MMA Payout has learned from a Nielsen source that UFC Fight Night 56 on FS1 Saturday night drew an average viewership of 699,000 viewers. It was the second UFC event in two days. The main event of UFC FN 56 saw Ovince St. Preux KO Shogun Rua in the first round.
UFC Fight Night ratings represents a boost from the last UFC Fight Night airing on the Fox Networks. As you may recall, Fight Night 54 drew a lowly 413,000 partly due to the fact it was moved to FX at the last minute due to an extra inning MLB game.
Last 5 Televised UFC Fight Nights
UFC Fight Night 47 – 735,000
UFC Fight Night 49 – 689,000
UFC Fight Night 50 – 911,000
UFC Fight Night 54 – 413,000
UFC Fight Night 56 – 699,000
OSP’s last appearance, a loss to Ryan Bader, at UFC FN 47 drew 735,000 viewers. Here, OSP was a late replacement, but had a better opponent, yet the ratings were lower. Of course, OSP is not a draw of any kind but its notable to see the viewership drop.
Payout Perspective:
The 699,000 is likely due to the lack of star power on this card, the fact it was the second UFC event in two days and it was late on the east coast. It also occurred during Kovalev-Hopkins on HBO which may have taken away some combat sport fans away from this event.
excuse after excuse after excuse ZZZ ZZZZ ZZZZ
So we are now at a point where a UFC event with a former UFC champion & legend headlining is now doing Bellator numbers. The UFC is sure doing its best to wipe itself off the North American market.
UFC Fight Night 54 drew 413,000 viewers?!?! LMFAOOOO
thats certainly news to me LMFAOOOO
these articles get dumber and dumber by the day LMFAOOOO
SalDaQueef
@TruthSHITTER
Before you go slamming the operator of this website, you forgot to give us your ratings spin on how this is a fantastic number for the UFC! Yes, please enlighten us first, on how amazing 699k is in comparison to UFC’s historical FN (or comparable) ratings on Spike, FX, etc.
Please, spit us the bullshit.
TS – do you have a source for FN 54 that has a different number? No one pretends that this site is infallible, but it does try to be unbiased. If you have different sources please post them, I would be interested in seeing them as would a lot of the other folks who read this.
TS – I almost forgot, I’m still waiting for proof that the UFC replays on Spike averaged 2.3M. My (admittedly) inaccurate count is <2M.
http://mmapayout.com/2014/10/bellator-129-live-3-683000-viewers/
What did Glory 18 do?
hey DiEGGo ive already poked holes into your so called “average” LMFAOOO
you dont even include any near what was aired on spike!
stop attempting to be a “smart” guy because you arent……
and lets not pretend that UFC Fight Night 54 purely averaged 413,000 viewers only……. dumb-dumb even linked to the old article with the addition of the FS1 numbers………
ah, good old LeonTheAmateur LMFAOOOO well since you asked for it
UFC Fight Night 56 was 193% above the FOX Sports 1 general primetime average last week!
it was 309% above the FOX Sports 1 total day average!
ahhhhhhh, feels good man!!!!
the UFC keeps adding to the channel as usual!
excellent work!
cant say the same for glory *whistles while waiting for glory and bellator to be excommunicated from spike*
http://mmapayout.com/2014/11/ufc-fight-night-56-attendance-and-bonuses/
d again coming with his standard “SalDaQueef” how about insulting me with something new? Your insults are about as strong as the UFC ratings
TS – you haven’t presented any evidence to contradict my numbers. I told you that if you show me the evidence I will admit my mistake. I found what I could, but I admit that my list is incomplete. Please send me the complete list along with the average viewership for each event, and if everything averages to 2.3M as you claim, then I will admit that you are right and I am wrong.
However, you still haven’t shown me any numbers. Again I ask you – can you post your source? Or if you don’t want to give up your source at least post the list of events with the averages?
@TS
“Yes, please enlighten us first, on how amazing 699k is in comparison to UFC’s historical FN (or comparable) ratings on Spike, FX, etc. ”
The Bullshitter avoiding the question with this answer:
“UFC Fight Night 56 was 193% above the FOX Sports 1 general primetime average last week!”
Nice job with the spin truthSHITter. That was complete denial, your response = FAIL. Learn how to read.
? who is using my name?
Payout username allowed to be used by others?
D: What do you call a gay bar without bar stools?
TS: A fruit stand
D + TRUTHspitter = payout’s Ambiguously Gay Duo.
hey sal these are the glory 18 numbers: 352,000 viewers/0.11
and Diego i KNOW who you are, youre not fooling me LMFAOOOO
and who the fuck is MMALies?!? who the hell is this guy??!? LMFAOOOO
oh look its LeonTheAmateur showing that he knows NOTHING about the industry again……… who gives a shit about channels with better penetration, mindshare, AND averages!!!! (ALL metrics throughout the demographics are FAAAAAAR better) its about the HERE and NOW!!!! this WILL lead to an ABSOLUTELY HUGE rights fee increase; so, you can say that, yes indeed, the UFC is doing light years better than if they were on those other channels
and once again… mls…. fucking mls….. got a rights fee increase of 5 fucking times their old deal. MOTHER….. FUCKING….. m….l……s…………….. and thats ALL you need to know about the hunger thats out there to collect live sports rights packages………………..
MMATruth is too pathetic to even acknowledge he is Sampson/Topps,etc. Naturally, he wouldn’t confess to being the fag that he is.
Coming 2015….Leon The Schmo!
Haha only in the twilight zone could a customer/viewer departure be a good thing. You don’t have to be in the “industry” to know what tanking ratings do for your company. Oh wait, there are morons out there like truthShitter who think this is good. Imagine if FS1 got their plug pulled, hahaha. TS bullshit would go right out the window LMAOOO.
DForDelusional is also a paid troll that writes as many words as possible to spin this type of horseshit. Too bad no one believes them. Idiots.
Leon the Schmo is a welfare to work troll who is competing with Saldaqueef for biggest idiot on the site. Gonna be very amusing when he has to eat crow and call himself the Schmo. Fucking moron.
TS: Why don’t you shop at Sports Authority?
D: Because I prefer Dick’s
D + TRUTHspitter = payout’s Ambiguously Gay Duo.
MMAFag.
TS: Why don’t you come out of the closet?
MMAFag: Because I don’t want the world to know I’m queer..
TS: I was talking about your multiple identities on here.
MMAFag: Oh yeah, I was just kidding about that last part. Hehe.
MMAFag=Sampson/Tops/50 other aliases of homosexuality.
LeonTheAmateur
“You don’t have to be in the “industry” to know what tanking ratings do for your company.”
tanking ratings where? this isnt bellator…….
LeonTheAmateur
“Imagine if FS1 got their plug pulled”
all of that content would get moved over to FX and FOX (FOX is CONTRACTUALLY OBLIGATED to show this content!!!!)
a remark like that DEFINITELY shows that you shouldnt be having these kinds of discussions LMFAOOOO
Tanking ratings? Where? Everywhere! If you can’t even acknowledge that YOU shouldn’t be having these discussions. Every single UFC property has gone down since the move to FS1 including ppv sales.
TruthSpitter= UFC propaganda. What a crock of shit.
once again where are the numbers that show theyre “tanking”?
*yawns* ring around the rosy………………
Leon the Schmo= boxing welfare to work troll.
Study up ladies:
“With that change has come a series of growing pains. Other than a pair of notable exceptions, UFC ratings and pay-per-view (PPV) buy rates have been down across the board since the promotion’s jump to FS1 in mid-August.
Although this can largely be attributed to the fledgling FS1 being a far weaker network than FX, it may be there are other causes here at work, too. After all, UFC’s debut on FS1 — a stacked UFC Fight Night 26 card that featured a main event of Chael Sonnen vs. Mauricio “Shogun” Rua — drew an average of 1.7 million viewers on Sat., Aug. 17, 2013.
While subsequent UFC Fight Night programs were never designed to do those kind of numbers — given that many of them took place on weeknights and didn’t feature a star the caliber of Sonnen on top of the card — it’s hard to believe UFC planned on giving away fights like Carlos Condit vs. Martin Kampmann and Glover Teixeira vs. Ryan Bader in front of respective audiences of just 824,000 and 539,000 viewers.
Furthermore, despite a pattern of low ratings after the move to FS1, UFC broke 1 million viewers on the network for the Finale of the otherwise low-rated The Ultimate Fighter (TUF) 18 and for the UFC 168 “Prelims,” which did around 1.1 and 1.6 million viewers, respectively.
With these numbers in mind, it would appear UFC’s audience is wiling to tune into FS1 en masse if the promotion gives them fights they are interested in.
Pioneering MMA journalist Dave Meltzer is fond of recounting a lesson he learned from Houston, Texas-based wrestling promoter Paul Boesch that is applicable here. Boesch’s pro wrestling promotion had drawn a bad house and, in a phone conversation with Meltzer, he gave a laundry list of reasons it had failed to attract fans: Bad weather, competition from football, a popular television program airing a new episode and many more.
Then Boesch delivered the punchline, saying something to the effect of: “I just wanted you to hear all that because those are bullshit excuses you’re always going to hear from promoters. The fact is, we didn’t draw because we didn’t put on a main event fans wanted to see.”
It’s a lesson UFC would be wise to keep in mind as it attempts to balance its commitments to FOX, delivering money match ups on PPV, expanding its presence in international markets and launching its Internet-only network.
The sky may be far from falling for UFC, but with both Georges St-Pierre and Anderson Silva possibly gone for good, the company needs to focus on building stars who can drive business in 2014 and beyond. UFC may be attempting to diversify its sources of income with Fight Pass — which super-serves its niche hardcore audience, but won’t appeal to the masses — and running more international events, but fight promotion still remains a star-driven business at the end of the day.
And stars are a commodity UFC needs now more than ever.
Without further ado, let’s take a closer look at UFC viewership patterns in 2013:”
http://www.mmamania.com/2014/1/7/5264330/ufc-ratings-2013-ppv-fox-sports-fx-fuel-tv-full-events-mma
Always entertaining when an antiquated opinion piece is used as validation for an argument. Goes to show you what type of schmo Leon is.
Haha that opinion is backed up by facts and analysis, check the link. Your name is Delusional because you try to spin a situation even when it’s not possible. Sorry D’lusional, numbers don’t lie.
Just don’t be a fruitcake and walk away from our bet next year ahahaha! Can’t wait to hear you admit you were wrong.
Okay, so for starters, you don’t know what the word antiquated is. Secondly, it was proven DEAD WRONG YOU FUCKING IDIOT!!
Exhibit A: “The sky may be far from falling for UFC, but with both Georges St-Pierre and Anderson Silva possibly gone for good, the company needs to focus on building stars who can drive business in 2014 and beyond.”
Anderson Silva is fighting Nick Diaz on January 31st. The writing is also on the wall for GSP to be making a comeback in 2015 as well after his meeting with White/Fertitta plus his manager stating he will. Pretty obvious he wants to wait until the blood testing policy is passed.
Amusing watching you eat crow for the 5000x on here. My god you are a stupid fucking idiot.
Your obviously an idiot and delusional who doesn’t understand basic math. You are arguing, purposelessly, about the wrong thing. Focus on the numbers dfordummy, not about a subjective point. This further cements the fact you have zero business sense since you choose to focus on this tidbit rather than the obvious factor at play- declining numbers.
Hahha that’s why your PPV predictions are always off, you don’t know how to do math lol! When you said 5m did you really mean 4? Oh well, too late hahaha
“Your obviously an idiot”
You just proved how much of an idiot YOU ARE!!!!! HAHAHA!!!
I pointed out the bullshit theory these idiots had, that prove you are a moron and you can’t handle it.
I have zero business sense? What do you do for a living, you turd? You are an internet welfare to work troll. I run a business online. I make more money in a day than you make in a year.
My ppv predictions are always off? More of your bullshit delusions from a boxing troll.
Mr. 2014 injuries are here to stay. Oh well, they could still hit 5m. HAHA! Fucking idiot.
You proved nothing, as per usual. I find your delusions comical , like the fact I just provided numbers and data proving my point yet you evade it entirely by focusing on an opinion that’s irrelevant. Whether GSP fights again or not, doesn’t change the 2013 numbers dfordummy. That’s what I call grasping at thin air.
I have a hunch that 2014 numbers are down again but well wait for that so you can argue your illogic then. Only an idiot would argue about numbers that are right in front of them. So yes , for about 2 years now UFC TV numbers have been Tanking.
Notice how I’m the only one that responds to you? Because your so far out there it’s funny hahah.
2013 numbers down
2014 numbers down
Keep it simple for the idiots
Well, I certainly proved that you can not spell, nor can you read or comprehend.
Delusions? You claim one of their main thesis as a point of irrelevance? God you are dumb. The GSP point was about 2015 moron.
What the hell are you talking about? You are beyond incoherent. You have a hunch that 2014 numbers are down again? We already know the 2014 numbers are down, this is the point of the entire argument you fucking idiot. Then you bring up tv numbers, which I haven’t argued at all. You are all over the place, you nutjob.
Notice how no one responds to you until they tell you, what kind of a moron you are. By the way, it’s funny how you still can’t grasp this concept that “your” is YOU ARE or you’re. So, YOU ARE not smarter than a 5th grader. Hahaha.
2013 numbers were up from 2012.
2014 numbers plummeted so drastically because of injuries.
2015 numbers will be back to normal and Leon the Schmo is going to be humiliated and run away.
“2013 numbers were up from 2012.” — Delusional .
I was talking TV ratings the whole time dumbass. Ahh, whats the point zzzzz
You stupid fuck. Our entire argument has been ppv based. You are so delusional, you aren’t even aware of what you are saying. And the ppv’s buys were up in 2013 from 2012. Can’t wait until 2015. I can tell you are already nervous. Leon the Schmo!