Glory announced it has forged a new deal with ESPN. The deal is effective immediately as this Friday’s event will air on the network Glory 25 Milan, which originally was going to be shown on its web site. It will now be shown live this Friday, November 6th on ESPN3 at 4pm EST/1pm PST and […]
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Hershman steps down as HBO president
Kevin Iole of Yahoo! Sports reports that HBO Sports President Ken Hershman is stepping down from his post. Despite the fact that ratings were up and there seem to be suitable replacements for Manny Pacquiao, Hershman resigned abruptly on Friday. Hershman replaced Ross Greenburg in 2012. There was no announcement of Hershman’s replacement although SI’s […]
GLORY CEO issues statement on promotion leaving Spike TV
MMA Payout has obtained a comment by GLORY CEO John Franklin with respect to the MMA Fighting report this morning that GLORY Kickboxing would no longer be seen on Spike TV. GLORY CEO John Franklin: Spike was a solid platform to introduce GLORY and kickboxing as a whole in the US. We of course leave […]
Crawford and GGG replay draw 1.07M avg on HBO Saturday
ESPN’s Dan Rafael reports the ratings from Saturday night’s HBO event featuring Terrence Crawford. The replay which drew an average subscriber audience of 1.07M viewers also included the GGG-David Lemieux PPV replay. The overall event on HBO Saturday night from 9:30 to approximately midnight ET (first showing) peaked at 1.2M viewers. The replay of GGG-Lemieux […]
GLORY-SpikeTV part ways
MMA Fighting’s Luke Thomas reports that GLORY Kickboxing will no longer be seen on SpikeTV. The promotion’s run which started in November 2013, has come to an end. The decision to end the relationship was not sudden according to the report as the two sides had been in talks, but it appears that each has […]