MMA Junkie reports that Saturday night’s Bellator 57 on MTV2 received a low 129,000. Bellator 57 ran opposite the UFC on Fox, the Pacquiao-Marquez fight and college football Saturday night.
Despite changing its time slot to avoid conflicts, the 129,000 viewers average shows that MMA fans were watching the UFC online, the JDS-Cain marathon on Spike TV, free fight prelims on the Audience Network or college football.
Payout Perspective:
Hopefully in 2012 Bellator can plan ahead during weekends it will run up against UFC PPVs and UFC on Fox. The 129,000 viewers is a low turnout but expected considering the huge event in the UFC. We will see if Bellator can gain some traction with the hype of MMA from the UFC on Fox. It will be interesting to see if it can rebound next week despite competing with a mediocre UFC 139.
UFC 137 has already happened, and if you’re talking about UFC 139 as “mediocre” then how dare you sir!
Although the buyrate probably won’t be spectacular…
But I’ll be there live, so clearly it must be the best UFC card of all time 🙂
MV. Apologies on the gaffe. Yes its 139 I meant. But, if you are there I’m sure they’ll amp up the intensity. 🙂
If you’d like, let us know what you think about the crowd and attendance. I’m curious to see the amount of fans going.
Jason, any word on the Spike counter-program ratings? I’m curious as to how many idiots Spike was able to fool.
Jack: Jose will have those numbers out shortly.
UFC 139 is hardly mediocre. The marketing for it on the other hand.
Jack:
http://mmapayout.com/2011/11/spike-tvs-ufc-on-fox-counterprogram-nets-719000-viewers/
Will do Jason. I’ll be there for every fight, so it will be interesting to see when the bulk of the crowd shows up. The last live MMA show I was able to attend live was Strikeforce Challengers 15 in April (great live show), so I’m definitely ready to get back into an arena! It’s a little ironic that the last 2 times I’ve been to a live MMA event at the Pavilion it was for Strikeforce shows.
While going head to head with the UFC can’t help, being such a distant 2nd org means that for myself and probably most fans, it competes with 2nd rate movies, dinner plans, and just about anything else that may occur on a saturday night. The UFC puts on events I plan around, not squeak into my plans.