Mindy Small/Getty Images Combat sport journalist Luke Thomas explained why he cannot get his head around the fee paid by Paramount for media rights to UFC.  UFC signed a seven-year deal with Paramount at $1.1 billion a year, valuing the entire package at $7.7 billion total.  And while speaking at length about UFC’s transition into […]

Eakin Howard/Getty Images With the WrestleMania 42 card set for both Night One and Night Two, it would seem that there is no place available for Danhausen to wrestle. And yet, many have expected that the “very nice, very evil” WWE star would manage to make an appearance on the “showcase of the immortals.” Danhausen […]

Vince McMahon fought his own son, Shane McMahon, on “The Grandest Stage of Them All” at WrestleMania X-Seven, the exact place, in storyline where the elder McMahon wanted to reveal his purchase of rival WCW. That didn’t happen, however, as just days prior, Shane announced that “the name on the contract does read ‘McMahon,’” but […]

Cindy Ord/Getty Images This upcoming weekend, Seth Rollins will have his first match in six months when he enters battle with GUNTHER on night one of WrestleMania 42. Last October, Rollins picked up a shoulder injury at Crown Jewel during his match with Cody Rhodes, causing WWE to creatively pivot with “The Architect” vacating the […]

Amal Alhasan/Getty Images Nick Khan spoke of WWE WrestleMania 43 in Riyadh, Saudi Arabia with no concern during CAA’s World Congress of Sports.  Per Sports Business Journal, Khan said that the US will always be a core focus for WWE, but internationally derived revenue is becoming its own substantial piece of the pie, making note […]