MMA Payout has learned from a Nielsen source that last Friday’s PBC on Spike TV event featuring Amir Khan taking on Chris Algieri increased in viewership to 811,000 viewers in DVR +3 ratings. Its peak viewership increased to 1.3 million. Earlier this week, we reported that Friday’s event drew 772,000 viewers with a peak viewership […]
UFC announces details of drug testing policy
The UFC announced details of its new drug policy at a press conference Wednesday. The United States Anti-Doping Agency will take the reins as a third-party administrator for the UFC policy. The new rules will take effect July 1, 2015. Among the new shift in policy is that contracted UFC fighters will be subject to year-round […]
Court orders UFC antitrust lawsuit to Las Vegas
The Honorable Edward Davila has granted Zuffa’s request to transfer the venue of the class action antitrust lawsuit filed by former UFC fighters to Las Vegas, Nevada. In an order dated June 1, 2015, the U.S. District Court for Northern California, San Jose Division granted Zuffa’s Motion to Transfer Venue to the U.S. District Court of Nevada, […]
UFC Fight Night 67 draws 813K viewers, Prelims do 713K
UFC Fight Night 67 drew 813,000 viewers on Saturday night on FS1 according to Nielsen sources. The ratings is about a 33% improvement from UFC Fight Night 66 and 27% improvement from the last UFC Fight Night show in Brazil. UPDATED: The peak viewership for the main card occurred between 11:15pm-11:30pm ET with 1,050,000 viewers. […]
The Wrestling Post – 06.02.15
Welcome back to another edition of The Wrestling Post. This time around we take at the WWE Network offering another free month and the uncertainty of the status of TNA Wrestling. WWE offers another free month on its Network With the success of recruiting and retaining more network subscribers through its “free” network months, the […]