Loretta Hunt of Sherdog.com is reporting that Don King Promotions has filed a legal injunction against Ricardo Mayorga and Shine Fights that seeks to prohibit Mayorga from participating at MMA’s Shine Fights 3: Worlds Collide card on Saturday, May 15th. In its filings, DKP cites excerpts taken from Mayorga’s promotional agreement with the organization dated […]
UFC 113: Gate and Attendance
Dana White announced at the UFC 113 post-fight press conference that the event drew 17,647 to Montreal’s Bell Centre and generated approximately $3.27 million at the gate. While UFC 113 marked the first time the UFC was unable to sell-out in Montreal, the event still has to be considered a success. The show generated the […]
UFC 113: Payout Perspective
Welcome to another edition of Payout Perspective! This week we’ll be looking at UFC 113: Machida vs. Shogun II held in Montreal, Quebec on Saturday, May 8th, 2010. The event featured the heavily anticipated rematch between Lyoto Machida and Mauricio Shogun Rua, but also included a co-main event between Josh Koscheck and Paul Daley in […]
TUF 11, Episode 6: 1.3 HH Rating
MMAPayout.com has learned that the sixth episode of TUF 11 garnered a 1.3 HH rating on an average of 1.7 million viewers on Wednesday night. The show held steady in average viewers, it experienced a meaningful drop over the last episode in the M18-34 and M18-49 demographics; while still good the 1.54 in M18-34 and […]
Best of Pride Ratings Jump 40%
MMAPayout.com has learned that since moving from Fridays at 10PM to its new timeslot on Wednesdays at 11PM, the ratings for Spike TV’s Best of Pride series have by jumped over 40%. The last three telecasts of the series have drawn 995k, 950k, and 911k, respectively – compared to the series average of 675k in […]