Brock Lesnar made an appearance on the Jimmy Fallon Show on NBC last night to promote his autobiography and The Ultimate Fighter 13 premiering this Wednesday. Unlike his previous promotion for his book, Lesnar was clean shaven, affable and played along with Jimmy Fallon. Lesnar even participated in a “mini-skit” where he reverses a Fallon […]
UFC Fight Night Seattle: Payout Perspective
Welcome to a special edition of Payout Perspective featuring UFC Fight Night from the KeyArena in Seattle, Washington. The main event featured Phil “Mr. Wonderful” Davis versus Antonio Rogerio Noguiera. MMA Payout was on the scene. The first fight started at 2:45pm. Even with an early start time, there were a considerable amount of fans in […]
UFC Fight Night Seattle a sellout, gate of $1.1 million
MMA Weekly reports via twitter that Seattle’s UFC Fight Night was a sellout of over 14,212 with a gate of $1,182,850. The draw was the most out of any UFC Fight Nights. The event was scheduled to house 8,000 but increased demand had the UFC open the upper bowl of the KeyArena. On Friday, the UFC released […]
UFC Fight Night Seattle Weigh-Ins
MMA Payout had the chance to go to the UFC Weigh-Ins at the KeyArena in Seattle. A fairly good turnout for a sunny afternoon in Seattle. Outside KeyArena in Seattle. Live at the Weigh-Ins. UFC Visa Card The Seattle Times had three articles for this week’s Fight Night including Dan Hardy’s visit to Bruce Lee’s […]
Top Rank consolidating Pacquiao’s management team
The Sports Business Journal had an interesting front page piece in this week’s edition about Manny Pacquiao authorizing his promotion, Top Rank, to handle sponsorship and endorsement deals. There has been so much disorganization in the Pacquiao camp as to the point person on business deals that many corporate sponsors could not arrange deals with […]