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UFC 203: Payout Perspective

September 11, 2016 by Jason Cruz 3 Comments

Welcome to another edition of Payout Perspective. This time we take a look at UFC 203 from Cleveland, Ohio where CM Punk’s debut and Stipe Miocic’s title defense were the headlining events. Gall mauls CM Punk We all knew that this was going to happen. 3 pro fights in and Mickey Gall looks like a […]

UFC 203 attendance, gate and bonuses

September 10, 2016 by Jason Cruz 1 Comment

The UFC announced the attendance, gate and bonuses from UFC 203. Stipe Miocic, Alistair Overeem, Yancy Medeiros and Jessica Andrade earned the bonuses of the night. Miocic and Overeem drew the Fight of the Night while Medeiros and Andrade drew the Performance Bonuses. Miocic stopped Overeem in an exciting first round. Medeiros was the featured […]

CM Punk explains his move to MMA in his own words

September 10, 2016 by Jason Cruz 2 Comments

CM Punk penned an article in The Player’s Tribune on the bliss in finding his passion for MMA. Punk has been the headliner this week for UFC despite it being his first fight in the UFC. While Punk should be better prepared than James Toney when he fought Randy Couture at UFC 118, we all […]

OAC to review Eye-Correia incident, fines Overeem

September 9, 2016 by Jason Cruz 1 Comment

MMA Fighting reports that the Ohio Athletic Commission may assess discipline for the shoving incident between Jessica Eye and Bethe Correia at the televised UFC 203 weigh-ins. At the faux weigh-ins (since the actual weigh-ins took place earlier in the day), Eye shoved Correia prior to the two facing off. OAC Executive Director Bernie Profato […]

UFC 202 PPV buys estimated at 1.65M

September 7, 2016 by Jason Cruz 9 Comments

MMA Fighting reports that UFC 202 is currently estimated at doing 1.65 million PPV buys. The number puts it ahead of UFC 196 in PPV buys. Prior to this year, the top PPV event for the UFC was UFC 100 which posted 1.6M buys on July 11, 2009. In the main event Brock Lesnar faced […]