Loretta Hunt of Sherdog recently interviewed Ken Hershman, vice-president of Showtime sports and event programming, to discuss Showtime’s relationship with Strikeforce. The entire article is an interesting read, but nothing more so than the following talk about television production. “The business objective there is to sell pay-per-views and they use Spike TV as a vehicle. […]
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Strikeforce Challengers 8: Payouts and Ratings
Strikeforce held a Challengers Series show in Portland, Oregon over the weekend that featured some pretty good prospect talent in the likes of Tyron Woodley, Roger Bowling, and Tarec Saffiedine. The event managed to draw 249,000 average viewers on Showtime, which isn’t that far off what last weeks heavily promoted Strikeforce: Heavy Artillery card. MMAJunkie, also […]
Strikeforce: Heavy Artillery – 308,000 Viewers
The Staff at MMAJunkie are reporting that Strikeforce: Heavy Artillery drew 308,000 viewers on Showtime last Saturday, which marks a 40% drop from the last time the promotion ran a big show on the network (January 30th – Strikeforce: Miami). This past weekend’s “Strikeforce St. Louis: Heavy Artillery” event, which featured the long-awaited return of […]
MMAterial Facts (05/07/10): UFC 113 PPV Goes Mobile, Shine Fights On
Shine Fights Dismisses Threat of Don King Legal Action Against Ricardo Mayorga UFC to Offer UFC 113 PPV to FLO TV Mobile Devices M-1 Global, Strikeforce come to terms; Emelianenko vs. Werdum set for June 26 Zuffa Files Suit for ‘The Ultimate Fighter’ Domain Name TV census ad “TUF Canada” targeted for 2011; UFC seeks TV […]
Fedor vs. Werdum Set for June 26th
Strikeforce has announced that Fedor Emelianenko will return to the promotion on June 26th in order to take on Fabricio Werdum on a Strikeforce on Showtime card. SAN JOSE, Calif. (May 4, 2010) – After months of anticipation, the world’s No. 1 heavyweight and pound-for-pound Mixed Martial Arts (MMA) fighter, Fedor “The Last Emperor” Emelianenko […]