Strikeforce has announced the signing of a new television deal in Canada with the pay network, Super Channel. EDMONTON (Dec. 2, 2009)-Super Channel, Canada’s only national pay television network, is pleased to announce an exclusive agreement to offer SHOWTIME Sports® telecasts of STRIKEFORCE Mixed Martial Arts (MMA) events live to viewers across Canada, beginning Saturday, Dec.19. […]
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M-1 Global/Strikeforce: Record Numbers for Worldwide “Fedor vs. Rogers”
M-1 Global and Strikeforce announced last week that the worldwide broadcast of Fedor vs. Rogers did record numbers: AMSTERDAM, HOLLAND (November 24, 2009) – M-1 Global and Strikeforce announced today that the international audience reports from broadcasters all over the world revealed an unprecedented number of viewers for the November 7th “Fedor vs. Rogers” MMA event from Chicago, […]
Rumour: Don Quijote to Buy FEG’s MMA Division
Zeus Tipado of MiddleEasy.com discusses the plans for a Japanese discount store to purchase FEG’s MMA division, which includes Dynamite!! and Dream. Now it’s being reported that the president of Don Quijote, Yasuda, set up a meeting between FEG to enable this Sengoku vs. Dream co-promotion as an attempt to strengthen Japanese MMA. Initially, Sadaharu […]
WEC and Strikeforce Set to Face-off December 19th
Yesterday, both the WEC and Strikeforce made additions to their December 19th fight cards that will compete head-to-head on Saturday night television. The WEC announced the addition of five preliminary bouts to the card, which effectively finalized the event set to air live at 10PM EST/PST. MMAJunkie provides an overview: MAIN CARD Donald Cerrone vs. […]
More on Strikeforce-CBS Ratings
Dave Meltzer of the Wrestling Observer sheds some more light on the Strikeforce on CBS ratings of last weekend: The show did a 2.3 in the target Males 18-34 demo that the network took the chance with MMA largely to reach. Usually in that time slot they do a 0.9. They beat ABC’s regional college football […]