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UFC is owned by the owners of Station Casinos,
billionaires Lorenzo and Frank Fertitta. HDNet, which will promote its own
league as well as air any non-UFC looking for exposure, is owned by Dallas
Mavericks owner, billionaire Mark Cuban. Affliction, a t-shirt company that has
decided to enter the live event and pay per view business of Mixed Martial Arts,
has formed an alliance with real estate billionaire and reality show superstar
Donald Trump.
Now Trump's son, Donald Jr is getting in on the publicity surrounding Mixed
Martial Arts.
In an interview with the Daily Intel section of NEW YORK
MAGAZINE's website, Donald Trump Jr talks about his father's
involvement in MMA and the fact that as Executive Vice President of Development
and Acquisitions for the Trump organization, he has a vested interest in his
family's involvement in Affliction.
You can read the entire story HERE .
Just when you thought there was absolutely nowhere else to go
beyond the towers, the TV show, and Tara Conner, the Trump empire is expanding
once again. This time, the Donald & Co. have bought a portion of Affliction,
the new mixed-martial-arts league, which will face off against Ultimate Fighting
Championship (UFC) in the realm of televised, no-holds-barred beatings. In case
you didn’t know, this is the blood sport that John McCain once called "human
cockfighting" — pretty little Miss USA it ain’t.
"Our family has always been into sports," Don Jr., who is
Executive Vice-President of Development and Acquisitions for the Trump
organization, explains to us. "Granted, my dad wasn’t exactly the kind of dad
who would take us outside and play catch.…I grew up watching boxing matches,
mostly at the [Trump] properties in Atlantic City, and once mixed martial arts
developed, I got really into that." True to Trump form, the bottom line is never
far from mind; he adds, "Plus, it’s a phenomenal growth sport."
We’ll see this Saturday night, when Affliction airs its first
pay-per-view fight card. "To the non-fighter, extreme fighting can appear to be
excessively violent," says Don Jr., who assures us the fighters are always in
control. So in control that the Little Donald himself would consider jumping in
the ring? "At best, I’d give myself fractions of a second with a real
mixed-martial-arts fighter," he laughed. "If I could do even that it would
probably beat the oddsmakers’ expectations."
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