Welcome to another edition of Payout Perspective! This week we’ll be taking a look at Bellator 35, which was the promotional debut with it’s new TV partner – MTV 2 – this past Saturday night. The event featured the first leg of the Welterweight tournament along with some fun non-televised fights which included the always […]
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Bellator prematurely reveals results of Saturday’s fights
Fight Opinion’s Zach Arnold reports that the Bellator public relations staff sent word of the results of Bellator’s fights Saturday night prior to its airing on the West Coast. It was the organization’s season premiere and its debut on MTV2. Via Fight Opinion: Both the Bellator & Strikeforce telecasts aired on tape delay for the […]
Update On Bellator Majority Shareholder: Plainfield Asset Management
In September of 2010, MMAPayout reported that Bellator funder and majority stake holder, Plainfield Asset Management (a hedge fund based out of CT) was being investigated by the FBI. The recession, FBI Investigations and whistleblower allegations have caused great hardship on the company over the past few years. Wall Street Journal now gives us an […]
Bellator CEO Rebney featured on WSJ.com
Last week Bellator CEO, Bjorn Rebney was featured in an interview on WSJ.com about building the Bellator brand. He talked about the substantial growth of MMA and the past and future of Bellator. Via WSJ.com Bellator will make its debut on MTV2 this Saturday night, March 5th at 9PM ET. Via Bellator press release: Bellator […]
Another (much bigger) Victory For Zuffa
I have previously posted on Zuffa’s lawsuit against Bellator and Pavia — a post with earlier links is here, and, most recently posted on the Court’s denial of Bellator’s motion to stay discovery pending resolution of Bellator’s motion to dismiss for lack of personal jurisdiction. As I noted in my most recent post: I will keep monitoring to see […]