Welcome to another edition of Payout Perspective! This week we take a look at Strikeforce’s second show on CBS simply entitled Nashville, which was held at the Bridgestone Arena in Nashville, Tennessee. The event featured three title fights: Gegard Mousasi vs. Mo Lawal at 205lbs, Gilbert Melendez vs. Shinya Aoki at 155lbs, and Jake Shields […]
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UFC 112: Payout Perspective
Welcome to another edition of Payout Perspective! This week we take a look at UFC 112: Invincible, which was held at The Concert Arena on Yas Island in Abu Dhabi, UAE on Saturday, April 10th. The event marked both the UFC’s debut in Abu Dhabi and its first-ever outdoor show. UFC 112 was headlined by […]
Integrated Marketing: Building the Next UFC 100
UFC 100 remains the most successful event in UFC history. The show sold over 1.62 million buys in North America and did a live gate of $5.1 million in the middle of what many financial pundits described as the worst recession in twenty years. Impressive, indeed. However, since the Summer of 2009, the UFC hasn’t come […]
UFC 111: Payout Perspective
Welcome to another edition of Payout Perspective! This week we take a look at the UFC’s return to New Jersy with UFC 111. The sold-out held at Newark’s Prudential Center featured a welterweight title bout between Georges St-Pierre and Dan Hardy, as well as an interim heavyweight title bout between Shane Carwin and Frank Mir. […]
Germany Bans the UFC on Television
Kevin Iole of Yahoo! Sports breaks down the report released yesterday that the Bavarian Regulatory Authority in Germany has banned the UFC from airing on television in the country. The German equivalent of the Federal Communications Commission on Friday issued a preliminary order that would bar Ultimate Fighting Championship programming from the Munich-based network German […]