ESPN’s Dan Rafael reports the ratings from Saturday night’s HBO event featuring Terrence Crawford. The replay which drew an average subscriber audience of 1.07M viewers also included the GGG-David Lemieux PPV replay. The overall event on HBO Saturday night from 9:30 to approximately midnight ET (first showing) peaked at 1.2M viewers. The replay of GGG-Lemieux […]
GLORY-SpikeTV part ways
MMA Fighting’s Luke Thomas reports that GLORY Kickboxing will no longer be seen on SpikeTV. The promotion’s run which started in November 2013, has come to an end. The decision to end the relationship was not sudden according to the report as the two sides had been in talks, but it appears that each has […]
Bellator 144 draws 555,000 viewers
Bellator 144 drew an average audience of 555,000 viewers on Spike TV Friday night according to Nielsen sources. It’s a decrease of 18% from Bellator 143 and the lowest TV rating since Scott Coker took over the helm for the organization. In the main event, Brandon Halsey went down (literally via leg kick) to Rafael […]
Arum announces Pacquiao’s next fight his last
Bob Arum, the promoter for Manny Pacquiao, announced that the Filipino fighter will have one more fight before he retires. Pacquiao will fight on Saturday, April 9th against an opponent not yet named. ESPN reported that Arum had dinner with Pacquiao in New York in which he told Arum that he plans to run for […]
UFC Fight Night 76 bonuses
MMA Junkie reports the bonuses for UFC Fight Night 76. Neil Seery, Tom Breese, Darren Till and Nicholas Dalby earned the $50,000 bonuses. Till and Dalby earned the Fight of the Night honors while Seery and Breese won Performance of the Night. Seery tapped out Jon Delos Reyes while Tom Breese scored an upset victory […]