John Ourand of the Sports Business Journal reports that UFC 259 this past Saturday drew 800,000 total PPV buys. 600,000 on ESPN+ and another 200,000 in international PPV buys. UFC 259 featured three title bouts including Israel Adesanya challenging for the UFC Light Heavyweight title, Amanda Nunes defending her Featherweight title against Megan Anderson and […]
The Interview: Jennifer McClearen
Anderson let go by UFC after loss to Nunes
MMA Fighting reports that Megan Anderson is no longer with the UFC. Anderson lost this past Saturday to Amanda Nunes. Anderson disclosed the fact that the company would be shuttering the Featherweight division on a live twitch stream on her channel on Tuesday. The UFC denied the assertion. The UFC did confirm to MMA […]
UFC 259 Payout Perspective
Welcome to another edition of Payout Perspective. This time we take a look at UFC 259 taking place at The Apex in Las Vegas. A trio of title matchup took place on Saturday night with one new champion via disqualification. Blachowicz too big for Adesanya Israel Adesanya attempts at a double championship went by the […]
WWE Friday Night Smackdown averages 2.1M viewers
WWE Friday Night Smackdown improved on Friday night to draw 2.153 million viewers in the first hour on Fox and 2.179 million viewers in hour 2 per Nielsen via ShowBuzz Daily. Smackdown improved to a 0.6 share in the A18-49 demo. It also improved to 0.7 in the A25-54 demo. The male demo dominated as […]