MMA reality series, Combate Americas has been nominated for 3 awards for its series on NBCU’s mun2. The show which caters to the Hispanic audience is up for awards at the annual Imagen Awards Show which honors Latinos and Latino culture in TV and film. Via press release: Combate Americas, the first U.S. Hispanic Mixed […]
WWE reports second quarter earnings, Network sub update
WWE announced its 2nd Quarter earnings on Thursday. The big news was that the WWE Network added just 33,000 subscribers from the 1st Quarter. In addition, it reported laying off 7% of its work force. While the number of subscribers is off from the company’s initial projections, the WWE indicated that the existing subscribers are […]
The Wrestling Post: Ventura wins defamation case
On Tuesday this week, a Minnesota jury found in favor of former governor and professional wrestler Jesse Ventura in a defamation case against the estate of a former Navy SEAL that wrote in his best-selling book about a fight with Ventura. The jury awarded Ventura $1.8 million. Ventura won $500,000 for his defamation claim as […]
GGG on HBO: 758,000 viewers
ESPN’s Dan Rafael reports that Saturday night’s HBO Boxing event featuring Gennady Golovkin received 984,000 viewers peaking at 1.048 million. However, the overall night only drew 758,000 live viewers per Nielsen Media Research (via BoxingScene.com) The co-feature fight featuring Bryant Jennings against Mike Perez drew only 602,000 viewers with a peak of 780,000 viewers. As […]
Silva-Diaz set for Super Bowl Weekend 2015
The UFC announced Tuesday that recently re-signed Nick Diaz will face the returning Anderson Silva on January 31, 2015. The card will be in Vegas although no venue was announced. Silva will be back from recovering from having his leg broken at UFC 168. Diaz will be back after contemplating retirement following his fight with […]