Kevin Iole of Yahoo! Sports reports that Richard Schaefer and Golden Boy have settled its lawsuit arising out of Schaefer’s departure from the boxing promotion last year. The settlement leaves Al Haymon with several key boxers for a shwow . Golden Boy sought private arbitration to settle the departure of Schaefer from this past spring. […]
Zuffa wins court case lifting TV ban on UFC
The UFC announced that a German court has ruled a broadcast ban imposed by the Bavarian State Media Authority (BLM) on UFC events is “illegitimate” and therefor annulled. The Administrative Court in Munich, Germany declared the UFC “a plausible sport.” The initial ban arose in 2010 out of what BLM believed to be “undesirable” programming […]
The Wrestling Post – Total Divas returns to E!
In the second half of its third season, WWE Total Divas drew a season high rating average of 1.41 million viewers according to Television By Numbers. The WWE reality show on the E! network received help from the Kardashians. Total Divas drew a 0.7 rating while it was aided by lead-in Kourtney & Khloe Take […]
UFC renews with In Demand
Zuffa has reached an agreement with In Demand to distribute its UFC PPVs which include the ability to sell UFC Fight Pass to subscribers. Terms of the agreement were not disclosed although the report by MultiChannel.com indicates it’s a multi-year deal. New wrinkles to the deal include an “electronic sell-through” and affiliates can offer the […]
UFC 182 Prelims scores 1.03M average viewers
MMA Payout has learned that the UFC 182 Prelims on FS1 drew a viewer average of 1.02 million making it the best viewership of a prelim show since UFC 168 in December 2013. The Prelims Saturday peaked between 6:30-6:45pm PT with 1,346,000 viewers. The last fight on the UFC Prelims was Paul Felder taking on […]