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Ari Emanuel

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first: 2025-11-19
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“And I'm like, what's the problem? He goes, Do you realize what's going on on that thing? And yeah, I know. I'm sorry about it.”
2025-11-19 · Invest Like the Best · Ari Emanuel - The Anti-AI Bet - [Invest Like the Best, EP.448] · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source
“My friend Pete Berg was in the car with me once. We were coming back. I don't remember. We're coming back from a golf match and he's sitting in the car and the system starts, the phone calls. And the phone calls can be from presidents of the United States to a young actor, a writer, an ID I want. And he turns to me in the middle of it and he goes, I'm too anxious right now. I can't breathe.”
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“Relentless follow up and communication, over communication. I hate it. Like my brother Zeke is horrible at it. He's my oldest brother. I say to him, I just sent you this to call this person because you asked me and I've connected you and the next call is not that person. What are you doing? I don't understand it drives me crazy with my kids too. My middle kid is very good at it, who's in the business, who's in the entertainment because he's seen me do it. But one is you got to communicate, you got to overcommunicate. If they're not getting back to you, you got to keep on calling them. What are you doing? That's the job.”
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“Velocity of it, the velocity like you What is that? I don't know. I have no idea. Can you discretion words? I use the phone. I say this all the time. I use it as a weapon.”
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“So signed a bunch of people off of that, put them on SNL, SNL, they went to the Simpsons or they had the pedigree and then you moved them around.”
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“Amat CAA, and I go to this company, Intertalent. And Mark Rosen, I'm not sure this was my first client. It might have been my second client because Greg Daniels, who created the office and King of the Hill and Parks and Rec. He might have been my first client, but Amy Lippmann, who created Party at five, also might have been told But they had created a show. I thought the shows were great, took over those clients, they led to other clients, and then back then there was no YouTube, there was no Instagram, there was none of that. People weren't creating that way. The great shows were they would go from at the time Saturday Night Live to The Simpsons, this whole Harvard Lampoon group. And all those, a lot of them, not all, SNL guys, the writers, because I was in the writer business, came from the lampoon, Harvard, going to Harvard. Go there.”
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“Being relentless when you're trying to get somebody staffed, one of the greatest things Robbie Lance ever taught me. You know why people call me back Robbie used to say in this Austrian accent? Because I represent Milo Schoreman, who did Amadeus. And I represent Peter Schaffer. I represent Al Pacino. They'll call you back. So having a great client meant you had access. So you had to have taste and you had to get great clients. And once you did that and they continued to grow, you became more and more powerful. So that's what I did.”
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“Bank. And then when we started Endeavor with George Gilder's book, and I'm reading it in Life After Television, I'm like, we're just going to be a lot more distribution. There's only so much content creators at the time. Content was going to change and expand, but there's limited supply and demand. The huge money, huge money was coming in because of television. Not that the movie business wasn't because you had the DVD business at the time and gross participation and everything, but you had a hit television show like Alf. I remember sitting on the desk listening to all the calls and there was a fight between Mike Owits and Bernie Burlstein on Alf what they were paying out. That thing paid out a fortune. And then it paid out Syndication One, Syndication 2. And I was like, that baby's for me.”
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“I hated it. I learned how to actually drive around LA. And I learned the hierarchy of the business, business affairs people, studio heads at the time where movie stars played. The movie business, how important it was, but the television business made a lot of money. And I realized I could never be in the movie business. Because you would have to do coverage while you were in the mail. I'm dyslexic. Movie script, 130 pages, 120 pages, TV script, 30 pages.”
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“I thought I was going to do that. I was good at math. And for whatever reason, the minute he told me that, I said, that's a gig for me. Got a job working for this guy by the name of Robbie Lance. I was working for Bob Duva, who went to work for Robbie Lance. And it just started. I helped with the Tennessee Williams Lilen Helmet and Dashle Helmet Estates making rights deals for them and organized it properly. He was, I think at the time 86 and he turns to me and I was doing a really good job. And he says, I'm not promoting anybody. You should go out to LA and you can make a lot of money. And he set up two interviews for me, one at CAA and one at this company called Leading Artists and got the job in the mail room at CAA making 15 cents a mile”
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“Well, I screwed around in Europe for a year. I came back to New York, and a friend of mine at the time was this guy by the name of Michael Mendelson. And he was working for this company. I used to wake up at five in the morning, just watch TV, and I used to watch The Crusher and the Bruiser and the regional wrestling and TV shows and never knew how it was made, but watched everything. So I said, what are you doing? And he said to me, oh, I'm working at William Morris. Now, how the fuck am I supposed to know what William Morris says? I'm from Chicago. My father's a doctor. He's an immigrant. William Morris, what the fuck's with William Morris? So he tells me, and for whatever reason, bang, the light went up. And I didn't have a job. I didn't know what I was going to go to business, go back to Northwestern night school, business school, and I was going to work at the Merck because I used to do summer jobs at the Merck in the Pits 2 and 20, 20. I used to do all that.”
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“So, I don't care what anybody else is saying. You're going to college because I wasn't going to go to college. You're reading. You're getting good grades. Tiger mom at a degree of 10.”
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“I don't know what it was. My three boys were dyslexic. Because it does get passed on. My father was dyslexic. And when my boys were dyslexic, I put him into this class, this school in the summer called Linda Moodbell. They run a marathon on their brains to teach their left back lobe how to read. It's four hours a day relentless. My mom did that to me. There was no Lindenwood Belt. People call tiger moms. I don't know what you call a Jewish tiger mom, but it's brutal, right?”
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“Yeah. And you're in school, and you know you're not stupid. I was in special ed. Well, there can't be more embarrassment than that. So anything now, I don't give a shit. You can't embarrass me. And it was actually that simple. When you're in special ed and you're 15 year olds old and you're in high school and your two brothers are some of the smartest kidstars from that high school and you have to walk home, you're really good at math. You just can't read just because of how your brain's wired and they put you in special edge. You're like, what the fuck?”
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“$4.2 billion. He took a million dollars. I think he got me up to $50,000 on the line. And I said, well, that's not a gamble because I did my version in my head, my calculation. So he is just a unique individual that he's not partisan. He's loyal and he has a vision. He backs your play. He's just that guy. And he's not afraid to take on a challenge and do the work. I mean, he works constantly. So in this space, he just knows the space so well and he's relentless.”
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“I'll tell you a story. We're celebrating the deal at ESBN. He just fly, come to Vegas. We're going out for dinner. We're celebrating. I'm like, okay, what does that mean? We're going to go gamble. What? I don't gamble. I said, okay, how much do you want on your line? I think I said $25,000. And we're in the car and we're driving. He goes, You're the biggest gambler I know to me. I'm like, No, I'm not. He goes, you just bent on me”
2025-11-19 · Invest Like the Best · Ari Emanuel - The Anti-AI Bet - [Invest Like the Best, EP.448] · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source
“He really does love combat sports. Two is he's not scared. He's just not, when you look at his poker play, I don't know how he does it because if I'm betting $5, I can't blame poker. He makes fun of me when we do this, right?”
2025-11-19 · Invest Like the Best · Ari Emanuel - The Anti-AI Bet - [Invest Like the Best, EP.448] · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source
“You can't name one. We think we can do that. And then boxers will make more money. It will be a business for them. And it's a great sport. I was more jazzed than ever about that. We put a great fight on at Allegiance Stadiums where the Raiders play. And Mark Davis was unbelievable. My partner, Egan Durbin, who is part of that, was unbelievable helping us with that. And when you put a great fight and a great card on, how many people showed up? Because it's so ingrained boxing into our world, 70,000 people. And they did not leave. It was spectacular. So if we do that now, I think it can be as big or bigger than the USA and the WWE, and they're big. And we're going to do our best to do it because I think the audience wants it. And I think it would be great for fighters.”
2025-11-19 · Invest Like the Best · Ari Emanuel - The Anti-AI Bet - [Invest Like the Best, EP.448] · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source
“Let's go back. Don King screws over Ali. The Ali gets passed. It changes the sport. Now, first of all, to create a league in a combat sport, the only person that could have ever done it is Dana White. Ever. So he did it with UFC. And the other only person that could have done it, it's sports entertainment, is Vince McMahon. It's incredible. So we now look at that. The AliX going to exist. We're going to put it. Hopefully we can get this passed, add an element to it that we could create another opportunity for fighters. We're going to have, like we have in the UFC, the best fighters fight the best fighters. And we think we can create like a UFC, but with boxing and zoofo boxing. And if we do that, I think fighters are going to make more money. Because right now, you don't know any great fighters. It's not like.”
2025-11-19 · Invest Like the Best · Ari Emanuel - The Anti-AI Bet - [Invest Like the Best, EP.448] · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source
“But when you think about sports, so you have the beast of all beasts, NFL, NBA, global, baseball, hockey, English premier league, Spanish league, French. They're all owned by federations. There's very few independent and very few people that know how to run them. When we were buying the OCs and we were having this argument internally, Egon would say, well, the people that can pay the most are the broadcast, well, they would ruin the sport. There's so many things that happen to run one of these things. You have to make really hard decisions. First of all, so there's a limited amount that is available to buy in the wrong hands, the ones that are independent, unless Adam Silver's there and less Roger Goodell's there, those things don't run the way they're supposed to run. Those things are hard. And the same thing with our sport. We're about to start our boxing business.”
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“So we'll create a destination with an incredible ticketing asset. Where I think it's going is hopefully we create a platform that has events because we operate events pretty well. Plus a destination, use white lip ticketing, then we can create a sponsorship layer, site feel layer, and maybe white label some stuff and go from there. So that's the dream. That's the wish.”
2025-11-19 · Invest Like the Best · Ari Emanuel - The Anti-AI Bet - [Invest Like the Best, EP.448] · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source
“Yeah, this is, it's called Marius, Barrett Jackson, our tennis tournaments, our participatory sports like Escape from Alcatraz and Melbourne Marathon and our Taste Festivals, Winter Wonderland, that business. So we bought a ticketing business inside that this thing called Today Ticks. The ticketing business mainly they do mainly almost all they do is theater business. When COVID happened, unlike other ticketing business, which had to keep on operating, they shut the whole thing down and rewrote the operating system. And it's incredible”
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“I think it has pretty hot. Yeah, pretty high. But I think that's fantastic. You work your ass off. You love this thing, whether it be music, events, sports. I want a different experience in my life. Yes, for that, but just life. And I think COVID made that happen too, and people are doing it. Where it ends, I don't know, but it is a huge premium business.”
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“So on location, Jerry Cardinal first owned it with the NFL and they were doing the premium hospitality for the Super Bowl. And we thought, wow, that's incredible because people are asking for premiums now and rich people are asking for more and more because they can get everything so they want even specialer and that there was tiered market. Not in a bad way. Some people, I want to pay $100 and some people want to pay $300. And then some people are going to pay crazy. So in the Super Bowl, go to Tiffany's and get a blue football and have 10 people with you and get a lecture from Peyton Manning and walk on the field pre-game and come out with a team and be on the stage for weigh-ins at the UFC and sit at the table with Dana White. And for that, I'm going to pay $50,000 a ticket. I'm going to pay $300,000 for the Super Bowl or XYZ for the Olympics. It's crazy.”
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“So, when they go around, there's food, there's lectures, there's surrounding events that make the event itself and inside the event really special. And it's a great way. I can't stress enough the need for people to get community because we're all sitting staring. I remember one of the things that made me think about this also, about why live events were so important in sports were so important. Tiger talked about at one point. I saw a documentary, I think it was, when he first won them. People were clapping second time. Uh-oh. Phones were up and people were screaming. And that's because that thing, you want to show how great your life is. And that also thing detaches you. And you want a place where you can have with other people a great experience. And that just bodes well for music, live sports, live events.”
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“Live events, but they're local. They're guys that are in Arizona. They're guys that in just the UK when they come into our organization, we're in 32 companies. We know, oh, you know something, there's an affinity here.”
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“It's global. So, one of the things that we know why do we do freeze? It was only in two places. It was in UK and New York. We knew there were art festivals all the place run poorly. We knew we could take it globally. We could spread the sponsorship. We could determine that city needs them and they would pay us to bring events so we'd get site fees. So, hey, bring freeze, great brand, knows how to do this properly. The food around it, lectures, et cetera. We're going to pay you to come here for 10 years to put on the event. We just closed that deal in Abu Dhabi. So when you start doing those things properly in our Madrid Open, which is our tennis tournament, it's one of the nine one thousands. We're going to build another stadium to build another food festival. We're going to do concerts after the tennis tournament. We just know how to do it. So when we look at these things, we look at them in a way that what are they missing? Because we're one of the only companies on a global basis that do live events. Sometimes you have companies that do.”
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“Well, there has to be a specific audience. So in art, there's a very specific audience. There's a culture around art. It's global. There's really good conversation about it. Cars, NT cars, another one of my businesses. Very specific sports, UFC, bull riding, WWE, very specific taste, food festivals. So I'm in the areas that I know there's great cultural stickiness.”
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“Business. I just know how to create really great live events, monetize them, have a great user experience. And it's the opposite because data centers aren't the opposite bet. Live is the opposite bet.”
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“Which I think is a proper conclusion there's a really lot of smart people spending a lot of money at it, and they're smarter than me. So Netherlands just said four-day work weeks. Drive times now are 11 to 4 across America, hotel bookings, Thursdays way up. And there's a lot more data points to this. So the weekend starts Thursday now, and we're 2025, maybe 2027. They start Wednesday. So we're social animals. You're coming to a UFC fight. You're a social guy. What are you going to do? You're going to watch a lot of content. David Ellison's conclusion. Are you going to watch a lot of content? There's going to be more content than ever cost zero on his service, on four big services. You're going to be going to concerts, going to stand up, going to live events, sports, or my live events that I've just bought. So the value of that, because there's only so much. And yeah, people are creating new ones. So that's my whole bet. I don't know how to write an algorithm for AI. I don't know how to build a data center. I'm not in a”
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“We sent a bad letter to Sam stop using the UFC and the WWE and saw. They're going to have to pay, I think, unless the Supreme Court says something. When Larry David creates curb and Seinfeld and you're taking it to train your model and you're going to make a lot of zeros, you don't think Larry Dave deserves to get paid? I think that's crazy.”
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“That's going to be huge business. I do believe. I think it's David Ellison's bet that there's going to be more need for content than there's ever been. And there's going to be more consumption. I agree with that. And it's going to be cheaper.”
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“Let's just say my conclusion's right, and you take it out to its farthest limit, where Dwayne Johnson has a development team and they're looking for stuff and they're picking it and they're putting on their service. For Dwayne and Dwayne's paying that person, I don't know if they're paying a million dollars or $10,000 because the thing costs nothing. There's a value proposition there. And beginning a sponsor, you're getting subs. I don't know. In some capacity, that's going to happen. Brands are going to be really important. I think the value of sports is going to be even more valuable.”
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“I don't know about you, but I get called all the time. This is a great script up knowing what is good and what is commercial and what sells. Yeah. No, I'm not always right. I'm probably batting 300. I'm in the hall of fame. So 60% of the time I'm screwed. But people would taste that know this business that know kind of what an audience, a mass audience likes is hard. So if you have taste and you're seeing a lot of programming, you can say there's talent there, that actually has value. So you're Dwayne Johnson. Let's just think about this.”
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“Well, if we have four great bidders and maybe with six Wi-Fi, maybe everybody with their social platforms is a distributor through social. Let's just say we're right. The marginal cost becomes zero, Dwayne Johnson, and you have, I don't know how many people he has on social. A lot, or Kim Kardashian, or you named the person are you not a distributor? Those are the questions that are going to arise pretty soon. And then I say to people at William Morris, for the first time, taste matters a lot.”
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“In your bed. I don't know where it's going, but it's going to be cheaper, and there's going to be a lot of it. And I think the walls around creating content for the first time because of the cost, because it used to cost. It's no longer going to be that. So that's going to come down.”
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“Oh, I wanted to sue him because he stole a bunch of stuff. He put the UFC up there. They put the WWE, they put bull riding and really bad stuff. But what it's going to do, whether it be Sora, Grock. It's just going to make production cost, filming, DPs. And then you're going to be able to either bring Betty Davis back or Elizabeth Taylor. It's going to happen. So you're going to see in a good way, like in the music business, you can do an album in your bed. I think the same thing's true.”
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“I'm not in other businesses, but my son works at Apple. I mean, I think programmers are feeling that. I think they're feeling that and probably finance.”
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“Outline for a project. He gave, I think, Grock or perplexity, incredible prompt, based on a piece of IP. The outline for the project. Now, remember, AI, as people say, is the greatest average, which it is. He said it is unbelievable. Now he's going to have to do work on it. But that would have taken months.”
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“And then you do a second window into cable. And then a third window happened when Netflix came around. And then you do that multiple after they've run its course, the second window of syndication, the third window of syndication, the fourth window. Now it's really just, which we just did for the office and you can do for the Simpsons and you can do for family guy and curb. And Seinfeld, they're paying a lot of money for the office. You're doing it at Comcast. That's the window. It's $500 million for the new window. It's a very good deal. But then I think about four years ago, three years ago, the Writers Guild took away our packages. But it used to be you had all these independents supplying all the content. Now it's the majors supplying the majors. So it's a lot different. And I do think that has not been beneficial. I do think what's going to happen now, though. AI is definitely going to reduce costs. So I had a client who's a writer director. I'm not going to say who. He's got to do an”
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“The past, yeah, the FinCIN rule, where the owners of distribution couldn't own the whole thing. Now with cable gone and broadcast, not gone, but in decline. We just talked about is it going to be Warner Brothers with Netflix or is it going to be Paramount? There's not a lot of supply chain. These guys are doing it and they're doing it within each other's boundaries. Sony's one of the suppliers. There's some. Before, there was a lot. Even before when I was in the business, you had tax incentives for production. There's a company called Witt Thomas and all these independents used to supply. They used to get tax benefits and supply great programming. And it was an unbelievable vignette. That's how I at the beginning of my career, we made all this money. Television was a great business. You put a show on if you were an independent. You own the show. Carcy Warner, Tom Warner, who owns the Boston Red Sox, and I think he still owns Liverpool and he owns some Farmington team. So you put the 70 show on or the Cosby show on or Roseanne or...”
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“With the UFC because I put all the chips in the middle 4.2 billion dollars in the middle. Clients were investing. My biggest investor is investing. I had done the calculation. I didn't see that Rupert was going to sell and we're coming to the end contracts four months away. Because of that, my thyroid went on the Fritz. There was so much pressure. I'd never had that physical axle. I went down to 142 pounds. Dana talks about this gray hair and emaciated, sweating it. I mean, it was horrible. And finally, I went to the doctor and he goes, you know, your thyroid's going at a rate. So that was hard. But once it got done, everything came back and calmed down. No longer was on the field all the time.”
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“Fast, I was quick takedowns. You know what it does do wrestling? And I think MMA, and when you're in high school and you have to go from my size now to 132 pounds, easier when you're younger and you have to starve yourself plus work out and go to school. And the mental fortitude of that just keeps on going in your life. But you can handle that emotional pain. And that's also in business. I can handle a lot of emotional pain. And I think one of the hardest things now for kids, which I hope I teach my kids, is that emotional endurance that you need in life right now is even more challenging. I think business just because business is no longer binary. It's multi-layered. And you have to realize sometimes you have to have a relationship somebody even though there's things in that relationship you don't like. And I don't think that was in the past in business. You had to think through all those things. And it just emotionally draining right now because there's so many things going on.”
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“I'm not calculating out all the different things. It can just be a good conversation. Now, I'm curious. So I read a ton. I read a ton of articles. I tell my office I want to talk to that person. I want to talk to that person. I'm on the field a lot. But there's sometimes chill the fuck out. You know, you don't have to be on the field.”
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“I never realized that. Many things helped me, but that little conversation, he's actually right. And it actually makes when you're on the field better. And I wasn't mature enough to realize that until somebody slapped me in the face.”
2025-11-19 · Invest Like the Best · Ari Emanuel - The Anti-AI Bet - [Invest Like the Best, EP.448] · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source
“Meaning, I was always playing chess in any conversation, thinking of the angle, working the situation. And sometimes it should just be kill the fuck out.”
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“Oh, yeah, yourself. Oh, yeah, yeah, yeah. Yeah, yeah. Every day. Oh, yeah. There's that voice ticking off all the things you got to do and playing the chess match. And one of the things that Jeff Bezos said to me was so good. It really did help me. He said, you have to at your age already now. Know when you're on the field and know when you're off the field. The problem in the past was helpful to a point, but you can't get really successful. I was always on the field”
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“When you have two older brothers that are really good at their job and a mother and a father that just push you. And there's many good things to do dyslexia. And any parent that has a dyslexia child, I will tell you, it does get better if you hang in there. So I don't get embarrassed easily. Somebody saying no, who cares? I just keep on trying to open more doors. So those elements in my life, my mom, my brother's competition, and I'm competitive with myself. Very.”
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“Our pay per views were getting, I think we were getting like a million views. It was insane because there was no sports on. Zero. I don't know if you remember that period. It was nothing.”
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“Our fight nights. So I did my job. It was emotionally trying, but we got it done. And what then happened, which was incredible and horrible all at once. COVID happens. World shuts down. Dana goes, we're putting the fights on. I said, I got your back. He goes, get me an island. I call my partners in the Middle East, in Abu Dhabi and Khaldun, who owns Man City. And I said, we need an island. And we need planes and we need testing. Everything. Everything because there's not going to be no artists. We need this. And he says yes. So we bring fighters in from Europe. We bring fighters in from the United States. We test. Everybody's isolated for two weeks. And we spent two months, I think, maybe three months there.”
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