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Mayweather-McGregor expected to make $700 million in PPV buys
We’re now mere hours away from the most anticipated fight in a long, long time. Looking at the fight between Conor McGregor and Floyd Mayweather on paper makes it seem like the biggest mismatch in the...
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SNL’s Weekend Update Summer Edition spoofs Conor McGregor, Colin Kaepernick...
Saturday Night Live completed its late-summer run of Weekend Update Summer Edition Thursday night, and hit on a few sports topics that were in the news while covering the past week in current events....
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Ariel Helwani on Dana White kicking him off Showtime: “He’s trying to make it...
One of the weirdest parts of the lead-up to Saturday’s Floyd Mayweather-Conor McGregor fight involves how veteran MMA reporter Ariel Helwani (currently of Vox Media’s MMAFighting.com) was initially...
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Stephen A. Smith, Teddy Atlas got to screaming about Mayweather-McGregor and...
The long-awaited, much-anticipated fight between Floyd Mayweather and Conor McGregor gave fans their money’s worth Saturday night with 10 rounds of engaging, entertaining boxing. Mayweather won the...
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Nearly 3 million people illegally streamed the Mayweather-McGregor fight
If you wanted to watch Saturday night’s long-awaited fight between Floyd Mayweather and Conor McGregor, you had a few options. You could pay $100 to buy the fight on pay-per-view. You could head to a...
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After lawsuit, Showtime offers some Mayweather-McGregor refunds, UFC goes...
A day after a class-action lawsuit was filed against Showtime over complaints about its Mayweather-McGregor stream not living up to the advertised quality, the broadcaster has offered full refunds to...
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Mayweather-McGregor PPV expected to generate 4.4 million buys, second-highest...
It’s been a month since the Floyd Mayweather-Conor McGregor fight and we’ve been waiting to learn if the fight broke pay-per-view records. BoxingScene reports that the fight will generate 4.4 million...
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Conor McGregor says his UFC 229 press conference will be open to fans…if they...
The last few years have seen plenty of discussion of teams and leagues trying to monetize events traditionally restricted to media members, such as the NFL selling fans tickets for this past February’s...
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UFC 246 broadcast totally ignores Baker Mayfield while going through NFL...
UFC 246 is in Las Vegas on Saturday night, with Conor McGregor and Donald “Cowboy” Cerrone set for the main event. Many celebrities and professional athletes are in attendance for the fights at...
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Conor McGregor docuseries ‘McGregor Forever’ coming to Netflix, produced by...
Religion of Sports has done quite a few documentary projects with top athletes over the years, including Tom vs. Time and The Man In The Arena with Tom Brady (who co-founded the company with Gotham...
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The Fighter and The Kid’s Brendan Schaub talks Mayweather-McGregor press tour...
The four-city press tour to promote the upcoming Conor McGregor-Floyd Mayweather fight had plenty of crazy moments, from journalism controversies to rants against Showtime to profane interviews to...
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Showtime will make Mayweather-McGregor available direct to consumers
For a fight that was once thought of as pure fantasy, it’s still hard to wrap my mind around the fact that we are less than a month away from witnessing Floyd Mayweather fight Conor McGregor in a...
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Showtime suing to stop pirate websites from streaming Mayweather-McGregor
The Conor McGregor-Floyd Mayweather, Jr. fight is just a little more than a couple of weeks away, but there are already websites that are promoting that they will be streaming it live on August 26. But...
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The UFC-WWE merger is finally coming to fruition with Michael Chandler’s...
Thus far, the Ultimate Fighting Championship and the World Wrestling Entertainment have largely been kept as separate entities despite their merger into the TKO Group Holdings back in September. But...
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Jake Gyllenhaal makes cult-favorite ‘Road House’ remake a win
When you compete against yourself, you’re often going to lose. That’s the problem when Hollywood makes nostalgia plays with reboots, prequels, sequels, and requels. Nobody likes it when you mess with...
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