UFC 243 took place at Marvel Stadium on Saturday with the main event featuring Robert Whittaker fighting Israel Adesanya for the UFC middleweight title. The event saw a new record for attendance with over 57,000 in attendance. UFC officials announced attendance at 57,127 with a gate of $5,470,000. Bonus winners for Saturday included Adesanya with […]
GGG gets $7.5 equity stake in DAZN parent as part of fight purse
ESPN’s Dan Rafael reports the purses for Saturday night’s fight on DAZN for the vacant middleweight title between Gennadiy Golovkin and Sergiy Derevyanchenko. According to Rafael, GGG will receive $7.5 million in cash and $7.5 million in DAZN parent company equity. Derevyanchenko will receive a guaranteed payout of $5.2 million but it is being reported […]
Friday night SmackDown debut on Fox draws 3.87M viewers, 8 share in A18-49 demo
The debut of Friday Night SmackDown on Fox drew 3.87 million viewers according to Nielsen via ShowBuzz Daily. It also drew a 1.4 rating and an 8 share in the A18-49 demo. Although the threshold for the debut may have been 4.5 million viewers (see below), the telecast was the highest rated in the A18-49 […]
The Payout Pick: UFC 243 Main Event Whittaker-Adesanya
Robert Whittaker meets Israel Adesanya on Saturday at UFC 243 in Melbourne, Australia. Sports bettors can’t seem to pick a favorite in this matchup which will unify the middleweight title. Although odds may have changed since you read this, Whittaker was the slight favorite at -115 while Adesanya sits around -105 making the fight a […]
‘Dynamite’ ratings for AEW’s debut on TNT
The debut of All Elite Wrestling’s “Dynamite” drew 1.4 million viewers and was second in overall cable ratings for Wednesday night according to Nielsen via ShowBuzz Daily. NXT on the USA Network drew 890,000 viewers in its first head-to-head with the upstart rival. The series premier of All Elite Wrestling drew a 0.68 rating in […]