Jason Cruz

AEW pulls ahead of NXT in this week ratings battle

July 16, 2020 by Jason Cruz Leave a Comment

AEW pulled ahead of NXT after three weeks trailing the WWE product as The Fight for the Fallen telecast on TNT drew 788,000 total viewers to NXT’s 631,000. Notably, both telecasts had competition from the UFC on ESPN as its prelims pulled 434,000 viewers during the 7:00pm to 10:00pm ET times slot which was during […]

UFC on ESPN 13 draws 536K Wednesday night

July 16, 2020 by Jason Cruz Leave a Comment

UFC on ESPN drew 536,000 viewers according to Nielsen Media Research via ShowBuzz Daily. The prelims drew 434,000 viewers on ESPN. The event featured Calvin Kattar as he faced Dan Ige. The prelims featured some good action as for a mid-week event. The prelims drew 0.17 in the A18-49 and 0.27 in the M18-49 demo. […]

Podcast: Discussing the Oliver Luck lawsuit against Vince McMahon

July 16, 2020 by Jason Cruz Leave a Comment

This past week I was on the Mike Meltser podcast discussing the Oliver Luck-Vince McMahon lawsuit. For background, I wrote about it here. I discuss the basics of the lawsuit and why Luck will now have to wait for the sale of the XFL in Bankruptcy Court before he can seek to recoup money he […]

UFC on ESPN 13 bonuses

July 16, 2020 by Jason Cruz Leave a Comment

UFC on ESPN 13 took place on Wednesday from Fight Island and produced a very good evening of fights. Bonus winners went out to Mounir Lazzerput for his fight with Abdul Razak Alhassan. The first fight on the main card was an exciting and due to the fact that Alhassan missed weight he did not […]

UFC 251 Payout Perspective

July 16, 2020 by Jason Cruz Leave a Comment

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 […]