Summary

Nick Khan said Make-A-Wish bought $2,500 worth of tickets for WrestleMania 42 while he was speaking during an April 22 Senate committee hearing on the Muhammad Ali Boxing Reform Act.

Khan, who also serves as a Zuffa Boxing executive, used the figure as part of a comparison with the WBC's spending around the upcoming Canelo Alvarez vs. Terence Crawford event. In his remarks, he argued that the issue around sanctioning bodies goes beyond health and safety and also concerns financial transparency and the leverage fighters have when negotiating.

The comments added another business-side WrestleMania talking point just days after Khan discussed how the company's WrestleMania 42 main events should overdeliver.

Quote from Nick Khan

"So WrestleMania this past weekend... Make-A-Wish — WWE does a lot of work with Make-A-Wish. John Cena, in particular, has made more wishes happen than any other human in the existence of Make-A-Wish. Make-A-Wish, a nonprofit organization, they bought $2,500 of tickets. The WBC for Canelo/Crawford — they hold themselves out as a nonprofit — they purchase $265,000 of tickets for that event and insisted upon a suite for the President of their company. It's a mess. It's not just health and safety. We all want more health and safety. It's about presenting an option and by the way, if fighters want to, as Mr. (Oscar) De La Hoya said, they wanna fight for those belts, please, feel free. We're not saying get rid of them. We're saying keep the Ali Act as is. Just provide this option for the UBOs, which we think is great for the fighters."

What Khan's WrestleMania 42 example means for WWE

Khan's remarks put WWE business practices into a broader combat sports policy conversation, which matters because he was not speaking only as WWE president, but also as part of TKO's boxing expansion. By using WrestleMania 42 and Make-A-Wish as his example, he framed WWE as a contrast point in a hearing centered on promoter disclosure and nonprofit spending.

It also shows how often WWE's biggest events now become part of the company's larger corporate messaging. WrestleMania 42 was not just referenced as a live event in this case, but as evidence in Khan's argument about how major combat sports events should operate.

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Nick Khan during a Senate committee hearing on the Muhammad Ali Boxing Reform Act