MMA Payout has learned from a Nielsen source that this past Wednesday’s TUF episode received 424,000 viewers for the 10pm episode and 68,000 for the 1am replay on Fox Sports 1.
The seventh episode drew the season average to roughly 460,000 viewers.
This week’s episode featured the continued reaction after the last episode’s controversial decision. In the episode’s fight, Patrick Walsh defeated Anton Berzon via decision.
Payout Perspective:
Wednesday’s NBA Playoffs won the cable ratings on Wednesday with the Pacers-Heat game on ESPN receiving over 7 million viewers. This week’s episode brought this season back down to earth after the ratings bump from the talked about controversial decision.
Amazing HBO documentary about Ruslan Provodnikov!
http://youtu.be/YOmJvvtcQ1k