HBO Boxing’s Saturday night telecast, Superfly 2, drew 639,000 for the main event featuring Sor Rungvisai and Juan Francisco Estrada peaked at 753,000 viewers according to Nielsen. Runvisai successfully defended his WBC super flyweight title against Estrada with a majority decision. The co-feature saw McWilliams Arroyo defeat Carlos Cuardras and draw 548,000 viewers and peaked […]
Danny Garcia tops salaries for HBO event at Mandalay Bay
MMA Payout has obtained from the Nevada Athletic Commission the payouts, attendance and gates from last week’s boxing event at the Mandalay Bay Events Center featuring Danny Garcia and Brandon Rios. The event sold 4,139 tickets for a gate of $925,180. There were 1,439 total comps. The payouts were as follows: Danny Garcia $1,250,000 def. […]
Plaintiffs’ expert in UFC Antitrust lawsuit takes turn picking apart Zuffa’s economic expert
Dr. Andrew Zimbalist had the opportunity to offer a rebuttal report in response to a UFC’s economist undressing of his opinion on the damages in the plaintiffs’ case in the UFC antitrust lawsuit. In the report he goes after Zuffa’s economic expert, Dr. Roger Blair as he claims that his analysis “provides no insight into […]
UFC on Fox 28 draws 1.82M viewers in overnight ratings
UFC on Fox 28 drew 1.8 million viewers on Fox Saturday night’s fast overnight ratings. Despite stiff competition from the NBA and the Olympics the event was able to stave off its worst ratings since being shown on the network. The event drew 1.82 million viewers, a 0.6 rating in the A18-49 demo and a […]
UFC on Fox 28 attendance, gate and bonuses.
UFC on Fox 28 took place in Orlando on Saturday night and main event headliner Jeremy Stephens continued his winning ways earning a bonus for his stoppage against Josh Emmert. While the stoppage was not in dispute, the beginning of the end for Emmett started with what look like a knee to a grounded opponent […]