Al Haymon and the rest of the defendants sued by promoter Main Events for allegedly breaching a contract for a fight between Adonis Stevenson and Sergey Kovalev have filed motions to dismiss the lawsuit. However, the Court has allowed Main Events to amend its Complaint which may render the motions moot. Some background on the […]
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Showtime halts releasing PPV buy rates
Showtime’s Stephen Espinoza has announced that it will withhold upcoming PPV buy rates due to the controversy surrounding the Floyd Mayweather-Marcos Maidana PPV. Espinoza told BoxingScene.com that the buy rates will only be released if the event sets a PPV record. The Mayweather-Maidana PPV reportedly received 900,000 PPV buys although ESPN’s Dan Rafael reported it […]
Boxing asks what UFC fan has been for a while: are there too many PPVs?
WSOF 11: 781,000 average viewers
MMA Payout has learned that the World Series of Fighting 11 which aired last Saturday on NBC received an average viewership of 781,000 viewers. It was the first time the organization has been on the network. WSOF Ratings 1-11 (1-10 on NBC Sports Network) WSOF 1 – 198,000 viewers WSOF 2 – 210,000 viewers WSOF 3 – […]
Crawford-Gamboa on HBO Saturday receives 1.2M viewers
ESPN reports that Saturday night’s HBO live boxing event featuring lightweight Terence Crawford defeating Yuriorkis Gamboa scored a rating of 1.208 million HBO subscribers with a peak at 1.286 million. The Crawford-Gamboa fight was a back and forth action-packed fight. It was the second week in a row that had an entertaining fight as Robert […]