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The End of Promoters? Sports Innovation in the Age of Cowardice

The End of Promoters? Sports Innovation in the Age of Cowardice

Combat Sports Was Forged by Risk-Takers. Now It’s Run by Risk Managers.

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Jul 13, 2025
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Professional Fighters League names Jonathan Martin as Chief Executive Officer

“The liberty of a democracy is not safe if the people tolerate the growth of private power to a point where it becomes stronger than their democratic state itself.”

— Franklin D. Roosevelt

We’re not living through the golden age of combat sports. We’re living through its gentrification.

The bold have been pushed out for the bankable. Risk-takers replaced b…

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