MMA Junkie reports the attendance and performance bonuses from the first event held Saturday, UFC Fight Night 41 from Berlin, Germany. No Fight of the Night bonus was awarded although 4 performance bonuses were handed out at $50K each. Gegard Mousasi, C.B. Dolloway, Niklas Backstrom and Magnus Cedenblad were the recipients as announced by UFC […]
The Wrestling Post – 05.30.14
TUF 19 Episode 7: 424,000 viewers
MMA Payout has learned from a Nielsen source that this past Wednesday’s TUF episode received 424,000 viewers for the 10pm episode and 68,000 for the 1am replay on Fox Sports 1. The seventh episode drew the season average to roughly 460,000 viewers. This week’s episode featured the continued reaction after the last episode’s controversial decision. […]
Mayweather-Maidana does 900K PPV buys
Sports Illustrated reports that the Floyd Mayweather-Marcos Maidana fight on May 3rd received 900,000 PPV buys. According to the Chris Mannix article, the PPV buy rate is from multiple industry sources. ESPN Dan Rafael had previously reported that the fight sold between 800-900K PPV buys. Thus, the estimate was right on track. The SI article […]
UFC policy now requests background checks for fighters
MMA Junkie reports on the UFC’s new policy of requesting its contracted fighters to sign a release of their personal information for background checks including details related to their medical, educational and criminal history. As pointed out by Stephen Marocco’s piece, the request includes a waiver of “doctor/patient confidentiality” which circumvents HIPAA (Health Insurance Portability […]