Nick Newell hopes rest and recovery is the key to his return to the cage on Friday at Bellator 241. “I took 3 fights in five months,” recounts Newell. “I was just so deflated and only took about a month off.” Newell returns to the cage in front of family and friends once again in […]
UFC 248 Prelims on ESPN draw 1.195M viewers
The prelims for UFC 248 drew 1.195 million viewers on Saturday night per Nielsen via ShowBuzz Daily. The Prelims were second in overall cable ratings only to its lead-in, the college basketball game between UNC-Duke. The game between the two rivals drew 2.232 million viewers. Once again, there was an overrun but a slight one […]
PBC on Fox draws 1.3M viewer average in fast nationals
PBC on Fox Saturday night drew an average of almost 1.3 million viewers Saturday night in fast nationals per Nielsen via ShowBuzz Daily. The ratings do not include the overrun which featured the main event. PBC on Fox took place at the Barclays Center in New York featuring heavyweights Adam Kownacki and Robert Helenius. In […]
UFC 248 attendance, gate and bonuses
UFC 248 drew the lowest attendance at T-Mobile Arena since March 2018. The announced attendance was15,077 with a live gate of $2,742,906.20. The co-main event earned honors for Fight of the Night as Weili Zhang successfully defended her strawweight title against Joanna Jedrzejczyk. The back and forth fight which saw Joanna’s forehead swell due to […]
Smackdown falls in ratings this week to 2.45M viewer average
WWE Smackdown fell of this week in ratings drawing a 2.45 million viewer average over its two-hour time slot on Fox. In the first hour Smackdown drew 2.579 million viewers and then dropped off with 2.326 million viewers in the second. Smackdown drew 0.7 in the A18-49 demo both hours. It drew 0.9 in the […]