Welcome to another edition of Payout Perspective. This time we take a look at Fight Island and UFC 251 on Yas Island. Usman dominates Masvidal Despite the fact that everyone was excited to see this matchup, for Masvidal to take the fight on 6 days’ notice, the result seemed natural. Kamaru Usman used his superior […]
Top Rank Boxing (07.14) draws 307,000 viewers
Top Rank Boxing on ESPN Tuesday night drew 307,000 viewers per Nielsen via ShowBuzz Daily. The event featured Mikaela Mayer as she defeated Helen Joseph in the feature bout. Notably, Mayer had to sit out her original scheduled appearance in June due to testing positive for COVID-19. She did not have her lead trainer Al […]
Marlon Moraes tests positive for COVID-19
ESPN reports that UFC bantamweight Marlon Moraes has tested positive for COVID-19. Despite his diagnosis and suffering from symptoms he has agreed to a fight with Cody Garbrandt. Moraes, who challenged for the belt against Henry Cejudo last year, is at home recovering and quarantining. The Brazilian agreed to the fight with Garbrandt and stated […]
UFC 251 Prelims tops cable ratings Saturday
The UFC 251 Prelims on ESPN topped cable rankings on Saturday drawing 809,000 viewers for its four-hour block on the network according to Nielsen via ShowBuzz Daily. It drew 397,000 in the A18-49 demo as well as topping most of the other demos. The UFC 251 Prelims took place on Fight Island in Abu Dhabi […]
Report: UFC 251 draws 1.3M PPV buys
The Athletic reports that Saturday’s UFC 251 PPV drew 1.3 million viewers making it the best drawing pay-per-view since UFC 229 which featured the showdown between Khabib Nurmagemdov and Conor McGregor. UFC 251 featured Kamaru Usman taking on last-minute replacement Jorge Masvidal. It also featured two other championship title fights in Petr Yan claiming the […]