The Sports Business Journal (subscription required) reported the ratings of this past season’s Ultimate Fighter and addressed the reasons for its 22 percent viewership drop in its first season on FS1. But Fox execs are not worried as it is assessing the overall consumption of the reality show. According to the article, the overall consumption […]
WSOF to air 2 events on NBC in 2014
MMA Fighting reports that the World Series of Fighting will be airing two events on NBC in 2014. Coming off of its seventh event last night, WSOF says it will hold 8 to 10 shows in 2014 with its other scheduled events occurring on NBC Sports Network. WSOF president first told the Huffington Post on […]
UFC Fight Night 33 attendance, gate and bonuses
MMA Junkie reports the attendance, gate and bonuses from Friday night’s event in Brisbane, Australia. Mark Hunt, Bigfoot Silva and Shogun Rua won the bonuses for this event. The attendance drew 11,393 for a live gate of $1.785 million as announced at the post-fight press conference. UFC Fight Night 33 occurred at the Brisbane Entertainment […]
Time Magazine chooses Rousey to “30 People Under 30 Changing the World”
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 […]