentary reads.
Apparently, those six years were a grim time for start-ups, whose founders were portrayed as valorous figures surmounting almost impossible odds. Yet between 2017 and early 2022, start-up funding soared in Australia, giving even questionable firms war chests of cash to sustain their dreams for years.
Statistics requested by The Australian Financial Review from the country’s biggest tech venture investors suggest many more start-up companies are staying afloat than the most heightened founder mythology suggests.
The disparate figures reflect an industry that does not have a uniform definition of failure even as commentators contend that failure is discussed too harshly, or too much, or not enough. And they show how failure rates are deployed to either showcase investment performance or valorise founders.
Startmate, the long-running accelerator, has reported that 63 per cent of the more than 230 companies it has a stake in are still active. AirTree Ventures, the large Sydney-based fund that was founded in 2014, said its failure rate – defined using the fairly common rule of investments where it has got back less than it invested – is lower than 20 per cent. Company closures in its portfolio are even lower, at less than 3 per cent.
Blackbird Ventures, meanwhile provided data from its first fund, raised in 2013, where 25 per cent of the companies have closed down, compared with the same number of exits and 10 that are still operating. Square Peg, the third major Australian venture fund, did not make any data available.
Better than regular businesses
Those start-up failure rates compare fairly favourably to the economy as a whole. For the past four years, failure rates for all Australian businesses with staff have hovered around 8 per cent, according to data from the Bureau of Statistics.
But unlike small-business investors who want to preserve capital and grow slowly, venture capitalists bet on a host of companies hoping a small percentage will become enormously valuable in the knowledge many will fail.
That has led some start-up industry figures such as Finder founder Fred Schebesta to argue some high-profile failures should be celebrated to avoid discouraging founders.
James Alexander, a partner at early-stage investor Galileo Ventures, said he did not support the idea of “celebrating” failure, though he acknowledged that founding a business, whether small business or start-up, was very hard.
“Do I think failure is positive? No, I don’t,” Mr Alexander said. “I don’t think [failures] are positive, but I don’t think they’re anywhere near as bad as people make them out to be.”
Mr Alexander’s portfolio has four failures, defined as firms shut down or sold that returned less than invested capital, out of 18 bets. But he said that if one of those surviving companies became a super valuable firm akin to Google, “No one’s going to mind if we lose money on five, 25 or 30 per cent of the investments or even more.”
Founder Films, owned by the founder of $2.7 billion start-up SafetyCulture Luke Annear, declined to comment on its figures, but a spokesman pointed to a 2012 Wall Street Journal article reporting Harvard research that 95 per cent of start-ups fail to hit projected figures. The 92 per cent failure rate number is also all over the internet, with the figure derived from a 2011 report by an organisation called Startup Genome that no longer appears online.
Mr Alexander said that high failure rate figures were a reflection of the way venture firms sought out exceptional results.
“When people throw out these things like ‘90per cent of businesses fail’, I think usually they mean 90 per cent of businesses never become big,” Mr Alexander said.
Murray Hurps, who runs the industry survey project Startup Muster, did not provide data on failure rates because the varying definitions make it hard to collect. But he said that average failure levels were not as useful as understanding the proposition of investing or building an individual firm.
“There are many kinds of lower risk, technology-enabled entrepreneurial pursuits that entrepreneurs should be considering, and more today than there ever were before,” Mr Hurps said.
What Lachlan Murdoch told fundies in Sydney two weeks ago - September 23, 2023
Lachlan Murdoch’s been in and around Australian business circles for most of his working life, but had little to do with the country’s big investors. Until a few weeks ago.
A couple of weeks ago, Lachlan Murdoch, 52, broke cover with Australia’s investor ranks.
Not one to normally front Australia’s fund managers on roadshows, Murdoch was the headline attraction at a small and private dinner held only a few kilometres from his home in Sydney’s inner-east.
The small crowd were all fund managers – big name stock pickers from the larger institutional equities shops in Sydney – most of who had little to do with Murdoch or his father Rupert over the years, and some of who had never met him despite him being in and out of Australian business circles his whole working life.
Murdoch spoke off the cuff. There were no notes or powerpoint slides, no script and no minders, just an update on the family’s two businesses News Corporation and Fox Corporation, and where he wanted to take them.
Perhaps playing to the small crowd, he repeatedly stressed he was 100 per cent focused on creating shareholder value, according to those at the dinner. It was a friendly crowd; money is the name of the game in funds management, and fund managers tend to bow down to billionaires. He was valued at $3.35 billion on this year’s AFR Rich List.
He was clearly proud some of the investments he had overseen – high growth and conviction bets like News Corp’s $13 billion stake in REA Group, student loans business Credible and streaming business Tubi Corporation for example – and gave the impression of a hands-on and pretty passionate senior executive.
He travels back to US head office every second week from his home in Sydney, where his children go to school. When he’s in Sydney, he tends to work New York hours. That’s the sort of stuff that top Sydney money managers are glad they do not have to worry about.
There were no hints about what was to come and fund managers left the dinner not knowing that only a few weeks later, Murdoch would finally get the keys to his father Rupert’s News Corporation.
He was announced as News Corp’s executive chairman on Thursday night, the same role he holds at sister company Fox Corporation, while his 92-year-old father would step off the board and become chairman emeritus of both companies.
Changing of the guard
Lachlan Murdoch’s succession may end a tumultuous 12 months for the family’s two companies. This time last year, the Murdochs were planning to reunite their News Corp and Fox businesses, calling it the next logical step of the strategy that led the media billionaires to sell entertainment giant 21st Century Fox to Disney in 2017 for $US52 billion.
It was about bringing together live sport and news, two things that consumers want immediately and are arguably less discretionary than TV entertainment and movies – but the deal was off a few months later called “not optimal for shareholders of News Corp and Fox at this time”.
In reality, it also faced considerable backlash from investors including Sydney-based Airlie Funds Management, who didn’t want to see News Corp combined with Fox. News Corp owns the company’s stake in REA and Move in the United States, Foxtel in Australia, Dow Jones and HarperCollins, among other businesses, and trades at a significant discount to its asset backing.
Soon after, it also abandoned talks to sell its US digital real estate business Move for about $US3 billion ($4.4 billion).
Murdoch’s comments from the dinner were ringing through those fund managers’ heads on Friday, as they tried to work out what it meant for the future of the family’s media empire.
It was a timely introduction to a man who’s well known in media circles – there are plenty of former News Corp executives who’ll give their two cents worth and recount fronting him when they hadn’t made budget or wanted money for something – but less in local markets.
Those close to him say he’s been fronting investors in the US for a while, just not Australia. Fox Corp isn’t listed in Australia, while News’ ASX-listing is small.
One thing that stuck in the Australian fund managers’ heads were Murdoch’s remarks about M&A.
He said large media sector deals were hard to get past the antitrust regulator in the United States – which is similar to deals in every concentrated sector (banking, energy, tollroads) in Australia.
So, investors are thinking there is unlikely to be any giant strategic pivot in the near to medium term, at least, although are fully aware that deals (big and small) have been a big part of the family business under Rupert Murdoch and Lachlan has been at the table for plenty of them.
“Evolution not revolution” is how his backers were putting it on Friday, pointing out that he’s done a long apprenticeship under his father at News Corp and has been Fox executive chairman since 2105 (it was 21st Century Fox before a $US50 billion sale of its film production business to Disney) . It is still all about news, sport and digital, and looking forwards not backwards.
Closing the gap in value
The ASX-listed shares were up 1.9 per cent to $32.25 in Friday afternoon trade.
Murdoch junior’s most notable was paying about $10 million for a 44 per cent stake in realestate.com.au (later REA Group), following a direct approach from Sydney real estate agent and company director John McGrath, while others for the company include Credible, where loans are up three-times since News Corp’s acquisition, Tubi, which has tripled subscribers.
Of course, it has not been all winners. He’s still remembered for One.Tel, a telecommunications company that collapsed in 2001, and Channel Ten owner Ten Network Holdings, which went into administration in 2017. News Corp’s betting play is also in trouble.
One of his loudest supporters in Australian markets is Sydney stockbroker Angus Aitken, who is known for backing family-led businesses and was quick to tell clients that News Corp was in good hands.
“Lachlan Murdoch has the same entrepreneurial genes as his Dad and has zero to prove, he already has proved himself in spades,” he said in a 1400 word note to fund managers that hit inboxes as the sun rose over Sydney Harbour.
“Anyone who has heard Lachlan talk about these businesses knows he knows these businesses inside out and knows how to allocate capital and back people within these firms with that capital for the long term.”
He said Rupert Murdoch had turned a three-paper tiddler into $US100 billion of assets, if you add the market capitalisations of News and Fox (about $US30 billion) and some of the big asset sales (c$US70 billion). “It is hard to think of anyone who will replicate that in life.”
Lachlan Murdoch will likely struggle to create anywhere near that much value, but he also doesn’t have to. Investors will be happy enough if he can close the discount between New Corp’s share price and asset value – which funds like Melbourne’s L1 Capital have talked about for years. That discount was so glaring that stockbroker UBS for a while was putting out a regulator News Corp note, pointing out the difference between the sum of its parts and share price.
The bigger news on Friday was the end of the Rupert Murdoch-era, after a career stretching seven decades. Lachlan’s ascension to the top of both companies was telegraphed by his father in the past few years. Second son James moved to the fringes of the family business after the Fox/Disney deal in 2019.
‘Take it over’: Perth lands WWE’s first Aussie event in six years - September
One of the world’s biggest sporting organisations is coming back to Australia for the first time since taking over the MCG in 2018.
The WWE will return to Australian shores for the first time since 2018 in February after the Elimination Chamber event was announced for Perth’s Optus Stadium.
After months of speculation, the sports entertainment behemoth announced that the 60,000 seat stadium would host the live event on Saturday February 24.
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The last time the WWE came down under was in 2018 when the Super-Show Down took over the MCG with Ronda Rousey stunning a packed house before Triple H pinned The Undertaker.
In the meantime, Aussie Rhea Ripley has become one of the sports’ biggest names and is expected to star as the WWE comes back to Australia, while Grayson Walker is also a near certainty to fight.
While the schedule has not yet been released, it will culminate in at least one six-man cage match with some of the promotion’s biggest names set to visit just one month out from WrestleMania 40.
Wrestlers Kofi Kingston and Xavier Woods joined WA Premier Roger Cook for the announcement.
“These are set to be the hottest tickets in town and fans can pre-register and secure their spot from today,” Cook said.
“We expect the premium live event at Optus Stadium will be a sellout with thousands of east coast and international fans flocking to Perth, Western Australia to witness this exclusive show.”
The show is expected to reach an audience of one billion people worldwide and Kingston, who is one of the members of The New Day alongside Woods and Big E, said the Elimination Chamber could “totally change the trajectory of whatever is going on in the WWE landscape”.
“Two combatants enter and there are four pods with the other combatants within them,” Woods added.
“As time passes, one of those pods will open until all of their combatants are inside of the ring.
“And then the match officially begins and you lose by pinfall or submission until there is one combatant standing and they are the winner.
“And the reason that this is so intense is because you are waiting for people to get into this match.”
The wrestlers involved are expected to have community activations and meet-and-greets with fans, and Kingston said they “really come into a town and take it over”.
The WWE has recently merged with the UFC, which had a massive show earlier this year in Perth when Alexander Volkanovski lost a controversial bout to Islam Makhachev for the lightweight title.
Expend4bles
A new generation of stars join the world's top action stars for an adrenaline-fueled adventure in Expend4bles. Reuniting as the team of elite mercenaries, Jason Statham, Dolph Lundgren, Randy Couture, and Sylvester Stallone are joined for the first time by Curtis "50 Cent" Jackson, Megan Fox, Tony Jaa, Iko Uwais, Jacob Scipio, Levy Tran, and Andy Garcia. Armed with every weapon they can get their hands on and the skills to use them, The Expendables are the world's last line of defense and the team that gets called when all other options are off the table. But new team members with new styles and tactics are going to give "new blood" a whole new meaning.—Lionsgate
The Unbreakable Bunch
An Alien Force Came To Conquer - They Had No Idea This Bunch Was In Town.
Producers Ray “Glacier” Lloyd and Steve Luther Wilson, aka “Big Sexy” Luther Biggs, trained at the Power Plant and broke into the business about the same time. A decade ago, the two started talking about a movie.
“We had this idea,” says Lloyd, “What if a bunch of pro wrestlers had to step out of their wrestling world and into a fantasy world where they have to battle aliens?”
“We’re both big fans of The Magnificent Seven, The Wild Bunch, The Dirty Dozen, and The Professionals. They were all ensemble casts, and most of them were somewhat diverse. We thought, ‘What if we could make a movie like that and celebrate the wrestling business?’”
Most wrestling movies either focus on the dark side, or they go for the campy humor,” says Lloyd. “They make movies like The Wrestler, which was very good and yes, that is how some guys turn out. Or they make fun of wrestling and wrestling fans. We wanted to celebrate what’s great about being a wrestling fan and what’s fun about the business without making fun of it. We didn’t think that anyone else was going to make a movie like that, and even if they did, they probably wouldn’t get it right.”
“The story changed a lot from that first draft, but we tried to stay true to the essence of the characters and what they stood for,” explains Lloyd.
Ernest “The Cat” Miller
Stan Hansen
Tonga Uli’uli Fifita, aka Haku, aka Meng
Larry Zbyszko
Diamond Dallas Page
David “Gangrel” Heath.
“An ensemble cast like this has never been done in a wrestling film.” says Lloyd. “We also worked with some great actors we cast in the non-wrestling roles. Nicholas Logan did a tremendous job in our movie, and he’s had some great roles before and after The Unbreakable Bunch. I’m excited to see where his career goes.”
“These are men like us who have their life together,” says Lloyd. “They have good jobs, a nice home. You also see how these guys come together to put on a show. It’s a team effort, whether it’s for one night or a tour. Then they all go their separate ways. That’s something we’ve never seen in a movie about wrestling, and we wanted to portray that.”
“Wrestling is at its best when everyone can enjoy it,” says Lloyd. “A lot of the fans I meet at shows and convention are grown ups who were kids when I was first on TV. Now they’re bringing their kids because they want the next generation to enjoy wrestling like they did. There’s definitely some action, but we kept it to a PG or PG-13 level. We really want families to enjoy this picture, even if they don’t watch wrestling.”
“We want this movie to be something that wrestlers and wrestling fans will be proud to recommend to people,” says Lloyd. “At the end of the day, it’s about camaraderie, loyalty, friendship. It’s about the noble side of professional wrestling.”
WWE Hall of Famer Larry Zbyszko via aQ&A on AdFreeShows.com. In addition to taking fan questions, he also talked about the movie, “The Unbreakable Bunch” that Ernest Miller, himself, and several other wrestlers are in:
"Ray Lloyd, Luther Biggs, had been working their butts off for some years to get this movie going. They wrote it, and then they had to get financed. At the end of 2009, we filmed it and it really came out great. I mean, it's a movie about wrestlers saving a town from aliens, but it's not a wrestling movie. It's kind of a science fiction action movie with emotion and you'll find yourself laughing when you don't expect to. I mean, it was really well done. It's a family friendly movie. Nothing dirty, nothing raunchy. I mean, if you're not a wrestling fan, you're gonna love it too because it's not about wrestling. But it was really well done. I've been dying to see it. As soon as we finished it, like at the end of 2019 right before Christmas, a couple of months later this stupid COVID hit and slowed it down a little bit with the editing, but there was the guy alone editing in the booth. So it's finally all done with the editing and the sound and the music and the special effects, and I hear it's going to come out October 13th. I can't wait to see it."
Zbyszko talking about two movies he should have been in:
"I should have been in two big movies. I'll tell you a story quickly. Alright, 1976 or something I was wrestling in California a little bit. I was wrestling a man and I got a message to talk to some producer in the audience. So after the match, I went to talk to this guy. He said, 'Hey, I'm making my first movie. It's a low budget movie, but I'd like to have you in it because I like the way you look and move.' So I said, 'Okay.' So I went down to his office which turned out to be a crap hole and got a script and read it and I'm going, oh my God. Three weeks in the desert shooting this movie for hardly any money for the guy's independent little movie. It's eating babies and stuff. I said, 'Oh God.' So I nicely told the guy I couldn't do it. I was busy. It turned out the guy's name was West Craven and it was his first movie, 'The Hills Have Eyes.' It became a classic and I'm supposed to be it."
"Then some years ago in like the mid 80s or something. I got a message at the NWA office to call Jerry Reed. I'm thinking Jerry Reed? The only Jerry Reed I know is the country western singer, unless it's Jerry Reed the IRS guide. So I call this number and it's Jerry Reed the singer. He says, 'Son, you're my favorite guy.' We talked and he wanted me to be in the last Smokey and the Bandit movie they were going to make because Jackie Gleason just died and they wanted me to play the part of a young a**hole sheriff after the bandit in the last movie. But right when they were going to do the last movie, that's when Burt Reynolds went off the deep end taking all the Halcyon pills and getting divorced from Loni and getting wiped out, so they never made the movie. So I was supposed to be in the Hills Have Eyes and the last Smokey and the Bandit never happened, but The Unbreakable Bunch, I'm in like the whole movie and I can't wait to see the thing."
AEW WrestleDream - October 1, 2023.
Broadcast into Australia via FITE
Bryan Danielson vs. Zack Sabre Jr.
Hangman Page vs. Swerve Strickland
AEW Tag Team Champions FTR defend against Aussie Open
ROH Tag Team Champions Adam Cole & MJF defend against The Righteous (Vincent & Dutch)
NJPW Strong & ROH World Champion Eddie Kingston defends both titles against ROH Pure Champion Katsuyori Shibata
TNT Champion Christian Cage defends against Darby Allin in a two out of three falls match
TBS Champion Kris Statlander defends against Julia Hart
Will Ospreay, Konosuke Takeshita, and Sammy Guevara vs. Kenny Omega, Kota Ibushi, and Chris Jericho
Additional matches have been added to next Sunday's AEW WrestleDream card.
Don Callis on Saturday’s Collision revealed that Will Ospreay will team with Konosuke Takeshita and his newest family member Sammy Guevara against Kenny Omega, Chris Jericho, and Kota Ibushi. This stems from events that took place on Friday’s Ramapge, where Omega made the save for Jericho after Guevara and Takeshita jumped Jericho.
In addition, Christian Cage will defend the TNT title in a two out of three falls match against Darby Allin. On Saturday’s Collision, Allin had a three-way title match won between himself, Cage, and Luchasaurus when Cage posted Allin, allowing himself to pin Luchasaurus. In a backstage interview, Tony Schiavone told Cage he would be defending the title at WrestleDream.
Eddie Kingston in a promo revealed that he will be putting up both the ROH and New Japan Strong titles against Katsuyori Shibata at WrestleDream, saying that he wanted a match that would honor Antonio Inoki.
WWE PPVs
Saturday, Oct. 7
WWE Fastlane
Indianapolis
WWE Crown Jewel 2023
November 4, 2023
Riyadh, Saudi Arabia
Saturday, Nov. 25
WWE Survivor Series
Chicago
WWE Survivor Series 2023
November 25, 2023
Rosemont, Illinois (Chicago) - Allstate Arena
Lachlan Murdoch inherits a daunting to-do list. Observers are divided over how he will cope = 23rd September 2023
irst among equals is how media mogul Rupert Murdoch once described his eldest son Lachlan, when asked about the succession plan at his global media empire. Now with Rupert’s retirement this week from the boards of Fox Corporation and News Corporation, Lachlan’s position at the top of the family-controlled empire is cemented.
However, 52-year-old Lachlan inherits a daunting task. He takes control of the global newspaper and television businesses as both face major challenges. He becomes head of one of the most influential American media companies as the US goes into perhaps its most important presidential election in recent history. And, his every step will be measured against his father’s legacy.
Former News Corporation executive John Cowley has no doubt that Lachlan is up to the task. “He was trained by the best. His father would have rubbed off on him, but he’s also his own man. He will do a good job,” Cowley said.
Lachlan’s first real job in the Murdoch empire was working for Cowley. It was three decades ago, when at the age of 22, he joined Queensland Newspapers as its general manager. Fresh from having studied philosophy at Princeton University, the young Murdoch would walk the newsroom floor with his shirt sleeves rolled up – exposing a tribal tattoo on his left arm – discussing stories with journalists, much as his father had once done.
Over seven decades, Rupert Murdoch, 92, built a global media empire from a single Australian newspaper. As his business expanded so did his influence and he became one of the world’s most powerful, polarising and right-wing businessmen, owning outlets such as Fox News, the Wall Street Journal, The Times, and The Australian.
Rupert pitted Lachlan from an early age against two of his siblings, older sister Elisabeth and younger brother James, to take over the family empire.
Lachlan, Elisabeth and James would come and go from the family business, vying for their father’s affection and at times falling out with him. But it would be Lachlan who would return to the fold and stay.
The Murdoch family governs News Corporation and Fox Corporation through a family trust. Rupert has six children from three wives. The family trust owns almost 40 per cent of the voting shares in both companies.
Each of Murdoch’s children know how difficult it is being the progeny of a successful parent. Put simply, if the adult children of successful parents make good, it’s because of what their parents left them. If they don’t, people ask what’s wrong with them.
This is what Lachlan is up against, even in his middle age.
Billionaire James Packer can sympathise, as he spent most of the first half of his life being compared against his father – the late media tycoon Kerry Packer.
James multiplied the wealth he inherited from his father. But then his publicly listed Crown casino business became embroiled in a Chinese money-laundering scandal. It was fined, and he sold it, and since then, has focused on private investments.
“Lachlan will do very well. He’s following in a legend’s footsteps, one of the biggest, being Rupert, and that’s never easy,” says Packer, who has been friends with Lachlan for more than three decades. “But I think Lachlan’s ready, and he’s the right man for the job.”
Not everyone agrees.
Rod Tiffen is an emeritus professor at the University of Sydney, who has published books on the news media, including about Rupert Murdoch. He’s critical of Lachlan’s rise to the top of News Corporation and Fox Corporation.
“The idea that a position like that should go by heredity belongs more in the age of Jane Austen than of the contemporary corporate world,” Tiffen says. “It might be okay for the corner store to pass from father to son, but a global corporation should be based on some sort of merit, and not just having the same surname.”
Lachlan becomes chair of News Corporation, which owns newspaper and real estate assets, and also the chair and chief executive of Fox Corporation, which owns Fox News and Fox broadcasting.
In 2019, Fox sold its $US71.3 billion film and television business to Walt Disney, predicting the streaming war that is now playing out, and which has cost companies such as Disney, Netflix and Amazon billions. It was a clever move hailed as Rupert’s crowning achievement.
However, it has left Fox much smaller than many of its peers, with a focus on news and sport. The broadcast and cable TV outlets in the US are declining, and Fox is also competing against bigger players such as Amazon, Netflix, Comcast, Disney and Warner Brothers in securing sporting rights.
The embattled news arm was also sued after broadcasting conspiracy theories and claims of vote rigging promoted by Donald Trump in the 2020 election. Earlier this year, Fox settled a defamation lawsuit with Dominion Voting systems for $US787.5 million ($1.2 billion). It is now facing another lawsuit from a voting machine manufacturer, Smartmatic, which is likely to be at the top of Lachlan’s to-do list to resolve.
Another problem for Lachlan is that Donald Trump is shaping up as the most likely Republican candidate for the 2024 election, if he’s able to overcome the legal cases that he is facing.
However, it would be hard for Fox News to back him given Rupert has publicly criticised Trump and disowned him. And yet, much of the Fox News audience are Trump supporters. Fox News will risk alienating its audience more if Trump becomes the Republican candidate, and it doesn’t back him.
News Corporation has real estate assets such as REA Group and owns newspapers such as The Times, The Australian and the Wall Street Journal. The print assets are declining while the digital side of those newspapers has been growing, particularly the Dow Jones group in the US.
Matt Williams is head of Australian equities at Airlie Funds Management. It owns 2 per cent of the voting shares in News Corporation, which he argues remains undervalued. “Over the last ten years management have done a very good job with the Dow Jones business in re-aligning the business from being reliant on advertising to much more now a subscription-based business.”
He says Lachlan has been a good steward of News Corporation, and expects the strategy of that group to remain unchanged.
However, Tiffen expects there will be pressure to shut print newspapers when Rupert dies. “Everyone rightly goes on about what a terrific global media empire Rupert Murdoch has built. On the other hand, if you were writing his obituary now, you would say that he’s lost more money on newspapers than anyone else in history. And chances are that won’t continue after he dies.”
Tiffen expects that Lachlan will not make any significant changes to either Fox Corporation or News Corporation’s strategy while his father remains alive. “It’s much more likely that any changes will have to be after Rupert’s death, and then it’s quite unpredictable.”
The unpredictability is over whether Lachlan’s siblings who have voting rights in the trust – Prudence, Elisabeth and James – will be happy with his leadership of Fox Corporation and News Corporation, and the right-wing agendas they have pursued.
“In the short term, while Rupert’s alive, the other three children are going to be respectful,” says Tiffen. “But after he dies, then Lachlan’s relations with his other siblings will be much more difficult to predict.”
(SMH)
Rear Window - September 14, 1999
Kostya, TAB go down fighting
It had more celebrities than a Saturday night in Atlantic City. In one corner, "Break Even" Bill Mordey; in the other, Russian-born dynamo Kostya Tszyu and a gaggle of heavy-hitters including Packer confidant Theo Onisforou and Jeff Fenech.
Mordey won round one when NSW Supreme Court Justice Russell Bainton last year ordered Tszyu to pay $7.3 million to Mordey's Fightvision Pty Ltd for breach of contract, in the process describing the Russian-born boxer as a "spoiled brat".
Yesterday, round two ended with a TKO to Break Even, who managed to deliver a haymaker to TAB boss Warren Wilson. Having bought Sky Channel from Packer's Publishing & Broadcasting and Rupert Murdoch's News Corp last year, TAB will now have to partially foot a $7.3 million damages bill after three appeal judges found Sky Channel had induced Tszyu to breach his contract with Mordey.
Sky Channel will have to pay the costs of Fightvision's original claim against Sky Channel and its appeal in a result Wilson said was disappointing. TAB is considering whether it has any further legal avenues.
The stoush began when Tsyzu appealed against last year's decision, claiming the damages awarded against him were excessive. That prompted Mordey's counterpunch, appealing against the cases he lost to the other five defendants: Fenech, Sky Channel, Onisforou, Tszyu's new promoter, Vlad Warton, and Tszyu's company, Tszyu Enterprises.
The NSW Court of Appeal yesterday dismissed Tszyu's appeal. Mordey had a victory against Sky Channel, Warton and Tszyu Enterprises, but struck out against Onisforou and Fenech. Warton and Tszyu Enterprises will be back for a third round after the court ordered a new trial in relation to Mordey's claims.
Mordey and Fightvision had sought compensation from Tszyu for lost promotion revenue after the fighter breached his contract in early 1995 by agreeing to give Optus Vision or Sky Channel exclusive rights to broadcast his bouts.
In his judgement, Justice Bainton found Tszyu entered into a binding three-year contract with Mordey's Classic Promotions in 1992 and that contract contained an option of renewal for two years. The company wound up in 1993 and Fightvision took over its promotions.
Justice Bainton found that the renewal option in Tszyu's contract had been effectively exercised in January 1995, and that the boxer had broken that contract almost immediately.
Fightvision was entitled to recover from Tszyu profits it would have made from promoting his fights from January 1995 to January 1997 in total $7.3 million.
Room with a view? Er, I'll settle for the ground floor, thanks all the same
While travelling always presents its challenges, Rear Window's Tasmanian tourism operative appears to have struck an unusual problem while cycling through the Apple Isle.
During a bracing journey down the Midland Highway from Launceston to Hobart, our peleton wanabee sought refuge at a cosy bed and breakfast in the hamlet of Campbell Town, where the civic motto is: "Reaching out across the land, over the sea, through
the air, towards the stars, Campbell Town is reaching out to you."
Noting the prominent "Vacancy" sign, our operative entered, only to be told by the landlady: "Sorry, we have no vacancies."
But what about the sign? "We haven't got around to making a `No Vacancy' sign yet. Getting the floors fixed comes a long way ahead of a `No Vacancy' sign in our priorities."
We'd advise getting a room on the ground floor.
Rupert shows UK interest but his ratings keep falling
Not content with wading into the murky world of Chinese-Tibetan relations, Rupert Murdoch has turned his hand to matters economic.
Murdoch has attacked the Bank of England in the wake of last week's surprise decision to lift British interest rates, expressing dismay that the central bank should be worried about the United Kingdom's 1.5 per cent economic growth when "the US economy is charging along at 4 per cent with no sign of inflation".
In an interview with London's Sunday Business newspaper, Murdoch also attacked UK Chancellor of the Exchequer Gordon Brown, claiming Brown was "wrong" to give the BoE the power to determine interest rate policy one of the central tenets of central
bank indepence worldwide.
"We elect governments to govern, not to give up power to faceless bankers," Murdoch reportedly said, highlighting his growing schism with the government of Tony Blair, who only a few years ago attended News Corp's Hayman Island executive love-fest.
Just last week, Murdoch was kowtowing to the Chinese Government, claiming he had heard cynics say the Dalai Lama was "a very political old monk shuffling around in Gucci shoes" and questioning whether Tibet a "terrible old, autocratic society out
of the Middle Ages" had any culture before China invaded.
It is all reminiscent of Murdoch's comments at News Corp's 1995 annual general meeting in Adelaide, where he blasted the Australian economy as "a disgrace" as he offered an opinion on all manner of non-media topics.
By 1997, a chastised Murdoch said son Lachlan had told him he was "not allowed" to talk about Australian politics. "I'm now under very strong instructions from my son to keep my mouth shut because I can go back to America and he has to live with what I have said," the elder Murdoch said.
The Sun King might be better off worrying about the performance of his News Corp empire, which recently suffered a hefty drop in profitability and has kicked off the latest United States television season in unspectacular fashion.
Ratings for News Corp's core Fox group are down an average 6 per cent, with not even the 10th series of its old standby, Beverly Hills 90210, improving the situation.
Guess who's late for dinner?
Here's hoping the 2000 Olympics are better organised than Rear Window, which battled the gremlins in yesterday's paper only to have an item about tomorrow night's glamour Australian Olympic Committee 1999 Countdown Dinner run about two weeks too late. Times have changed since the AOC first sought a plug for the function: the dinner is now sold out, with 1,000 people each paying $1,000 to raise a more than $700,000 for the Australian team. A number of team members will be there on the night, with dual gold medallist Kieren Perkins one of the 100 past and present Olympians who will each sit at the tables snapped up by companies including Telstra, CUB and Westfield. Major Olympic sponsor Westpac is holding its own function.
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All Elite Wrestling. Chris Jericho vs Sammy Guevara. Highlights. Some commentary transcribed:
"You know your got Jericho down literally. His figuring what he wants to do next. You gotta try to be one move ahead but it's tough in a battle with a veteran and a champion like Chris" Taz
@OfficialTAZ
"Sammy, the cutter connects" Tony Schiavone
@tonyschiavone24
"That was great. Well done" Taz
"Both of these men have gone through a lot in a short period of time here guys" TS
"Taz, you mentioned this desk is bolted to the floor. This is a pure steel construction and Jericho's body just smashed into it"
"Jericho turns the corner..the walls locked in. Sammy in deep deep water"
"Jericho's sitting back on that. The pain in the lower back. Here's going to have to tap here I think" Taz
"Guevara, rising knee strike. Oh my God, hoists up Jericho. It was blocked but now GTS connects"...
"It's well documented, Sammy can fly off the ropes with ease"
"He's had 4 years of being at Chris Jericho's side. He knows how tough the Ocho is. Sammy Guevara, shooting star press, code-breaker counter"
"Sammy just rag-dolled and Jericho scoring the win"
#AEWDynamite #AEWGrandSlam
Pro Wrestling
WWE @WWE RAW September 25, 2023
Cody Rhodes @CodyRhodes to address fans - the WWE Universe
The Judgment Day vs Kevin Owens and Sami Zayn - WWE Tag Team Title
“Dirty” Dom vs Dragon Lee - NXT @WWENXT North American Title
Confrontation: Shinsuke Nakamura and Seth “Freakin” Rollins’
“Big” Bronson Reed vs Otis
#WWERAW #WWE #wrestling #prowrestling #sportsentertainment #sportsbiz #sportsentertainment #entertainment #entertainmentnews #popculture #TV #USA #trend #trends #trending #X #media
WWE @WWE RAW September 25, 2023
Bronson Reed @BRONSONISHERE def Otis @otiswwe
Tommaso Ciampa @CiampaWWE def Ludwig Kaiser
Tegan Nox @TeganNoxWWE def Natalya @NatbyNature
Confrontation/Promo: Shinsuke Nakamura @ShinsukeN and Seth Rollins @WWERollins : Last Man Standing match settled for upcoming WWE Fastlane
Dominik Mysterio @DomMysterio35 def Dragon Lee @dragonlee95 - NXT @WWENXT North American Title
Confrontation Cody Rhodes, Jey Uso, Kevin Owens and Sami Zayn vs The Judgment Day
Nia Jax @LinaFanene def Zoey Stark @ZoeyStarkWWE
The Judgment Day def Kevin Owens @FightOwensFight & Sami Zayn @SamiZayn
MIZ @mikethemiz TV: Drew McIntyre @DMcIntyreWWE confronation with The New Day
Strong thumbs up says Media Man
#WWERaw #WWE #wrestling #prowrestling #wweresults #wrestlingresults #wrestlingnews #wrestlingmedia #sportsbiz #combatsports #entertainment #popculture #showbiz #TV #USA #broadcasting #trend #trends #X #media
The difference between news television and tell-lie-vision programming? Who would win in Russell "Party Boy" Brand vs Howard "n word and b face" practitioner as per historical data, in an UFC Octagon? Who is winning in the court of public opinion? Can anybody in the UFC at present beat Sean Strickland? Are we in The End Times, The Great Awakening, or both?
Box Office News
The Nun II is the top movie in North America for a 3rd straight weekend, with an additional $8.4m in receipts, Box Office Mojo announced Sunday. No. 2 is Expend4bles with $8.3m, then A Haunting in Venice in 3 with $6.3m, The Equalizer 3 at No 4 with $4.7m
Barbie at 5 with $3.2m
My Big Fat Greek Wedding 3 at No 6 with $3m
It Lives Inside at No. 7 with $2.6m
Dumb Money at No 8 with $2.5m
Blue Beetle at No 9 with $1.8m
Oppenheimer at No 10 with $1.6m
#boxoffice #movies #boxofficenews #boxofficeresults #movienews #entertainment #entertainmentnews
#TheNun2 #Expendables4 #Expendables #AHauntingInVenice #TheEqualizer3 #Barbie #MyBigFatGreekWedding3 #ItLivesInside #DumbMoney #BlueBeetle #Oppenheimer #biz #news #media
"Double turn. Tough to pull off, but - when it's done right, one of my personal favorites... Need to let the heel come in and get the heat from the crowd. Then your babyface comes in and gets the pop. Oh yeah" - Triple H @TripleH , WWE @WWE Chief Content Officer aka creative #Billions #TripleH #WWE
Welcome to Jade Cargill @JadeCargill to the WWE @WWE. This may be the first signing disclosed since the Endeavor/TKO Group deal. Major play #JadeCargill #WWE
What is organic social media?
Organic social media refers to the free content (posts, photos, video, memes, stories, etc.) that all users, including businesses and brands, share with each other on their feeds.
As a brand, when you post organically to your account, you can expect that the people who will see it are:
A percentage of your followers (a.k.a. your ‘organic reach’)
Your followers’ followers (if people choose to share your post)
People following any hashtags you use
It sounds simple, but the reason that organic social media is the foundation of every digital marketing strategy today is because it’s often the best way to nurture a connection with your customers at scale.
For example, brands use organic social to:
establish their personality and voice
build relationships by sharing informative, entertaining, and/or inspiring content
engage customers at every stage of their buying journey
support their customers with customer service
#organic #organicsocial #socialmedia #platforms #organicsearch #onlinemarketing #news #marketingtips #marketingnews #content #contentnews #creativity #customers #authority #seo #technews #adnews #biz #onlinebiz #media
Combat sport:
A combat sport, or fighting sport, is a competitive contact sport that usually involves one-on-one combat. In many combat sports, a contestant wins by scoring more points than the opponent, submitting the opponent with a hold, disabling the opponent (knockout, KO), or attacking the opponent in a specific or designated technique. Combat sports share a long pedigree with the martial arts. Some combat sports (and their national origin) include Boxing (British), Brazilian jiu-jitsu (Brazilian), Jiu-jitsu (Japanese), Judo (Japanese), Karate (Chinese/Okinawan/Japanese), Kickboxing (numerous origins), Lethwei (Burmese), Mixed martial arts (numerous origins), Muay Thai (Thai), Sambo (Soviet/Russian), Sanda (Chinese), Savate (French), Tae Kwon Do (Korean), Vale tudo (Brazilian), Pankration (Ancient Greek), Luta Livre (Brazilian), Wrestling (Numerous Origins) and Pro-Wrestling (British/American).
#combatsport #combatsports #fighting #fightingsport #submission #KO #boxing #BJJ #JiuJitsu #judo #karate #kickboxing #MMA #MuayThai #Sambo #Sanda #Savate #Taekwondo #valetudo #pankration #lutalivre #wrestling #prowrestling #media #mediaman
'The Man In The Arena' by Theodore Roosevelt
Read by JFK
“It is not the critic who counts; not the man who points out how the strong man stumbles, or where the doer of deeds could have done them better. The credit belongs to the man who is actually in the arena, whose face is marred by dust and sweat and blood; who strives valiantly; who errs, who comes short again and again, because there is no effort without error and shortcoming; but who does actually strive to do the deeds; who knows great enthusiasms, the great devotions; who spends himself in a worthy cause; who at the best knows in the end the triumph of high achievement, and who at the worst, if he fails, at least fails while daring greatly, so that his place shall never be with those cold and timid souls who neither know victory nor defeat.”
#TheManInTheArena #TheodoreRoosevelt #JFK #JohnFKennedy #arena #fighter #combatsports #boxing #MMA #wrestling #media
Andrews Leaves a Winner
By Cory Bernardi
27 Sept 2023
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Hi there,
While many politically right-of-centre Australians would be cheering the resignation of Victorian Premier Dan Andrews, the bloke leaves as a winner.
He won three elections and ran Victoria with an iron fist while misusing buckets of taxpayers money.
His government was mired in corruption scandals and linked to the largest number of COVID deaths in Australia. He ran Victoria into record debt while imposing new and outrageous taxes targeting his non-supporters.
On top of that, Andrews pursued a radical social agenda on euthanasia, abortion and drug use.
It's incredible to think he was largely untouched by Victoria's Liberal opposition despite the target-rich environment.
That's why he is a winner.
He leaves on his terms, is off the hook on his COVID accountability and, while leaving Victoria in a parlous state, he has a taxpayer funded statue in his honour.
It says a lot about politics and the media in Victoria that he leaves virtually unscathed.
The opposition didn't lay a glove on Andrews. He suffered more damage from internal Labor foes than his political opponents.
As I have said before, where the adversarial politics of accountability fails, it falls to the media to do their job of exposing bad actions and policies.
Unfortunately the media in Victoria failed too.
They repeatedly failed to ask the hard questions during Andrew's rein and were particularly sycophantic during the COVID pandemic.
So while Andrews emerges a winner, we are all losers as a result.
The template for authoritarian politics is now set. Politicians have learned that they can get away with almost anything as long as they keep the media on side.
They act as the gatekeepers to shaping public opinion and their omissions are even more effective than their exposes.
Where the mainstream media fails, the independent media often succeeds.
However, these revelations are usually dismissed as conspiracy theories or misinformation by those with a vested interest in outcome.
We've seen that with propaganda outlets like their ABC, the biased fact-checkers and the tech titans.
Thanks to Senator Alex Antic and his Freedom of Information requests, we also know that government has a role in censoring content they deem inappropriate.
So the two most untrustworthy public voices - politicians and a biased media - are trying to close down access to the truth through alternative outlets.
That only makes those outlets even more important.
Have a great day.
Cory
Wrestling News: Jade Cargill comments on signing with WWE
“It feels great. You know, I feel like I was just in preparation for the grand stage. I felt like this was always the mission. I felt like, you know, the shoe fit. I felt like this was gonna happen. Honestly, this is all expected. So I’m excited to be here.
One thing I am is a businesswoman and I think I made the best route at the time. WWE is a great company, you know, but I took what I had and I bet on myself, and the outcome obviously paid off.
I want to create a legacy. I want to be in the Hall of Fame. I want to wrestle with the best women in the world. I mean, there’s no grander stage than this stage. You know, the opportunities are endless for this company. It’s a no brainer. It was very welcoming. I didn’t have any second thoughts about it at all. It was just the easy choice.
I’m a star in the making, I’m gonna do what I need to do. I’m gonna keep my head down and I’m gonna work hard because I’m a worker and that’s what I do. At the end of the day, my star power is undeniable. What I do in the ring is undeniable and I just need to come here and create that legacy, and yeah, household name, and that’s what I’m here for.”
Wrestling News: Jade Cargill @Jade_Cargill comments on signing with WWE @WWE
“It feels great. You know, I feel like I was just in preparation for the grand stage. I felt like this was always the mission. I felt like, you know, the shoe fit. I felt like this was gonna happen. Honestly, this is all expected. So I’m excited to be here.
One thing I am is a businesswoman and I think I made the best route at the time. WWE is a great company, you know, but I took what I had and I bet on myself, and the outcome obviously paid off.
I want to create a legacy. I want to be in the Hall of Fame. I want to wrestle with the best women in the world. I mean, there’s no grander stage than this stage. You know, the opportunities are endless for this company. It’s a no brainer. It was very welcoming. I didn’t have any second thoughts about it at all. It was just the easy choice.
I’m a star in the making, I’m gonna do what I need to do. I’m gonna keep my head down and I’m gonna work hard because I’m a worker and that’s what I do. At the end of the day, my star power is undeniable. What I do in the ring is undeniable and I just need to come here and create that legacy, and yeah, household name, and that’s what I’m here for.”
#JadeCargill #quote #wrestling #wrestlingnews #WWE #prowrestling #sportsentertainment #sportsbiz #sportsbusiness #sportsmarketing #sportsmedia #entertainment #EntertainmentNews #trend #trending #trending #buzz #media
Wrestling News
AEW @AEW Top Brass Tony Khan speaks on Adam Cole's Injury
Speaking to call ahead of WrestleDream, AEW President Tony Khan, head of the world's second largest pro wrestling promotion, was quizzed about Cole’s injury:
“The Righteous match, as of now, that is still slotted for the event. Adam Cole, he was a little bit ginger on that leg, obviously I think people saw, but we’ll address that on Dynamite.” “Very excited for tomorrow’s Dynamite. It should be a great show on Wednesday Night Dynamite and we’ll address Adam Cole and everything happening at WrestleDream on tomorrow night’s Dynamite.”
#wrestlingnews #TonyKhan #quote #wrestling #AEW #AllEliteWrestling #AEWWrestleDream #AEWDynamite #AdamCole #prowrestling #sportsbiz #sportsbusiness #entertainment #popculture #PPV #payperview #livesports #liveentertainment #trends #buzz #media
Top 10 Monday Night Raw moments: WWE @WWE Top 10, Sept. 25, 2023
WWE YouTube
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kE2eYzT5gxM&ab_channel=WWE
#WWERaw #WWE #WWETop10 #wrestling #prowrestling #highlights #video #wweyoutube #combatsports #sportsbiz #entertainment #popculture #trends #buzz #media
WWE NXT @WWENXT
Trick Williams @_trickwilliams vs. Joe Gacy @JoeGacy: NXT highlights, Sept. 26, 2023 via WWE YouTube
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XVYDSKhkLSM&ab_channel=WWE
"You got me going. Joe Gacy seems lost. I don't know if you see it that way" Vic Joseph @VicJosephWWE
"Look, if your flock abandon you. If you don't have control..feeling like you can't trust anybody. Yeah, I get it.. Booker T @BookerT5x
#WWENXT #NXT #wrestling #prowrestling #JoeGacy #TrickWilliams #sportsbiz #entertainment #popculture #TV #buzz #media
Pro Wrestling
WWE NXT @WWENXT. September 26, 2023
Butch @PeteDunneYxB vs Joe Coffey. NXT Global Heritage Invitational Final
Carmelo Hayes @Carmelo_WWE and Ilja Dragunov @UNBESIEGBAR_ZAR to sign their No Mercy NXT Title Match contract
Eddy Thorpe @EddyThorpe_WWE vs Dijak @DijakWWE Strap Match
Gigi Dolin @gigidolin_wwe vs Blair Davenport @BDavenportWWE
#WWENXT #NXT #wrestling #prowrestling #sportsbiz #combatsports #entertainment #popculture #TV #trends #buzz #media
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SEJ's Jeff on content marketing strategies. Authority. Visibility. Conversation. Maintain market position and continue to improve on on ot regardless of whether it's SEO, online advertising, promotions, combat sports, beach lifestyle, cafe reviews be it Sydney, Australia or the Las Vegas Strip in the USA. Possibility a number of niche areas that can be managed by a network of websites rather than just one site. Social media channels for various brands, and perhaps under the one main company umbrella. The pop culture sector can incorporate so many niche sectors and is well suited to the content marketing approach to rate as highly as possible in each sun sector. Organic web traffic still works a charm -over paid ads we found. Good basics. Thanks for the heads up. All helpful and useful information. Build it and they will come - more often than not. To success.
"If a newspaper is to be of real service to the public, it must have a big circulation: first, because its news and its comments must reach the largest possible number of people; second, because circulation means advertising, and advertising means money, and money means independence" - Joseph Pulitzer #JosephPulitzer #Pulitzer #quote #newspaper #news #newsmedia #circulation #people #circulation #readership #advertising #ads #money #independence #biz #mediabiz #media
"If you ever start feeling like you have the goofiest, craziest, most dysfunctional family in the world, all you have to do is go to a state fair. Because five minutes at the fair, you'll be going, 'you know, we're alright. We are dang near royalty" - Jeff Foxworthy #JeffFoxworthy #quote #crazy #fair #life #world #mbs #media
"Satellite broadcasting makes it possible for information-hungry residents of many closed societies to bypass state-controlled television channels" - Rupert Murdoch #RupertMurdoch #quote #satellite #satellites #broadcasting #broadcast #broadcasters #information #television #newsmedia #world #worldnews #media #mediaman
"I was a bellman - a great hotel, five-star hotel in Boston. I made great money. I made cash every day. I had good benefits. We had 401k. All the things you could ask for in a great job, I had. You know what I didn't have? I hated my job" - Dana White, UFC @ufc CEO #DanaWhite #quote #money #job #mindset #success #MMA #life #world #media
UFC @UFC / Combat Sports News
Fighter Bryce Mitchell @ThugnastyMMA took a Bible into the UFC Octagon for his fight vs Dan Ige and shouted 'freedom' while holding The Bible up during his introduction.
The American patriot also made comments in his interview, stating 'Satan' was taking over the world and that the wildfires in Hawaii were not natural.
UFC top brass Dana White went on record to media:
"I got no reaction, you know who I am here. Whatever you're into man, there's no muzzles here. Whoever you are, whatever you believe, whatever you think, we've heard it all, seen it all. Well, we think we have, who knows what's next but, this is one of those places where you say what you feel and you say what you want and it's all good with me."
#UFC #DanaWhite #BryceMitchell #DanIge #quote #freedom #combatsports #sports #sportsnews #worldnews #universe #higherpower #god #bible #sportsmedia #sportsbiz #trend #buzz #media
Boxing News
“KSI and Tommy did their VADA testing so I called Mams [Taylor] and was like, are we doing this? Can we do this?” Logan Paul to Ariel Helwani discussing drug testing for his boxing match with Dillon Danis.
“He said yeah, he confirmed it. So we’ll be doing drug testing in a week, two weeks. It’s going to be nice to show a clean test because I’m in this position where people will say or do anything to discredit anything I do.”
“Any opportunity I get to shut them the *uck is nice. So I get to show people my physique is because of my hard work, and my genetics, and that I haven’t used steroids. It will be a nice feeling.”
#JakePaul #quote #KSI #TommyFury #DillonDanis #MVP #MostValuablePromotions #Misfitsboxing #boxing #boxingnews #combatsports #livesport #livesports #liveentertainment #PPV #payperview #steriods #popculture #broadcast #sportsbiz #sportsmedia #promotion #biz #promo #hype #trend #media
"Societies or companies that expect a glorious past to shield them from the forces of change driven by advancing technology will fail and fall. That applies as much to my own, the media industry, as to every other business on the planet" - Rupert Murdoch #RupertMurdoch #Murdoch #quote #society #companies #newscorp #change #technology #biz #business #industry #news #newsmedia #trend #trends #media #mediaman
"It is the advertiser who provides the paper for the subscriber. It is not to be disputed, that the publisher of a newspaper in this country, without a very exhaustive advertising support, would receive less reward for his labor than the humblest mechanic" - Alexander Hamilton #AlexanderHamilton #quote #advertiser #paper #newspaper #advertising #mechanic #publishing #newsmedia #newsbiz #biz #work #labor #publishing #media
News.com.au number one in news and sport
September 22, 2023
News.com.au holds the top spot as Australia’s number one digital news brand for the eighth consecutive month, according to latest rankings from Ipsos iris for August 2023, and delivered the largest sport audience since the launch of lpsos iris in January this year.
With the largest audience in the News category in Australia, news.com.au delivered an audience of 11.648 million, a margin of 750,000 ahead of the closest competitor. News.com.au’s highly engaged audience reached one in two online Australians with average time spent of 33 minutes per person.
Leading the Sport category, news.com.au’s sport section delivered an audience of 5.059 million, up 9.1 per cent month-on-month.
News.com.au also had the largest audiences in the Finance, Entertainment, Technology and Travel news categories:
Finance News – 4.700 million – news.com.au – Finance
Entertainment News – 4.364 million – news.com.au – Entertainment
Technology News – 2.340 million – news.com.au – Technology
Travel News – 2.870 million – news.com.au – Travel
News.com.au Editor-in-Chief Lisa Muxworthy said: “It was a great month for sport, with the biggest audience under Ipsos iris and a one million-plus gap on our nearest competitor.
“Australians embraced the ultimate second screen experience during the Women’s World Cup and headed to news.com.au for all the moments they might have missed during the live coverage. Our record audience shows that news.com.au is the perfect companion while watching live sport and major events and we will always deliver the best angles.
“It was also a really strong month for our Travel section. Travel was up 6 per cent with an audience of more than 2.8 million, the site’s second-biggest under Ipsos iris.”
Ipsos iris is Australia’s new digital audience measurement currency endorsed by the Interactive Advertising Bureau (IAB), the trade association for online advertising in Australia, providing accurate data about the 21 million Australians aged 14+ who access a wide variety of digital content and services across Smartphone, PC/Laptop and Tablet devices.
Source: Ipsos iris Online Audience Measurement Service August 2023, Age 14+, PC/Laptop, Smartphone, Tablet, Text Only, News excluding Weather Subcategory & Aggregators, Brand Group, Audience (000s), Audience Reach %, Total Mins (MM), AVG Mins PP
News.com.au number one in news and sport
September 22, 2023
News.com.au holds the top spot as Australia’s number one digital news brand for the eighth consecutive month, according to latest rankings from Ipsos iris for August 2023, and delivered the largest sport audience since the launch of lpsos iris in January this year.
With the largest audience in the News category in Australia, news.com.au delivered an audience of 11.648 million, a margin of 750,000 ahead of the closest competitor. News.com.au’s highly engaged audience reached one in two online Australians with average time spent of 33 minutes per person.
Leading the Sport category, news.com.au’s sport section delivered an audience of 5.059 million, up 9.1 per cent month-on-month.
News.com.au also had the largest audiences in the Finance, Entertainment, Technology and Travel news categories:
Finance News – 4.700 million – news.com.au – Finance
Entertainment News – 4.364 million – news.com.au – Entertainment
Technology News – 2.340 million – news.com.au – Technology
Travel News – 2.870 million – news.com.au – Travel
News.com.au Editor-in-Chief Lisa Muxworthy said: “It was a great month for sport, with the biggest audience under Ipsos iris and a one million-plus gap on our nearest competitor.
“Australians embraced the ultimate second screen experience during the Women’s World Cup and headed to news.com.au for all the moments they might have missed during the live coverage. Our record audience shows that news.com.au is the perfect companion while watching live sport and major events and we will always deliver the best angles.
“It was also a really strong month for our Travel section. Travel was up 6 per cent with an audience of more than 2.8 million, the site’s second-biggest under Ipsos iris.”
Ipsos iris is Australia’s new digital audience measurement currency endorsed by the Interactive Advertising Bureau (IAB), the trade association for online advertising in Australia, providing accurate data about the 21 million Australians aged 14+ who access a wide variety of digital content and services across Smartphone, PC/Laptop and Tablet devices.
Source: Ipsos iris Online Audience Measurement Service August 2023, Age 14+, PC/Laptop, Smartphone, Tablet, Text Only, News excluding Weather Subcategory & Aggregators, Brand Group, Audience (000s), Audience Reach %, Total Mins (MM), AVG Mins PP
(Credit: News Corp)
#NewsCorp #newscorpaustralia #news #newsmedia #newscomau #newspaper #RupertMurdoch #LachlanMurdoch #newswebsite #newswebsites #sportsmedia #sportsnews #digitalnews #entertainment #entertainmentnews #popculture #digitalmedia #audience #readership #rankings #ratings #medianews #newsbiz #newsbusiness #media
"Find what you love to do and you'll never work a day in your life, that's true. But also always try to fill a niche. What can you try to do that is different?" Lisa Vanderpump #LisaVanderpump #quote #vanderpumprules #Vanderpump #love #work #life #niche #nichebiz #nichebusiness #nichenews #popculture #entertainment #world #trend #trends #media
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SEL's Bruce with an informative and educational article on website layout aka usability in the business realm. Some business sectors such as news media, online media, global information firms and others may chop not to list an official address or series of addresses for sites for a range of reasons. Security and privacy are considerations. We used to have at least one of our business addresses in the public domain when we were much more involved in talent management, talent booking, in-person training and such. Not we have more of a gamification set-up and certainly a more global presence in the digital media and online publishing space. In addition when you manage many niche websites that can add a new dynamic also. It's horses for courses and not one size fits all. With social media, ideally that should compliment the core business, at least in part. Numerous channels and sub sectors and niche elements can be implemented. An online presence is to compliment the core business and that's where some folks get it wrong. The right SEO and content helps attract the right customers, affiliates and the like. It's a Pandora's Box but one that we are still winning at two decades in. Hard and smart work and making the web work for you.
A morning routine... and
A day in the life...
Wake-up
Meditate
Reflect on dreams
Home-made coffee and glass of water
Look at nature
Stretch and light exercise
Check/clear emails
Attend urgent business
Family matters
Ocean /nature walk/jog/exercise
Back to media biz
Break for coffee and to at nature
Phone calls
Back to work
Break
Meditate
Water
Clear emails
Family matters
Music/Movie/Doco/Reading
Sleep
Repeat the formula
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Well done legend. Great to have assisted with a number of events over the years. Memories to last a lifetime.
OVW is on fire. In part thanks to the Netflix 'hit' 'Wrestlers', but largely due to hard and smart work and guidence under world renown wrestler and wrestling trailer, Al Snow. Take that Mick Foley!!!
Sky Sports. Hawk takes F1 to the skies!
Forbes report on Zuck's combat sports and MMA. Comon', go to the Roman Collesium! Elon is apparently waiting. (part satire).
SEJ Google LinkedIn September 2023
SEJ's Matt on the latest Google Helpful Content update. "People First" sounds great to me and the crew of humans. here. For the longest time many people have enjoyed a love-hate relationship with technology and you don't have to go back to the days of pop culture dystopian classic movies such as '2001: A Space Odyssey', 'The Net', 'Ex Machina', 'Logan's Run', let alone 'The Social Network' to get the point Tech can be for good or for other! The Google algorithm (and updates) are a double edged sword..Does Google enjoy and appreciate your human web scribes today - or not! Scribe and publish for humans They are the audience, not an army of bots...as far as we know anyway. Humans to co-exist with The Internet Matrix of Things including the good guys at Google and this platform! LinkedIn. Follow the Google guidelines and roadmap to the promised land to the www 'Holy Grail'. As Alphabets' G says, "Don't be evil". Human 2.0 ain't quite here folks. Online publishing for humanity. By the real Greg Tingle of Media land down under.
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SEJ's Roger on E.E.A.T. Helpful, educational and insightful article. It is not a Google ranking factor as Alphabet powers that be state, however E.E.A.T on websites is taken into consideration in the Google big picture of things - so best not to neglect it. Ignore Google advise and recommendations at one's own peril. We're following the Google roadmap to ongoing success. Written by a human, for humans. If Google bot crawlers like our scribes we'll enough where there wish to index (scrape?) it,.so be it. Published via LinkedIn which is primarily a Microsoft owned platform according to our research via the Google search engine. No Bars.or xAI was required nor utilized today. By the real Greg Tingle of Media Man land down under. Google for good - not evil.
SEJ's Jeff. Great team effort.. Meeting of the.minds. SEL appears to hold the leading position at the world's Bible for all SEO news, tips, strategies and the like for the business or search, online marketing, digital marketing et al..It's good to be king. The SEO and SEM online university for all.. Thank you teachers and fellow students. Reporting back very soon for another invaluable lesson.
#sel #searchenginejournal #searchengine #searchengines #seo #sem #searchengineoptimization #authority #expert #experts #results #performance #digital #algorithm #marketing #seonews #technews #socialmedia #media
SEL's Barry on the latest Google helpful content rollut. Done at Google speed. Google results. Did you win?
SEL's Nicola. Plenty of Google "sunsets" lately, and no doubt more on the way. An Twitter er X birdie told us something about a Google/YouTube podcast "sunset" coming up. Any confirmation here?
David Rowe Illustrations
Duck Destiny; Don Duck's revenge march. All ducks in a rowe. Great quaky art.
"Programming is the art of algorithm design and the craft of debugging errant code" - Ellen Ullman #EllenUllman #quote #programming #algorith #algorithms #design #code #webcode #internet #www #worldwideweb #media
"When people show loyalty to you, you take care of those who are with you. It's how it goes with everything. If you have a small circle of friends, and one of those friends doesn't stay loyal to you, they don't stay your friend for very long" John Cena @JohnCena #JohnCena #quote #loyalty #friends #life #wisdom #wrestling #legend #mbs #world #media
"Just being a commentator is not as easy as people think with going out there and talking for three hours. So, I don't call myself a commentator: I call myself an analyst" Booker T @BookerT5x #BookerT #quote #commentator #analyst #wrestling #WWE #WWENXT #prowrestling #sportsentertainment #combatsports #sportsbiz #entertainment #popculture #sportsnews #media
"Stay open-minded; stay focused. Train hard and train smart. For me, the older I get, the smarter I have to train also, because the recovery time is longer. Work on everything: become a well-rounded fighter - don't just be good at one thing; be good at everything" - Brock Lesnar @BrockLesnar #BrockLesnar #quote #train #trainhard #work #fight #fighter #fighting #wrestling #prowrestling #MMA #combatsports #focus #focussed #life #legend #sportsbiz #entertainment #popculture #mbs #media
"I am getting you a coffee machine. Your husband is a horrible person. He lies when he says hello. He cannot keep up with all the lies he tells. Everyone knows he is not to be trusted. Wake up Coffee machine on its way" - Ari Emanuel #AriEmanuel #quote #coffee #coffeemachine #life #biz #communication #media
“Anything can be changed. Anything can be fixed. Things that are broken can be fixed. And you don’t have to be some billionaire or millionaire to do it. You just have to be a person with a vision and the passion to do it, and be willing to fight for it every day.” - Dana White @DanaWhite , UFC @UFC CEO #DanaWhite #quote #UFC #MMA #fixed #billionaire #millionaire #vision #passion #fight #fighting #work #mindset #action #mbs #world #media
"Don't waste your time on this earth without making a mark.” “The key to happiness doesn't lay in numbers in a bank account but in the way we make others feel and the way they make us feel.” “There's a never-ending ocean of techniques out there.” “Life is about the pursuit of excellence" - Joe Rogan @joerogan #JoeRogan #quote #earth #time #life #mark #planet #ocean #techniques #pursuit #excellence #mindset #podcast #podcaster #legend #mbs #world #media
"Most of the time people think the belt makes you champion".. - Francis Ngannou #francisngannou #quote #champion #belt #mma #boxing #combatsports #mindset #mbs #media #mediamanboxing #mediamancombat #mediamanlegends #mediamanmma #mediamanmbs #mediamanint
"Everybody that you fight is not your enemy and everybody who helps you is not your friend. And that's what life taught me" - Mike Tyson #miketyson #quote #boxing #minset #combatsports #mbs #world #media #mediamanboxing #mediamanbusiness #mediamancombat #mediamanlife #mediamanlegends #mediamanmbs #mediamanworld #mediamanint
"Never say I can't do it. Say I haven't done it yet" - Rick Rubin @RickRubin , Music and Entertainment Entrepreneur #rickrubin #quote #wisdom #achievement #media #mediamanbusiness #mediamanlife #mediamanmbs #mediamanworld #mediamanint
"Antonio Inoki majored in strong style. He showed real emotion with real technique in the ring. Hard shots that look like hard shots. But the important steps is the real technique from the real martial arts. It means detail is important" - Shinsuke Nakamura @ShinsukeN
#ShinsukeNakamura #quote #AntonioInoki #wrestling #prowrestling #martialarts #MMA #combatsports #strongstyle #technique #fighting #sports #sportsbiz #entertainment #popculture #legend #legends #media
Overview into the history of The Roman Colosseum
The Colosseum is an elliptical amphitheatre in the centre of the city of Rome, Italy, just east of the Roman Forum. It is the largest ancient amphitheatre ever built, and is still the largest standing amphitheatre in the world, despite its age. Construction began under the emperor Vespasian (r. 69–79 AD) in 72 and was completed in 80 AD under his successor and heir, Titus (r. 79–81). Further modifications were made during the reign of Domitian (r. 81–96). The three emperors who were patrons of the work are known as the Flavian dynasty, and the amphitheatre was named the Flavian Amphitheatre (Latin: Amphitheatrum Flavium; Italian: Anfiteatro Flavio by later classicists and archaeologists for its association with their family name (Flavius).
In modern times (circa July 2023) speculation mounted that two of the world's most successful and famous tech tycoons (and martial artist enthusiasts), Elon Musk @ElonMusk (X @X aka Twitter, Tesla, SpaceX etc, all part of X Corp) and Mark Zuckerberg (Meta aka Facebook), may square off in The Colosseum. Talks fell apart shortly thereafter. Musk wanted Rome. Zuck wanted U.S soil, with a preference for the UFC @UFC promotion, likely in Las Vegas or perhaps New York. Both men underwent some martial arts training. Musk was nursing some injuries. The ONE Championship promotion also offered to help make the fight a reality to no avail. Musk wanted to stream the fight via X, which of course did not happen. Zuck continued to train while Musk continued to build X Corp. From time to time the potential match-up garnered some publicity and speculation via TMZ Sports @TMZ_Sports , the world's most popular pop culture - gossip - celebrity themed website, however much of the initial hupe has died down. In the meantime X Corp including X continues to reinvent themselves with X heading towards being "the everything app", while Facebook now has a blue check-mark option and a chatbot AI feature which Zuckerberg says can be used to help settle family arguements and family business type matters. UFC CEO aka top brass Dana White @DanaWhite firmly believes that fighting was the first sport. It may have started with a stone/rock, and esculated to fist fights, grappling, Pankrationm (Greece), and today the world has the UFC, ONE Championship, PFL, CFFC and many more martial arts promotions, as well as its cousins, boxing, Bare Knuckle, and let's not forget professional wrestling, led by the WWE @WWE with challenger brands such as AEW @AEW often chomping at the bit, sometimes resulting in online fights/feuds between wrestlers, promotions, fans and the public at large. As per one of UFC's Dana White sayings, "Looking for a fight", or if you prefer, UFC Middleweight Champion Sean Strickland @SStricklandMMA with "Let's F'n Go"!
*public thank you to X, Meta, TMZ, Wikipedia, Google, UFC, ONE Championsip, WWE, AEW and the father of the internet, Tim Berners-Lee). Much respect to all fighters and promoters
#RomanColosseum #RomanEmpire #Rome #colosseum #Italy #ElonMusk #MarkZuckerberg #DanaWhite #SeanStrickland #UFC #MMA #ONEChampionship #WWE #AEW #fighting #mixedmartialarts #martialarts #boxing #grappling #wrestling #TMZ #TMZSports #promotion #popculture #culture #sports #socialmedia #trend #trends #buzz #world #media
The Colosseum is an elliptical amphitheatre in the centre of the city of Rome, Italy, just east of the Roman Forum. It is the largest ancient amphitheatre ever built, and is still the largest standing amphitheatre in the world, despite its age. Construction began under the emperor Vespasian (r. 69–79 AD) in 72 and was completed in 80 AD under his successor and heir, Titus (r. 79–81). Further modifications were made during the reign of Domitian (r. 81–96). The three emperors who were patrons of the work are known as the Flavian dynasty, and the amphitheatre was named the Flavian Amphitheatre (Latin: Amphitheatrum Flavium; Italian: Anfiteatro Flavio [aɱfiteˈaːtro ˈflaːvjo]) by later classicists and archaeologists for its association with their family name (Flavius). In modern times (July 2023 speculation mounted that two of the world's most successful and famous tech tycoons (and martial artist enthusiasts), Elon Musk (X aka Twitter, Tesla, SpaceX etc, all part of X Corp) and Mark Zuckerberg (Meta aka Facebook) may square off in The Colosseum. Talks fell apart shortly thereafter. Musk wanted Rome. Zuck wanted US soil, with a preference for the UFC promotion, likely in Las Vegas or perhaps New York. Both men underwent some martial arts training. Musk was nursing some injuries. The ONE Championship promotion also offered to help make the fight a reality to no avail. Musk wanted to stream the fight via X, which of course did not happen. Zuck continued to train while Musk continued to build X Corp. From time to time the potential match-up garnered some publicity and speculation via TMZ Sports, the world's most popular pop culture - gossip - celebrity themed website, however much of the initial hupe has died down. In the meantime X Corp including X continues to reinvent themselves with X heading towards being "the everything app", while Facebook now has a blue check-mark option and a chatbot AI feature while Zuckerberg says can be used to help settle family arguements and family business type matters. UFC CEO aka top brass Dana White firmly believes that fighting was the first sport. It may have started with a stone/rock, and esculated to fist fights, grappling, Pankrationm (Grece), and today the world has the UFC, ONE Championship, PFL, CFFC and many more martial arts promotions, as well as its cousins, boxing, Bare Knuckle, and let's not forget professional wrestling, led by the WWE with challenger brands such as AEW often chomping at the bit, sometimes resulting in online fights/feuds between wrestlers, promotions, fans and the public at large. As per one of UFC's Dana White says, "Looking for a fight", or if you prefer, UFC Middleweight Champion Sean Strickland with "Let's F'n Go"!
TMZ
In studio MMA training. Craig Jones vs Alex Jones. Not quite streetfighting. Let's F'n Go!
"You are one hundred percent successful as soon as you send your project off into the world. Regardless of how it is perceived" - Rick Rubin @RickRubin #RickRubin #quote #successful #success #biz #business #creativity #creative #project #world #perception #mindset #mbs #media
Lex Fridman Podcast
Excellent and timely topic. I guess a public thank you to YouTube and Facebook for also hosting this. Now, will the "thought police" try to remove this as it may offend someone! Crazy world.
Trump transformed Howard Stern to 'The Prince Harry Of All Media': Jimmy Failla (via FOX News @FoxNews )
Video
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2ag4fvm6zkc&ab_channel=FoxNews
#Trump #DonaldTrump #JimmyFailla #quote #HowardStern #PrinceHappy #foxnewsmedia #newsmedia #shockjock #woke #ganda #politics #USA #media
September 29, 2023
Combat Sports News
Boxing Legend Mike Tyson goes on record re Francis Ngannou vs Tyson Fury @Tyson_Fury
“It would be the biggest upset in the history of entertainment” - Mike Tyson @MikeTyson
Mike Tyson has been helping train Ngannou.
“I think I bring him the confidence that this can be accomplished… We’re different people, we have different styles”.
“He’s gonna box like Francis and he’s gonna do well… He’s fighting, he’s been champion, he’s fought before, He’s got the experience of the pressure of getting into the ring. He just has to learn how to box more.”
“I don’t think he’s going to be able to rest with him. Francis is a lot stronger than him, I think he’s gonna push him around. And I’m just looking forward to the sound of the first bell. I’m excited”.
Ngannou last official match was in Jan of 2022 but has been pro-active in training. NG has also been active doing the media rounds without question!
Video via The Mac Life
Mike Tyson on Tyson Fury vs. Francis Ngannou: "I think people are going to be surprised"
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jEJbHMGxu6M&ab_channel=TheMacLife
In other fresh MMA news, New Zealand native Mark Hunt has one again been not successful in his legal fight vs UFC and associates.
U.S. District Judge Jennifer A. Dorsey...
“In sum, each of Hunt’s fraud theories requires far too many inferential leaps and ignores too much contrary evidence for a jury to reasonably find in his favor, particularly by clear and convincing evidence,” wrote Jennifer A. Dorsey in a 27-page opinion, which was first reported by Conduct Detrimental writer Jason Morrin.
“Listen, Mark Hunt has lost so many lawsuits against us, it’s insane”. “He’s a bit of a delusional guy. He’s going to have to pay some legal fees.” - Dana White
“I’m done fighting,” Hunt said in 2022. “I think I lost the passion a long time ago when I filed this lawsuit against the UFC. They took that passion away from me, to be honest. The only fight I’ve had since I left the UFC was a boxing match, [and] I couldn’t get another match anywhere. I don’t think any company would pick me up because of this lawsuit, to be honest.”
Fans and insiders, sometimes the biggest fights in life happen in real life situations, away from the MMA, wrestling mats or boxing apron. Life can be testing. We wish all involved in the past legal tussle well on their endeavors.
Fight fans from many disciplines remain spoiled for choice, be in boxing, mixed martial arts, wrestling or other. We can all do our best to maintain the warrior spirit in this crazy world, be it for our combat sport endeavor of choice, or for lifes larger combat arena. Life goes on.
#combatsports #FrancisNgannou #TysonFury #boxing #MMA #wrestling #dreammatch #PFL #DanaWhite #UFC #MarkHunt #sportsbiz #sportsnews #PPV #payperview #legend #legends #entertainment #entertainmentnews #popculture #trend #trends #buzz #media
WWE inks deal with new broadcasting partner for Japan
It has been announced that WWE @WWE and ABEMA have agreed to a media rights partnership. Starting this October, WWE programming will stream exclusively on ABEMA platforms in Japan. ABEMA platforms will carry Raw, SmackDown, and NXT, along with WWE premium live events.
Raw and SmackDown will both broadcast free-to-air in Japan every week with Japanese commentary immediately following first broadcast in the U.S., for the first time ever. Starting with Raw on Tuesday, October 3 (and every Tuesday night at 8pm local time) and SmackDown on Saturday, October 7 (and every Saturday night at 8pm local time), both weekly shows will also be available to watch on-demand. The new agreement will also see NXT available to watch on-demand in Japan via ABEMA Video.
Additionally, all WWE Premium Live Events (PLE's) will air exclusively live on ABEMA, with all past editions of WrestleMania available to view on-demand via ABEMA Video beginning October 1.
WWE broadcasts are returning to Japan for the first time since 2021. WWE's partnership with J Sports ended at the conclusion of that year.
WWE enjoys a long history with Japan. WWE wrestlers have performed in numerous Japanese rings over the decades, just as plenty of Japanese pro wrestling talents have performed in the WWE and other American based promotions over the years.
List (partial) of Japanese wrestlers who have performed in the WWE and/or NXT. #WWE former names include WWF (World Wrestling Federation) and WWWF
Shinsuke Nakamura
Jushin "Thunder" Liger
Tiger Mask
Antonio Inoki
Asuka
Iyo Sky
Kota Ibushi
Kenta Kobayashi
Taka Michinoku
Tajiri
Mr Saito
Mr Fuji
Tatsumi Fujinami
Jumping Bomb Angels
Aja Kong
Bull Nakano
Insider and litte known detail about the WWE - Japan connection:
Alongside Rikodozan, there is not a more prominent figure in Japanese wrestling history than Antonio Inoki. He is the gentleman and mastermind who created New Japan Pro Wrestling, which is now the leading wrestling promotion in Japan. He has held well over 20 titles from around the world, including the WWE world title! The WWE does not officially recognize his reign after defeating Bob Backlund on November 30, 1979.
NWF Heavyweight champion Antonio Inoki defeated Backlund in Tokushima, Japan to win the WWF title. Backlund then won a rematch on December 6. However, then WWF president Hisashi Shinma declared the re-match a no contest due to interference from Tiger Jeet Singh, and Inoki remained champion.
Inoki fought in the legendary boxer vs wrestler match with Muhammad Ali, a fight that ended up influencing the creation of mixed martial arts, and eventually, the UFC. In 1995, Inoki and "Nature Boy" Ric Flair headlined two shows in North Korea that had the highest attendance in wrestling history. In 2010, WWE inducted Inoki into the Hall of Fame.
#WWE #WWERaw #SmackDown #WWENXT #ABEMA #wrestling #prowrestling #sportsentertainment #wrestlingnews #combatsports #entertainment #popculture #legends #wrestlingpromotion #wrestlingpromotions #broadcast #broadcasting #VOD #VideoOnDemand #PPV #payperview #streaming #streamingmedia #Japan #TV #media
Digtal Advertising News
$84 billion of advertising spend lost due to ad fraud in 2023
Senior Research Analyst from Juniper Research, Elisha Sudlow-Poole, said in a statement released:
“Data provided by popular ad platforms, such as Facebook and Google, provide an incomplete picture of the success of advertising campaigns.”
“That is, these platforms give an optimistic view of campaign efficiency, failing to distinguish between how many clicks or views originated from legitimate users compared to click farms or fraudulent bots.”
Media: There you go CEOs, CFOs, marketing heads, punters and others. You know where you read this. Some advertising and online scribes work, while others do not. Don't shoot the messengers. Hype and B.S remains paramount in the media, ad, agency and news media biz says ex journo and Media Man insiders.
#digitaladvertising #ads #adnews #advertisingnews #adfraud #juniper #research #adbiz #biz #biznews #creative #creatives #content #numbers #clicks #bots #links #seo #sem #authority #expert #experts #experience #trend #intel #newsmedia #AI #media #mediaman
Pro Wrestling News
Impact Wrestling @IMPACTWRESTLING has announced that Kenta @KENTAG2S will be returning to the promotion to challenge Chris Sabin @SuperChrisSabin for the X-Division Title. The news comes from the AXS broadcast and numerous U.S based wrestling news websites have run with the story. The match promises to be be excellent and both wrestlers should thrive in the Impact Wrestling environment. Numerous countries can watch the PPV via the FITE @FITETV service. Look up the details on the Impact Wrestling official website.
#IMPACTonAXSTV #BoundForGlory #prowrestling #wrestling #wrestlingnews #impact #ImpactWrestling #ChrisSabin #Kenta #impactX #XDivision #PPV #payperview #FITE #streaming #X #trend #buzz #media
WWE SmackDown mini history lesson
WWE @WWE SmackDown, also known as Friday Night SmackDown or simply SmackDown, is an American professional wrestling television program produced by WWE. It airs live every Friday at 8 p.m. Eastern Time (ET) on Fox. Fox Deportes simulcasts the program with Spanish-language commentary. The show features characters (mainly pro wrestlers) from the SmackDown brand, to which WWE employees are assigned to work and perform. The show is considered to be one of two flagship shows, along with Monday Night Raw aka RAW.
SmackDown! debuted in the United States on UPN on April 29, 1999 and was formerly broadcast on Thursday nights. The show moved to Friday nights on September 9, 2005, and began airing on The CW in September 2006, after the merger of UPN and the WB. The show later moved to MyNetworkTV in October 2008. On October 1, 2010, SmackDown moved to cable network Syfy, and eventually returned to Thursdays on January 15, 2015. The show then moved to the sibling USA Network on January 7, 2016, and later that year, beginning on July 19, 2016, SmackDown began broadcasting live on Tuesday nights. SmackDown's move to Fox on October 4, 2019 marked the show's return to Friday nights and over-the-air broadcast television (as well as the second time SmackDown has aired on a Fox-owned network).
The Oxford English Dictionary traces the use of the word smackdown in English back at least as far as 1990, but notes that a professional wrestling television show "popularized" the term.
The wrestling and pop culture world is of the strong belief that Dwayne "The Rock" Johnson @TheRock brough the word "SmackDown" to the masses via his rise to fame in the WWE (former WWF) promotion.
#SmackDown #wwesmackdown #wrestling #prowrestling #TheRock #VinceMcMahon #RomanReigns #TheBloodline #PaulHeyman #MichaelCole #entertainment #popculture #FOX #USA #broadcast #broadcasting #legend #legends #TV #trend #buzz #media
Pro Wrestling News
WWE @WWE Fastlane next PLE (Premium Live Event) for world's leading pro wrestling promotion.
Solo Sikoa @WWESoloSikoa & Jimmy Uso @WWEUsos vs John Cena @JohnCena (and perhaps a tag-team partner) at Fastlane on Saturday, October 7, 2023
#WWEFastlane #Fastlane #WWE #wrestling #prowrestling #sportsentertainment #entertainment #popculture #PLE #premiumlivevent #liveentertainment #livesport #PPV #payperview #broadcast #trend #trends #buzz #media
Australian Sports Entertainment Blog: SmackDown preview, Sept. 29, 2023: Rey Mysterio defends his U.S. Title against fellow LWO member Santos Escobar
This Friday, Santos Escobar will finally get his chance at the United States Title as he takes on mentor and LWO leader Rey Mysterio.
The WWE Hall of Famer won the stars-and-stripes title after subbing for an injured Escobar, who had originally been slated to challenge Austin Theory just over a month ago.
With outside forces such as Grayson Waller attempting to stir the pot, Escobar requested the match with Mysterio on the Sept. 15 episode of SmackDown.
Which LWO member will leave with the gold? Find out this Friday at 8/7 C on FOX!
John Cena returns to SmackDown after a beatdown from The Bloodline
John Cena returns to the blue brand just one week after suffering a devastating attack at the hands of Jimmy Uso and Solo Sikoa of The Bloodline.
The Greatest of All Time originally had AJ Styles in his corner for the fight, but Uso and Sikoa assaulted The Phenomenal One backstage and caused him to be stretchered out.
They followed that up with an assault on Cena, leaving him down in a heap with their Fastlane tag team match contract laying by the fallen legend’s side.
With Fastlane fast approaching, what will Cena do to combat his ruthless enemies? Find out on Friday Night SmackDown TONIGHT at 8/7 C on FOX!
The Queen of WWE faces Bayley in a reignition of their rivalry
This Friday, Charlotte Flair and Bayley will reignite their storied rivalry as the two tangle in singles competition for the first time since 2020.
This past week, Charlotte inadvertently cost Asuka the chance to win the WWE Women’s Title from IYO SKY, as Flair brawled with Damage CTRL’s Bayley.
Bayley has a slight edge over Flair in singles competition, as she is 9-8 against The Queen of WWE. The last time these two squared off, Bayley gained the win in a matchup on Raw in May of 2020.
Who will come out on top this time? Don’t miss SmackDown, this Friday at 8/7 C on FOX!
An irate Bobby Lashley joins “The Grayson Waller Effect”
The union between Bobby Lashley and The Street Profits might be on shaky ground. Just as the new trio was rolling, The Street Profits lost to U.S. Champion Rey Mysterio and Santos Escobar of The LWO.
This enraged The All Mighty, who stormed out in disgust and demanded they hand back their suits that he bought.
This Friday, Lashley joins “The Grayson Waller Effect.” How will Lashley respond to what happened between him and The Street Profits? Find out this Friday at 8/7 C on FOX!
Pro Wrestling
WWE @WWE SmackDown: September 29, 2023
Rey Mysterio @reymysterio vs Santos Escobar @EscobarWWE - WWE U.S Title
Segment: John Cena @JohnCena will address The Bloodline situation
Charlotte Flair @MsCharlotteWWE vs Bayley @itsBayleyWWE
“The Grayson Waller @GraysonWWE Effect”. Guest: Bobby Lashley @fightbobby
#SmackDown #WWESmackDown #WWE #wrestling #prowrestling #WWEFastland #Fastlane #entertainment #entertainmentnews #PopCulture #FOX #trend #trends #trending #buzz #media
Pro Wrestling
"I have a tremendous amount of respect for LA Knight @RealLAKnight because his trajectory is that of persistence. You want to talk about somebody never giving up? I have it on a shirt and I try to live it every day. He walks that talk and he does it with his own style and he’s not afraid to be who he is in here. And speaking from somebody who started as the Doctor of Thuganomics, I have a lot of respect for that." - John Cena @JohnCena , WWE @WWE wrestling legend #JohnCena #quote #LAKnight #WWE #wrestling #prowrestling #SmackDown #WWESmackDown #combatsports #entertainment #popculture #life #mindset #work #mbs #media
Pro Wrestling: WWE NXT @WWENXT
"My partners at USA have clearly have just been fantastic over the years. I feel like clearly we have. We have the proof to show it. We've grown in that younger demographic, but look, every now and then, you do think again, if we had a lead in into a Marvel movie or something like that, there might be an opportunity to capture a new fanbase, so to speak" - Shawn Michaels
#shawnmichaels #quote #WWENXT #wrestling #prowrestling #USA #USANetwork #entertainment #popculture #fanbase #fans #TV #media
Pro Wrestling / Pop Culture News
Amanda Rose Saccomanno aka Mandy Rose via TMZ @TMZ
"Listen, I do miss performing. I miss the camaraderie. I miss that adrenaline rush for sure. I can’t sit here and say I don’t miss it. However, I am keeping myself super busy, to not have to really have to think about it as much. But I don’t know about the future. I am a free agent now, I’ve mentioned across social media which kind of got out everywhere. But if the right call comes around and I feel like making an appearance and kind of coming back to any kind of wrestling federation out there, I’m not saying it’s a ‘no,’ but right now I’m pretty busy, so it’s gotta be the right call".
Video
Ex-WWE Superstar Mandy Rose Says OnlyFans Modeling Led To 'Life-Changing' Money | TMZ Sports
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=z6G1tPs-QGQ&ab_channel=TMZSports
#mandyrose #quote #TMZ #wrestling #prowrestling #sportsentertainment #wrestlingnews #model #fashion #onlyfans #combatsports #socialmedia #platforms #socialmedianews #socialmediaplatforms #entertainment #popculture #legends #wrestlingpromotion #wrestlingpromotions #PPV #payperview #streaming #streamingmedia #TV #media
Pro Wrestling
"This may be news to a lot of fans out there, but when one wrestler goes from one company to another, we tend to always wish them the best and cheer for them while they embark on their new journey. Genuinely. It’s embarrassing and shameful that some fans aren’t capable of the same" - Kenny Omega @KennyOmegamanX , pro wrestling legend. Currently signed with All Elite Wrestling @AEW
#KennyOmega #quote #wrestling #prowrestling #AEW #wrestlers #wrestlingpromotion #wrestlingpromotions #wrestlingpromoters #wrestlingfans #entertainment #popculture #sportsbiz #media
Pro Wrestling
WWE @WWE SmackDown
Rey Mysterio @reymysterio vs Santos Escobar @EscobarWWE - US Title
Has anyone done a background check on Escobar?
We're heard that surname a few times over the decades! Is there anything in his history to be careful about? Interesting history in NXT @WWENXT when he was dealing with situations with Tony D @TonyDangeloWWE and various crews around the waterfront. Spotted on boat doing business meetings...
There is a history before the reformation of the lWo. Be careful Rey!
#SmackDown #WWESmackDown #WWE #wrestling #prowrestling #WWEUSTitle #LWO #LatinoWorldOrder #Escobar #SantosEscobar #WWENXT #TheFamily #entertainment #popculture #FOX #TV #broadcast #broadcasting #trend #trends #media
Entertainment: Shows, films, television, or other performances or activities that entertain people, or a performance of this type:
There's not much in the way of entertainment in this town - just the cinema and a couple of pubs.
formal This season's entertainments include five new plays and several concerts of Chinese and Indian music.
Other examples: "Let's go to the pro wrestling for some exciting entertainment"!
#entertainment #shows #films #TV #performance #performances #showbiz #popculture #culture #liveentertainment #entertainmentnews #media
Pro Wrestling WWE
@WWE SmackDown: September 29, 2023
Charlotte Flair @MsCharlotteWWE vs Bayley @itsBayleyWWE
"What history between Charlotte Flair and Bayley" - Kevin Patrick @kev_egan
"The most celebrated of all time".. KP... "You ain't kidding" - Corey Graves @WWEGraves
"The truth hurts if your Bayley right" Michael Cole @MichaelCole
#SmackDown #WWESmackDown #WWE #wrestling #prowrestling #womenswrestling #wwewomen #WWEFastlane #Fastlane #femmes #femmefatale #femmefatales #entertainment #entertainmentnews #PopCulture #FOX #trend #trends #trending #buzz #media
Combat Sports News
Boxing and Pro Wrestling Connection for Logan Paul
"That wasn't a plug. I was thirsty. I got blue red. 20 calories, 2 grams sugar. HaHaHa".
"I don't know what else to do Ariel. I really don't know what else to do. Likee, I have this frame that is like atuned for combat. I like to work hard. I like to beat people up. I like when they try to beat me up back"...
"It's just a good platform and I love it".
"Boxing is just so much more intentionally violent, and both sports have their danger"... "Both are extremely primal. I often feel I'm born in the wrong generation. I like the idea of two men, two women, humans going at it with all they have but their body."
"'I don't know, I just feel I'm built for it. Boxing ignites a certain part of my brain that wrestling doesn't, and wrestling ignites a certain part of my brain that boxing doesn't, and I like going back and forth."
"We gotta find a time in the schedule to carve out a time to box because, you know, I am, I guess, technically like a full-time wrestler. I'm on the roster. I have a contract, and it's also a goal of mine to get WWE @WWE Championships. I didn't just come to partake. I came to take over."
"You don't do that if you are hopping in and out of the sport, so we gotta find time to box and time to wrestle, and they've been very accommodating." - Logan Paul @LoganPaul to Ariel Helwani via The MMA Hour Podcast @mmafighting
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The MMA Hour Podcast
Logan Paul on Dillon Danis: ‘I’m Going to Make Him Suffer as Long as I Can’ | The MMA Hour
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3PsMoWBpP8s&ab_channel=MMAFightingonSBN
#LoganPaul #quote #quotes #DillionDanis #boxing #wrestling #prowrestling #WWE #misfitsboxing #prime #TheMMAHour #combatsports #sportsnews #sportsbiz #entertainment #popculture #promotions #boxingpromotion #wrestlingpromotion #podcast #trend #buzz #media
Pro Wrestling Legend Shawn Michaels on CM Punk
“He’s a guy that does numbers and makes money. I think that would be a risk, reward ratio that I’m sure, from a company standpoint, they’d have to consider. But when it comes to, would we take him in NXT and have him on our television? Are you kidding me? Of course, I would. I just don’t think anybody would let me. — Who doesn’t take that kind of star power?” - Shawn Michaels, NXT @WWENXT creative. #ShawnMichaels #quote #CMPunk #wrestling #prowrestling #WWENXT #WWE #combatsports #sportsbiz #starpower #entertainment #popculture #buzz #media
All Elite Wrestling @AEW
Video
The Next Chapter is About to Unfold | AEW Countdown to WrestleDream: LIVE, This Sunday on PPV
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5VenDXf6FLM&ab_channel=AllEliteWrestling
Video
Tony Khan Previews AEW WrestleDream | AEW Unrestricted
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aMva1XexAko&ab_channel=AllEliteWrestling
#AEW #AllEliteWrestling #AEWWrestleDream #WrestleDream #AEWCountdown #TonyKhan #video #videos #podcast #wrestling #prowrestling #entertainment #popculture #buzz #media
Pro Wrestling
WWE NXT @WWENXT
Top 10 WWE NXT moments: WWE Top 10, Sept. 26, 2023
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pfH1E_N7LBw&t=5s&ab_channel=WWE
#WWENXT #wrestling #prowrestling #top10 #combatsports #entertainment #popculture #video #highlights #buzz #media
"Cena's not gunna make it to Fastlane" - Corey Graves @WWEGraves
"No, Solo wants the opportunity. To drive the stake through Cena's heart" - Michael Cole @MichaelCole
#SmackDown #Fastlane
Las Vegas police arrest man suspected in 1996 shooting of rap music legend Tupac Shakur
Las Vegas police on Friday arrested a man they said was "the shot caller" in the 1996 shooting death of rapper Tupac Shakur.
Duane "Keefe D" Davis, 60, was arrested Friday morning outside his home and faces a single charge of murder with a deadly weapon with the intent to promote, further or assist a criminal gang, Clark County Chief Deputy District Attorney Marc DiGiacomo said in a hearing.
District Judge Jerry Wiese ordered Davis held without bail, the Las Vegas Review-Journal reported.
Las Vegas Metropolitan Police Lt. Jason Johansson said that while Davis didn't pull the trigger of the gun that killed Shakur, he was with the gunman in the vehicle involved in the drive-by shooting.
"I think the best way to characterize that is Duane Davis was the shot caller for this group of individuals that committed this crime and he orchestrated the plan that was carried out to commit this crime," Johansson said in a news conference.
The Review-Journal reported that investigators believe Davis' nephew, Orlando Anderson, who died in another shooting in 1998, was the person who pulled the trigger in the Shakur shooting. Two other suspects in the case are also deceased, CNN reported.
Investigators have long believed Davis and Anderson were behind the shooting, but didn't have the evidence to bring the case before a grand jury. Metropolitan Police Sheriff Kevin McMahill said Davis' admissions in a 2018 book he wrote helped prosecutors' case and led to a grand jury indictment.
"He admitted within that book that he did acquire the firearm with the intent to go hunt down Mr. Shakur and Mr. Knight," DiGiacomo said Friday. "He admitted to being the front-right passenger in the white Cadillac."
Police said the Sept. 7, 1996, shooting was precipitated by an argument and fight between Shakur and Anderson after attending a boxing match at the MGM Grand between Mike Tyson and Bruce Seldon. Later, while Shakur was in a vehicle with Death Row Records CEO Suge Knight, a white Cadillac pulled up and opened fire on Shakur, injuring him.
Shakur died six days later, on Sept. 13, 1996, at the age of 25.
2Pac Official YouTube Channel
https://www.youtube.com/@2PacOfficialYT
#TupacShakur #Tupac #2PAC #DuaneDavis #KeefeD #DeathRowRecords #DeathRow #music #entertainment #entertainmentnews #popculture #news #newsmedia #media
Combat Sports: Boxing and Pro Wrestling Connection for Logan Paul
Logan Paul @LoganPaul spoke with Sports Illustrated @SInow to help boost the promotion for his upcoming boxing bout on the Prime Card against Dillon Danis on October 14 of this year.
Some prime quotes from the S.I interview and feature:
On fighting Floyd Mayweather Jr:
“In a weird way, the Floyd fight proved to me who I thought I was. The biggest thing that surviving and thriving against Floyd Mayweather did for me was boost my confidence in a way that was so unfamiliar to me at the time. Think about it. People kind of knew me, but then I went toe-to-toe with the greatest boxer alive. So people had to respect that. Ever since then, so many doors have opened. Prime started. I got invited to join the WWE. The confidence that fight gave me made me turn into the man I always thought I would be.”
On his success in WWE @WWE and boxing:
“It’s a combination of self-belief with a little bit of delusion. At first, I thought I was crazy. Eventually, that belief, it’s become reality, and I believe it–fully. That was the only way it could come true. With WWE and boxing, and really everything I’m doing, I’m very fortunate to have found something I like and that I’m good at. I’m only warming up.”
Full article on S.I
Logan Paul Shares Secret To His Success
https://www.si.com/fannation/wrestling/mma/logan-paul-shares-secret-to-his-success
#LoganPaul #DillonDanis #quote #quotes #SI #SportsIllustrated #boxing #wrestling #prowrestling #misfitsboxing #combatsports #PPV #payperview #sportsbiz #sportsnews #entertainment #entertainmentnews #popculture #buzz #media
Pro Wrestling
AEW @AEW Dynamite
"I apologize for the persistent issues at @TBSNetwork tonight with our #AEWDynamite feed.
As I understand, there were issues at TBS with a new operating system; thankfully AEW’s international feeds were unaffected.
We’re working now to put a clean feed on TBS West later tonight!"
Tony Khan
@TonyKhan
12:07 PM · Sep 28, 2023
Thank you all who watched Wednesday Night #AEWDynamite TONIGHT! I thought it was a great show! If you missed Dynamite earlier, or if you're located out west, you can still see tonight's show 8pm PT/9pm MT/10pm CT/11pm ET TONIGHT NEXT On
@TBSNetwork Network West
With audio issues FIXED
Tony Khan
@TonyKhan
12:52 PM · Sep 28, 2023
#AEWDynamite #AEW #TonyKhan #TBS #TBSNetwork #wrestling #media
WWE @WWE SmackDown. September 29, 2023
Jimmy Uso def Karl Anderson
Austin Theory def Cameron Grimes
Rey Mysterio def Santos Escobar - U.S Title
Charlotte Flair def Bayley
Confrontation: John Cena, LA Knight vs Jimmy Uso and Solo Sikoa
Segment: The Grayson Waller Effect: Bobby Lashley
Segment: Paul Heyman and The Bloodline
Thumbs up says Media Man
#SmackDown #WWESmackDown #WWE #TheBloodline #JohnCena #LAKnight #WWEFastlane #Fastlane #wrestling #prowrestling #entertainment #sportsbiz #popculture #FOX #TV #broadcast #trend #trends #media
Combat Sports News
MMA legend and in-the-know podcaster Chael Sonnen @ChaelSonnen commentary on Mark Hunt vs Brock Lesnar and UFC situation
“You have to understand, if Mark wanted to have a complaint, I don’t think this is a legal complaint.” Chael Sonnen via YouTube reacting to Mark Hunt’s failed lawsuit against the UFC.
“On a personal note, if he wanted to be offended, he got brought in to be beaten up by Brock Lesnar. They brought in a kickboxer from New Zealand, who had never had a wrestling match, to take on a NCAA wrestling champion. That was yoked out of his mind.”
“You didn’t need a drug test to know Lesnar was on steroids then. Or was on steroids now, or on steroids next week, or on steroids in college. Just look at him, you can take one look at him! You meet the guy who goes to the Carnival, and he wants to yell at the worker afterward. You saw the ride, and then you bought a ticket!”
“Mark isn’t wrong for doing this, I’m just bringing up a point. But, Mark doesn’t get to throw on a Mr. Surprised face, when a guy he knows is using steroids, tests positive for steroids.”
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Chael Sonnen Official YouTube
Mark Hunt loses in court to the UFC, again…
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cHQm6CegcNg&t=15s&ab_channel=ChaelSonnen
In addition, Sonnen has been churning out tons of thought (and sometimes fighter) provoking video broadcasts lately. Here's another with a round-about wrestling connection...
Suing Dillon Danis is WRONG…
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vIIZeA73J98&ab_channel=ChaelSonnen
#ChaelSonnen #MarkHunt #BrockLesnar #UFC #MMA #DillonDanis #LoganPaul #PaulDanis #misfitsboxing #boxing #combatsports #podcast #sportsbiz #entertainment #promotion #PPV #payperview #buzz #trends #media
Pro Wrestling
WWE NXT @WWENXT No Mercy
30th September, 2023
Carmelo Hayes @Carmelo_WWE vs Ilja Dragunov @UNBESIEGBAR_ZAR - NXT Championship
NXT Women’s Champion Becky Lynch @BeckyLynchWWE vs Tiffany Stratton @tiffstrattonwwe - Extreme Rules Match. NXT Women's Title
Dominik Mysterio @DomMysterio35 vs Trick Williams @_trickwilliams - NXT North American Championship Match
Noam Dar vs Butch - NXT Heritage Cup Match
Tony D’Angelo & Stacks vs Angel Garza & Humberto Carrillo vs The Creed Brothers vs OTM - NXT Tag Team Championship Fatal 4-Way Match
Bron Breakker vs Baron Corbin
Kelani Jordan vs Blair Davenport
#NXTNoMercy #NoMercy #WWENXT #wrestling #prowrestling #sportsnews #combatsports #entertainment #entertainmentnews #popculture #PLE #PremiumLiveEvent #LiveSports #LiveEntertainment #trend #trends #buzz #media
US government hours from shutdown, funding chaos
The US government on Saturday was hours from shutting down after the far right of the Republican Party scuppered final attempts at a temporary budget agreement, throwing into doubt everything from access to national parks to Washington's massive support for Ukraine.
The closure of all but critical government services, set to start after midnight Saturday (0400 GMT Sunday) if lawmakers fail to reach a deal, would be the first since 2019 -- immediately delaying salaries for millions of federal employees and military personnel.
The two chambers of Congress are deadlocked, with a small group of Republicans in the House of Representatives pushing back against stopgap measures that would at least keep the lights on.
On Friday, House Republicans defeated a plan proposed by their own leader, Speaker Kevin McCarthy, to keep funds flowing, deepening the sense of growing chaos within the party ahead of 2024 elections where hard-right former president Donald Trump hopes to return to the White House.
The White House Office of Management and Budget's director Shalanda Young said there was "still a chance" of avoiding a shutdown if Republicans could end internal divisions.
And White House Press Secretary Karine Jean-Pierre made clear that President Joe Biden, who is seeking a second term in 2024, did not intend to wade in.
"The conversation needs to happen between Speaker McCarthy and his caucus. That's the fix, that's the chaos that we're seeing," she said.
Speaking to the news outlet ProPublica on Friday, Biden said McCarthy has made "a terrible bargain. In order to keep the speakership, he's willing to do things that he, I think, he knows are inconsistent with the constitutional processes."
McCarthy, however, blamed Democrats, saying they are the ones blocking a solution.
- Big question on Ukraine -
All critical government services will remain functioning. However, a shutdown would mean the majority of national parks, for example -- from the iconic Yosemite and Yellowstone in the west to Florida's Everglades swamp -- would be closed to public access beginning Sunday.
With student loan payments resuming in October, officials also said Friday that key activities at the Federal Student Aid office would continue for a couple of weeks.
But a prolonged shutdown could cause bigger disruptions.
A shutdown "unnecessarily" places the world's largest economy at risk, White House National Economic Council Director Lael Brainard told CNBC.
Risks that could percolate through the wider economy include air travel delays, with air traffic controllers asked to work without pay.
Treasury Secretary Janet Yellen warned a closure could also delay infrastructure improvements.
"In the immediate term, a government shutdown will only reduce GDP by 0.2 percentage points each week it lasts," said a report released Friday by the Center for Strategic and International Studies, a think tank.
"However, halting critical trade functions of the United States will also undermine the United States' overall credibility as a commercial partner, impede ongoing negotiations and hinder export control enforcement capabilities," the report added.
The mess casts a growing shadow over Biden's policy of arming and funding Ukraine in its desperate war against the Russian invasion. For Republican hardliners behind the derailment of a new budget, stopping aid to Ukraine is a key goal.
Most Republican members of Congress continue to support US backing for Ukraine, but the shutdown will at minimum raise questions over the political viability of renewing the multibillion-dollar flow of assistance.
#USshutdown #USA #JoeBiden #politics #USPolitics #news #newsmedia #media
Australian broadcasting news
Foxtel channels revamp
New logos and name changes come ahead of streaming aggregation platform.
Foxtel has refreshed a number of channel names, including dropping the “FOX” brand from several.
FOX Arena, and FOX Showcase are now reverting back to Arena and Showcase channel names, while there are changes too for Comedy, Docos, SciFi, Comedy, Classics, Sleuth channels, while FOX One becomes Foxtel One.
FOX8 remains but with a refreshed logo.
The changes come ahead of the previously reported streaming aggregation platform based on Sky Glass -titled in house as Project Magneto.
A Foxtel spokesperson said, “As our business evolves, and as we leverage brands in new ways, we have refreshed some of our channel names to reflect this. There will be no impact to customers who will continue to enjoy all the great content and channels they are familiar with and love.”
Australian broadcasting news
Foxtel channels revamp
New logos and name changes come ahead of streaming aggregation platform.
Foxtel has refreshed a number of channel names, including dropping the “FOX” branding from numerous.
FOX Arena, and FOX Showcase are now reverting back to the original Arena and Showcase channel names, while there are changes also for Comedy, Docos, SciFi, Comedy, Classics, mystery channels etc.
FOX One will transform Foxtel One.
FOX8 remains but with a revamped logo.
The changes come ahead of the previously reported streaming aggregation platform based on Sky Glass -known in-house as Project Magneto.
A Foxtel spokesperson said, “As our business evolves, and as we leverage brands in new ways, we have refreshed some of our channel names to reflect this. There will be no impact to customers who will continue to enjoy all the great content and channels they are familiar with and love.”
#Foxtel #FOX #broadcasting #TV #streaming #streamingentertainment #streamingmedia #OTT #entertainment #EntertainmentNews #popculture #broadcast #broadcasting #broadcaster #aggregation #platform #platformnews #newsmedia #media
SEJ social October 2023
SEJ's Annabelle on social media content types. Spread the risk. Cast the net far and wide. See what works and what doesn't..Fine tune. Improve. Repeat the process and don't lose track of what your main business purpose is. Success!
"Being away for the weekends, and me being the international player that I have been for those 30 years, I've spent a lot more time flying around the world, playing different golf tournaments around the world" -Greg Norman #GregNorman #quote #golf #golfer #player #golfplayer #golftouraments #sports #sportsbiz #world #media
"I just think that VR and AR are going to be a really big deal" - Mark Zuckerberg #MarkZuckerberg #quote #VR #AI #ArtificialIntelligence #virtualworlds #meta #metaverse #facebook #socialmedia #platforms #socialmedianews #socialmediatrends #bigtech #media
"Marathon running, like golf, is a game for players, not winners. That is why Callaway sells golf clubs and Nike sells running shoes. But running is unique in that the world's best racers are on the same course, at the same time, as amateurs, who have as much chance of winning as your average weekend warrior would scoring a touchdown in the NFL" - Hunter S. Thompson #huntersthompson #running #golf #players #callaway #nike #shoes #unique #course #amateurs #amateur #winning #warrio #touchdown #NFL #sports #sportsbiz #popculture #media
"Over the years, golf has evolved from a leisurely game of stick and ball into a competitive sport for highly skilled athletes. Players not only spend countless hours fine-tuning technique on the course, but also improving strength, stability, and endurance in the gym" - Paige Spiranac #PaigeSpiranac #quote #golf #game #competitive #sport #prosport #professionalsport #sportsbiz #athletes #players #course #strength #gym #lifestyle #mbs #sportsnews #sportsbusiness #sportsmedia #media
“The only thing that is going to make you succeed is yourself” - Greg Norman, pro golfer #GregNorman #golf #golfer #progolfer #succeed #success #yourself #self #mindset #motivation #mbs #sportsbiz #sportsbusiness #sportsnews #media
Google might be the world’s largest search engine in the world, but it is by no means the only one #Google #searchengine #searchengines #SEO #searchengineoptimization #search #SEM #searchenginemarketing #internet #www #worldwideweb #tech #technews #world #worldnews #media #mediaman
"How do people relate to movies now, when they're on portable devices or streaming them? It's not as much about going to the movies. That experience has changed". Keanu Reeves #KeanuReeves #quote #movies #streaming #popculture #TheMatrix #entertainment #entertainmentnews #legend
Pro Wrestling
"What an incredible night! Full of surprises and jaw dropping moments, I couldn’t be prouder of our talent at NXT! They aren’t just the future, they are the now! See you all Tuesday on USA!" - Shawn Michaels @ShawnMichaels , NXT @WWENXT creative on No Mercy #ShawnMichaels #quote #NoMercy #NXTNoMercy #WWENXT #wrestling #prowrestling #entertainment #combatsports #popculture #showbiz #trends #buzz #media
Pro Wrestling
NXT @WWENXT October 3, 2023
Trick Williams @_trickwilliams vs "Dirty" Dom Mysterio @DomMysterio35 No Mercy rematch. Mysterio must win in order to return to 'The Judgement Day' said Rhea Ripley @RheaRipley_WWE - North American Title
Gigi Dolin vs Blair Davenport
Butch and Tyler Bate vs Gallus
NXT Women’s Breakout Tournament begins
#WWENXT #NXTNorthAmerican #wrestling #prowrestling #TrickWilliams #DominikMysterio #DirtyDom #JudgementDay #rematch #combatsports #entertainment #entertainmentnews #showbiz #sportsbiz #popculture #trend #trending #buzz #TV #media
"This man's perseverance. This man's passion, has lead him to the NXT @WWENXT championship" Vic Joseph @VicJosephWWE
#WWENXT
"Wrestling has more than one royal family" - Cody Rhodes @CodyRhodes . Rhodes to appear on NXT @WWENXT next week @WWENXT
"To me, the extraordinary aspect of martial arts lies in its simplicity. The easy way is also the right way, and martial arts is nothing at all special; the closer to the true way of martial arts, the less wastage of expression there is" - Bruce Lee @brucelee #BruceLee #quote #martialarts #simplicity #combatsports #mbs #media
Wrestling News
Next week on NXT @WWENXT fully expect to see wrestling legends John Cena @JohnCena , Paul Heyman @HeymanHustle and Cody Rhodes @CodyRhodes
All forecast to be seen in person. No magic tricks, green screens, conference calls etc. In the flesh!
Understood to be between 99 and 100 percent correct intel.
Hustle to be seen, or Heyman to have attitude adjusted, or a combination?! Be there or tune in to see what significant changes are happening in the world of combat sports/fighting meets pop culture, high drama and TV ratings wars. Is a new era of pro wrestling wars upon us already? Rated W for Wrestling. Parent guidence recommended, especially for when Paul Heyman gets the live mic! Mic drop!
#WWENXT #wrestlingnews #WWE #wrestling #JohnCena #PaulHeyman #CodyRhodes #CarmeloHayes #BronBreakker #wrestling #prowrestling #combatsports #entertainment #entertainmentnews #popculture #broadcast #broadcasting #ratings #legends #trend #trends #buzz #media #mediaman
"What's up guys. I'm Megan Morant for WWE Now. Getting you ready with everything that you need to know heading into tonight's Monday Night Raw"... #WWERaw
Pro Wrestling War Escalates From 2022 to 2023 and beyond
All Elite Wrestling
Tony Khan in September 2022 regarding WWE
"I'm serious. I'm not gonna sit back and take this *ucking *hit. "I've had a number of interactions with (WWE). I've said a lot of nice stuff, and I don't regret saying nice stuff because I'm super honest about pro wrestling. And when I saw good stuff there, I'll be the first to say it. I am just not feeling the same love. I don’t want to get into it. I just haven't felt the same reciprocation from them.
"If it is, when the fight is brought, I will continue bringing fights of my own, and I have unique ways to do that. I have a lot of money to fight with. And this is not a game to me. This is my life, and I don't think it's a joke, and I take it really seriously." Tony Khan - All Elite Wrestling @AEW
#TonyKhan #quote #AEW #AllEliteWrestling #wrestling #prowrestling #promoter #wrestlingpromoter #combatsports #sportsbiz #sportsbusiness #wrestlingnews #wrestlingwar #wrestlingwars #entertainment #popculture #buzz #media
"Saturday, October 7th. The UFC @UFC is back with an all-action lightweight clash".. #UFCVegas80
Pro Wrestling
WWE @WWE RAW. October 2, 2023
Imperium (Kaiser and Giovanni Vinci) def Gable @WWEGable and Otis @otiswwe
"Gable able to slip through" Michael Cole @MichaelCole
"Welcome to some raw power... Imperium. Technical moves too" Wade Barrett @StuBennett
"Vinci grabbing the leg of Otis".."and a win".. MC
#WWERaw #WWE #wrestling #prowrestling #wwetag #combatsports #entertainment #popculture #USA #TV #trends #trending #buzz #media
Pro Wrestling
WWE @WWE Raw. October 2, 2023
Fight: Nia Jax, Shayna Baszler, Raquel Rodriguez and Rhea Ripley
Ludwig Kaiser & Giovanni Vinci def Alpha Academy
“Big” Bronson Reed def Cedric Alexander
Contract signing and confronation: Tommaso Ciampa and Gunther. Intercontinental Championship for Fastlane
Xavier Woods def Ivar
Confronation: Shinsuke Nakamura and Seth “Freakin” Rollins
Situation: The Judgement Day
Tegan Nox def Chelsea Green
Drew McIntyre def The Miz
Gunther def Tommaso Ciampa - I/C Title
#WWERAW #WWE #wrestling #prowrestling #combatsports #entertainment #popculture #wrestlingnews #showbiz #USA #TV #trends #trending #buzz #media
Pro Wrestling "Talent Trading" ala NBA between WWE
@WWE
and All Elite Wrestling
Real situations, actual sign-ups and some hypotheticals
Signings:
Jade Cargill
@Jade_Cargill
is WWE
Adam Copeland
@EdgeRatedR
is AEW
Brian Pillman Jr
@FlyinBrianJr
is WWE/NXT
@WWENXT
Other:
RVD
@TherealRVD
. RVD, now AEW, had appeared on WWE TV approx 6 months ago, but not in an in-ring performer for many years. RVD performs at high and elite level.
Gone/Released from WWE List:
Dolph Ziggler
Mustapha Ali
Matt Riddle
Potential Trade Fantasy
WWE gains Wardlow
WWE gains CM Punk
WWE gains Ricky Starks
WWE gains gains Hook (and Taz)
AEW gains Sheamus
AEW gains Drew McIntyre
AEW gains Elias
AEW gains Top Dolla
*WWE is the world's leading professional wrestling based promotion in virtually all categories.
*AEW (All Elite Wrestling) is ranked number 2 professional wrestling based promotion in virtually all categories, although some categories are subjective in nature
*WWE is also part of the TKO Group, of which the UFC
@UFC
- the world's leading mixed martial arts promotion is also part of.
*Media Man is not interfering in these matters. This is topical and newsworthy.
As sometimes said in U.S based codes, "Don't hate the playa, hate the game*!
Other: "In the field of battle the spoken word is not enough"...Sun Tzu
SEO is fundamentally a set of methodologies that make it easier for search engines to find, include, categorize and rank your web content #SEO #searchengineoptimization #searchengines #searchengine #rank #webcontent #web #content #creation #creativity #biz #seobiz #seotips #seomarketing #organic #index #indexing #tech #technews #media #mediaman
"Gold medals aren't really made of gold. They're made of sweat, determination, and a hard-to-find alloy called guts" - Dan Gable #DanGable #quote #wrestling #wrestler #goldmedals #gold #olympics #guts #sports #mindset #work #combatsports #media
Pro Wrestling
WWE @WWE RAW. October 2, 2023
Judgement Day situation
"Your not saying anything I don't already know Rhea @RheaRipley_WWE but when push comes to shove I will push harder" Damian Priest @ArcherOfInfamy
#WWERaw📷 #WWE #JudgementDay #RheaRipley #wrestling #prowrestling #combatsports #entertainment #popculture #USA #TV #trends #trending #buzz #media
Pro Wrestling
WWE @WWE RAW. October 2, 2023
Becky Lynch vs Tegan Nox. NXT @WWENXT Women's Title
Nia Jax vs Shayna Baszler
Xavier Woods vs Ivar
Segment: MIZ TV. Drew McIntyre
Segment. Contract Signing: Gunther and Tommaso Ciampa
#WWERaw #WWE #wrestling #prowrestling #combatsports #entertainment #popculture #USA #TV #trends #trending #buzz #media
Pro Wrestling with MMA connections
Antonio Inoki
Brock Lesnar
Ken Shamrock
Dan Severn
Judo Gene LeBell
Josh Barnett
Jake Hager
Shinsuke Nakamura
Bobby Lashley
CM Punk
Steve Blackman
Kiyosha Tamura
Masakatsu Funaki
Minoru Suzuki
Karrion Kross
Rhonda Rousey
Shayna Baszler
#prowrestling #wrestling #MMA #combatsports #antonioinoki #brocklesnar #kenshamrock #dansevern #genelebell #joshbarnett #jakehager #ShinsukeNakamura #BobbyLashley #CMPunk #SteveBlackman #sports #legends #popculture #media #mediaman #mediamanint
Boxing News
Logan Paul @LoganPaul vs Dillon Danis @Dillion_Danis
Misfits to take over the UK in and around a boxing ring; Brawlers bring pro wrestling style and smacktalk that may make Ali, The Rock and Mike Tyson blush
October 14. Manchester, England
“I would prefer that he shows up,” Paul said on The MMA Hour. “If he doesn’t, I will be more than happy to handle Mike Perry. It won’t feel like a letdown. I’ll let Nina handle him in court. We’re going to slaughter him either way.”
Logan Paul’s fiancee Nina Agdal elected to sue Dillon Danis after the Bellator brawler posted hundreds of photos of Agdal, including some private style ones. If he does pull out, Paul is ready to support his fiancee and her lawsuit against Danis.
“You picked a fight with a woman, [and] she’s standing up for herself. You got to sleep in that bed. Not my lawsuit, buddy, that’s hers. But you gotta deal with me,” Paul said.
“I don’t [regret choosing him],” Paul said. “I mean, ask me on October 15th. But I really just feel like when I connect that right hand to his face in the cleanest way possible, and I watch him crumble, and I tower over him with my hand in the air, and it’s the most glorious knockout, the crowd goes crazy, that people have ever seen, that feels like it’s going to be worth it to me. And then we’re gonna see the slow decline and downfall of Dillon Danis.”
Paul, already rich, famous and very succesful, has helped elevate Danis to a whole new level or fame and purse money, even if it's a set rate.
It's expected that after this upcoming bout, win, lose or draw for Paul, LP will focus again on his pro wrestling (WWE @WWE ) commitments where he plans to win gold as well as ramp up MMA training, and once again hit the mats with the likes of UFC #UFC legends such as Australian native Volk @alexvolkanovski . Earlier this year Volk entertained the idea at the Aussie UFC Q&A of a dream match - Grappler/MMA vs pro wrestler scenario such as himself vs Strone Cold Steve Austin at a WrestleMania or the like. Fellow Aussie MMA Tai Tuivasa @bambamtuivasa was also open to pro wrestling activities such as getting involved in a WWE 'Bloodline' storyline.
Fans and promoters continue to debate about the cross-over audience between boxing, MMA and pro wrestling. UFC Dana White has entertainerd the idea of the newly formed (officially) TKO Group having a pro boxing arm. For better, worse, of both, the Logan Bros have helped prolpel pro boxing make into the global pop culture cyberspace and beyond, previously dominated by the top level WWE wrestlers, movie and pop stars.
As UFC Middleweight champ, Sean Strickland @SStricklandMMA would say, "Let's F' Go"! Dog Day Afternoon boxing awaits in the UK. Who let the dogs out! Prime heels or Prime bayfaces vs Monster-like challengers. The fans will decide the heroes and villains. For mega promoters like the Paul's - they always win. Billion Dollar Baby meets the Thunderlips re-match. Don't forget a 'Hogan Paul' tapdance to boot. Izzy will get it. Look it up punters.
#LoganPaul #DillionDanis #PaulDavis #boxing #boxingnews #misfitsboxing #misfits #fighting #combatsports #MMA #wrestling #Prime #sportsbiz #PPV #payperview #entertainment #popculture #buzz #trend #trends #media
"Honesty, this camp has been nuts" - KSI @KSI #KSIFury #PaulDanis #misfitsboxing
Combat Sports: ONE Championship top brass gives Joe Rogan invitation via South China Morning Post newspaper article
ONE boss Chatri Sityodtong invites MMA and podcast guru Joe Rogan to commentate Muay Thai via the news.
“Joe, you and I know each other — come on any time, man,” per South China Morning Post.
“If you want to commentate in the #1 league by far in Muay Thai — absolute killers and monsters, which you know already, Joe - give me a call.”
Video via ONE Championship YouTube
https://www.youtube.com/ONEChampionship
#ONEChampionship #ChatriSityodtong #JoeRogan #MuayThai #combatsports #kickboxing #sportsmedia #sportsnews #sportsbroadcasting #broadcasting #broadcast #sportsbiz #sportsbusiness #promoter #media
Wrestling/MMA News: Pro Wrestling Legend RVD on Riddle situation
Rob Van Dam has addressed Matt Riddle's release by WWE, admitting he hopes the former UFC fighter will clean up his act.
"I met Matt Riddle at the Playboy Mansion at a party years ago after the Ultimate Fighter. This was a Medical Marijuana Policy Project fundraiser, which they used to have annually at the Playboy Mansion, and then eventually Hugh quit having parties at the mansion for outsiders and then it just went all downhill after that, but that's where I had met him so a lot of people think that's a pretty cool story and he seems to not be able to stay out of trouble," Van Dam disclosed via his podcast.
"He'll get another chance I'm sure, but I feel like he got so many chances that they felt like they're not going to be taken seriously unless some consequences are shown. I think they'll be temporary and that could be by the Universe, not necessarily by the company, but he'll definitely go somewhere productive from here and hopefully he'll quit sending (*ick pics or whatever it is that he's doing on his off time that gives him so much heat."
Riddle was released by WWE on September 22 as part of major post-UFC merger cuts, with Riddle said to have run out of chances in WWE. His release came a couple of weeks after he accused a police officer at JFK Airport of sexual assault, with footage having since revealed that Riddle was intoxicated following a flight.
There's an old expression in pro wrestling circles that goes something like, "Red turns to green" but in Riddle's case it may be more like "Green turns to red" (heard under the Media Man watercooler).
Fans, co-workers and promoters have been curious about the Riddle character and gimmick for years, as to how much is an act and how much is the real Mr Riddle.
Fans and promoters are hopeful that Riddle get's his career back on track in due course as he's a unique and world class talent - the in-ring action.
RVD Podcast
https://www.youtube.com/TheRealRVD
Rob Van Dam - 1 Of A Kind Podcast - Full Episode
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lBbI-8Wx8EQ&t=10s&ab_channel=RobVanDam-CURRENTAF%E2%80%BC%EF%B8%8F
#RVD #RVDpodcast #oneofakind #quote #MattRiddle #Riddle #wrestling #prowrestling #combatsports #legend #legends #sportsnews #wrestlingnews #broadcast #podcast #entertainment #entertainmentnews #popculture #mbs #life #world #media
MMA: UFC @UFC
Joe Rogan, UFC commentor and world class podcaster praises Alexander Volkanovski as MMA’s No. 1 pound-for-pound competitor. ‘He won’ against Islam Makhachev #joerogan #quote #AlexanderVolkanovski #Volk #IslamMakhachev #UFC #MMA #combatsports #sportsmedia #media
NXT @WWENXT and WWE @WWE Rudo, Luchador and badass pro wrester Dirty Dom @DomMysterio35 cements his place as the golden heel of the current era. Mysterio may up his playbook with additional street fighting and MMA tactics. More tricks up his sleave and toolkit set to expand in wrestling war for turf and gold belt hunting season ramps up. Boo him all the way to the bank. Dom and The Judgement Day are laughing all the way to the bank as fans and pro wrestlers already start buzz about WrestleMania scenarios. #NATitle #DirtyDom #WWENXT
"MMA and the UFC have taken all of the pro wrestling fans because it's pro wrestling from 30 years ago, just in an Octagon and the fights happen to be real. But they're marketed exactly the same way"- Jim Cornette #JimCornette #quote #MMA #UFC #prowrestling #Octagon #fights #combatsports #entertainment #popculture #media
"I was always pushed to do that much more, and in the long run that made me more of an MMA fighter. My mom always told me that if I let it go to the judges, I'd lost. There was no way I was going to win a decision, so I had to find ways to finish the fight fast" - Ronda Rousey, MMA legend #RondaRousey #quote #MMA #fighter #UFC #fight #mixedmartialarts #combatsports #judo #sports #sportsbiz #media
"One thing I can't prove, but I firmly believe is that two men were put on this earth - one threw a punch and a third guy came over and watched. And that happened before anybody ever threw or kicked a ball" - Dana White (UFC @UFC ) #DanaWhite #quote #UFC #MMA #fight #fighting #combatsports #earth #media
FITE TV/Yahoo!
Pro wrestling friendly war heads up. Adam Copeland had the wrestling fans on edge and it was like, Let's Go! Reminding us of a draft season for other U.S sports, Paid professionals and fans win. Massive thumbs up for the AEW WrestleDream PPV delivered to us in Sydney, Australia via FITE. Mr Copeland was a major hightlight, as was old school brawlers/fighters Cladio Castagnoli vs Josh "The Warmaster" Barnett for us. And as an old school wrestling fan and sometimes commentator from way back I got to relive Inokisms and Inoki Bom-Ba-ye from decades ago. All up it was a wrestlers fans dream come true broadcast throughout the world. Well done to all involved in an outstanding and worldclass effort and result. Next round of the PPV/PLE friendly war coming up. Rated R for ratings!
"For me, it matters that we drive technology as an equalizing force, as an enabler for everyone around the world. Which is why I do want Google to see, push, and invest more in making sure computing is more accessible, connectivity is more accessible" - Sundar Pichai #SundarPichai #quote #Google #technology #connectivity #accessible #searchengine #search #media
“No matter how many drinks you’ve had, if you drink, don’t drive." - Dana White, UFC @UFC CEO on Israel "The Last Stylebender" Adesanya's drunk driving charge #DanaWhite #quote #UFC #Adesanya #Izzy #MMA #society #safety #sports #media
SEJ October 4 2023
SEJ's Angie on online advertising and user behavior. We here have found that a wide array of adverts across a spread and variety of sectors is much more favorably received. In the online advertising with ad placement space keep the ads, text links etc relevant and on topic as much as possible. Have as much of a natural fit and seamlessly integration for optimum results and happy website bosses and powers that be in the online advertising power structure of decision making. Stay helpful and don't update the website readership. A bit of a no brainer as the expression goes.
SEL Google September 2023
SEL's Barry on the data and feedback from the latest Google helped content update. We here didn't experience any changes ourselves, nor did our clients. Unless no one is disclosing in an unlikely scenario. The coast is clear until the next Google update. Fair winds captain.
X (Twitter) partners with Google Display Network October 3. 2023
SELs Nicole on an insightful feature article covering X (X Corp) by Elon Musk and now headed up by Linda Y outsourcing 59 percent on their ads via Alphabet's Google. Looks to be a smart and strategic business move in the online advertising space. A percentage of something is better that a hundred percent on nothing - or thereabouts.. Something about "a bird in the hand is worth two in the bush". Oh, nevermind. That bluebird flew the coupe. Mr X.and Linda X (affectionate and respectful name) are running things now. And for the meantime at least Google gets X as an official business partner/clients. X marks the spot... X target on ad $$$$$$$! In search of whale clients with a few fish, tuna, dolphins and others. Catch of the Day!
SEL How to create the perfect SEO page
SEL's Bruce with an informative and educational article on website layout aka usability in the business realm. Some business sectors such as news media, online media, global information firms and others may chop not to list an official address or series of addresses for sites for a range of reasons. Security and privacy are considerations. We used to have at least one of our business addresses in the public domain when we were much more involved in talent management, talent booking, in-person training and such. Not we have more of a gamification set-up and certainly a more global presence in the digital media and online publishing space. In addition when you manage many niche websites that can add a new dynamic also. It's horses for courses and not one size fits all. With social media, ideally that should compliment the core business, at least in part. Numerous channels and sub sectors and niche elements can be implemented. An online presence is to compliment the core business and that's where some folks get it wrong. The right SEO and content helps attract the right customers, affiliates and the like. It's a Pandora's Box but one that we are still winning at two decades in. Hard and smart work and making the web work for you.
Big Tech List
Tesla
YouTube
SpaceX
Uber
Square
Airbnb
Stripe
Palantir
Affirm
Yelp
Lyft
Tumblr
Twilio
Quora
Postmates
Eventbrite
From Newport Boy to Media Man
Why black and gold colour themes for many of your websites and business branding?
Numerous reasons. This will be fully answered in the book that will be public sometime in the future.
There was a series of events that influenced this decision, as there was for the choice of company name, Media Man, that eventually became Media Man Australia and then Media Man Int, part of the Media Man Group.
My late father Rick "Tricky Ricky" (Eric) Tingle, was a truck driver who then became a modest size trucking and transport operator, who went on to become a property developer and self-made multi-millionaire. His main truck of choice was a Mack
@MackTrucks
R-600. Before this he had a few Diamond T's and Diamond Rio's. These trucks and in particular "The Black Mack" helped make Dad a very happy, wealthy, and successful man. He got up to approximately 5 trucks and a dozen trailers - container trailers, cattle trailers and all sorts. The second-hand truck largely did the job of a brand new, top of the line Mack Superliner or equivalent, that was about 5 or 10 times the price. Substance often beats style and glossy brochures, and hard work and big hours does have its merits. From around age 10 I used to wash the truck and trailers and I would help paint the rims (usually silver, rather than gold). The Mack Bulldog was gold in color.
Down the track I would become more fashion aware. I was in the position to buy just about any clothes I wanted. A van full of luxury designer brand fashion used to frequent the Northern Beaches of Sydney and stop by Newport Beach near one of our properties on Barrenjoey Road. It was shopping time one weekend per month and at less than half price! I discovered Versace
@Versace
as well as Benetton
@benetton
, Calvin Klein
@CalvinKlein
and others and then I became aware of what gold coins and gold bullion was. I even had a coin collection stolen - expensive lesson. Then gold pro wrestling championship belts entered the picture and more non-coincidences.
Circa 2001 I decided to get some proper and professional business cards made up from a local (at the time) logo design, graphic designer and creative genius contact, Theo of T-Rex
@trex_art
who was based just a stones throw down the road from my place at Waterview Street, Balmain. I noticed some gold and shiny silver themes in the portfolio that included a few rock stars. The silver and black design for magician Sam Powers grabbed me, so I asked Theo to a design based on Sam's card to match up to my prime website at that time: Media Man Australia
@mediamanoz
...a few days later I received the digital logo and 1000 or so business cards and was totally blown away.
I learned from a number of master media and promotions men including Harry M. Miller, Max Markson and Michael and Kevin Jacobsen, via interviews, the importance of standing out from the pack and being different and just being yourself.
Black and gold trimmings (boxing and wrestling reference) was (and still is) working a charm. No wonder we still love combat sports and the championship title belts in the likes of WWE
@WWE
, AEW
@AEW
, NWA
@NWA
and UFC
@UFC
.
On a side note we started to explore b2b online based gold bullion, gold coin and gold and silver themed NFT firms and traders. As they say, what will be will be. We're open and have been for over two decades.
At Human Statue Bodyart we helped create, sell, and manage dozens of gold (and silver and bronze) themed human statues, roving performers and models. Gaming, casino and VIP executives and tycoons (aka "whales") were in the mix of clientele.
Did I mention that one of my favorite movies of all time is 'Willy Wonka and The Chocolate Factory'.. Gotta win the golden ticket right Charlie! Another classic movie is simply entitled 'Gold' (1974). A Peter Hunt film and starring Roger Moore from James Bond fame.
We worked on some Bond
@007
'Goldfinger' type campaigns also in our time with Human Statue.
Oh, then there were The Logies in Melbourne that I attended. I didn't win any gold despite a credit as an associate producer for 'Sum Of Existence' as per Internet Movie Database
@IMDb
Just maybe they should change their colors from yellow and black to gold black! We do the odd review for them from time to time, but I find there's never enough hours in the day to get everything done, with our without A.I!
Wonder if any of the new and future developments with X
@X
will help us more with time management and/or our own gold prospecting, virtual and otherwise. Still chasing 'The Internet Matrix Of Things' Holy Grail.
This has been the latest attempt of mine and telling more of my own story, rather than telling that or others.
Hope the readers are more inclined to award us a gold or at least silver for our efforts. We will still accept a bronze if offered. In the minds eye I've got the gold already, but the Internet Matrix is known to play tricks on occasion!
And if you made it to the end of this chapter, there is no trick nor is it a coincidence. Figure out what brought you here. And, where to go from now.
Scribed by (the real) Greg Tingle
Founder and Director
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ricket World Cup. India profile
SQUAD
Rohit Sharma (c), Hardik Pandya (vc), Shubman Gill, Virat Kohli, Shreyas Iyer, KL Rahul, Ravindra Jadeja, Shardul Thakur, Jasprit Bumrah, Mohammed Siraj, Kuldeep Yadav, Mohammed Shami, Ravichandran Ashwin, Ishan Kishan, Suryakumar Yadav
FIXTURES
October 8: India vs Australia, Chennai, 7.30pm
October 11: India vs Afghanistan, New Delhi, 7.30pm
October 14: India vs Pakistan, Ahmedabad, 7.30pm
October 19: India vs Bangladesh, Pune, 7.30pm
October 22: India vs New Zealand, Dharamsala, 7.30pm
October 29: India vs England, Lucknow, 7.30pm
November 2: India vs Sri Lanka, Mumbai, 7.30pm
November 5: India vs South Africa, Kolkata, 7.30pm
November 11: India vs Netherlands, Bengaluru, 7.30pm
Video
ICC YouTube
Dil Jashn Bole | ICC Men's Cricket World Cup 2023 Official Anthem | Pritam
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JhIBqykjzbs&ab_channel=ICC
FOX Cricket YouTube
https://www.youtube.com/foxcricket
#cricket #CricketWorldCup2023 #CricketWorldCup #sports #sportsnews #sportsmedia #India #media
U.S Movie Box Office
Finally another movie makes it's way to the list. Claws way to top above the Saw.
Paw Patrol: The Mighty Movie is the No. 1 movie in North America, earning $23 million in receipts.
Saw X -$18 million
The Creator - $14 million
The Nun II - $4.7 million
The Blind - $4.1 million
A Haunting in Venice -$3.8 million
Dumb Money- $3.5 million
The Equalizer 3 -$2.7 million
The Expend4bles - $2.5 million
Barbie $1.4 million