Once again MMA Payout takes a look at the 10 biggest MMA stories of the year. This year, it will be easy to come up with the top 4 or 5 stories of the year as 2023 was actioned-packed with lawsuits, acquisitions, closures and a big departure. But the number 10 story of the year […]
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MMA Payout Year in Review: No. 1 – Conor McGregor returned and headlined biggest PPV in UFC history
MMA Payout Year in Review: No. 2 – Jon Jones returns to the UFC with controversy
Jon Jones returned to the UFC on Saturday night at UFC 232 at The T-Mobile Arena in Las Vegas, Nevada. The Forum in Inglewood, California. He had a masterful performance in decimating Alexander Gustafsson was marred as we know. Jones tested positive for Turinabol, the drug that caused his previous suspension. It showed up in […]
MMA Payout Year in Review: No. 4 – ONE making moves, signs media deal with Turner
ONE Championship made its presence known in the latter half of 2018 after it signed Eddie Alvarez, “traded” Ben Askren for Demetrious Johnson, Sage Northcutt, hired Miesha Tate as an executive and signed a media rights deal with Turner. The Alvarez was the first big signing for One in October. The former UFC lightweight champion […]
MMA Payout Year in Review: No. 7 – DAZN enters sports streaming market
This past June, Bellator MMA announced a deal with sport streaming service DAZN. The late September 2018 launch in the U.S. of the $9.99 per month service was another challenge on the traditional way we watch sports. Perhaps bigger than the Bellator deal, and securing another deal with Combates America, it signed Canelo Alvarez to […]