MMA Junkie reports the attendance, gate and bonuses from Friday night’s event in Brisbane, Australia. Mark Hunt, Bigfoot Silva and Shogun Rua won the bonuses for this event. The attendance drew 11,393 for a live gate of $1.785 million as announced at the post-fight press conference. UFC Fight Night 33 occurred at the Brisbane Entertainment […]
Archives for December 2013
UFC on Fox Sports Ratings (11/25 – 12/01)
Time Magazine chooses Rousey to “30 People Under 30 Changing the World”
MMA Junkie reports that Ronda Rousey has been named to Time magazine’s list of “30 People Under 30 Changing the World.” Rousey joins a list of entrepreneurs, policy makers, inventors and humanitarians. The only other person on the list related to sports is Parker Liautaud, a Yale student that skied to the North Pole to […]
Pacquiao-Rios does around 475K PPV buys
HBO’s president of pay-per-view, Mark Taffet, said that the Manny Pacquiao-Brandon Rios fight in Macau on November 23rd did “in the neighborhood of 475,000 buys” as reported by USA Today. Taffet also said that it generated “roughly $30 million of PPV revenue.” Taffet indicated that overseas PPVs do between 30% and 40% of the buys […]