Selling Violence: Marketing Combat Sports
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This week, we look at the marketing of violent sports.
Starting with a man named Tex Rickard, who wrote the playbook on fight promotion back in the 1920s.
We’ll analyze how WWE pro wrestling took a page from Rickard to create spectacles.
And we look at the phenomenon that is the UFC – and how mixed martial arts promotion can be carbon-dated all the way back to Rickard in the ‘20s.
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