Bloody Elbow: An SB Nation Community

Navigation: Jump to content areas:


Sports blogs for fans, by fans.
New Blog: Sounder At Heart for Seattle Sounders Fans!

ProElite/Strikeforce Asset Purchase SEC Filing

Logo_medium

 

7.5  Use of Assets After Closing; Fighter Contracts.  Each Seller hereby covenants that it shall cease and shall cause its controlled Affiliates to cease use of any of the Assets after the Closing and that any use of the Assets by a Seller requires prior written approval of Buyer.  Each Seller will remove and shall cause its controlled Affiliates to remove any of the Assets from its websites and use its commercially reasonable efforts to promptly remove (but in any event within five (5) days after Closing) any of the Assets from any other websites and any other broadcast medium that the Sellers may have made such Assets available including, but not limited to, www.proelite.com and www.youtube.com (with respect to www.youtube.com, to the extent a Seller placed content relating to any of the Assets on such site).  In addition, each Seller hereby covenants that it shall take no action and shall cause its controlled Affiliates to take no action to prevent any ProElite Fighter from endorsing Buyer’s brands or wearing Buyer’s apparel or appearing on Buyer’s or its television partners’ websites, and shall release all ProElite Fighters from any obligation to provide services to such Seller or its controlled Affiliates if the provision of such services would act as a limitation on a ProElite Fighter from endorsing Buyer’s brands or wearing its apparel or appearing on Buyer’s or its television partners’ websites. Except as set forth in Schedule 7.5 of this Agreement, each Seller hereby covenants that for sixty (60) months after Closing such Seller and its Affiliates shall not enter into a Contract with any ProElite Fighter relating to the provision of services as a professional fighter or unarmed combatant or in any other professional capacity to any mixed martial arts, boxing, martial arts, professional wrestling, or any other fighting competition, show or exhibition without the prior written consent of Buyer, and except as required by Section 3.5 of this Agreement.  
7.6  Rights of Personality.  Each Seller hereby covenants to use its commercially reasonable efforts to obtain all rights, releases, consents and authorizations related to the use of any Person’s name, likeness, voice and/or image in connection with the Assets.

The FanPosts are solely the subjective opinions of Bloody Elbow readers and do not necessarily reflect the views of Bloody Elbow editors or staff.

0 recs  |  Comment 2 comments

Story-email Email Printer Print

Comments

Display:

Completion of Asset Sale to Strikeforce
On February 5, 2009, ProElite, Inc. (the "Company") and its wholly-owned subsidiary, EliteXC Live (together with the Company, the "Sellers"), entered into an Asset Purchase Agreement (the “Purchase Agreement”) and other related agreements with Explosion Entertainment, LLC ("Strikeforce"). Under the terms of the Purchase Agreement, Strikeforce acquired from the Sellers certain EliteXC fighter contracts, a library of televised EliteXC events and specified related assets.

Consideration paid for the assets consisted of (i) $3 million in cash paid at closing, (ii) the assumption of certain liabilities relating to the assets sold and (iii) contingent consideration in the form of rights to receive a portion of the license fee earned by Strikeforce under a distribution agreement between Strikeforce and Showtime Networks Inc. ("Showtime"). The license fee is payable to the Sellers until February 28, 2012, subject to limited extensions.

The Purchase Agreement contains typical representations and warranties by the Sellers regarding the Sellers’ business, operations and financial condition. Each party agreed to indemnify the other party for breaches of representations, warranties, and covenants, subject to certain limitations.

In connection with the closing of the transactions under the Purchase Agreement, the Sellers also entered into certain non-exclusive license agreements with Strikeforce, pursuant to which Strikeforce will license from the Sellers certain trademarks and other specified intellectual property.

The foregoing description is qualified in its entirety by reference to the full text of the Purchase Agreement, a copy of which is attached hereto as Exhibit 2.1, and is incorporated herein by reference.

Termination of Debt Obligation to Showtime

In addition, on February 5, 2009, the Company and its subsidiaries (the “ProElite Entities”) entered into an agreement with CBS Corporation ("CBS") and Showtime (together with CBS, the “CBS Entities”) pursuant to which the Company’s debt obligation to Showtime was retired and the broadcast agreements between the Company and the CBS Entities were terminiated (the “Termination Agreement”). Under the terms of the Termination Agreement, the ProElite Entities and the CBS Entities mutually released each other with respect to, among other things, any and all claims, agreements, debts, liens, damages or liabilities of any nature, including, without limitation, any liabilities and security interests under (i) the Senior Secured Note Purchase Agreement, dated as of June 18, 2008 (as amended from time to time), among the Company and Showtime, (ii) the Security Agreement, dated as of June 18, 2008, as amended by Amendment No. 1 thereto, dated as of September 10, 2008, made by each of the ProElite Entities in favor of Showtime, (iii) the Exclusive Distribution Agreement, made as of November 8, 2006 (as amended from time to time), between the Company and Showtime and (iv) the Agreement between CBS Entertainment and the Company, dated as of January 10, 2008, as revised on February 1, 2008 and February 19, 2008 and as amended by the Amendment to Agreement, made as of September 22, 2008 (as so amended, and as further amended from time to time).

by MMASuPreMaCy on Feb 11, 2009 6:23 PM EST reply actions   0 recs

Seems like they did not release the contracts acquired and the optional contracts, Exhibit A and and Exhibit D of the fillings due to confidentiality.

by MMASuPreMaCy on Feb 11, 2009 6:26 PM EST reply actions   0 recs

Comments For This Post Are Closed


User Tools

"All men are frauds. The only difference between them is that some admit it. I myself deny it." -- H.L. Mencken
Start posting on Bloody Elbow »

Join SB Nation and dive into communities focused on all your favorite teams.

FanPosts

Community blog posts and discussion.

Recommended FanPosts

Picture_010_small
Fedor beatable, could not win UFC title!
Me_small
Strikeforce and Fedor come off looking good on CBS
Small
CBS/Strikeforce Broadcast Quality Unacceptable
Mikeeaston_small
A Conundrum About Fedor
Nav-logo-hover_small
Dan Henderson: Enormous Benefit To Strikeforce Has Parallels in World of Wrestling

Recent FanPosts

Small
"For this 28 yr old,former project kid from the Cabrini Green..."
Picture_010_small
Breaking News: Antwain Britt to fight Scott Lighty at Strikeforce Evolution
Small
DMX pulls out of boxing match
Nav-logo-hover_small
Cung Le: Smith is a Better Fight For Me
Small
Early numbers for Strikeforce on CBS.
Small
In Praise Of Jake Sheilds
Small
Omnisport Offering Live Online Stream of Strikeforce: Fedor vs. Rogers

+ New FanPost All FanPosts >

MMA Rankings

USA Today / SB Nation Consensus MMA Rankings