The Mayweather/McGregor World Tour from New York on Thursday drew 136,000 viewers according to Nielsen. The third leg, and possibly worst, of the four tour stops took place at the Barclay’s Center in Brooklyn. The tour stop featured Conor McGregor in a long, mink and Floyd Mayweather showering McGregor with ones. The live airing on […]
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Replay of Toronto Mayweather-McGregor Presser on FS1 draws 283,000
The replay of Toronto’s Mayweather-McGregor press conference on Wednesday drew 283,000 viewers on FS1. The live show on FS2 drew 107,000 viewers according to Nielsen. The re-air on FS1 occurred at 11:03 pm ET. It posted more than Tuesday’s replay on FS1 which drew 133,000. The live presser from Toronto drew 124,000 on FS2. Payout […]
Fox Sports to air press conferences for Mayweather-McGregor
Fox Sports will air the hype for the August 26th Mayweather-McGregor fight according to Kevin Iole of Yahoo! Sports. The additional hype for the event should help the event as well as the network. Fox Sports 2 will do specials of “UFC Tonight” this week as the big press tour begins Tuesday at the Staples […]
Ward-Kovalev II disappoints with gate, PPV
The rematch for the Andre Ward/Sergey Kovalev fight last month proved to be a financial bust according to the reported gate and PPV buys. Ward received $6.5M for the fight while Kovalev’s pay was tied to the percentage of tickets and PPV revenue. I’m not sure who decided this for Kovalev, but based on the […]
Povetkin-WOB bring up new information in Wilder Meldonium case
The attorneys in the Deontay Wilder-Alexander Povetkin/World of Boxing case are at it again with letters to the court sent late last month. The parties await a pending Motion for New Trial and/or Motion for JNOV but the attorneys for Povetking and WOB are lobbying the Court to consider newfound information. As you may recall, […]