MMA Payout has learned from a Fox source that the UFC on Fox 11 Prelims received an average viewership of 521,000 viewers. In the male 18-49 category, the UFC Prelims received 244,000 viewers. The three hour Prelims event went up against the first day of the NBA Playoffs, the NHL Playoffs and MLB games during this time […]
Bellator 117 overnight rating: 617,000
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 […]