The Terence Crawford-Errol Spence fight this past Saturday night drew a gate of more than $21 million with a sell-out of 19,990 fans at the T-Mobile Arena in Las Vegas per Adam Stern of SBJ. In comparison, Stern points out that the Tank Davis-Ryan Garcia fight drew a gate of $22.8 million in the same […]
UFC 291 Prelims on ABC and ESPN combine for almost 2M viewer average
The UFC 291 Prelims drew 1.121 million viewers on ABC Saturday night and 837,000 viewers on ESPN as the two networks combined to draw almost a 2 million viewers average for the event in Salt Lake City. The Prelims featured Gabriel Bonfim as he submitted Trevor Giles via guillotine in the first round of their […]
Jake Paul’s Betr opens fantasy sports game
At the start of his fight week against Nathan Diaz, Jake Paul and cofounder Joey Levy have launched a real money fantasy sports platform, Betr Picks. California and Florida are among the 24 jurisdictions that can access the new platform where you can bet on sports for real money. As part of the Betr Picks […]
UFC 291 bonuses
UFC 291 took place on Saturday night in Salt Lake City, Utah and the main event included one of the bonuses for the evening. Justin Gaethje’s second round head kick of Dustin Poirier earned him a $50K bonus. The match was for the “BMF” belt which presumably is Gaethje’s now to defend. Regardless, his set […]
UFC names Roobet.fun as company’s official social casino
The UFC and Curacao-based Roobet.fun have entered into an agreement for it to be the official social casino of the UFC. Terms of the agreement were not disclosed. Per the press release: Under the terms of the agreement, Roobet.fun will receive prominent branding in the world-famous Octagon® at select UFC Pay-Per-Views and Fight Nights and will be […]