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Friday, August 11th, 2017There’s a chance that the Floyd Mayweather fight with Conor McGregor may not be sold out come fight time and Mayweather’s camp is sending mixed signals in public about it.
ESPN begins its march away from cable and the ramifications are huge for combat sports
Tuesday, August 8th, 2017Disney is cutting the cord with Netflix and building its own streaming operation. ESPN is heading to a streaming platform. Cable is dying but the future of American broadcast television is big with 4K and streaming options coming.
UFC’s debt financing is making rich fighters wealthier but the window is closing fast for everyone else
Sunday, July 30th, 2017Ari Emanuel and WME-IMG ownership is pushing more “super fights” in the UFC that are eye-catching due to name value but not necessarily competitive. The rich are getting richer but what about the rest of the fighters?
Conor McGregor proves to be Floyd Mayweather’s lifeline to the IRS
Monday, July 10th, 2017We knew money was the root of Floyd Mayweather’s motivations in fighting Conor McGregor. What we didn’t know was what role Uncle Sam and the IRS played into the equation.
The spin stops here: ESPN underachieves with Manny Pacquiao vs. Jeff Horn drawing 3M viewers
Tuesday, July 4th, 2017The Manny Pacquiao/Jeff Horn fight on ESPN drew less than three million viewers. It bombed… but you wouldn’t know that reading the spin from ESPN and other sports media sites proclaiming that it was ESPN’s best boxing rating in a decade.
ESPN’s telecast of Manny Pacquiao-Jeff Horn was the clearest warning to UFC not to leave Fox
Sunday, July 2nd, 2017ESPN’s telecast of the Manny Pacquiao/Jeff Horn fight from Australia gave UFC every warning sign possible not to jump ship from Fox Sports.
Golden who? ESPN labels Bob Arum, Top Rank “the NFL of boxing” and recycles Al Haymon spin on exposure
Friday, June 30th, 2017Four months ago, ESPN decided to play footsie with Golden Boy. Now they’ve turned on a dime and are going all-in promoting Bob Arum’s Top Rank.
High-risk gamble by Mark Hunt attorneys to sue UFC for racketeering may be backfiring
Tuesday, June 27th, 2017The strategy by Mark Hunt’s attorney to pursue a racketeering cause of auction in Federal court against UFC & Brock Lesnar over doping may backfire.
UFC’s Cortney Casey can sue the Texas athletic commission for libel but she only has a few weeks left
Monday, June 26th, 2017The Texas athletic commission says UFC fighter Cortney Casey failed a drug test and told a reporter. They claimed to use USADA standards and they allegedly did not fighter. The commission has not cleared Casey’s name. Will she sue for libel?
Oh no… California judge Marcos Rosales scored BJ Penn demolition a 28-28 draw
Sunday, June 25th, 2017Veteran MMA judge Marcos Rosales egregiously scored Dennis Siver’s massacre of BJ Penn a 28-28 draw. There is no excuse or justification for one of the worst judging decisions made this year in MMA.
“The greatest prospect in MMA history” got knocked down but changed the recruiting game
Saturday, June 24th, 2017The Bellator NYC PPV at Madison Square Garden turned out to be a circus and that’s exactly the way Scott Coker likes to promote MMA.
Here comes the “Floyd Mayweather is an ungrateful moocher” narrative from boxing brokers
Sunday, June 18th, 2017Joe Tessitore made an unannounced appearance last night for Golden Boy’s fight in Frisco, Texas at the Ford Center. He spent time on television bashing Floyd Mayweather’s upcoming fight with Conor McGregor as a mooching moment.
The over/under on PPV buys for Mayweather-McGregor is 5 million. Take the under – barely
Thursday, June 15th, 2017The over/under prop bet on how many buys Conor McGregor-Floyd Mayweather will attract on PPV is 5 million. This is not as insane as it first looks.
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