{"id":458968,"date":"2023-09-12T21:37:36","date_gmt":"2023-09-12T17:37:36","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/?post_type=news&#038;p=458968"},"modified":"2023-09-12T21:37:36","modified_gmt":"2023-09-12T17:37:36","slug":"wwe-ufc-merger-is-official","status":"publish","type":"news","link":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/news\/wwe-ufc-merger-is-official\/","title":{"rendered":"WWE, UFC merger is official"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>UFC, the mixed martial arts company, has officially merged with Vince McMahon\u2019s professional wrestling company, WWE; the merged company will be named TKO Group as the stocks of the new company are listed on the NY Stock Exchange.<\/p>\n<p>The merger was shared today before the opening of the market. TKO Group Holding shares are up almost 1% at $101.44.<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\">\n<p dir=\"ltr\" lang=\"en\">BREAKING: WWE and UFC Officially Merge To From TKO Group<\/p>\n<p>John Cena commented on the merger and said.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cAnother historic moment in the evolution of the sports-entertainment industry. Congratulations to everyone involved in today\u2019s massive announcement.\u201d <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/SWnR3KXPlj\" target=\"_blank\">pic.twitter.com\/SWnR3KXPlj<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u2014 Sulaiman Ahmed (@ShaykhSulaiman) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/ShaykhSulaiman\/status\/1701596926679134576?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">September 12, 2023<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n<p>McMahon gave control of his company that his father created for the 1<sup>st<\/sup> time ever as Endeavor will own 51% of the TKO Group while WWE owns the remaining 49%. Endeavor chief Ari Emanuel becomes TKO\u2019s chief executive. Vince will be the executive chairman.<\/p>\n<p>Dana White will keep his role as the CEO of the UFC. Nick Khan will be the president of the WWE.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe creation of the merged company creates an inspiring new chapter for UFC and WWE as leaders in the combat sport and entertainment,\u201d shared chief Emanuel.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>UFC, the mixed martial arts company, has officially merged with Vince McMahon\u2019s professional wrestling company, WWE; the merged company will be named TKO [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4225,"featured_media":458971,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"inline_featured_image":false},"tags":[18148],"news_category":[16710],"gn_keywords":[21360,1093,21359],"acf":{"announce":"The new company will be named TKO Group.","video":[]},"rank_math_focus_keyword":"","rank_math_description":"","rank_math_title":"","rank_math_robots":"","rank_math_canonical_url":"","rank_math_facebook_title":"","rank_math_facebook_description":"","rank_math_facebook_image":"","rank_math_twitter_title":"","rank_math_twitter_description":"","rank_math_twitter_image":"","rank_math_snippet_shortcode":"","rank_math_primary_category":"","rankmath_seo":{"focus_keyword":"","description":"","title":"","canonical_url":"","robots":"","facebook":{"title":"","description":"","image":""},"twitter":{"title":"","description":"","image":""}},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news\/458968"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/news"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4225"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=458968"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news\/458968\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":458972,"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news\/458968\/revisions\/458972"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/458971"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=458968"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=458968"},{"taxonomy":"news_category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news_category?post=458968"},{"taxonomy":"gn_keywords","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/gn_keywords?post=458968"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}