MMA Payout has learned from a Nielsen source that Wednesday’s 12th episode of TUF Nations: Canada vs. Australia received an overnight rating of 198,000 viewers. Wednesday’s episode was down 25% from the week prior. TUF Nations: Canada vs. Australia Episode 1: 371,000 viewers Episode 2: 253,000 viewers Episode 3: 107,000 viewers – FS2 Episode 4: […]
HBO Boxing featuring Kovalev scores over 1 million viewers
Kevin Iole of Yahoo! Sports reported the ratings for Saturday night’s Sergey Kovalev-Cedric Agnew Fight on HBO. According to Iole, the event featuring Kovalev’s win averaged 1.006 million with a peak at 1.048 million among the premium channel’s subscribers. It was the first time that Kovalev headlined an HBO show. But, Kovalev’s promoter, Kathy Duva, was […]
Bones and Bendo included in documentary about fighting/religion
Benson Henderson and Jon Jones talk about their commitment to Christianity in an upcoming documentary entitled, “Fight Church,” as reported by Deadline.com. The documentary follows pastors that moonlight as mixed martial artists. Henderson and Jones are interviewed for this feature-length documentary which appears to grapple with the idea that men that teach the Bible also […]
Bellator 114 DVR +3: 800K, peak over 1 million
MMA Payout has learned via Nielsen sources that the DVR +3 numbers for Friday’s Bellator MMA Live drew 800,000 viewers. Its peak was once again over 1 million viewers The peak occurred during the main event of Shlemenko/Ward. It was exactly at 10:58 p.m. when the telecast hit 1,030,000 average viewers. Bellator MMA – 110 […]
Debate sparks over Fund a Fighter alternative to sponsorships
The state of sponsorships was brought up once again by dueling MMA Junkie articles which looked at the ways fighters can find additional revenue in what appears to be a dwindling sponsorship market. The first article took a look at the MMA “crowd funding” in the form of Fund a Fighter. Essentially, the purpose of […]