Netflix announced that this Saturday’s fight between Canelo Alvarez and Terence Crawford drew “over 41 million global viewers” per Deadline. This is based on its metric of average minute audience (AMA). The report states that the fight drew “about 20.3M” tuned in live + same-day views. With those numbers, it comes as no surprise that […]
Arum provides opinion on the Ali Act
Bob Arum was interviewed this past weekend in Japan as a part of the Naoya Inoue-Murodjon Akhmadaliev fight on Sunday. Arum had opinions of the Ali Act revisions. Inoue defeated Akhmadaliev and indicated that he will fight one more time before year’s end in Saudi Arabia. Being interviewed by Fight Hub TV, Arum spoke about […]
Boxing Scene’s writer has credentials yanked
Longtime boxing writer Lance Pugmire had his media credential revoked two weeks prior to the Canelo-Crawford fight this past Saturday. Pugmire, a long fixture in boxing media having written for The Athletic and The Los Angeles Times is writing for Boxing Scene. Pugmire’s credentials were first accepted and then revoked two weeks prior to the […]
UFC Noche bonus winners
UFC Noche took place Saturday afternoon in San Antonio. The promotion gave out bonuses and the main event earned both Performance of the Night and Fight of the Night. Jean Silva and Diego Lopes put on a fight of the year candidate with Lopes earning the stoppage. There was some controversy to the event as […]
White doesn’t have answers for fighter pay
Earlier during the Canelo-Crawfight fight week, Dana White gave an unassuming interview with PBS Nevada’s Amber Dixon about the fight. Little did he know, he was unprepared to answer some of the basic questions Dixon had on fighter pay and the Ali Act. First off, White did not seemed prepared for some of the pushback […]