MMA Junkie reports the bonuses for Fox Sports 1 on Saturday night. Chael Sonnen, Travis Browne, Matt Browne, Drew Pickett and Michael McDonald brought home bonuses of $50,000 each.
Via MMA Junkie:
Fight of the Night: Drew Pickett-Michael McDonald
Submission of the Night: Michael McDonald and Chael Sonnen
KO of the Night: Travis Browne and Matt Brown
Payout Perspective:
A pair of Sub and KOs of the night had the UFC payout a total of $300K in announced bonuses with McDonald receiving 2 for a total of $100K. Browne and Brown were deserving of their respective KOs and Sonnen pulled off an impressive first round submission of Shogun Rua.
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Fox Ratings Release: Fox Sports 1 posted an average audience of 1.71 million viewers in prime time (8:00-11:00 PM ET) #mma #ufc #fs1
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Anyway remember Sampson saying UFC would be lucky to do 500k viewers on FS1?
LOL
SAMPSON IS A TOOL
The card was fantastic. what killed me was the pettis commercial over and over. It could have been turned into a drinking game.
Glad to hear on the ratings. Hopefully DW will keep up the quality of the cards, including the prelims.
I still have no idea why 1st 3 fights are on facebook instead of FS 2.
It was a fun (and free) night of fights, you can’t beat that. Although I was hoping Chael got his teeth smashed in, but that’s just me. Good for him he got the sub.
Also nice he did the 2 extra bonuses. Hopefully Siler and Vick get a few extra bucks in the backroom as well.
This was a great card. Imo one of the top 5 cards of all time. I don’t want to say the best ever. Because its still fresh and wouldn’t be fair to other cards. I was hoping to see FOX type numbers. I guess those are actually great considering a new network on cable. This card on Fox would have broke 4 million average at least.
LOL @ Sampson. we are going to have to not let him play with numbers anymore. First he said Bellator was going to get good ratings then this was going to flop. Numbers are just not for him. Maybe we can let him play with the Square Blocks.
Top 5 of all time? That’s a stretch.
Like Dana like b.s. exaggeration is the norm….haha
How would you know? You haven’t seen 5 damn MMA cards your entire life! lol
Hahaha….another baseless post….b.s….making b.s. statements comes naturally to you …you hype and exaggerate everything like Dana does…fastest growing sport…etc..etc..it’s 20 years already…..
Excellent card! great fights! I am excited about FS1 for UFC and Boxing. Dela Hoya coming on the show to promote golden boy the way he did shows that he is a much bigger and smarter person than the likes of Dana.