The Shady Zuffa UFC Purchase - Smoking Gun Proof
Bob Meyrowitz in his own words quite in depth in a 2006 NHB with Eddie Goldman Interview... The most damning evidence ever. Likely Meyerowitz doesn't go here as in depth much due to potential legal issues with the Fertitta's. He really let it slip here though....
NO HOLDS BARRED: Eddie Goldman Speaks With Bob Meyrowitz - July 19, 2006
On this week's edition of NO HOLDS BARRED, host Eddie Goldman speaks with Bob Meyrowitz, former CEO of eYada.com and Semaphore Entertainment Group (SEG), which started and produced the original Ultimate Fighting Championship (UFC) shows from 1993 to 2000.
Bob offers his take on what he thinks of the current UFC product and the level of talent in it under its present owner, Zuffa. He also refutes the many factually incorrect articles that have appeared mainly in newspapers claiming that when SEG put on UFC shows, there were no rules, that the company ran from sanctioning by state athletic commissions, and that the level of athlete in the early UFC's was low.
He recounts how UFC was sanctioned by the New York State Athletic Commission in late 1996, but how the commission double-crossed UFC at the last moment. He discusses UFC's attempt in 1999 to get sanctioned by the Nevada State Athletic Commission, and who on that commission opposed its sanctioning.
Plus, he tells us who among the mainstream media and numerous boxing writers now commenting on UFC and its history have actually bothered to contact him to find out his views and what occurred.
Plus, Bob talks about his plans to run a new mixed martial arts event in the very near future, plans which have not been completely finalized yet but are expected to be so in a very short time. And he tells us what his attitude is towards the mixed martial arts and fight media, as well as other promoters, an issue which has again come to the fore.
@31:55 - Meyrowitz recounts the history of events surrounding the SEG's UFC's first attempt at sanctioning in Nevada & the role Lorenzo Fertitta played as an NSAC commissioner and later the purchaser of the UFC.
@18:50 - History of UFC sanctioning in New Jersey & New york or attempted sanctioning in Nevada.
https://ia600201.us.archive.org/6/it...witz/nhb20.mp3