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Ari Emanuel

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2025-11-19
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2025-11-19
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  1. “Cut to, we buy it. People think we're crazy. And then the world blows up. Rupert decides to sell to Disney. Those two people are not bidding. Comcast didn't want it. Warner's didn't want it. And Paramount had not decided what they were going to be. So now I'm looking at myself. We're fucked. I got no bidders. And my contract's coming up in a year. So we go back to Fox. Sans, what they were going to have remaining and say, you should buy this. Loughlin didn't want to do it for his point of view. I think it was three or four months into our deal coming off Fox. ESPN fires John Skipper, who was always shining me on that he never wanted. And Bob Eiger and Kevin Mayer say we want it because we're going to go direct on ESPN. And we make a deal for both, you're coming on Saturday to the pay-per-views, which we have stopped now since we're going to Paramount. And we have these just normal fights every week.”

    2025-11-19 · Invest Like the Best · Ari Emanuel - The Anti-AI Bet - [Invest Like the Best, EP.448] · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source

  2. “Now, at the time, when we bought IMG, the closest bidder, I think, was churnin at $1.9 billion. We paid $2.4 billion. Everybody thought was the highest price ever paid. When we bought UFC on the current trajectory, it was 20 times. If I made the proper domestic deal, I could take the leverage down. And I thought, I just did the math. Here's how much they need it because of here's how much programming. Because remember at the time, Fox owned these RSNs, the regional players. And they had just the spokes off the library. And I said they have to pay, here's a normal increase. Not like the rest of your people that sit in this chair when you ask them how they do their analysis.”

    2025-11-19 · Invest Like the Best · Ari Emanuel - The Anti-AI Bet - [Invest Like the Best, EP.448] · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source

  3. “We've done well, and then my life changed because Silverlake came into my life, we started buying companies, we bought IMG, and we had started building an infrastructure because of IMG. They had sports and events, an infrastructure to whether it be licensing, distribution, production, a lot of things that companies needed on a global basis, not just a domestic basis. And then the fatigues decided they wanted to sell. And a little before that, we had bought PBR, the professional bull riding, had started turning that thing around. And Silverleg Egon, my partner Egan Durbin, realized we do more negotiations on the domestic side broadcasting for TV shows and movies than almost anybody else. You could handle, and we'd already done it for other people. You could handle sports if you owned it. And I concluded where the world was going, I was talking about it's going to go to streaming, sports going to be important. It was on cable. It's going to move there because for Avod and everything. So we buy 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

  4. “And eventually I got a meeting and I completely screwed up the meeting. I was talking about the WWE. It was just bad. One of my worst signing meetings. And I just kept at it because I knew based on their ratings and what they were getting as a license fee, a domestic license fee, it wasn't enough money. And I knew if I got my hands on it, I could do some stuff with it just as a representative. So eventually, after doing a couple things, he signed with me, the organization signed with me. They were making $15 million a year from Spike. And I think the first deal I made at Spike, I increased it to $75, something like that. And we made a video game deal, which they never had. And after 20 years, we moved it to Fox for $150 million.”

    2025-11-19 · Invest Like the Best · Ari Emanuel - The Anti-AI Bet - [Invest Like the Best, EP.448] · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source

  5. “When I started, I represented the WWE and I represented the UFC. When I signed the UFC, it was on spike. We had a whole division inside the company looking at ratings. And all of a sudden they came and they showed me, here's this thing on Spike, and here's the numbers. And then I realized, wow, this thing's ratings are starting to move. So I figured out, oh, is Dana White in the Fatidas? And I represented the WWE and they're close enough. So I called them.”

    2025-11-19 · Invest Like the Best · Ari Emanuel - The Anti-AI Bet - [Invest Like the Best, EP.448] · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source