MMA Fighting reports that Bellator MMA Live (93) received a 748,000 viewer average on Thursday night. The numbers are decent considering the live event went up against the first night of NCAA Basketball over four networks. The replay which aired immediately after on Spike TV scored 394,000 viewers. TNA’s Impact Wrestling did an average of […]
Early PPV numbers for UFC 158 point north of 800K buys
MMA Fighting reports that early PPV numbers show that UFC 158 should exceed 800,000 buys. The caustic mix of GSP and Nick Diaz proved to be the ingredients for people to buy the PPV. Although it was expected that this event would be the biggest in terms of PPV buy rate since Silva-Sonnen II, the […]
Golden Boy-HBO part ways
Yahoo! Sports reports that HBO has ended its relationship with Golden Boy Promotions. The decision to leave the highest-rated boxing network will ignite a competition with rival Showtime. Golden Boy fighters such as Bernard Hopkins, Adrien Broner and Andre Berto will likely move to Showtime. Former HBO fighters Danny Garcia, Amir Khan and Canelo Alvarez […]
UFC 158: Payout Perspective
Welcome to another edition of Payout Perspective. This time we take a look at UFC 158 from the Belle Centre in Montreal where GSP defended his welterweight title against Nick Diaz. GSP dominates Diaz In a much anticipated match, Georges St. Pierre controlled Nick Diaz for 5 rounds and earned the unanimous decision. Diaz and […]