Bai Quinn made the excuse that it was too late and called Dana White to find a hotel to stay in, and then talk to him tomorrow. He took the opportunity to collect some UFC-related information and do his homework.

There is a bit of fun in this memory fragment.

In the future, Dana White will be called "Dana White" by Chinese audiences. "Dana" is naturally the transliteration of Dana. "Bai" means White. If you don't understand Chinese, you will think that it is just a transliteration and a translation, and nothing special.

However, in ancient times, the recording tools such as bone pieces, bamboo slips and paper were not cheap, or were influenced by concise poetry, which made Chinese have a unique beauty. It only requires a few simple words, but can hide a lot of extra meaning in it.

In addition to the literal meaning of the word "White Dana" also points out that Dana White has power in the UFC.

Therefore, in the future, Dana White will definitely have a great influence in UFC. Maybe he will be the general manager or operation director of UFC.

Perhaps without himself, White Dana would also control the UFC, and could also bring Mayweather, a boxer, to "show", steal the boy he endorsed, and become the "boxing champion" in the future.

An ordinary Olympic boxing bronze medalist and a boxing champion are two completely different concepts. If you can afford a boxing champion to appear in a cross-border show, the scale of UFC's business is definitely not small.

Based on the above two points, this should be a business worth investing in. It happened that I still have a lot of record royalties, so I don’t know where to invest.

UFC's business model mainly relies on pay-TV networks.

To date, UFC has held 15 games, each game is like a wrestling PPV event, and is watched for a paid fee. Generally speaking, the payment amount for subscriptions to a single game is US$2.99.

Of course, offline tickets to watch the game can also be sold for some money, and then the copyright purchases of overseas TV stations, so the income from peripheral products is not much.

In 1993, the UFC brand was founded. One of its initiators was Lorien Gracie of the famous judo family in Brazil - Gracie family. A Hollywood action guide, whose most famous film directed was "The Deadly Weapon".

Lorien Gracie and a group of TV producer friends designed the prototype of UFC, an unlimited fighting game similar to the Street Fighter game.

After a period of preparation and running-in, Bob Myrovitz and David Isaac finally brought UFC to TV. They set up a TV production company called SET Entertainment, which runs UFC, and Campbell McLaren, as the producer, should also have shares in it.

After seven games in two years in 1994 and 1995, UFC began to gain a certain popularity, not only gaining a lot of fame in the United States, but also having a huge audience in Latin America.

Many UFC contestants are from Latin American countries, and UFC also held a competition in Puerto Rico.

In 1996, UFC held five games, with more than 10,000 spectators each time, and the average number of subscriptions to the event exceeded 500,000.

UFC is not like wrestling competitions like WWF and WCW. It has no plot and does not require a regular season game every week to maintain popularity. Therefore, it is not bound to a certain cable TV network. At the most, the five major cable TV networks in North America have UFC paid TV programs.

Bob Myrovitz and David Isaac are actually both from paid music programs. They use fighting events as a platter concert to operate, book venues, invite singers, sell tickets, broadcast online, and watch them for a paid set of processes. They finally succeeded.

However, 1996 was the peak of UFC.

At present, it is the "cold winter" of UFC or the entire MMA mixed martial arts industry.

So much so that this brand with a certain popularity could be bought at the end of 1997 for only two million US dollars.

Why is a prosperous industry suddenly entering a cold winter?

This starts with the "three generations of officials" of the US Navy.

Arizona Senator, "Three Generations of Naval Officers", John Sidney McCain III.

This person was just selected by Time magazine as one of the 25 most influential people in the United States. The famous Elephant Party is likely to become the candidate for the commander elected by the Elephant Party in the next election.

It is said that this former Vietnam veteran who loves to watch boxing was shocked after watching a UFC game video.

At that time, one player was knocked down, and the other player rode directly on and punched his opponent violently, but the referee did not stop him.

The scene shattered the "weak heart" of a party veteran who accused the UFC and other MMA MMA competitions of being "human cockfighting", and then issued an open letter to the governors of fifty states in the name of the Senate Ethics Committee calling for the ban on such "bloody and brutal" "modern gladiator" competitions.

The first response is New York State, where the Elephant Party is governing.

In February 1996, the UFC12 competition, which was originally planned to be held in New York State, was notified a few days before the start that it could not continue to be held in New York State. It had to be temporarily adjusted to Oregon in the northwest. The refund and compensation made the SET company responsible for the operation compensated a lot.

A year later, Oregon also responded to John McCain's initiative to ban MMA events this week.

But in July this year, the UFC was kicked out of the Birmingham Citizen Center in Oregon, which can only accommodate 5,000 spectators, and had to move to a casino at the St. Louis Bay Resort, Mississippi, which had only 100 audience seats. The audience dropped from more than 10,000 to almost no.

What's even more irritating is that the five major cable TV networks could have seen UFC programs. The five major TV networks combined can cover an expected audience of 35 million. This number is not individuals, but calculated based on the "TV" of the family terminal. That is to say, at the most, there were 35 million American families, which may spend $2.99 ​​to watch an episode of UFC events on demand.

Due to John McCain's continuous appeal, three of the five major cable TV networks interrupted their cooperation with UFC, and the expected coverage of users plummeted to 7.5 million.

At a paid rate of about 1%-2%, the number of viewers on demand for the next UFC paid programs may drop below 100,000.

Loss is destined!

According to information provided by Dana White, UFC has started to lose money since 1997, and the founders have lost confidence in continuing to operate. Their current self-rescue plan is to move the competition abroad and try to expand overseas revenue to "replenish blood". However, Puerto Rico, which had originally held UFC events, suddenly announced that the competition was illegal in the country and refused to apply for it, forcing the organizer to go to Japan to try his luck.

Next month, UFC's next game will be held in Japan. Although ticket sales are good, Dana White's informant said that negotiations between SET and Japan's limited TV network have also broken down due to the pricing of a single payment.

Japan's limited TV networks obviously will not change the original principle of small profits but fast turnover for the sake of the UFC, but UFC believes that the price is less than US$2.99, so they still lose money.

I log in to Japan to make money, who will go to the loss?

If anyone who has paid a little attention to the relevant news, if he heard that he had to pay 2 million for UFC, he would probably shake his head and refuse immediately, and then kick out Dana White, who was unclear.

Investing in UFC is definitely going against the "national trend" and is a brainless behavior.

Senator John McCain, relying on just one open letter and a few speeches, caused UFC's revenue to plummet. He still had tens of millions of dollars in book income in 1996, but by 1997, he was unable to make ends meet and could go bankrupt at any time.

What if he deals with UFC seriously and fights the MMA mixed martial arts industry with all his might?

Destroying an industry with annual revenue of hundreds of millions of dollars is not a difficult task for a senator with great influence and even expected to compete for the next commander.

If Bai Quinn had not obtained memory fragments because of Dana White's words, he would obviously choose to drive Dana White away immediately and go back to sleep, and pretend that nothing happened.

But the inspiration of memory fragments tells him that UFC will still be alive in the future and will live well, and its business will be expanded to China.

"I am greedy when others are afraid." This is what Buffett said, the correct nonsense.

But if you combine a little bit of information about the future, it may be an opportunity to buy at the bottom at a low price.

Buy UFC and appoint Dana White to operate it. The two are perfect, and in the future, just count the money.

But how long does it take to wait for UFC to make money?

Bai Quinn, who was cheated once in "Batman and Robin", no longer blindly believes in memory fragments.

He knows that UFC will be successful in the future, but he doesn’t know whether it is a trough now, how long will the downturn last in the future? Will his small wealth be dragged down?

It is these concerns that make Bai Quinn feel that she needs some time to collect information and then make a judgment.

According to normal ideas, in order to solve the troubles caused by politicians, we need to communicate with politicians with lobbying companies and use some green American swords, which may make John McCain give up on "chasing".

This guy has a criminal record in this regard, maybe he can solve it with some money.

Dana White thought so too.

He said that he came to work with Bai Quinn, but on the one hand, he owed Bai Quinn before and wanted to make compensation. Another important reason was that Bai Quinn was rich and influential, and now he is a small prince in Hollywood. There should be connections to solve the trouble caused by Senator McCain.

When talking about connections, Bai Quinn subconsciously thought of Harvey Weinstein and David Geffen.

These two are the most politically influential people Bai Quinn knows.

Both are staunch supporters of the current commander Arkansas and have made important contributions to both Arkansas's campaign victory.

Harvey helped Arkansas cheer with good media relations, and David Geffen not only invested millions of dollars in campaign funds, but also used his reputation and influence among the homosexual community to help Arkansas canvass vote.

Although Arkansas sentenced David Geffen to the same-sex marriage bill, he is still a supporter of Arkansas and the Donkey Party.

Unfortunately, McCain is a senator of the Elephant Party, and the two seem to have no connections or influence in the Elephant Party.

Now is Arkansas' second term. The Elephant Party currently has the advantage in Congress. Arkansas cannot provoke a Senator who is in power in the Elephant Party. What's more, the annoying McCain occupies the moral high ground, criticizing bloody violence is in line with political correctness, and there is no room for criticism.

McCain is one of the candidates who may be promoted to the throne of the great commander of the Elephant Party. Apart from occasionally not obeying the order of the "party whip" and voting according to his own wishes rather than following the will of the political party, this "Three Generations of Officials" has almost no flaws.

We can't tell the story about his capture in the Vietnam War and the "Keating Five" case.

Being captured in the war puts him in the halo of heroes instead.

The Keating Five-member case also had a conclusion. McCain's responsibility was to receive donations from "unethical businessmen" and even the always harsh Senate Ethics Committee did not kick him out.

If he could "bad judgment" again, he would have collected some money and let UFC go, but this would obviously be impossible.

SET, the operator of UFC, should have tried to use "donation" to clear the relationship as soon as possible. McCain will definitely confiscate it, otherwise it would not have been almost two years, and he will still bite UFC.

Bai Quinn knew that even if he could see the future, he must have the ability to deal with McCain, and other officials who might jump out to accuse UFC, otherwise there would be a high chance of losing money by acquiring UFC.

If he couldn't handle it, he would rather wait and see or even give up this opportunity.

Bai Quinn's previous work and business were operated in the industry framework, and there was nothing out of the ordinary, so he and politicians had never donated money to the constituent members of his constituency, and had not even participated in the voting.

Donate?

Bai Quinn suddenly remembered that he had donated to the "Robin Hood Charity Foundation", but it was obvious that their influence could not cover McCain, because the big tree on the back of the "Robin Hood Charity Foundation" was the "Kennedy family".

Samantha also suggested that he try his best to become a member of the foundation's board of directors, and for this, Bai Quinn donated another sum of money.

The people quickly collected the money, but no one came out to show him the way he could be a member of the board of directors.

Bai Quinn had to give up. Obviously, he didn't like his status and influence. If he could take money, he would give you face.

Wait, Samantha?

Although Samantha's main customer is a real estate businessman, she is actually working for her boss, and her boss is Rhodes Public Relations Co., Ltd.

The full name of this company is Rod & Finn Public Relations Co., Ltd., and its most famous customer is Philip Morris, which manufactures "Marlboro".

You know, the tobacco industry has to send millions and tens of millions of dollars to Capitol Hill every year, just to prevent the MPs from "banning smoking".

Samantha might have a way!

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