On a day dominated with Election programming, UFC Fight Night on ESPN featuring Thiago Santos and Glover Teixeira drew 429,000 viewers. The event aired on Saturday night 10:11pm ET (due to overrun) and scored a 0.15 household rating. It drew 194,000 viewers in the A18-49 demo. It is the lowest output for a UFC […]
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UFC on ESPN+ 40 bonuses
UFC on ESPN+40 took place at The UFC Apex in Las Vegas Saturday night. On a night where there were finishes throughout the Prelims, it was tough to pick out the $50K winners. Alexandr Romanov and Giga Chikadeze picked up the Performance Bonuses while Raoni Barcelos and Khalid Taha earned Fight of the Night. Notably, […]
Makhachev out of Saturday’s main event with RDA
UFC Fight Night 182 headliner Islam Makhachev is out of his fight with Rafael dos Anjos this Saturday night. The UFC is looking for an opponent for RDA. The main event for next Saturday’s event at The Apex in Las Vegas was to feature Mackhachev and RDA in a fight positioning for the lightweight division. […]
EA, UFC extend partnership through 2030
Electronic Arts and the UFC announced an extension of its multi-year partnership according to a press release from EA. The parties have stated its agreement will go through 2030. EA launched a new UFC game this past summer and according to the release fans played “more than 64 million simulated UFC fights during the EA […]
Judge in UFC Antitrust Lawsuit orders another status conference
A minute order issued on Saturday indicates that there will be another hearing in the UFC Antitrust lawsuit. November 19th Judge Richard Boulware will conduct a status conference which will be via video conference as a result of the worldwide pandemic. A previous status conference was held in September which had no real takeaways except […]