The biggest combat sports news story on Saturday actually comes from a live streamed independent pro wrestling event in Los Angeles involving the son of former UFC light heavyweight Rampage Jackson. Raja Jackson was apparently supposed to be a part of an angle with independent wrestler Stuart Smith in which he would appear later during […]
UFC Shanghai bonuses
The UFC held an event in Shanghai, China on Saturday and handed out four Performance Bonuses. Johnny Walker earned his $50K bonus with an upset victory over China’s Zhang Minyang in the second round of the main event. Walker used leg kicks to cause the Zhang to crumple which was the beginning of the end […]
PFL draws 356K viewers on ESPN
The Professional Fighters League drew just 356K on Thursday night per Programming Insider. The telecast aired the finals of the Heavyweight, Lightweight and Middleweight Divisions. The telecast drew 0.08 in the A18-49 which is estimated at just over 100K viewers. Notably, the lead-in on Thursday was the Little League World Series which overran its scheduled […]
TKO pays UNLV $1.75M to move football game
The UNLV football team moved up its game against Idaho State at Allegiant Stadium three weeks to Saturday per a request from TKO so that it could hold the Crawford-Canelo fight on September 13th. According to the Las Vegas Review-Journal the amended contract for the game includes $500K to Idaho State. In addition to payment, […]
Edgar coming out of retirement for Bare Knuckle Fight
43-year-old Frankie Edgar is coming out of combat sports retirement to fight in a Bare Knuckle Fighting Championship event in his native New Jersey on October 4th. Edgar will face another former UFC veteran Jimmie Rivera. The event will take place at the Prudential Center in New Jersey. Edgar’s last combat sports fight was UFC […]