Bertelsmann Denies Interest in UFC
June 18, 2008
Whatever today’s major announcement is, it does NOT appear to be a sale of the company, particularly to Bertelsmann Media as was rumored yesterday. A spokesperson for Bertelsmann denied that the company has any interest in acquiring the UFC according to a report from Germany’s GroundandPound.de.
In an interesting trivia note, Bertelsmann is apparently already a former owner of the UFC. According to former SEG employees, BMG, a Bertelsmann subsidiary, reportedly had a financial interest in SEG at the time it owned the UFC. At the time SEG was a production company that mainly did music programs and BMG was a German media company that had bought RCA and Arista Records.
Special thanks to Willy Steinky and Tim Leidecker of G&P for sharing their report with MMAPayout.com.
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