Link: https://variety.com/2026/tv/news/ufc-freedom-250-lost-30-million-white-house-donald-trump-1236827704/

“TKO’s unique ability to deliver one-on-one live events and experiences was front and center in the second quarter. Nothing illustrates this better than UFC Freedom 250 held in June,” Emanuel said on the company’s Q2 2026 earnings call. “This event was a roaring success for our company, the UFC brand and the sport of mixed martial arts, exposure, earned media, audience expansion and a weekend-long fan experience.”

However, later on the call, TKO CFO Andrew Schleimer acknowledged that with UFC Freedom 250, “we incurred significantly higher-than-normal costs, which we partially offset with sold out global partnerships inventory. As a reminder, we did not sell tickets and therefore did not record any live events revenue. Given the event’s financial profile, which as anticipated, resulted in approximately $30 million loss, our margins at UFC as well as on a consolidated basis, were meaningfully impacted.”

So it was a 30 million dollar bribe?

Anything to distract from the Epstein files is invaluable to someone that is so included in them and desperately needs everyone to not look into that shit.

That doesn't really mean anything though. "We lost made less than we projected by $30M". You could go sell hotdogs at the park and project to make $30.01M dollars. Damn, lost almost $30M on what was the best day of selling hotdogs ever. Without knowing how much they actually spent and earned (and/or were handed taxpayer dollars), this is just a fluff fake pity piece.

"we incurred significantly higher-than-normal costs, which we partially offset with sold out global partnerships inventory"

I can't have any foreign money contribute to our work if we want NIH funding. I have to verify this many times a year. How come this guy gets to be supported by foreign funding sources for a project held by the damn white house?

Because fuck you, that's why.

Because Donald Trump is fulfilling his dream of being a fascist dictator and wrecking our country as revenge for what we “made him” do to Epstein?

People really Really don’t wanna see it for some reason, and it is making me really sad to see just how many people (elders and peers alike) whom I thought where normal are actually basically shell vessels for vapid denial or unforgiving fascism.

I’m gonna miss this place.

The way I read it was that UFC spent $30M more on the event than they received in direct revenue... I'd expect they'll try to milk replay/youtube/etc to try to recoup, or eat the cost like they ate trump's asshole.

Maybe so. But did you see the drunk maga cucks fighting on the White House lawn? That is what winning looks like.

What in the wild world of wide angle perspective shift is going on to make that rotting tube of uncooked burger meat look slim squeezed into Joe Rogan's fattest suit?

Trump made money, that's all that counts. He doesn't care if everyone else involved goes bankrupt.

It was a crypto scam. Loose money on paper for tax and legal purposes probably

Actually not that bad considering the $300 billion he paid to Iran to bitch out of a war he started...

I read this as them saying they typically make $30M from selling tickets to an event like this.

I bet he successfully grifted at least that much for himself & his family.

Tight money on paper