Last year, UFC and FOX announced a huge 7 year TV deal worth as much as $90-$100 million per year, which would move UFC programming from Spike TV to FOX, FX, FSN’s, and Fuel TV. Now that 2012 Q1 & Q2 are in the books, we look back and analyze what type of impact UFC […]
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Will MMA ever be an Olympic sport?
MMA Fighting reports on a recent poll which indicates 25% of Americans think Mixed Martial Arts should be an Olympic Sports. The poll which was commissioned by Yahoo! Sports indicates MMA is second only to baseball (33%) in sports people would like to see in the Summer Games. In addition to baseball and MMA, softball […]
Zuffa Maintains “BB” Credit Rating After $50M Add-On
Standard and Poor’s February report states that it has maintained Zuffa’s credit rating at “BB” following a $50 million add-on proposed to it’s senior secured term loan, which now has a sum of $525 million. The issue-level rating on the term loan in ‘BB’, which is the same as the corporate credit rating, with a […]
Payout Perspective: Pacquiao-Bradley
Welcome to a special edition of Payout Perspective where we look at the world of boxing. This time we look at the controversial fight which took place Saturday night at the MGM Grand where Timothy Bradley shocked the world by taking a split decision over Manny Pacquiao to the stunned fans in attendance and the […]
Follow up on the Oklahoma PPV tax
Last week, the Oklahoma Attorney General decided that the state’s tax on pay per views was unconstitutional. MMA Payout takes a brief look at the potential legalities behind this question. As those who have been following know, the UFC threatened to sue the state of Oklahoma for its 4% tax on pay per views. As […]