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The merger marked the first time that WWE has not been majority-controlled by the [[McMahon family]], which had founded the company and owned it for over 70 years.<ref>{{cite web|last=Sherman|first=Alex|date=April 2, 2023|title=WWE near deal to be sold to UFC parent Endeavor, sources say|url=https://www.cnbc.com/2023/04/02/wwe-ufc-endeavor-deal.html|access-date=April 2, 2023|work=[[CNBC]]|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20230402205348/https://www.cnbc.com/2023/04/02/wwe-ufc-endeavor-deal.html|archive-date=April 2, 2023|url-status=live}}</ref> This marked the third time that the UFC has changed ownership as its parent company Zuffa had been sold to Endeavor in 2016.<ref>{{cite news|title=U.F.C. Sells Itself for $4 Billion|work=[[The New York Times]]|date=July 11, 2016|url=https://www.nytimes.com/2016/07/11/business/dealbook/ufc-sells-itself-for-4-billion.html?_r=0|access-date=July 11, 2016}}</ref> Zuffa had previously purchased the UFC from the Semaphore Entertainment Group in 2001.
The merger marked the first time that WWE has not been majority-controlled by the [[McMahon family]], which had founded the company and owned it for over 70 years.<ref>{{cite web|last=Sherman|first=Alex|date=April 2, 2023|title=WWE near deal to be sold to UFC parent Endeavor, sources say|url=https://www.cnbc.com/2023/04/02/wwe-ufc-endeavor-deal.html|access-date=April 2, 2023|work=[[CNBC]]|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20230402205348/https://www.cnbc.com/2023/04/02/wwe-ufc-endeavor-deal.html|archive-date=April 2, 2023|url-status=live}}</ref> This marked the third time that the UFC has changed ownership as its parent company Zuffa had been sold to Endeavor in 2016.<ref>{{cite news|title=U.F.C. Sells Itself for $4 Billion|work=[[The New York Times]]|date=July 11, 2016|url=https://www.nytimes.com/2016/07/11/business/dealbook/ufc-sells-itself-for-4-billion.html?_r=0|access-date=July 11, 2016}}</ref> Zuffa had previously purchased the UFC from the Semaphore Entertainment Group in 2001.


WWE's [[Vince McMahon]] serves as executive chairman of the new entity, with Endeavor CEO [[Ari Emanuel]] becoming the new company's CEO and [[Mark Shapiro (media executive)|Mark Shapiro]] serving as president and chief operating officer. Emanuel did not take on any creative roles in WWE or the UFC, with Nick Khan becoming president of WWE post-merger and [[Dana White]] remaining in his role as president of the UFC.<ref>{{cite news|last=Mullin|first=Benjamin|date=April 3, 2023|title=Endeavor and W.W.E. Join Forces to Create Live-Combat Tag Team|work=[[The New York Times]]|url=https://www.nytimes.com/2023/04/03/business/endeavor-tko-wwe-ufc.html|access-date=April 3, 2023}}</ref>
WWE's [[Vince McMahon]] serves as executive chairman of the new entity, with Endeavor CEO [[Ari Emanuel]] becoming the new company's CEO and [[Mark Shapiro (media executive)|Mark Shapiro]] serving as president and chief operating officer. Emanuel did not take on any creative roles in WWE or the UFC, with Nick Khan becoming president of WWE post-merger and [[Dana White]] will now be the Chief Executive Officer of the UFC.<ref>{{cite news|last=Mullin|first=Benjamin|date=April 3, 2023|title=Endeavor and W.W.E. Join Forces to Create Live-Combat Tag Team|work=[[The New York Times]]|url=https://www.nytimes.com/2023/04/03/business/endeavor-tko-wwe-ufc.html|access-date=April 3, 2023}}</ref><ref> https://talksport.com/sport/mma/1564840/dana-white-promotion-ufc-wwe-merger-triple-h/</ref><ref> https://tkogrp.com/press/endeavor-announces-close-of-ufc-and-wwe-transaction-to-create-tko-group-holdings-a-premier-sports-and-entertainment-company/</ref>


==Background==
==Background==

Revision as of 21:31, 14 September 2023

TKO Group Holdings, Inc.
TKO
Company typePublic
NYSE: TKO
Industry
PredecessorsZuffa
FoundedSeptember 12, 2023; 15 months ago (2023-09-12)
FoundersAri Emanuel
Vince McMahon
Headquarters
New York City
,
United States
Area served
Worldwide
Key people
Products
  • Broadcasting
  • Films
  • Finance
  • Home video
  • Live events
  • Merchandise
  • Music
  • Publishing
  • Streaming network service
  • Television
ServicesLicensing
OwnerEndeavor (51%)
Vince McMahon (34%)[a]
DivisionsWWE
Ultimate Fighting Championship
Websitetkogrp.com

TKO Group Holdings, Inc. (TKO) is a media conglomerate created by Endeavor Group Holdings as part of a merger between World Wrestling Entertainment, Inc. (WWE) and Zuffa, the parent company of the Ultimate Fighting Championship (UFC).[2] Following the completion of the merger on September 12, 2023, both WWE and UFC operate as divisions under the banner of TKO.[3]

The merger marked the first time that WWE has not been majority-controlled by the McMahon family, which had founded the company and owned it for over 70 years.[4] This marked the third time that the UFC has changed ownership as its parent company Zuffa had been sold to Endeavor in 2016.[5] Zuffa had previously purchased the UFC from the Semaphore Entertainment Group in 2001.

WWE's Vince McMahon serves as executive chairman of the new entity, with Endeavor CEO Ari Emanuel becoming the new company's CEO and Mark Shapiro serving as president and chief operating officer. Emanuel did not take on any creative roles in WWE or the UFC, with Nick Khan becoming president of WWE post-merger and Dana White will now be the Chief Executive Officer of the UFC.[6][7][8]

Background

Vince McMahon, a third-generation wrestling promoter and co-founder of Titan Sports, Inc., serves as Executive Chairman of TKO Group Holdings.

WWE was founded in 1953 as the Capitol Wrestling Corporation (CWC), a Northeastern territory of the National Wrestling Alliance (NWA). The CWC was run by Vincent J. McMahon, son of boxing and wrestling promoter Jess McMahon. Following a dispute over CWC wrestler Buddy Rogers being booked to lose the NWA World Heavyweight Championship to Lou Thesz, the CWC left the NWA and became the World Wide Wrestling Federation (WWWF) in April 1963. After rejoining the NWA in 1971, the WWWF was renamed to the World Wrestling Federation (WWF) in 1979; the WWF made its final departure from the NWA in 1983. The current legal entity, which was originally named Titan Sports, Inc., was incorporated on February 21, 1980, in South Yarmouth, Massachusetts, but reincorporated under Delaware General Corporation Law in 1987. Titan Sports was co-founded by Vince McMahon, Vincent J.'s son, and his wife Linda. It acquired Capitol Wrestling Corporation Ltd., the holding company for the WWF, in 1982. After buying the WWF, Vince McMahon expanded the promotion by overturning the territory system, holding events around the United States and the world which were televised on a global basis; the company's status as a major professional wrestling organization worldwide was cemented by its acquisition of the assets of World Championship Wrestling in 2001. Titan Sports was renamed World Wrestling Federation Entertainment, Inc. in 1999, and then World Wrestling Entertainment, Inc. in 2002 after a legal dispute with the World Wildlife Fund. Since 2011, the company has branded itself solely with the initials WWE, though the legal name had not changed since 2002.[9] WWE's majority owner was its executive chairman, third-generation wrestling promoter Vince McMahon, who retained a 38.6% ownership of the company's outstanding stock and 81.1% of the voting power before the merger. The closure of the merger saw McMahon's voting power and stock ownership dramatically decrease.

Ari Emanuel, the CEO of Endeavor, serves as the CEO of TKO Group Holdings.

The Ultimate Fighting Championship (UFC) was founded by American businessman Art Davie and Brazilian martial artist Rorion Gracie and their partners,[10] with the backing of the Semaphore Entertainment Group. The first UFC event was held in 1993 at the McNichols Sports Arena in Denver, Colorado.[11] The purpose of the early ultimate fighting competitions was to identify the most effective martial art in a contest with minimal rules and no weight classes between competitors of different fighting disciplines. In subsequent events, more rigorous rules were created and fighters began adopting effective techniques from more than one discipline, which indirectly helped create a separate style of fighting known as present-day mixed martial arts. In 2001, Zuffa, a sports promotion company headed by Frank and Lorenzo Fertitta, purchased the UFC from the Semaphore Entertainment Group. Zuffa's ownership led to a growth period for the company and the sport of mixed martial arts in general; the UFC's global leadership in the discipline led to Zuffa buying the assets of Pride Fighting Championships in 2007 and the Strikeforce promotion in 2011 (it would be folded into the UFC two years later). In 2016, Zuffa was sold to a group led by Endeavor, then known as William Morris Endeavor (WME–IMG), including Silver Lake Partners, Kohlberg Kravis Roberts and MSD Capital.[12] for US$4.025 billion.[13] In 2017, WME–IMG changed its holding name to Endeavor and four years later, in 2021, Endeavor bought out Zuffa's other owners at a valuation of $1.7 billion.

History

Background

On June 17, 2022, amid allegations that he paid hush money to a former employee, Vince McMahon stepped down as the chairman and CEO of WWE, leaving the company to his daughter, Stephanie McMahon, and Nick Khan. In January 2023, Vince stated his intention to return to WWE ahead of media rights negotiations. WWE's media rights with Fox and USA Network are set to expire in 2024.[14] That same month, JPMorgan were hired to handle a possible sale of the company, with rumored suitors having included Comcast and Fox Corporation (owners of WWE's broadcast partners USA Network and Fox), The Walt Disney Company (owners of ESPN), Warner Bros. Discovery (media partners of rival All Elite Wrestling), Netflix, Amazon, Endeavor (WWE had an existing business relationship with its subsidiary Endeavor Streaming, which took over the technical operations of its streaming service WWE Network in 2019), Liberty Media, Creative Artists Agency, and Saudi Arabia's Public Investment Fund (WWE has a long-term agreement with Saudi Arabia's Ministry of Sport to promote events in the country).[15][16]

On January 10, 2023, Stephanie McMahon resigned as WWE's chairwoman and co-CEO, after which Vince McMahon assumed the role of executive chairman of WWE, and Nick Khan became the sole CEO.[17]

Formation

On April 3, 2023, WWE and Endeavor reached a deal under which WWE would merge with UFC parent company Zuffa to form a new company which will go public on the New York Stock Exchange (NYSE) under the symbol "TKO".[18][19] Internally, the new company was initially named "New Whale Inc."; on May 16, an Endeavor spokesperson stated that the company would be known as TKO Group Holdings.[20]

Endeavor will hold a 51% stake in TKO Group Holdings, with WWE's shareholders having a 49% stake, valuing WWE at $9.1 billion.[18][19] This will mark the first time that WWE has not been majority-controlled by members of the McMahon family.[21] Vince McMahon will serve as executive chairman of the new entity, with Endeavor CEO Ari Emanuel becoming CEO of the new company and Mark Shapiro serving as president and chief operating officer. The UFC and WWE will operate as separate divisions of the company, with Dana White and Nick Khan serving as presidents of UFC and WWE respectively.[22][23] Emanuel is not expected to take on any creative roles in WWE,[19][18][24][25] with WWE's head of creative Paul Levesque expected to remain in his role.[25] The deal additionally grants McMahon life tenure as TKO executive chairman, the right to nominate five WWE representatives on the 11 member board, as well as veto rights over certain actions by the new company.[26] Vince's son Shane McMahon had attempted to purchase the UFC multiple times in the 2000s, but Vince talked him out of doing so.[27]

Emanuel stated that this merger would "bring together two leading pureplay sports and entertainment companies" and provide "significant operating synergies".[19] McMahon stated that "family businesses have to evolve for all the right reasons",[18] and that "given the incredible work that Ari and Endeavor have done to grow the UFC brand — nearly doubling its revenue over the past seven years — and the immense success we've already had in partnering with their team on a number of ventures, I believe that this is without a doubt the best outcome for our shareholders and other stakeholders."[19]

The merger is expected to be completed on September 12, 2023.[28][19] Hours after the agreement was announced, law firm Ademi LLP launched an investigation into the sale, looking for "possible breaches of fiduciary duty and other violations of law".[29] WWE's stock price additionally decreased following the announcement of the sale.[29]

Upon announcement of the board of directors for TKO on August 10, 2023, Paul Levesque, the head of creative for WWE, and Dana White, president of the UFC, were not included on the new board but will maintain their roles in their respective divisions of TKO.[30][31] The merger closed on September 12, with Vince McMahon personally owning 34% of the newly formed TKO Group.[32]

Corporate governance

The board of directors of TKO Group Holdings consists of eleven members, five representing WWE and six representing Endeavor.[33]

Board of Directors
Name Representative Role
Vince McMahon WWE Chairman of TKO Group Holdings
Ari Emanuel Endeavor CEO of TKO Group Holdings
Egon Durban Endeavor Co-CEO of Silver Lake Management
Nick Khan WWE President of WWE
Steve Koonin WWE CEO of Atlanta Hawks
Jonathan Kraft Endeavor President of the Kraft Group and the New England Patriots
Sonya Medina Williams Endeavor President and Executive Director for Reach Resilience
Mark Shapiro Endeavor President and COO of TKO Group Holdings
Carrie A. Wheeler WWE CEO of Opendoor
Nancy Tellem Endeavor Chief Media Officer of Eko
Peter Bynoe WWE Senior Advisor at DLA Piper

Assets

Drug testing policy

TKO maintains the drug testing policies of its predecessors. The WWE Talent Wellness Program is a comprehensive drug, alcohol, and cardiac screening program initiated in February 2006, three months after the sudden death of one of their highest-profile and most popular wrestlers, Eddie Guerrero, who died at 38-years-old.[34] Prior to the creation of the Talent Wellness Program, WWE's (then the World Wrestling Federation) parent company Titan Sports had a in-house drug testing policy that existed from 1987 until it was scrapped in 1996.[35] The Wellness Program, under the guidelines of its Substance Abuse and Drug Testing Policy, tests for recreational drug use and abuse of prescription medication, including anabolic steroids.[34] Through the Wellness Program, WWE wrestlers are also tested annually for pre-existing or developing cardiac issues. The drug testing is handled by Aegis Sciences Corporation; the cardiac evaluations are handled by New York Cardiology Associates P.C.[34] The Wellness Program requires that all talent "under contract to WWE who regularly perform in-ring services as a professional sports entertainer" undergo testing; however, part-time performers are exempt from testing.[36] In 2010, muscle relaxers were banned from use.[37]

In 2015, the UFC announced a partnership with the United States Anti-Doping Agency (USADA). Following the start of the partnership, USADA, an independent anti-doping agency, serves as UFC's official drug testers. The partnership saw USADA carry out a minimum of 2,750 drug tests per year with an average of five tests per UFC fighter, and punishments for fighters who fail the tests.[38] Under the UFC Anti-Doping Policy, fighters are subject to random tests at any time and place on all in- and out-of-competition blood and urine samples collected by USADA. Fighters must participate in the testing pool for at least six months prior to a fight in order to qualify for a UFC event.[38] In February 2017, UFC made changes to the Anti-Doping Policy, effective April 1, 2017, as follows: (1) Fighters who are new to the UFC with no previous contract would be subject to a one-month testing rule. The same rule applies to returning fighters who were terminated or whose contracts were not renewed at the decision of the UFC. Previously, returning or terminated fighters were required to undergo four months of testings prior to competing in a fight. (2) Returning fighters who have chosen to retire, go on hiatus, or had a non-renewal of their contract, are required to be in a six-month testing pool prior to competition. (3) No doping violation is handed down to newly signed UFC fighters who voluntarily disclose the use of a prohibited substance prior to testing. (4) "In-competition" testing begins at noon on the weigh-in day and ends one hour after a fighter clears a post-fight medical for non-selected post-fight testing. For fighters who are subjected to post-fight testing the in-competition testing ends after any post-fight testing is done.[39][40][41]

Championships and accomplishments

WWE

Main article: List of current champions in WWE
See also: List of former championships in WWE

The colors and symbols indicate the home brand of the champions.

† Raw ‡ SmackDown § NXT ∞ Mixed brand

Main roster

Raw

Championship Current champion(s) Reign Date won Days
held 		Location Notes Ref.
World Heavyweight Championship Seth "Freakin" Rollins 1 May 27, 2023 578 Jeddah, Saudi Arabia Defeated AJ Styles in the tournament final at Night of Champions to become the inaugural champion. [42]
Women's World Championship Rhea Ripley 1 April 1, 2023 634 Inglewood, California Defeated Charlotte Flair on WrestleMania 39 Night 1.
Won the title as the SmackDown Women's Championship and it was renamed as the Women's World Championship on June 12, 2023. 		[43]
WWE Intercontinental Championship Gunther 1 June 10, 2022 929 Baton Rouge, Louisiana Defeated Ricochet on SmackDown.
Won the title as part of the SmackDown brand but was moved to Raw in the 2023 WWE Draft. 		[44]

SmackDown

Championship Current champion(s) Reign Date won Days
held 		Location Notes Ref.
WWE Championship Roman Reigns 4 April 3, 2022 997 Arlington, Texas Defeated Brock Lesnar on WrestleMania 38 Night 2 in a Winner Takes All match in which Reigns defended SmackDown's Universal Championship.
With both championships, Reigns is recognized as the Undisputed WWE Universal Champion. He was originally allowed to appear on both brands as undisputed champion but became exclusive to SmackDown in the 2023 WWE Draft. 		[45]
WWE Universal Championship 2 August 30, 2020 1,578 Orlando, Florida Defeated previous champion "The Fiend" Bray Wyatt and Braun Strowman, who Reigns pinned, in a No Holds Barred triple threat match at Payback.
After winning Raw's WWE Championship on WrestleMania 38 Night 2 on April 3, 2022, Reigns is recognized as the Undisputed WWE Universal Champion. He was originally allowed to appear on both brands as undisputed champion but became exclusive to SmackDown in the 2023 WWE Draft. 		[46]
WWE Women's Championship File:Io Shirai in 2019 (cropped).jpg Iyo Sky 1 August 5, 2023 508 Detroit, Michigan Defeated Bianca Belair in her Money in the Bank contract cash-in match at SummerSlam. [47]
WWE United States Championship Rey Mysterio 3 August 11, 2023 502 Calgary, Alberta, Canada Defeated Austin Theory on SmackDown. [48]

Shared

Championship Current champion(s) Reign
As a team
(Individually) 		Date won Days
held 		Location Notes Ref.
Raw Tag Team Championship
The Judgment Day
(Finn Bálor and Damian Priest)† 		1 September 2, 2023 480 Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania Defeated Kevin Owens and Sami Zayn in a Steel City Street Fight at Payback.
With both championships, The Judgment Day are recognized as the Undisputed WWE Tag Team Champions. 		[49]
SmackDown Tag Team Championship 1
WWE Women's Tag Team Championship
Chelsea Green and Piper Niven† 1 July 17, 2023 527 Atlanta, Georgia Green had originally won the title with Sonya Deville by defeating Raquel Rodriguez and Liv Morgan on Raw; however, after Deville suffered a legitimate knee injury, she was replaced by Niven on the August 14, 2023, episode of Raw. This is considered a continuation of Green's reign that began with Deville, and thus is not counted as a second reign for Green. [50][51]
  • The Raw and SmackDown Tag Team Championships—while maintaining their separate lineages—are jointly defended across both brands as the Undisputed WWE Tag Team Championship.
  • The WWE Women's Tag Team Championship is defended across Raw, SmackDown, and NXT.

Developmental

NXT
Championship Current champion(s) Reign Date won Days
held 		Location Notes Ref.
NXT Championship Carmelo Hayes 1 April 1, 2023 634 Los Angeles, California Defeated Bron Breakker at Stand & Deliver. [52]
NXT Women's Championship Becky Lynch† 1 September 12, 2023 470 Orlando, Florida Defeated Tiffany Stratton on NXT. By winning this championship, she became the sixth female Grand Slam champion in WWE history. [53]
NXT North American Championship "Dirty" Dominik Mysterio† 1 July 18, 2023 526 Orlando, Florida Defeated Wes Lee on NXT. [54]
NXT Heritage Cup File:Noam Dar April 2019.jpg Noam Dar 3 August 22, 2023 491 Orlando, Florida Defeated Nathan Frazer 2–1 at NXT: Heatwave. [55]
NXT Tag Team Championship
Tony D'Angelo and Channing "Stacks" Lorenzo 1 July 30, 2023 514 Cedar Park, Texas Defeated Gallus (Mark Coffey and Wolfgang) at The Great American Bash. [56]

UFC

Main article: List of UFC champions
See also: Mixed martial arts weight classes
Women's champion Men's champion
Weight class
name 		Minimum
Weight (lb) 		Upper limit Gender Current champion Since Days
held 		Defenses Ref.
in
pounds (lb) 		in
kilograms (kg)
Strawweight None 115 52.2 Women China Zhang Weili November 12, 2022 774 1 [57]
Flyweight 116 125 56.7 Men Brazil Alexandre Pantoja July 8, 2023 536 0 [58]
Women Mexico Alexa Grasso March 4, 2023 662 0 [59]
Bantamweight 126 135 61.2 Men United States Sean O'Malley August 19, 2023 494 0 [60]
Women Vacant June 10, 2023 564 N/A [61]
Featherweight 136 145 65.8 Men Australia Alexander Volkanovski December 14, 2019 1838 5 [62]
Women Vacant June 10, 2023 564 N/A [61]
Lightweight 146 155 70.3 Men Russia Islam Makhachev October 22, 2022 795 1 [63]
Welterweight 156 170 77.6 Men England Leon Edwards August 20, 2022 858 1 [64]
Middleweight 171 185 83.9 Men United States Sean Strickland September 10, 2023 472 0 [65]
Light Heavyweight 186 205 93.0 Men Vacant July 14, 2023 530 N/A [66]
Heavyweight 206 265 120.2 Men United States Jon Jones March 4, 2023 662 0 [67]

Notes

  1. ^ At the close of the deal, WWE shareholders owned 49% of the company.[1]

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