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- strategic consulting Complete SET Agency - advice and direction for athletes & brands - sportsbiz professor @UnivMiami - author

Miami, FL
Joined September 2009
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"Be the best version of yourself in anything that you do. You don't have to live anybody else's story." — Stephen Curry NBA guard, 4× champion
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WWE auctions roughly fifty-two weekly shows a year like sports rights into nine-figure media deals. Scripted sports entertainment clears live-sports-style bids.
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Endless storyline inventory on a fixed calendar is a rights seller's dream product versus seasonal sports.
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Operator takeaway: If you can manufacture the tentpole, you can price it like scarcity sports.
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"The man who complains about the way the ball bounces is likely to be one who dropped it." — Lou Holtz College football coach
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The Fertittas bought UFC for roughly $2M in 2001 and sold to WME-IMG for about $4B in 2016. Combat sports became a media compounder.
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Own the cage, the brand, and the distribution. Category creation plus IP control beat open talent auctions.
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Operator takeaway: Build the platform that prices the fight, not only the fighters who step in.
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LIV Golf's $100M+ guarantee era forced PGA–PIF talks within roughly two years. Heritage tours found a price when sovereign-scale capital arrived.
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Etiquette moats fail against balance sheets that do not need this year's ticket revenue to survive.
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Operator takeaway: Stress-test heritage against a blank check before the blank check shows up.
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