MMA Junkie reports that the UFC 155 Prelims on FX averaged 1.4 million viewers. The ratings ranked 4th all-time for UFC Prelims on FX.
1. UFC 148 Prelims – 1.8 million
2. UFC 145 Prelims – 1.6 million
3. UFC 144 Prelims – 1.5 million
4. UFC 155 Prelims – 1.4 million
T-4. UFC 143 Prelims – 1.4 million
Payout Perspective:
Good ratings for the Prelims which may equate to folks purchasing the PPV. The ratings show a renewed increase of viewership as December’s UFC on Fox 5 Prelims scored 1.2 million viewers. A second straight prelims that did over 1M viewers. UFC 154 just missed with a 980K average. We will see if the trend continues in 2013.
There was a time not that many years ago when I would never have imagined that we see live MMA on cable television frequently, much less seeing it average 1.4 million viewers for the 6th, 7th, 8th and 9th prelim fights of a card. Still can’t believe it sometimes. Good time to be a fan.
Haven’t they been doing these ratings and even more on Spike years ago?
IF by years ago you mean like within the last 5 then yes. But there was a time when we only got 3-4 PPVs per year and thats all the fights we get. Like Weezy said. It is prety amazing that with all this “Over saturation” of events and we are still seeing millions of people tune in to see the 300th fighter on the UFC Roster.
You guys keep celebrating while the slide continues
And Sampson Simpson continues to be miserable
These are pretty good numbers for prelims. How much does the UFC pay their prelim fighters? Good value for the UFC and good value for FX–this is a sustainable model.
Spike had years to build up the brand–so I expect the numbers to look better over time.