Welcome to another edition of Payout Perspective. This time we take a look at Saturday night’s Bellator 106 from Long Beach, California with a main event featuring Eddie Alvarez and Michael Chandler. Alvarez wins title on return For all the “true” MMA fans this was always the main event and not Tito-Rampage. Of course, if […]
UFC Fight Night 31 bonuses
MMA Junkie reports the bonuses from Wednesday’s special UFC Fight Night 31. Tim Kennedy led the list of winners with his KO of Rafael Natal in the main event. The bonuses were announced by Dana White at the post-fight press conference. As always, each received $50,000 for their bonus: KO of the Night: Tim Kennedy […]
Bradley-Marquez reaches 375K PPV buys
Kevin Iole of Yahoo! Sports reports that the Timothy Bradley-Juan Manuel Marquez fight taking place on PPV on Saturday, October 12th received 375,000 PPV buys. According to ESPN’s Dan Rafael, the PPV buys generated $21.75M. The estimated PPV buys is a good number considering Top Rank estimated the buy rate to be 350K-450K. According to […]
Bellator 106: 1.1 million viewers
Bellator 106 which featured Michael Chandler vs. Eddie Alvarez on Spike TV Saturday night scored a 1.1 million viewers. According to a SpikeTV/Bellator press release, the show peaked at 1.4 million viewers. Per Spike TV/Bellator press release: The highly-anticipated rematch of two of the best lightweights in the world, Bellator MMA’s Michael Chandler and Eddie […]
The Wrestling Post: WWE Third Quarter Earnings
Welcome to another edition of The Wrestling Post. This time we take a look at the third quarter earnings for the WWE. For the quarter that ended on September 30, 2013, revenues for the WWE increased $9.1 million. However, this was offset by an impairment charge based on losses from its movie division. Notably, Summerslam […]