Before we head into one of the bigger combat sports Saturdays in a while, we welcome you to another edition of the Wrestling Post. In a bit of bad timing for the WWE, this Sunday its Pay Per View event, Payback in Chicago will now go up against Game 7 for the Chicago Blackhawks as […]
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 […]
Bellator PPV exceeds 100K PPV buys
MMA Fighting reports that Bellator 120’s PPV has surpassed 100,000 buys. Despite losing its main event, Bellator exceeded most expectations with the amount of buys. Greg Savage of Sherdog first reported the buy rate. The initial buy rate floated out there was 65,000 buys according to Dave Meltzer on his Wrestling Observer podcast with Bryan […]