The Zuffa Antitrust lawsuit may come to a head tomorrow as a federal court in Nevada will hear Zuffa’s Motion to Dismiss which could end the lawsuit brought by former UFC fighters against the organization. The Motion to Dismiss was filed by Zuffa lawyers when the lawsuit was venued in Northern California. The original date […]
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Bellator MMA Dynamite 1 draws 800K viewers
Bellator MMA’s Dynamite 1 drew an average viewership of 800,000 viewers on Spike TV Saturday night. The third “tent pole” event for Bellator was ranked #2 in the timeslot in the coveted male 25-54 and 35-49 demos on cable behind ESPN’s college football per Nielsen sources. The event aired from 9-12:42am ET and then replayed […]
Fedor returns to MMA as part of Spike New Year’s Eve show
Fedor Emelianenko returns to MMA as part of “an MMA mega-event” airing on Spike TV this New Year’s Eve Thursday, December 31st. Emelianenko will main event a show taking place from Tokyo, Japan and be a part of partnership with Bellator and a new global MMA promotion run by former Pride President Nobuyuki Sakakibara. The […]
Haymon-Golden Boy lawsuit to proceed in federal court
Golden Boy Promotions won a round against Al Haymon in court earlier this week as Judge John Walter denied Haymon’s motion to stay the court action to arbitrate the issues before the court. As a result, the case will proceed in the U.S. District Court for the Central District of California. The Court chided Haymon’s […]
Report: Mayweather-Berto draw 400-550K PPV buys
ESPN’s Dan Rafael reports that the Floyd Mayweather-Andre Berto PPV drew between 500-600K PPV buys according to industry sources contacted by Rafael. It is the lowest PPV output by Mayweather under his contract with Showtime. UPDATED: Kevin Iole of Yahoo! Sports is reporting that his source says it did “roughly” 400K PPV buys. 145,000 buys […]