The Top Rank Boxing Prelims on ESPN2 drew 486,000 viewers Saturday night prior to the ESPN+ PPV featuring Terrence Crawford and Shawn Porter. It drew 139,000 viewers in the A18-49 demo per Nielsen via ShowBuzz Daily. The Top Rank Prelims began late due to college football but ran from 7:18pm ET up until the 9:00pm […]
Endeavor earnings show UFC brand on the rise, will appeal antitrust lawsuit
Last week, Endeavor announced its financial earnings for the third quarter of 2021. With this news it shared some insights about the UFC – most of which appear to be promising for the MMA company. Endeavor praised the UFC for delivering revenues through the pandemic. Despite the concerns over COVID-19 protocols, the UFC moved forward […]
Mungia-Rosada payoff sheet
MMA Payout has obtained the payoff sheet from the California State Athletic Commission for the Golden Boy Promotions event on November 19th featuring Jaime Munguia, Jr. and Gabriel Rosado. Mungia was the top earner with a reported $1.15 million gross payout. Rosado drew $600,000. Mungia won the fight via unanimous decision. The rest of the […]
Crawford-Porter scores 190K PPV buys
Kevin Iole of Yahoo! Sports reports that Saturday’s Top Rank Boxing PPV between Terence Crawford and Shawn Porter drew 190,000 buys. The event saw Crawford stop Porter in the 10th round of the main event in Las Vegas. The telecast was distributed through ESPN+ which requires that you subscribe to the digital platform and purchase […]
Report: UFC 268 draws 700K PPV buys
The Sports Business Journal’s John Ourand reports that UFC 268 drew 700,000 PPV buys on ESPN+. The event featured Kamaru Usman taking on Colby Covington and occurred on the same night as the Canelo Alvarez-Caleb Plant fight. The event, which took place at Madison Square Garden in New York, continues the success of the UFC […]