MMA Payout has learned from a Nielsen source that Friday night’s Bellator MMA Summer Series on Spike TV drew an average viewership of 582,000 total viewers. The peak for Bellator 122 occurred during the co-main event of Brandon Halsey defeating Brett Cooper which drew 807,000 viewers.
The overnight rating is down from last Friday’s re-air of Bellator’s May PPV.
Summer Series
06/06/14 – Bellator 121: 668,000 viewers, 904,000 peak
07/25/14 – Bellator 122: 582,000 viewers, 807,000 peak
Bellator 120 replay
07/18/14 – Bellator 120 replay: 890,000 viewers, 1.334,000 peak
Payout Perspective:
For those wondering, the Live+3 Day ratings for last week’s PPV re-air was 944,000 viewers with a peak at 1,418,000. Last Friday’s Bellator 122 was not remarkable and actually ended early with Spike showing a Glory fight to fill in the last 10-15 minutes of the show. If you were wondering, last year’s July Summer Series show drew 679,000 viewers although that show included Michael Chandler and Ben Askren.
Where is tops and pink pig? With there mega troll comments?
Call me Dana.
they showed a glory fight because they had space to fill? why not a bellator prelim bout? ive got NO faith in these mother fuckers running an MMA organization.
“hey, lets confuse the viewer and show a fucking kick boxing match at the tail end of our MMA production! YAY, this is going t work out just fine!” *bunch of stiff suits hi five each other*
NO FAITH! theyll be gone by 2016
There is a strong rumour Spike is planning to mix up Bellator and Glory in some way. A yearly cross-over event and multiple fighter-exchanges are the most likely scenario’s.
I think it will be hard to mix MMA and kickboxing on a frequent base in some sort of an event (not to mention: Bellator is in an oktagon, Glory is in a ring) but maybe a NYE-show with a Japanese flavour could accentuate the partnership.