Zuffa LLC
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TKO Operating Company, LLC (TKO OpCo), also doing business as Zuffa ( ), is an American sports promotion company specializing in mixed martial arts. It was founded in January 2001 in Las Vegas, Nevada, by Station Casinos executives Frank Fertitta III and Lorenzo Fertitta to be the parent entity of the Ultimate Fighting Championship (UFC) after they purchased it from the Semaphore Entertainment Group.
Key facts
- Company.name
- TKO Operating Company, LLC
- Company.logo
- ZuffaLogo.jpg
- Company.trading_name
- Zuffa
- Company.former_names
- Zuffa, LLC (2001–2023)
- Company.type
- Subsidiary
- Company.founders
- Frank Fertitta IIILorenzo Fertitta
- Company.key_people
- Ari Emanuel (CEO – Endeavor)Dana White (CEO and president – UFC)
- Company.industry
- Sports promotion
- Company.owner
- TKO Group Holdings
- Company.parent
- Endeavor
- Company.subsid
- Ultimate Fighting Championship (2001)World Fighting Alliance (2006)Pride Fighting Championships (2007)World Extreme Cagefighting (2010)Strikeforce (2013)
- Company.location_city
- Las Vegas, Nevada
- Company.location_country
- United States
via Wikipedia infobox
Wikidata facts
- Country
- United States
- Founded by
- Lorenzo Fertitta
- Headquarters
- Las Vegas
- Owned by
- WME Group
- Industry
- mixed martial arts
- Legal form
- limited liability company
- Sport
- mixed martial arts
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- inception
- 2001-01-01
- location of formation
- Las Vegas
- owner of
- World Extreme Cagefighting
- end time
- 2023-00-00
- dissolved, abolished or demolished date
- 2023-09-12
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Encyclopedic overview
7 sectionsContents
- Relationship with other organizations
- Flash Entertainment
- Ubisoft
- Lone Survivor Foundation
- Cleveland Clinic
- Sale to Endeavor and merger with WWE
- References
TKO Operating Company, LLC (TKO OpCo), also doing business as Zuffa ( ), is an American sports promotion company specializing in mixed martial arts. It was founded in January 2001 in Las Vegas, Nevada, by Station Casinos executives Frank Fertitta III and Lorenzo Fertitta to be the parent entity of the Ultimate Fighting Championship (UFC) after they purchased it from the Semaphore Entertainment Group.
Zuffa was acquired in 2016 by a group led by WME-IMG (later Endeavor) including Silver Lake Partners, KKR, and MSD Capital for the price of $4.025 billion. After the Endeavor deal closed, the Zuffa logo and brand were retired from on-air usage in favor of the UFC brand, but Zuffa was retained as the legal name of the company.
Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “Zuffa LLC” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.