The UFC announced that it will launch UFC Academy Combine as a way to evaluate talent for a potential career in MMA. The inaugural combine will take place this Monday, June 17 and Tuesday, June 18th in Shanghai, China. The combine coincides with the opening of the UFC Performance Institute in Shanghai. According to a […]
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Highest-Paid Athletes list yields McGregor and 5 boxers in top 100
Earlier this week Forbes.com put out its annual list of the World’s Highest-Paid Athletes. There are a handful of boxers and one MMA fighter on the list. As you might suspect, Conor McGregor was the lone MMA fighter to make the list. He was the 21st highest paid fighter with $32 million in salary and […]
UFC 238 Payout Perspective
Welcome to another edition of Payout Perspective. This time we take a look at UFC 238 taking place at the United Center in Chicago, Illinois. Cejudo dispatches Moraes and becomes double champ Henry Cejudo recovered from a shaky first round to defeat Marlon Moraes with at TKO in the third round of the main event […]
UFC 238 Prelims draw 964,000 viewers
The Athletic expands to combat sports, will fans subscribe?
The Athletic unveiled another vertical in its ever-expanding sports journalism business with coverage in combat sports. The expansion gives the sport greater coverage but will the company’s foray into combat sports be rewarded with an uptick in subscribers. Last week MMA coverage was introduced with MMA writing veterans brought on to write about the sport. […]