Barron’s featured former WWE CEO/Senatorial Candidate Linda McMahon and the decline in finances of World Wrestling Entertainment. As McMahon’s political career heats up, the WWE business is cooling. The article points out that the past three years; WWE popularity has taken a nose dive whereas the UFC has taken over in PPV dominance. Revenues began to […]
UFC
Welcome to Brocktober…or Rocktober
As UFC fans know, it is heavily promoting UFC 121’s Brock Lesnar’s match against Cain Velasquez with television programming-directed to Lesnarand proclaiming the month of October as “Brocktober”. Someone did not tell the WWE (or they did) as WWE Classics On Demand is promoting classic Dwayne “The Rock” Johnson matches and calling this month “Rocktober” – […]
TUF 12 ratings increase for Episode No. 3 and Best of Pride ratings
MMA Payout has learned that The Ultimate Fighter earned a 1.3 hh rating for last Wednesday’s episode. It received a 1.71 rating in M18-49, a 1.90 in M18-34, and a 2.3 in M25-34. The episode which included an appearance by Mike Tyson had an average audience of 1.8 million viewers. The quarter hours/hh ratings are […]
The State of the UFC Address
There’s a lot of misinformation circulating around the MMA community in regards to the state of the UFC, so I’d like to provide a little payout perspective on the hot button issues that currently have some folks troubled. UFC TV Ratings and PPV Buyrates Simply put: the PPV buyrates are up and the TV ratings […]
Rightful Termination? Mitrione publicly fires agent Malki Kawa
Donald Trump, Vince McMahon and Matt Mitrione. All three have publicly fired people. In his post-fight interview with Joe Rogan at UFC 119, Mitrione fired his agent, Malki Kawa. Even after he had time to cool off, Mitrione affirmed that the firing was real. In a backstage interview with MMA Fighting, Mitrione further explained the […]