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Mayweather Promotions Mayweather Promotions, LLC is a boxing promotional firm founded by five-division world and twelve-time world champion Floyd Mayweather, Jr. in 2007 after exercising a provision in his contract with Bob Arum and Top Rank, that allowed him to become a free agent for the price of $750,000. Mayweather Promotions also promotes all forms of live entertainment including sporting events, live musical and theatrical events as well as film and television productions. Mayweather Promotions mainly co-promotes with rival firm Golden Boy Promotions. Leonard Ellerbe is the CEO.
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Top Rank Top Rank, Inc. is a boxing promotion company founded by Jabir Herbert Muhammad and Bob Arum. It was incorporated in 1973 and is based in Las Vegas, Nevada.
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Medical Protective Medical Protective is an American liability insurance company for physicians and dentists. Medical Protective traces its roots back to a predecessor company, the Physicians’ Guarantee Company. Alpheus P. Buchman, MD and Miles F. Porter, MD, both of Fort Wayne, Indiana, formed the Physicians' Guarantee Company in 1899 to provide pre-paid legal defense services for medical malpractice lawsuits. The company is considered one of the first companies to offer pre-paid legal defense services in the United States. In 1902, Physicians’ Guarantee Company changed its name to the Physicians’ Defense Company. In 1907, Byron H. Somers and Charles M. Niezer left the Physicians Defense Company and founded The Medical Protective Company and in 1913, Medical Protective acquired Physicians Defense Company. Byron Somers and by his descendants ran Medical Protective until 1998 when General Electric purchased the company. In 2005, Warren Buffett's Berkshire Hathaway purchased the company for $825 million.
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National Collegiate Boxing Association The National Collegiate Boxing Association (NCBA) was founded in 1976 as a non-profit, autonomous organization whose goal is to provide a safe, positive experience for student athletes pursuing the sport of boxing. The association falls under the auspices of USA Boxing. After 1960, the NCAA no longer sanctioned boxing.
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Prudential plc Prudential plc is a British multinational life insurance and financial services company headquartered in London, United Kingdom. It was founded in London in May 1848 as "The Prudential Mutual Assurance Investment and Loan Association" to provide loans to professional and working people.
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Universal Wrestling Federation (Bill Watts) The Universal Wrestling Federation was owner Bill Watts' attempt at taking his Mid-South Wrestling promotion to a national level in 1986. The attempt failed and in 1987, Watts sold the promotion to Jim Crockett Promotions and it became part of what would later be known as World Championship Wrestling. The promotion had started out as an NWA Territory known as NWA Tri-State founded by Leroy McGuirk in the 1950s. Tri-State promoted in Oklahoma, Arkansas, Louisiana and Mississippi, the same area that Watts's Mid-South wrestling ran in before attempting to go national. In 1990, Herb Abrams started an unrelated wrestling promotion with the same name.
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Is This Legal? Is This Legal?: The Inside Story of The First UFC from the Man Who Created It is a 2014 non-fiction book which details the backstory of the creation of the Ultimate Fighting Championship (UFC). It is co-authored by Art Davie, co-founder of the UFC, and Sean Wheelock.
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WBC Legends of Boxing Museum The WBC Legends of Boxing Museum, located at the American Sports University in San Bernardino, California, is a museum that pays honor to the achievements and accomplishments of some of the most famous boxers of all time, more specifically past World Boxing Council champions. The WBC is one of the four (WBA,WBC, WBO, IBF) major sanctioning bodies in boxing. The museum's motto is, "Great fighters may retire, but their greatness lives on forever." This quote was created by Board Member Eric Casillas.
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Corporate promoter A corporate promoter (also "projector") is a person who solicits people to invest money into a corporation, usually when it is being formed. An investment banker, an underwriter, or a stock promoter may, wholly or in part, perform the role of a promoter. Promoters generally owe a duty of utmost good faith, so as to not mislead any potential investors, and disclose all material facts about the company's business.
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Don King (boxing promoter) Donald King (born August 20, 1931) is an American boxing promoter known for his involvement in historic boxing matchups. He has been a controversial figure, partly due to a manslaughter conviction (and later pardon), and civil cases against him.
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Chai Sirisute Ajarn Surachai Sirisute (Thai: สุรชัย ศิริสูตร์ , born October 16, 1948), commonly known as Chai Sirisute or Ajarn Chai, is a Thai martial arts Instructor who is the founder and President of the Thai Boxing Association of the USA and responsible for introducing Muay Thai to the United States. Born in Bangkok Thailand, Sirisute was indoctrinated to Muay Thai at the age of 4.
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Luminary Group Luminary Group LLC, founded in Indiana in 2006, is a licensing and intellectual property management company that represents the estates of several personalities, including Babe Ruth, Vince Lombardi, Jesse Owens, Cy Young, Buddy Holly, Honus Wagner, Satchel Paige, Bob Denver and others.
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World Bodybuilding Federation The World Bodybuilding Federation (WBF) was a bodybuilding organization founded in 1990 by Vince McMahon that lasted until 1993. It was a subsidiary of Titan Sports which owned and operated the World Wrestling Federation.
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Seminole Warriors Boxing Seminole Warriors Boxing, usually shortened to "Warriors Boxing" is one of the USA's leading boxing promoters.
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World Wrestling Council The World Wrestling Council (WWC) is Puerto Rico's main professional wrestling promotion. It was originally established as Capitol Sports Promotions in 1973 by Carlos Colón Sr., Victor Jovica, and Gorilla Monsoon. It was a member of the National Wrestling Alliance until 1988. By the mid-1990s, the promotion had changed its name to the World Wrestling Council.
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Gfinity Gfinity, founded in 2012, is a UK based eSports company which operates globally. It is based in London at the UK's only dedicated eSports Arena and is listed on the London Stock Exchange Alternative Investment Market trading under LON:GFIN.
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Prediction Company Prediction Company was founded in Santa Fe, New Mexico, USA, in March 1991 by J. Doyne Farmer, Norman Packard and James McGill. The company uses forecasting techniques to build black-box trading systems for financial markets, mainly employing statistical learning theory. In September 1992, Prediction Company entered into an exclusive contract with O'Connor and Associates, a Chicago derivatives trading house, to provide investment advice and technology. Soon after O'Connor merged with Swiss Bank Corporation, which later merged with Union Bank of Switzerland (UBS). Prediction Company's contract was renewed multiple times and in 2005 UBS purchased Prediction Company outright. After being a wholly owned subsidiary of UBS, Prediction Company was acquired in 2013 by an affiliate of Millennium Partners, L.P.
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The Ring (magazine) The Ring (often called The Ring magazine or Ring TV) is an American boxing magazine that was first published in 1922 as a boxing and wrestling magazine. As the sporting legitimacy of professional wrestling came more into question, "The Ring" shifted to becoming exclusively a boxing oriented publication. The magazine is currently owned by Oscar De La Hoya's Golden Boy Enterprises, which acquired it in 2007.
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Kenny Bayless Kenny Bayless (born 1950) is an American boxing referee from Nevada. He is best known for having refereed many of the sport's superfights, including Manny Pacquiao vs. Ricky Hatton, Oscar De La Hoya vs. Floyd Mayweather Jr., Ricky Hatton vs. Paulie Malignaggi, Miguel Cotto vs. Antonio Margarito, Manny Pacquiao vs. Miguel Cotto, as well as Floyd Mayweather Jr. vs. Manny Pacquiao. Bayless's catchphrase, when giving his instructions to the fighters before the opening bell, is "What I say you must obey."
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Indian Professional Boxing Association The Indian Professional Boxing Association (Hindi: भारतीय पेशेवर मुक्केबाजी संघ ) is the National Governing Body for Professional Boxing in India, which sanctions professional boxing matches and awards national and subordinate championship titles. IPBA is a member organization of the World Boxing Association (WBA), the World Boxing Organization (WBO), the International Boxing Federation (IBF) and the Pan Asian Boxing Association (PABA). It is headquartered in New Delhi, India.
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List of lineal boxing world champions This is a list of lineal boxing world champions. An official list of lineal champions in professional boxing is maintained by the Cyber Boxing Zone (CBZ) website, with input from boxing historian Tracy Callis of the International Boxing Research Organization. These were first published in 1994, and are retrospective to the introduction of the Queensberry Rules in 1885. The Transnational Boxing Rankings Board, which promotes the concept of one world champion per weight class, hands out the most complete version of the lineal championship and is recognized by CBZ for maintaining the list of genuine lineal world champions.
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Good Fight Entertainment Good Fight Entertainment is a business conglomerate that was founded in 2010. The company consists of a record label, band management, sports management, a clothing line and an art studio. Good Fight was founded by Paul Conroy and Carl Severson who have previously worked for Ferret Music and Warner Music Group.