It was announced during the World Series of Fighting event on Saturday that the organization would co-promote with the Pancrase organization in Japan and bring WSOF to Japan sometime in 2014. WSOF President Ray Sefo mentioned that the event would be dubbed, the “World Series of Fighting Japan.” Payout Perspective: The news of further expansion […]
UFC Fight Night 30 attendance, gate and bonuses
MMA Junkie reports the attendance, gate and bonuses for Saturday’s UFC Fight Night 30. Lyoto Machida heads the list of bonus winners receiving $50,000 each. The event from Phone4u Arena in Manchester, England had 10,355 fans for a gate of $1.5 million. The arena’s capacity is 21,000 although we do not know the actual arena […]
Ortiz out, Bellator PPV now on Spike
MMA Fighting reports that due to an injury to Tito Ortiz, the Bellator PPV is off and now is being switched to Spike TV. Rampage Jackson will not fight next Saturday although he is expected to fight soon. Despite having Eddie Alvarez-Michael Chandler moving to the top of the card, Bellator and Viacom decided that […]
UFC 166 early PPV numbers low?
The Wrestling Observer (subscription recommended) has indicated that the initial PPV buy rate for UFC 166 is lower than expected. While no numbers were provided, the inference was that it was lower than the Bradley-Marquez Top Rank PPV the week prior which expects to have a PPV buy rate between 350,000 and 450,000. If the […]
Bellator 104 and Rampage 4 Real DVR +3 numbers
MMA Payout has learned that the DVR +3 ratings for Bellator 104 was 684,000 viewers which is an 11% increase from the overnight ratings. In addition, the DVR +3 ratings for the second episode of Rampage 4 Real earned an average of 473,000 viewers. Bellator 98 – 437,000 viewers Bellator 99 – 660,000 viewers, 704,000 DVR+3 Bellator […]