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At TKO, they love the game - just not the fight game

At TKO, they love the game - just not the fight game

Ari Emanuel, Mark Shapiro, Dana White and Hunter Campbell are having fun.

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Nate Wilcox
Jul 02, 2024
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As I marveled at TKO’s ability to slap together a fan-pleasing card Saturday night — no easy feat with Brian Ortega dropping out of the co-main on fight day — I thought I’d write a piece called “Ari Emanuel has no love for the fight game.”

The basic jist was going to be that strip-mining the roster of stars while upping the number of events means that t…

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