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Shawne Merriman Talks About Lights Out's MMA Star Development
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2/5/2025
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Uh, who have you been turned on by like that you like watching, uh, develop into a stud?
00:05
Yeah, we had a few guys coming up. Um, you know, we got Tony Cortez of this card and a
00:11
Few seasons best you like Ryan Lilly's fighting this call
00:14
He's fought several fights in Bellator and you know age organization stuff like that
00:17
But more importantly we started identifying these guys that are coming up, right?
00:22
Because they don't have a way again now some of these guys only have managers and stuff yet, right?
00:26
So you just you're directing their careers by building helping them helping them and they don't know what they're doing
00:32
Yeah
00:32
Then when you get to that level when you like I've been around talent my whole entire life
00:36
I know and I know it a superstar when I when you see one, you know
00:39
so some of these guys I haven't met like tomorrow at the weigh-ins when we get there right and I'm like
00:43
Oh, he's gonna be good or she's gonna be good
00:46
You fit, you know, and so you automatically started that's gonna be my next superstar
00:50
You start building around them telling them how to market you social media
00:54
But I had just had I got on the fight or two weeks ago because if social media was on private
00:58
And I said, what are you fighting for?
01:00
What are you fighting for? He said I want to take care of myself. I'm gonna get some UFC
01:04
I said, how are you gonna build you? No one knows you
01:07
How you gonna build yourself private? Like what are you hiding? What do you mean?
01:10
If you can't sell tickets and nobody know who you are, you're worthless. You're worthless to
01:15
Organize a not just to me right to anybody. What's it like setting up those big events?
01:20
It's a real big thing like the NFL pulls this off. It's no different like I used to do the Bellator fights
01:26
He used to work for Dana. I used to do I did MMA even with Donald Trump in Anaheim. I've done everything
01:34
With it
01:34
What's it like for you to set up those events and pull it off and the TV and the rights and everything at the location?
01:40
The arena the seats the tickets the sponsors. Yes, we got the matchmakers the head of venues and tickets and
01:48
You know, you got to operate head of operations
01:50
So I got I got a great team to handle the nonsense and all the stress
01:54
My emails never stop going off and what's going on, right?
01:57
So I may say see something in production and I don't like a graphics package
02:01
That's going up there. The graphics package is not the sponsors not in there
02:04
I'll see it and I'll jump in there
02:06
You know, what's great is that this is the second time
02:08
You and I've done this at the Super Bowl and we never talked about football and the game on Sunday. That's what's up
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