MMA Junkie reports that Ronda Rousey has been named to Time magazine’s list of “30 People Under 30 Changing the World.” Rousey joins a list of entrepreneurs, policy makers, inventors and humanitarians. The only other person on the list related to sports is Parker Liautaud, a Yale student that skied to the North Pole to […]
Pacquiao-Rios does around 475K PPV buys
HBO’s president of pay-per-view, Mark Taffet, said that the Manny Pacquiao-Brandon Rios fight in Macau on November 23rd did “in the neighborhood of 475,000 buys” as reported by USA Today. Taffet also said that it generated “roughly $30 million of PPV revenue.” Taffet indicated that overseas PPVs do between 30% and 40% of the buys […]
UFC bumps up PPV price for UFC 168
More details on UFC online network
The Sports Business Journal (subscription required) provides further details on the UFC subscription based digital network which will launch in January. In addition to “more than a dozen” international UFC events, the network will include “behind-the-scenes” programming from all its events and on-demand availability of original international TUF shows. The report cites the company’s “rapid […]
TUF 18 salaries: Losers make more than winners
MMA Junkie reports the TUF 18 salaries from Saturday night. Gray Maynard and Nate Diaz were the top earners in a payroll of only $312,000 disclosed by the Nevada State Athletic Commission. Via MMA Junkie: Nate Diaz: $30,000 (includes $15,000 win bonus) def. Gray Maynard: $45,000 Julianna Pena: $16,000 (includes $8,000 win bonus) def. Jessica […]