LIV Golf chief Greg Norman has compared his controversial Saudi-backed breakaway league to Kerry Packer 's World Series Cricket.
Packer completely changed the sport in the 1970s with his World Series Cricket revolution, taking on the establishment after his Channel Nine network missed out on Australia's broadcast rights. The media mogul launched his own league instead and signed up many of cricket's top stars, including the likes of Viv Richards, Dennis Lillee, Imran Khan and Barry Richards.
At the time, players were paid so poorly that Packer said: "Cricket is the easiest sport in the world to take over. Nobody bothered to pay the players what they were worth."