The Mark Hunt lawsuit against the UFC continued this year with an appeal to the Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals. Although Hunt lost in the trial court, some of the questions posed by the appellate court judges made it seem that Hunt could win the appeal. The appeals court was heard in early October by […]
2020 MPO Year in review – No. 9 The $300M dividend
Back in February, news broke that the UFC approved a $300 million dividend to pay out its early investors. Endeavor received half of the $300 million while celebrities investing in the companies received dividends. One of the investors was Kobe Bryant. Tragically, Bryant died in a helicopter crash late January. Others included Mark Wahlberg, Charlize […]
WWE Friday Night Smackdown draws huge ratings for Christmas night
Friday Night Smackdown’s return to Fox on Christmas night drew its biggest number since the 2019 premiere on the network. It drew 4.097M viewers in the first hour and 2.574M in the second hour for a two-hour broadcast average of 3.34M in fast nationals. After last week’s airing on FS1, the Christmas night edition was […]
AEW 775K, NXT 698K
AEW Dynamite drew 775,000 viewers on Wednesday night before Christmas. NXT on the USA Network drew 698,000 viewers opposite AEW on TNT. AEW was 5th overall in the cable ratings Wednesday night drawing 0.32 in the A18-49 demo, 0.44 in M18-49, 0.23 in A18-34, 0.42 in A25-54 and 0.28 in over 50. NXT was 40th […]
2020 MPO Year in Review – 10. Lyman Good loses lawsuit
Welcome to another Year End review. 2020 has been a unique year and its clear that the biggest business news story of the year in MMA was the pandemic. Notwithstanding this, there were other news stories that happened in 2020. MPO will take a look at these as we wind down 2020. Lyman Good’s nutritional […]