Bellator MMA drew 807,000 viewers on Saturday night on Spike TV per Sports TV Ratings. The event also drew 407,000 in the adult 18-49 demo.
The main event was to be Matt Mitrione and Fedor Emelianenko but that fell through just hours before the show was to start. The event went on with Josh Thomson taking on Patricky Freire in the main event. Pitbull stopped Thomson in the second round in his home town.
Payout Perspective:
Certainly, you have to think that Bellator expected more from this event but with the late cancellation and no Fedor, 807,000 viewers seems pretty good. It went up against NBA All-Star Saturday night on TNT which drew over 5.6 million viewers as well as Showtime Boxing during a free preview weekend.
Not bad with the Fedor fight falling out probably hurting the ratings massively, the Broner fight on Showtime did 779,000 average..