Wrestling

WWE Reportedly Wants To Build Ronda Rousey As ‘Special Attraction’ Like Brock Lesnar (Forbes SportsMoney) According to Dave Meltzer of Wrestling Observer Radio (h/t WrestlingNews.co), WWE is trying to transform Ronda Rousey into a bigger star in route to WrestleMania 39: “They want to get her back to ‘special attraction, big Brock Lesnar star.’ So that’s the goal of what they’re doing right now. The belief was that at the end, because she’s [working with babyface] Liv Morgan, [Ronda] ends up as a heel. What they’re doing now isn’t necessarily to make her a heel, it’s to make her a big, big star.”

Live Events Boost UFC Owner to $1.3B Quarter (Front Office Sports)

Endeavor Group generated $1.3 billion in revenue in Q2 2022, driven by the return of capacity crowds at live sporting events.

The entertainment conglomerate — which owns mixed martial arts promotion UFC and talent agency WME — saw its Events, Experiences, & Rights segment post $627.9 million in revenue — up from $99.2 million for the same period last year.

Jake Paul raises $50M for new sports micro-betting and media company (Morning Consult Sports) YouTube personality and boxer Jake Paul and sports-betting entrepreneur Joey Levy raised $50 million to launch Betr, a Miami-based company aimed at creating a platform for micro-betting and media content. Betr, which has about 15 employees and counts celebrities such as rapper Travis Scott and Dallas Cowboys running Ezekiel Elliott as early investors, will use the funding to build out the media business and acquire betting customers.

Mike Tyson Says Hulu ‘Stole’ His Life Story for New Series, Compares Streamer to a ‘Slave Master’ (Morning Consult Sports) Former boxer Mike Tyson criticized a new biopic series from Hulu, calling "Mike" a "slave master take over story." Tyson said Hulu tried to pay UFC President Dana White to promote the eight-episode series, which begins Aug. 25, but White declined "because he honors friendship and treating people with dignity," Tyson wrote on Instagram.

8 companies that could be interested in buying WWE, according to financial analysts (Morning Consult Sports)