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The MMA Tete-A-Tete: Predicting UFC 143 Buy Rates And Fight Outcomes
Luke Thomas and I have been doing these video chats for a couple of weeks over at MMA Nation and now I'm dragging them back to BE. We're calling them The MMA Tete-A-Tete: Coarsening the Discourse and you can see the whole collection on Luke's YouTube playlist. In this installment we talk about...
Strikeforce: Melendez vs. Masvidal Draws 460,000 Viewers
So much for the momentum from the announcement that Strikeforce was going to keep on keepin' on in 2012. Last Saturday's event featuring Lightweight Champion Gilbert Melendez headlining and Women's Featherweight Champion Cristiane Santos in the co-main event drew 460,000 viewers, verified by...
TV Ratings Show UFC's Utter Dominance of MMA Landscape
Now that the UFC's parent company Zuffa -- I mean Zuffa spin-off Forza, LLC -- has purchased Strikeforce -- the UFC's only major competitors are M-1 Global with their Showtime deal and Bellator on MTV2. This past weekend gave us a rare chance to see all three promotions competing for eyeballs as...
UFC 128 Prelims Do Above Average Ratings, Live Gate Down From Last NJ UFC
The UFC 128 preliminary fights on Spike TV drew 1.3 million viewers Saturday night per MMA Weekly. The show, featuring Edson Barboza vs Anthony Njokuani in the Fight of the Night and Luiz Cane vs Eliot Marshall with a bonus showing of Erik Koch's KO of Raphael Assuncao was down considerably from...
UFC 125 Preliminaries Get 829,000 Viewers, Lowest Ever
When the UFC announced only days before UFC 125 that it would be airing three preliminary fights on ION TV it was a suprising announcement. The UFC and Spike TV have been joined at the hip since 2005 when The Ultimate Fighter made the UFC a commercially viable entity in the U.S. Three fights were...
Spike TV Broadcast of UFC 120 Draws About 2/3 the Viewers of UFC 105
MMA Weekly reports the numbers and exercises considerable restraint with their headline that ratings were "down slightly": ...the broadcast drew an average audience of 1.9 million viewers, according to Spike TV officials on Tuesday. That represents a significant decline in viewership since the...
Strikeforce on CBS Overnight Ratings Down 30 Percent - 2.63 Million Viewers
The stats show that ratings actually dropped during the last half hour of the show’s alloted two hour time-slot on CBS – though in fact the show actually ran on longer than that so we will have to wait until later on in the week to find out how the rest of the show fared. To give...
TV Ratings For Strikeforce: Evolution And WEC 45 Are Almost Identical
From MMAJunkie: WEC 45 drew 330,000 viewers, and Strikeforce's latest offering topped it slightly with 341,000 viewers, MMAjunkie.com(www.mmajunkie.com) today confirmed with officials The WEC is available in close to 75 million homes on Versus, opposed to Strikeforce being available in only 12...
TUF 10: Episode 3 Destroys The Old TV Ratings Record For Spike TV
From MMAWeekly: Despite Kimbo showing little progress in his MMA skills and Nelson providing little excitement in the victory, the initial broadcast of the episode pulled in an average of 5.3 million viewers for the entire 60-minute broadcast, according to Spike TV vice president Brian Diamond....
Sasahara: DREAM.9 TV Ratings Exceed Expectations
Ratings are in for last night's prime time TBS presentation of Fighting and Entertainment Group's DREAM.9, and although the show ended with some controversy, it seems to have been a modest success with viewers nonetheless. DREAM event producer Keiichi Sasahara (right) told Kamipro that the show...
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