MMA Junkie reports that the UFC 144 Prelims on FX scored 1.5 million viewers. Saturday night’s two hour broadcast was the best rating for the program in its short time on the network. Previously, UFC 143 garnered 1.4 million viewers and UFC 142 received 880,000 viewers. As far as competition for viewers on Saturday night, […]
UFC 144: Payout Perspective
Welcome to another edition of Payout Perspective. This time we take a look at UFC 144 from Tokyo, Japan with Zuffa’s first show in the country. The fans saw a great main event with Frankie Edgar defending his title versus former WEC titleholder Benson Henderson. Henderson takes title from Edgar It was worth the price […]
Rampage misses weight, does it matter?
Quentin “Rampage” Jackson missed weight by 6 pounds last night at UFC 144 weigh-ins. Jackson claims that this was due to an unspecified injury and as a result he will forfeit 20% of his show money to his opponent, Ryan Bader. Ryan Bader seemed nonplussed by the fact Jackson missed weight by a considerable amount. […]
NY Giants’ Tuck shows support for Edgar
Super Bowl Champ and New York Giants defensive lineman Justin Tuck phoned Frankie Edgar wishing him good luck in his title defense against Benson Henderson at UFC 144. Via UFC Press Release: Tuck, still reeling from New York’s championship win earlier this month, called to wish Edgar good luck before his highly-anticipated Pay-Per-View title fight […]
WWE Earnings disappoint for Q4
The WWE announced its Q4 2011 results on Thursday and the earnings were described as disappointing. WWE earnings were lower for the fifth straight quarter. The main culprit for the poor performance of the company was its film division and television licensing decisions according to Vince McMahon. In addition, costs from starting the WWE Network […]