When Mark Taffet’s old friends heard that he was getting back into the combat sports business just a couple years after resigning as an HBO senior vice president, they probably didn’t expect to hear that it was MMA rather than boxing that he’d be focused on. They definitely didn’t expect that he’d be the president of a brand new organization known as MMA Pro League, or that he’d end up trying to combine team sports and fight sports. “Most of them congratulated me, wished me well, and asked me if I had the energy to do a start-up like I did in 1991 at HBO pay-per-view,” Taffet told MMAjunkie. It’s a fair question, especially considering that something very close to this particular MMA start-up model has already been tried – and been cast into the dustbin of combat sports history. But Taffet and his partner, CEO Hani Darwish, have a plan that they think will make this old idea new again.
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