You are definitely on to something...I've been thinking about the exact same things over the last couple of days in addition to a few others. I honestly don't know all of the personalities that Chris mentioned. I know the lineup of the SSPE team and that's about it. What I have been dwelling on is that I believe that the reasons the stock has behaved in the way it has over the last several weeks is somehow connected to all the things that Chris has mentioned. It is generally accepted that this stock has been heavily manipulated over the last several weeks...could the developments on Friday be related to that? I believe so. I have said from the get-go that this stock has been held at a price to allow someone or some entity to accumulate as many shares as they can at a VERY reasonable price for a particular reason which, I believe will show itself in the very near future. I am even more convinced of this after watching SSPE really try to run Friday afternoon and then get swatted down by NITE everytime. C'mon man! Gimme a break! It was blatant and it was obvious. Now, could that reason be that it would allow Mark Cuban to consistently accumulate shares at a consistent price and possibly a controlling interest in SSPE? Not that Mark Cuban couldn't afford to pay a larger pps but, remember the super wealthy stay that way by keeping as much of their wealth as they can. Just because he's rich doesn't mean he wants to throw his money away. CJ and Buckeye are far from being dumb. They know that if Mark Cuban took a controlling interest, or at the very least became an extremely heavy shareholder in their company then they would reach the brand exposure of the UFC or WWE in a very short amount of time once that news became public. Therefore, is it possible that they allowed or enabled the current pps for that purpose? Of course it is....I've said before that I don't know how much control a company has over it's pps but, I am reasonably sure that they have at least some influence. Is there the possibility of a golf course deal in the works? Maybe, maybe not, but, it can't be discounted. I'm almost positive that it's been talked about among all of the individuals that Chris mentioned. Very few deals and agreements of this magnitude are actually done in the stereotypical boardroom setting...that's just where the paperwork is signed. Keep in mind that all of the folks that Chris mentioned are all within close proximity of eachother and circulate in the same network of friends and associates. So, I believe that an informal agreement is entirely plausible. Mark Cuban has not said that he is interested in buying SSPE. What he has said is that he wants to enter the market. I think any scenario involving Mark Cuban and SSPE would be for him to put on several of the events of the like that he is putting on in October to get a feel for what works and what doesn't work. Once he gets his feet wet I believe that he will then begin to look around for an established brand that already has a faithful fan base that is run by a talented group of individuals that can combine and implement his 'idea' of what a MMA fight event should be. I also believe that he would look for a relatively new company where he could implement changes that would not run off long time fans of a particular brand of MMA i.e. he wouldn't want to run into the 'can't teach an old dog new tricks' problem...summed up the company that is prime for the picking is SSPE. The announcement concerning Titan is also significant, and significant in a positive way. Their involvement with SSPE has several meaningful and positive ramifications. First, they invested $1,000,000 into SSPE! That speaks volumes to me just in itself. They obviously believe that this company is going somewhere. Investment firms just don't hand out money like that for no reason. Secondly, I think we can safely assume that the share dilution will decrease significantly. The money that they invested in SSPE will easily pay for the casino event and probably several of the underground cage fighting events. Therefore, there should be no need to dilute shares to fund the events. Third, we may now have an investment firm that can manipulate the pps to the positive and possibly cut NITE completely out of the picture. I'm not sure how that kind of stuff works but, if they have been hired by SSPE as their investment banker I would think that they would also have some sort of control over the pps. After all, the amount of their return on their investment would correlate directly to that pps. I can't see them shorting their own stock and investment, that doesn't even make sense. Titan could also have been hired to bring SSPE onto the OTCBB or possibly even the NASDAQ at some point in the near future. I would think that would be at least one of the midterm company goals. The part of the PR that jumped out at me was the part where Titan's president spoke of 'future opportunities'....could one of the opportunities be the brokering of a deal between Mark Cuban and SSPE? One of the biggest things that makes me feel like this Titan deal is bigger than what it appears to be on the surface is the time of day it was released. That PR could just as easily have been released before market open. It wasn't....it was released towards the end of the market day so the stock wouldn't have a strong reaction. That's the only thing that makes sense. I don't think they are ready for it to run just yet...close but, not yet. In any case, I believe the dark days of the last few weeks are pretty well behind us...SSPE strongly bounced off the .021/.022 support range three times last week and on the charts is in a definite uptrend. The only immediate speedbump in our way is the PPV numbers. But guys, I still say don't get too hung up on the PPV numbers. They aren't gonna make or break SSPE at this point. I think the positive news that came out on Friday far outweighs any negative that might show itself on the PPV numbers. Keep in mind that SSPE is new and growing. There are gonna be bumps in the road and the PPV numbers may be one of them but, I think we are about to hit the interstate! I'm looking forward to a good SSPE week. Keep your eye on this thing this week and don't let your guard down. It can explode on you like Rizzo did on Monson!!
P.s. I wasn't ranting so I didn't double space, hope that's ok.
-Dave-
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