All Elite Wrestling drew 693,000 viewers with a 0.27 household rating this week on TNT according to Nielsen via ShowBuzz Daily. NXT on the USA Network was not too far behind drawing 637,000 viewers and a household rating of 0.16. AEW ranked 16th overall in cable ratings per Nielsen. NXT just missed the top 50 […]
Zab-Mayweather on ESPN tops boxing replays on network Saturday
ESPN aired boxing replays from some of the best fights in its library featuring Manny Pacquiao and culminated with the Pacquiao-Floyd Mayweather fight. The most-viewed replay this past Saturday goes to the replay of the Floyd Mayweather, Jr.-Zab Judah fight which garnered 678K viewers. It was followed by the Manny Pacquiao-Juan Manuel Marquez III fight […]
Endeavor looks to raise $250M to keep afloat, looks to Silver Lake for help
UFC parent company Endeavor is looking to raise $250 million to offset the impact the coronavirus has had on its business per the New York Post. The company is looking at private equity firm Silver Lake for help. Silver Lake owns a 42% stake in the business already and will be looking to other institutions […]
AEW 731,000, NXT 665,000
WWE reports first quarter 2020 earnings
WWE released its financial results for the first quarter of 2020 on Thursday. Despite layoffs of over 20 performers and employees, the company announced strong earnings with revenues increasing 60% to $291M from Q1 in 2019. But, notably, the earnings call included the news that there would not be a new WWE2K video game. When […]