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Zuffa

American sports promotion company

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Record originEnglish Wikipedia
Text licenseCC BY-SA 4.0
Source revisionSep 4, 2026
Entity authoritySource title only
Source-derived summary

Zuffa is an American sports promotion company specializing in mixed martial arts and founded in 2001; the company is now a subsidiary of TKO Group Holdings (TKO) and is the legal owner of certain Ultimate Fighting Championship (UFC) properties following the merger of the UFC and WWE. Despite this, the Zuffa logo and brand have been retired from on-air usage in favor of emphasizing the UFC brand. The name has been revived for a legally separate TKO-owned professional boxing promotion known as "Zuffa Boxing."

Editorial summary

The public source identifies “Zuffa” as american sports promotion company. This brief keeps that definition visible, then builds a research path around Zuffa, American and sports.

Editorial reviewA strong contextual entry point for chronology, institutions and public events when official records are distinguished from later interpretation. The current lead gives the account dated anchors—2001—that can be checked directly. The selected authority fields contribute no independent date. Its value is orientation rather than verdict, with Zuffa, American and sports providing the first useful test.
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Why this record matters

A short description can identify a subject without explaining its stakes. For “Zuffa”, the useful work is to connect “american sports promotion company” to the records capable of establishing context and consequence.

Evidence profile

Chronology, provenance and viewpoint should be read together before a broad social or political interpretation is accepted. The source revision retrieved here is dated Sep 4, 2026. The first chronological checks are 2001.

Critical limits

Institutional narratives can privilege the records that survived while minimizing voices that were never formally collected. The lead is largely declarative, so disagreement and counter-evidence require a deliberate search beyond the opening account. Authority statements aid reconciliation but still require their own references, qualifiers and ranks to be checked.

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This entry incorporates text from “Zuffa” on English Wikipedia. Contributors are listed in the page history. Text is available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 License. Selected authority identifiers and statements are retrieved from Wikidata under CC0; their references and qualifiers remain part of the verification path.