MMA Payout has learned from a Nielsen source that the fifth episode of TUF received an average viewership of 509,000 viewers. In addition, MMA Payout has learned that the Wednesday night’s UFC Tonight scored an all-time high on FS1 with 242,000 viewers. First, the 5th episode of TUF featured Felice Herrig defeating Heather Jo Clark […]
Belfort never tested by NAC
MMA Fighting reports that the Nevada Athletic Commission has never tested Vitor Belfort since his appearance before the commission in July. Instead, the commission indicated that the state of California would handle the drug testing since it appears that Belfort’s next fight would be in California. Although there has not been any official fight announcement […]
Bellator 129 Live + 3: 683,000 viewers
HBO Boxing tops events so far in 2014
ESPN’s Dan Rafael tweeted out the top live, first-time airings of boxing events for 2014. Notably, the top 10 are all HBO events. Chavez-Vera 2 (HBO) 1.39M (peak 1.53M) GGG-Rubio (HBO) 1.304M (peak1.323M) Crawford-Gamboa (HBO) 1.208M (peak 1.286M) Marquez-Alvarado (HBO) 1.198M (peak 1.322M) Donaire-Walters (HBO) 1.088M Provodnikov-Algieri (HBO) 1.017M Salido-Lomachenko (HBO) 1.017M Kovalev-Agnew (HBO) 1.006M […]
Cain out of UFC 180 due to injury
The UFC announced that Cain Velasquez is out of UFC 180 with a right knee injury. As a result, Mark Hunt is stepping in to replace him to face Fabricio Werdum for the interim Heavyweight title. The knee injury suffered by Velasquez occurred during training on October 16th or 17th. According to MMA Fighting, he […]