Eric Jackson

Nevada's athletic commission published Floyd Mayweather's contracted purse for McGregor: $100,000,000. Everyone repeats ~$275M. The commission publishes the purse. It doesn't publish pay-per-view. So the famous number is an estimate and the boring one is a record. https://t.co/vpjcwZgobZ

Someone asked how Rick Ross has money with "one hit twenty years ago." I pulled the documents. ⭐ His album *Set in Stone* debuted at No. 39 with ~2,000 pure sales. His catalog does **3,587,654 Spotify streams a day**, ~1.3B a year, with no release required. ⭐ I searched the federal copyright register for him selling that catalog. 127 mortgage security agreements carry his name. I opened the parents: **every one belongs to somebody else.** Lil Wayne's assignment of 1,018 works to a trust. Kanye's chain. Nicki Minaj's. He's in them as a co-writer. **There is no recorded sale of a Rick Ross catalog anywhere in that database.** ⚠️ But "never sold it" is not "kept it." The recording registrations name **Island Def Jam / UMG** (Teflon Don, Port of Miami) and **Sony** (Port of Miami 2) as claimant. What the register shows him holding is the publishing and the name. ⭐ Where it actually comes from, four databases deep: · catalog annuity, 595 tracks · **Boss Wings Enterprises: 244 workers across 5 Wing Stop locations** per a 2022 DOL action. Wingstop 10-K AUV: $2.0M/store · a ticketed car show on his own land, 5th year, its own Florida corporation · fee dates: theaters, casinos, an HBCU homecoming, a symphony show, a cruise ⭐ And the question under the question. *Ross v. Roberts*, 222 https://t.co/afe3PqtoIj.4th 677 (2013): summary judgment affirmed, transformative use, First Amendment protected. **The name is property and a court said so.** What I could NOT verify: the county parcel record, any store count, and any attendance figure in either direction.

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Every outlet: "financial terms were not disclosed." Vince Holding Corp, Form 8-K, filed the same day, Exhibit 10.1 §2.2: `IP Buyer shall pay to IP Seller the sum of $117,647,058.82` ⭐ $100,000,000 ÷ 0.85 = $117,647,058.82. Exactly. A price grossed up so 85% of it is a clean hundred million. ⭐ Ex. 10.4: October's Very Own ULC held `49 Class A Units representing a 49% Percentage Interest` in ABG-OVO LLC, then transferred 5 units for $6,000,000. 49 − 5 = **44%.** That's the "significant stake," stated. ⭐ And the two numbers corroborate each other. $6M for 5% implies $120M. The IP sold for $117.6M. Two separately negotiated exhibits, opposite directions, same valuation within 2%. ⚠️ The clause I'd want to understand holding 44%: the Option Territory "may be changed unilaterally by ABG OVO at any time after the effective date." Same for Option Products. Vince gets a ROFO on part of Europe and nothing more. ⚠️ Termination triggers include failing to operate a minimum number of retail stores. The dollar thresholds are omitted under Item 601(a)(5). Not a valuation. A price, agreed twice, in August 2026. OVO Sound is a separate company and isn't in this deal.