MMA Payout has learned from Nielsen sources that Friday’s Bellator MMA Live 117 received an overnight rating of 613,000 viewers. The peak came around 10:57pm during the Lima-Hawn fight. The main event for Friday was Douglas Lima’s destruction of Rick Hawn as Lima won the Bellator welterweight title. Lima’s stoppage of Hawn actually had the […]
MMA sponsor offers $5K for Rousey KO
Bloody Elbow reports that MMA sponsor Americana is offering a fighter $5,000 if they are the first to KO UFC’s women’s bantamweight champ Ronda Rousey. You may recall that Americana MMA was the same brand that claimed the UFC priced it out of sponsoring three women fighters that were leaving the independent ranks to be […]
Initial reports for Pacquiao-Bradley II: 800K-825K PPV buys
Kevin Iole of Yahoo! Sports reports that the initial reports for Pacquiao-Bradley II received between 800,000 to 825,000 PPV buys. Although the PPV numbers have not been finalized, the estimates are below the Pacquiao boon period between his coming out fight against Oscar de la Hoya in December 2008 and his third fight against Juan […]
UFC on Fox 11 overnight rating: 1.99M viewers
UFC on Fox 11 attendance, gate and bonuses
MMA Junkie reports the attendance, gate and bonuses for Saturday night’s UFC on Fox 11. The attendance and gate as announced by Dana White at the post-fight press conference was 17,000 for a gate of $1.65 million (via MMA Junkie). The event was a sellout as was anticipated pre-event. In addition, the bonuses were handed […]