The UFC 155 prelim fights on Dec. 29, headlined by a bantamweight clash between Eddie Wineland and Brad Pickett, scored solid ratings on Saturday night with 1.4 million viewers on FX. That number beat live main cards on both Dec. 14 and Dec. 15 on the network that had far more publicity. Of the 14 [...]
While Ronda Rousey was the most talked about new star in mixed martial arts in 2012, it was considered a major risk when it was announced she would have her first match in the UFC as a pay-per-view headliner. While major women’s matches have done well as far as television ratings are concerned, only one [...]
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Former Strikeforce women’s bantamweight champion Marloes Coenen returns to familiar grounds as the latest addition to one of Japan’s traditional New Year’s Eve events. Coenen (20-5), a native of Holland who was a pioneer of Japanese women’s MMA dating back to her teenage years, fights for the 15th time in that country against Australian “Ferocious” [...]
In looking back at 2012, there’s little question what the biggest news story is. How to evaluate the story is a lot more difficult. The UFC moving from Spike as its main television outlet to the FOX family, the FOX network for four big shows, FX for The Ultimate Fighter (TUF), live shows, pay-per-view prelims [...]
The MMA injury bug rolls on unabated and this time claims a preliminary card bout for the final UFC show of 2012. UFC lightweight Cody McKenzie is out of his bout with Leonard Garcia at UFC 155. Max Holloway has agreed to replace McKenzie for the contest, the UFC announced on their website. “With Cody [...]
Running shows on successive nights ended up as a mixed bag when it came to the UFC’s weekend ratings. The Friday night show, headlined by the finals of “The Ultimate Fighter: The Smashes,” a series that was not broadcast in the U.S., did 972,000 viewers. That number was the lowest of the eight live main [...]
The MMA Hour is back in your life one final time this year. Yes, this is our last show of 2012, and we’re going out swinging. Here’s a rundown of who will be stopping by and when: 1:00 p.m. ET — UFC welterweight Mike Pyle look back at his win over James Head on Saturday [...]
By the third fight of the UFC on FX 6 card, the nightly bonuses were decided. The prelim fighters swept the awards, as Nick Penner vs. Cody Donovan won Fight of the Night, while Ben Alloway took Knockout of the Night honors at the show, which took place at the Gold Coast Convention and Exhibition [...]
Just about everything major that could go wrong did on Friday night, leaving Bellator with its second-lowest rated live episode since going on MTV2. Only 105,000 viewers, down 36 percent from what has been the average this season, saw the next-to-last live event on the station. The show was on both in a different time [...]