Vince McMahon might now not be a part of the skilled wrestling business, however don’t assume the embattled WWE founder goes to sit down again and waste his remaining years tooling round a palatial palace in Greenwich.
In response to a report from Undisputed’s Justin Barrasso, Mr. McMahon tried to leap again into the world of sports activities and leisure by buying Naked Knuckle Combating Championship, the fight sports activities group partly owned by former UFC champ Conor McGregor.
In the long run, the deal by no means got here to fruition, because the 79-year-old enterprise mogul reportedly wished full management over the promotion, a time period BKFC president David Feldman was unwilling to simply accept.
“He’s an ideal man, his complete crew is nice, however the timing wasn’t proper for us,” Feldman mentioned of McMahon and his provide. “He’s Vince McMahon. If I had been him, I’d need inventive management, too. He was superior, very complimentary, and he was very critical to do enterprise.”
Calling McMahon “an ideal man” might be not the neatest of concepts, contemplating the slew of horrific acts he’s been accused of committing.
Vince McMahon Nearly Acquired the UFC
It’s definitely not the primary time the McMahon household has toyed with the thought of shopping for their approach into the fight sports activities business. Within the early 2000s, McMahon’s son, Shane McMahon, pitched the thought of buying the UFC whereas the fledgling struggle promotion was nonetheless looking for its id.
McMahon in the end handed, citing considerations concerning the UFC’s enterprise mannequin, believing that WWE’s approach of making reusable characters was extra sustainable than the UFC’s mannequin of counting on particular person fighters and their careers.
Greater than twenty years later, each the UFC and WWE are owned by the identical firm, TKO Group Holdings, following a blockbuster deal in 2023 that noticed the UFC’s mum or dad firm buy the sports activities leisure juggernaut.
Mixed, the WWE and UFC are mentioned to be valued at a whopping $21 billion.
