So now that the news about Dvalishvili's multiple injuries and his success in pulling a fast one over a CSAC doctor are out in the open, what happens next? Everyone knows that California is a strict jurisdiction to operate in--Syndicate's John Wood even reminded everyone of that in his interview with Ariel--which leads me to believe they'd not look kindly on these revelations. That likely means they'd have a reputation that they'd want to protect. Will they? Or does the current political climate make it such that they'd *not* want to pursue an investigation into what just happened?
Also, aside from selling AI to an audience that will buy whatever Dana is evangelizing, I think Zuckerberg pulling him onto the Meta board is also to get at the UFC's accumulated fight and fighter data. The UFC has been collecting pretty robust data on fights for well over a decade now, but no real machine learning applications of it. You and Zach mentioned the UFC Performance Institute and their likely huge repository of health information on fighters during the pod. Now supercharge that with Meta's models (generative and otherwise); how valuable would that be to the UFC in handling fighters (regardless of whether the model is any good or not)?
I know the stated play is for Meta to help the UFC with judging and ranking, but the fun thing about data is that when there's enough of it, surprising patterns and emergent applications arise that no one was considering until it was thrown into a model.
Ah, I hadn't considered that. I guess that's another way the 10x affiliation is really paying off for White and the UFC. 🤷🏻♂️
I think it was more a matter of Ari Emanuel squeezing the regulators than anything Brecka or Cardone had to do with.
So now that the news about Dvalishvili's multiple injuries and his success in pulling a fast one over a CSAC doctor are out in the open, what happens next? Everyone knows that California is a strict jurisdiction to operate in--Syndicate's John Wood even reminded everyone of that in his interview with Ariel--which leads me to believe they'd not look kindly on these revelations. That likely means they'd have a reputation that they'd want to protect. Will they? Or does the current political climate make it such that they'd *not* want to pursue an investigation into what just happened?
Also, aside from selling AI to an audience that will buy whatever Dana is evangelizing, I think Zuckerberg pulling him onto the Meta board is also to get at the UFC's accumulated fight and fighter data. The UFC has been collecting pretty robust data on fights for well over a decade now, but no real machine learning applications of it. You and Zach mentioned the UFC Performance Institute and their likely huge repository of health information on fighters during the pod. Now supercharge that with Meta's models (generative and otherwise); how valuable would that be to the UFC in handling fighters (regardless of whether the model is any good or not)?
I know the stated play is for Meta to help the UFC with judging and ranking, but the fun thing about data is that when there's enough of it, surprising patterns and emergent applications arise that no one was considering until it was thrown into a model.
great comment. Very insightful re: Meta.
As for the CSAC, they were neutered when they sanctioned Power Slap despite most of their lead physicians denouncing it.
Their bread is buttered by TKO holding events in CA.