UFC on ESPN 11 took place on Saturday night and the clear bonus winner at The Apex in Las Vegas was the Fight of the Night between Josh Emmett and Shane Burgos. Emmett defeated Burgos via unanimous decision in what was a Fight of the Year candidate as the two Featherweights slugged it out. Also […]
Top Rank Payouts for Thursday June 18
MMA Payout has obtained the paysheet from Thursday’s Top Rank event from Las Vegas. Notably, the main event for the evening between Mikkel Les Pierre and Jose Pedroza was taken off the card due to Les Pierre’s manager testing positive for COVID-19. The two fighters would have been the highest paid on this card. Gabe […]
Top Rank Boxing draws lowest ratings since returning to live action
Top Rank Boxing drew 305,000 viewers on ESPN Thursday night according to Nielsen via ShowBuzz Daily. The event drew just a 0.09 household rating. The main event for Thursday night was altered as Mikkel LesPierre was taken off of the card due to his manager testing positive for COVID-19. His scheduled fight with Jose Pedraza […]
AEW 772K, NXT 746K
Rachael Ostovich-Berdon handed one-year USADA sanction for tainted supplement
Rachael Ostovich-Berdon was issued a one-year suspension by USADA for testing positive for ostarine and GW1516 metabolites. She received a four-month credit due to “time served under a provisional suspension in the latter half of 2019 for atypical finding that was investigated by USADA and which did not result in a sanction once the 2019 […]