Welcome to another edition of Payout Perspective. This time we take a look at UFC 172 taking place at the Baltimore Arena in Baltimore, Maryland where Jon Jones successfully defended his light heavyweight title against Glover Texeira. Jones wears out Glover Jon Jones fought Glover Texeira’s type of fight but still overwhelmed the challenger. Jones […]
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UFC ratings wrapup shows gains for TUF 19 debut, UFC on Fox 11
TUF 19 Episode 2: 320,000 viewers
MMA Payout has learned from a Nielsen source that the second episode of The Ultimate Fighter 19 was down substantially from its debut last week. It registered just 320,000 viewers on Wednesday night. The second episode of TUF featuring Team Edgar vs. Team Penn received the lowest overnight rating for the TUF franchise on FS1 […]
Hopkins and Pac-Bradley II ratings from Saturday
Kevin Iole of Yahoo! Sports tweeted the ratings for the live event featuring Bernard Hopkins on Showtime and the HBO replay of Pacquiao-Bradley II. The controversial split decision of Hopkins-Shumenov narrowly beat the replay of Pacquiao-Bradley II. Recap: Pac-Bradley replay 689. BHop win 760k; Porter fight, 897k; Quillin, 622k — Kevin Iole (@KevinI) April 22, […]
UFC on Fox 11 ratings adjusted up to 2.5 million viewers
MMA Payout has learned from a Fox source that the Live plus Same Day ratings for Saturday’s UFC on Fox 11 event raised the initial overnight of 1.99 million to 2.5 million viewers. The peak of 3.3 million viewers occurred during the main event between Fabricio Werdum and Travis Browne. The main event received a […]