Just a few short business notes on WEC 46 including attendance, gate, ratings, payouts, and some of the forward looking story lines coming out of the show. WEC 46 featured a lightweight unification bout between champion Jamie Varner and interim champion Ben Henderson, and a featherweight bout Urijah Faber and Rafael Assuncao. Attendance Reed Harris […]
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Kimbo-Alexander Live + 7 Day Playback: 6 Million Viewers
SpikeTV has received the TUF 10 Finale Live+7 Day playback figures from the Saturday, December 12th event, and the continued viewership over the following seven days was enough to push the Kimbo Slice vs. Houston Alexander fight over the 6 million viewer mark. Payout Perspective: It’s a roughly 15% increase on the Kimbo fight over […]
Ratings: FieLDS Dynamite!! 2009
The numbers are in, and FieLDS Dynamite!! 2009 drew a 16.7%. Fightopinion with the translation: The final numbers: NHK’s Kohaku music show – 40.8% (37.1% and 40.8% for the two parts), Dynamite!! with Masato’s last match drew a 16.7%, and Nippon TV’s Downtown comedy special (hotelman 24 hours) did a 16.4%. Fuji TV did a […]
TV Ratings: WEC 45, Strikeforce: Evolution
The television ratings from the latest WEC and Strikeforce offerings have been released courtesy of Versus and Showtime (brought to us by MMAJunkie): WEC 45 – 330,000 viewers Strikeforce: Evolution – 341,000 viewers Payout Perspective: The results definitely favor Strikeforce in this latest head-to-head. Not only did Strikeforce outperform the WEC in viewership, but it […]
Countdown to UFC 107 Ratings
Countdown to UFC 107 aired Tuesday night on Spike TV to an average audience of 618,000, which is the highest rated Countdown show since UFC 101 (805,000 viewers) in early August. It’s a good sign for the UFC, because the interest levels in Countdown ratings tend to have a ballpark correlation with the actual PPVs they’re […]