The Kerasotes Showplace Theatres chain is now advertising UFC 111 in the “Coming Soon” segment of its website, signalling the beginning of a four-fight agreement with the UFC to show fights across its many theatres in the US. Payout Perspective: The success of Mayweather-Marquez in theatres last September was enough impetus for the UFC to […]
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UFC 109 Prelim Ratings
SpikeTV has announced that the UFC 109 Prelims drew the highest rating of the series last Saturday, earning a 1.2 HH rating which was good for an average of 1.7 million viewers. The programming also scored well in the M18-34 and M18-49 demos with each scoring a 1.6 rating. Here’s a breakdown of the ratings […]
Countdown to UFC 109: 881,000 Viewers
MMAPayout.com has learned that Countdown to UFC 109 enjoyed a tremendous lead-in from the Brock Lesnar: UFC Unleased and UFC 107 replay to draw 881,000 viewers with its debut on Saturday night. That’s the highest Countdown to UFC program debut since UFC 100, which garnered 1.1 million viewers. It’s been anticipated that UFC 109 will be the UFC’s PPV […]
Strikeforce Scores International TV Distribution
Strikeforce has officially announced several international television distribution deals with companies in the UK, Italy, Ukraine, Australia, and Latin America. STRIKEFORCE GOES GLOBAL Shine International Closes Deals across Europe, Australia and Latin America LOS ANGELES, February 2, 2010 – Shine International has expanded the STRIKEFORCE brand internationally, selling more than 70 hours of […]
MMAterial Facts (02/01/10) : Strikeforce Miami Edition
Strikeforce Miami Post-Fight News and Notes More Info On Problematic EA/Strikeforce Stream: A lot of questions were asked on Saturday as to what happened and who to blame for the bad EA/Strikeforce stream. According to Sam Strayer via Josh Gross, the executive producer of iBN Sports (who was responsible for streaming the Strikeforce Jay Hieron […]