News Bellator sale talks heating up

Hellowhosthat said:
Al's trustworthy.

It's over boys.

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Worst possible outcome, hopefully we see an exodus of top guys to the UFC. I would semi-retire from Sherdog, tbh. I have no interest in posting in the UFC forum and not excited about PFL absorbing Bellator.
 
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Terry_Dak_Tull said:
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This is a legit source. I guess PFL buying bellator is a done deal. Unfortunately most of their rosters will fail the usada tests.

Once PFL implodes (which it will) there wont be anymore promotions trying to compete with the UFC. We'll Just have Combate Global and UFC trying to play catch up.
 
Bubba32 said:
This is a legit source. I guess PFL buying bellator is a done deal. Unfortunately most of their rosters will fail the usada tests.

Once PFL implodes (which it will) there wont be anymore promotions trying to compete with the UFC. We'll Just have Combate Global and UFC trying to play catch up.
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No one is ever going to compete with the UFC. They are the global leader and by default that makes them the major league in the US. There were other comments in this thread where they were throwing out the names of other US based leagues, when the real comparison for any company not the UFC, is whatever "competes" with the major league of those other sports.

There are some people, not necessarily you, who just won't accept or don't realize that the fans who view the UFC as mma, are never going to give other orgs the time of day, because they are minor leagues in their eyes.
 
GueseGuy said:
Exact quote about Sabatello:

“He’s a young kid with tremendous talent,” Coker said at the Bellator MMA x Rizin 2 post-fight press conference. “We have a lot of high hopes for his future fighting in Bellator. He had a very tough opponent with Magomed Magomedov, but the loss doesn’t make me feel like he’s going to be any less of a fighter. He’s a young kid. We’re going to continue to help build his career, and hopefully he’ll come back very shortly.”
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What's funny is right after the press conference, I was going to post him saying that about Sabatello as well, but I was going to include how he briefly paused before saying Bellator. I never got around to it because I got mad after not being able to watch the rest of the card.
 
skylolow said:
I would say that is more likely.

PFL understands certain fighters are just above doing a tournament over and over. I would say it’s almost a guarantee we'll see regular events by PFL, tournaments by PFL, and PPV's by PFL. You'll have too many fighters to just keep the format. Plus you need to create more content to get more money out of your media deal now days. We bitch about the amount of UFC events and how they get thinned out on paper but the truth is that is the amount of content ESPN is paying for at its the UFC's responsibility to put a product out that ESPN is willing to pay for.
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I think that would be great. I just worry about PFL because it always seemed like such a bizarre league that never made sense financially.

WSOF was one of the only leagues in which the promoter fought in his own event, Ray Sefo. WSOF/PFL had a lot of controversy and conflict of interests especially with Ali Abdelaziz being a match maker, manager, and co promoter all at once! I never really trusted them even after they changed the name to PFL. It seemed like a massive tax write off or something. For years the PFL wouldn’t even sell gloves or merchandise, lots of missed opportunities on money.
 
PFL seems to be like a house of cards, ready to fall down at any time. I do not know if they got the money from Saudi or from UFC but I can see it being UFC knowing they are not a firm foundation organization giving them money to help them implode. Seems like PFL's Donn Davies is taking more control and leadership from Ray Sefo who is wrong for leadership.
 
JPW328 said:
I think that would be great. I just worry about PFL because it always seemed like such a bizarre league that never made sense financially.

WSOF was one of the only leagues in which the promoter fought in his own event, Ray Sefo. WSOF/PFL had a lot of controversy and conflict of interests especially with Ali Abdelaziz being a match maker, manager, and co promoter all at once! I never really trusted them even after they changed the name to PFL. It seemed like a massive tax write off or something. For years the PFL wouldn’t even sell gloves or merchandise, lots of missed opportunities on money.
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I completely agree........been thinking of there downfall from the day it was announced with all the payouts for winning each tournament. But some how, some way they still operate and apparently buying Bellator.

I think investors are seeing what has happen with Endeavor/UFC and are trying to replicate it on a much smaller level hoping to turn it into something insane. I think some may look at what the middle east did with LIV golf and saw how quickly a start up and the long time standard(PGA) came together. The only reason PGA and LIV came together was PGA knew long term they couldn't compete. They may look at two of biggest orgs coming together outside of the UFC is a more investable product that may pay off big time. But really until they become self sustaining they are a round or two of falling short on investment money of it all going bye bye. This new media deal is very important for PFL and its long term stability. Same can be said about the PPV series.
 
David Street said:
PFL seems to be like a house of cards, ready to fall down at any time. I do not know if they got the money from Saudi or from UFC but I can see it being UFC knowing they are not a firm foundation organization giving them money to help them implode. Seems like PFL's Donn Davies is taking more control and leadership from Ray Sefo who is wrong for leadership.
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Sefo has never had any control of the company … he has always been a face… Ali ran everything fighters related when it was WSOF and the first 2 years of PFL and still has power within the company… Davis is in charge of finding the funding, he is good at it, but he is also always posting stupid crap on social media that doesn’t makes sense .. he runs the show along 3-4 other people like Ted Leonsis who invest in the company also
 
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