TKO extends partnership with Las Vegas arena for guaranteed WWE & UFC events

TKO Sports Group — the parent company of WWE & UFC — is extending its partnership with T-Mobile Arena in Las Vegas.

It was announced today that TKO and T-Mobile Arena are extending their partnership through 2030, with the deal guaranteeing that the venue will host at least two WWE events and four UFC events every year. A press release touted that this extension reinforces T-Mobile Arena’s status as the “official home” of WWE & UFC in Vegas.

“T-Mobile Arena has become a classic Las Vegas arena known for showcasing some of the biggest sports and entertainment events. We’re proud that UFC and WWE will continue to be featured among T-Mobile Arena’s top events through the end of the decade,” said Peter Dropick, TKO’s EVP of Event Development and Operations.

T-Mobile Arena opened in 2016 and has hosted five of the UFC’s top 10 gates in company history.

Vegas has become an increasingly important city to WWE in the TKO era. WrestleMania 41 was held at Allegiant Stadium — and WWE’s signature event will be back in Vegas again next year with Allegiant Stadium hosting WrestleMania 42. SmackDown and Raw will take place at T-Mobile Arena surrounding WrestleMania.

WWE’s next trip to Vegas will be for its Worlds Collide show with Lucha Libre AAA on Friday, September 12. The event is being held at The Pavilion at the Thomas & Mack Center.

DragonKing Dark: How newspapers historically covered UFO sightings

If the headlines of today’s newspapers sudden screamed, “The United States in Possession of Alien Spacecraft,” the world would go crazy. The 24-hour news cycle would leap on the story until the next crisis came along or was invented. It would be, well, big news.

Yet, it has already happened. 

Thanks to the archives of Newspapers.com, I dig into the start of the “flying saucer” sensation that gripped the United States (and later the world) around the time of the reported Roswell, NM, UFO crash, in July 1947.

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DragonKing Dark: UFOs everywhere

You can’t turn on the news these days without being inundated by news about UFOs (or UAPs as they are now branded). The military is seeing them, Harvard professors are seeing them, the public is seeing them — it’s madness! 

Had this happened in the 1950s, you would have been branded a lunatic. Now, however, the cat is out of the bag. Something is out there, but the question is what? Are we alone in this vast, vast universe or is it something else?

On this week’s DragonKing Dark, we examine the UAP/UFO phenomenon.

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DragonKing Dark: ‘Unacknowledged’ documentary review

This week on Karl Stern’s DragonKing Dark podcast, I review a 2017 documentary currently available on Netflix, Unacknowledged.

It is an explosive expose on UFOs and what the world governments know. Interviews with very credible insiders leave little doubt that UFOs have been here, are currently here, and those facts are known inside the halls of power.

Join me for a review on this excellent documentary on UFOs.

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