Bellator announced it will hold an event in Japan at the Saitama Super Arena and it will be headlined by Fedor Emelianenko taking on Quinton “Rampage” Jackson. The official name of the event is “Bellator Japan: Fedor vs. Rampage, powered by RIZIN”. The event takes place on December 29 on the Paramount Network in the […]
UFC 243 Payout Perspective
Welcome to another episode of Payout Perspective. This time we take a look at UFC 243 from Melbourne, Australia where the company drew another attendance record and saw Israel Adesanya claim the UFC middleweight title. Adesanya is King of the Middleweights The matchup that sold this event, Robert Whittaker versus Israel Adesanya was determined a […]
Adesanya tops bonus winners as UFC 243 draws new attendance record
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 […]