Due to the World Series being on Fox, WWE Friday Night Smackdown was on FS1 where it outdrew AEW Rampage on TNT. Smackdown drew 1.32M overall viewers per Nielsen via ShowBuzz Daily whereas the one hour edition of AEW Rampage drew 623,000 viewers. Notably, Smackdown finished third overall in cable ratings while Rampage was right […]
The Interview with Luke Ketelle talking Canelo-Plant
Ring of Honor ceases operations, plans 2022 return
This past Wednesday Ring of Honor Wrestling announced that it would cease operations as a full-time company with the inference that it would be back sometime in 2022. The Sinclair Broadcast Group is the parent company of the promotion and its weekly show airs regularly across of the Sinclair Family of networks across the country. […]
UFC Fight Night 196 bonuses
UFC Fight Night 196 took place Saturday afternoon at The Apex in Las Vegas. Martin Vettori led the way with a Performance Bonus in a hard-hitting main event against Paulo Costa. The Vettori-Costa fight could have been a Fight of the Night but for Costa’s inability to make the original contracted weight of 185 pounds. […]
The Legal Submission 32 – Looking at Zuffa-Johnson antitrust lawsuit
I am back with a diagnosis of the Motion to Dismiss and the opposition to it in Kajan Johnson’s antitrust lawsuit against Zuffa. The lawsuit is similar to the Cung Le lawsuit and Zuffa highlights this in its Motion. Alternatively, there are some arguments Johnson makes in it to protect the fighters post-2017. For a […]