MMA Junkie reports the bonuses made from Saturday’s UFC Fight Night 40. Matt Brown was he big winner tonight earning two performance bonuses in his main event win over Erick Silva. The bonuses were announced at the post-fight press conference. The bonus winners were: Matt Brown-Erick Silva: Fight of the Night Brown and Johnny Eduardo: […]
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TUF 19 Episode 4: 438,000 viewers
MMA Payout has learned from Nielsen sources that the fourth episode of TUF 19 featuring Team Edgar versus Team Penn scored 438,000 viewers. The episode was a slight increase from last week. Broken down into its demos, it pulled a 0.39 with adults 18-49 and a 0.60 with males 18-49 and 058 with males 18-34. […]
UFC 171 and UFC 172 PPV Updates
Dave Meltzer, from MMAFighting.com, reports the latest estimated PPV numbers from the last two events, UFC 170: Hendricks vs Lawler and UFC 171: Jones vs Teixeira. According to Meltzer, UFC 171 drew an estimated 300K pay-per-view buys while UFC 172, which featured arguably UFC’s second biggest active star in Jon Jones, did an estimated 350,000 buys. Meltzer […]
Survey compares UFC and Boxing fans
The Sports Business Journal reports on the Scarborough annual survey which tracks the habits of avid fans of the UFC and pro boxing. The Scarborough survey of over 200,000 U.S. residents age 18 and older indicates that 12.1% of the U.S. general population says they are very or somewhat interested in pro boxing, while 10.8% state the […]
UFC-Nike butting heads over fighter appearances?
Last week the Strait Times reported on a developing story that underscored the continuing tension between Nike and the UFC. A Nike-sponsored world tour which touts appearances by Jon Jones, Anderson Silva and Georges St. Pierre is being called “false advertising” by the UFC. The 11 city overseas tour began in Paris May 5th and […]