Endeavor Owns 100% UFC, MLB All-Stars Moving To Denver, Space Jam Trailer, US Boycotting Olympics?
UFC
Agent Ari Emanuel’s entertainment company Endeavor will purchase 100% of UFC according to an SEC filing. Endeavor already owns 50.1% of UFC and is planning to take it public via an IPO. According to the filing, Elon Musk will be joining Eneavor’s board of directors.
BASEBALL
Major League Baseball is moving the 2021 All-Star Game to Denver’s Coors Field after announcing they were pulling the game from Atlanta over Georgia’s new voting laws.
BASKETBALL
The trailer for the remake of Space Jam starring Michael Jordan (1996) is out. The new version stars LeBron James and will debut in theaters and on HBO max on July 16th. You can watch the trailer here.
OLYMPICS
As of Tuesday, there were conflicting reports about the US participating in the upcoming Olympics. According to State Department spokesperson Ned Price, “the U.S. would discuss a joint boycott of the 2022 Winter Olympics in China with its allies and partners” due to allegations of genocide in Xinjiang. Later in the afternoon, a spokesperson retracted the initial comments and said, “Our position on the 2022 Olympics has not changed. We have not discussed and are not discussing any joint boycott with allies and partners.”
