Earlier this week Forbes.com put out its annual list of the World’s Highest-Paid Athletes. There are a handful of boxers and one MMA fighter on the list. As you might suspect, Conor McGregor was the lone MMA fighter to make the list. He was the 21st highest paid fighter with $32 million in salary and […]
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UFC 238 Payout Perspective
Welcome to another edition of Payout Perspective. This time we take a look at UFC 238 taking place at the United Center in Chicago, Illinois. Cejudo dispatches Moraes and becomes double champ Henry Cejudo recovered from a shaky first round to defeat Marlon Moraes with at TKO in the third round of the main event […]
Top Rank Boxing draws 799,000 viewers on ESPN Saturday
Top Rank Boxing on ESPN drew 799,000 viewers Saturday night per Nielsen via ShowBuzz Daily. The event drew 314,000 viewers in the A18-49 demo. The telecast, which featured Oscar Valdez defeating Jason Sanchez to retain his featherweight title drew a 0.56 share. The event came after the UFC 238 Prelims which drew 964,000 viewers. It […]
The Athletic expands to combat sports, will fans subscribe?
The Athletic unveiled another vertical in its ever-expanding sports journalism business with coverage in combat sports. The expansion gives the sport greater coverage but will the company’s foray into combat sports be rewarded with an uptick in subscribers. Last week MMA coverage was introduced with MMA writing veterans brought on to write about the sport. […]
GGG tops Saturday’s DAZN event payouts
ESPN’s Dan Rafael reported the purses for Saturday night’s Madison Square Garden event featuring Gennady Golovkin. According to Rafael, the official payout for GG was $2 million although its likely he’s getting closer to $15 million. Steve Rolls, his opponent, drew $300,000. Ali Akhmedov earned $25,000. His opponent, Marcus McDaniel received $45,250. Akhmedov defeated McDaniel. […]