UFC Fight Night 67 drew 813,000 viewers on Saturday night on FS1 according to Nielsen sources. The ratings is about a 33% improvement from UFC Fight Night 66 and 27% improvement from the last UFC Fight Night show in Brazil.
UPDATED: The peak viewership for the main card occurred between 11:15pm-11:30pm ET with 1,050,000 viewers. The main card rating for the A18-49 demo was 0.51 (512,000 viewers) and M18-49 0.91. The prelims in the A18-49 demo were up to 560,000 viewers.
The prelims which preceded the main card (5pm-7pm PT) drew an impressive 713,000 viewers. In addition, the pre-fight show also on FS1 drew 205,000 viewers per Sports TV Ratings.
| UFC Fight Nights 2015 | ||
| Main Card | Prelims | |
| UFC Fight Night 59 (FOX) | 1,700,000 | 908,000 |
| UFC Fight Night 60 | 913,000 | 775,000 |
| UFC Fight Night 61 | 1,200,000 | 813,000 |
| UFC Fight Night 62 | 617,000 | 280,000 |
| UFC Fight Night 63 | 389,000 | 304,000 |
| UFC Fight Night 66 | 575,000 | 286,000 |
| UFC Fight Night 67 | 813,000 | 713,000 |
Payout Perspective:
The ratings are an improvement on UFC Fight Night 66 although you may recall that the card occurred during the day as it was airing live from the Philippines. But, Saturday’s card improved upon UFC Fight Night 62 from Brazil. The event went up against Game 7 of the NHL Playoffs with Anaheim-Chicago. The game started 5pmPT/8pmET but was a blowout which probably helped the main card ratings that started at 7pmPT/10pmET. The ratings for the prelims are very good and not really a good reason as to why they did so well since there was not many names on the card.
UFC on FS1 outdraws PBC once again this past weekend with a fraction of the budget and a lower profile fight!
No surprises.
I hardly call that beating! D has no idea what anyones budget is and its a shame after pissing away half a billion dollars or more the UFC can barley beat out a brand new boxing promotion!! Hahaha and 3,500 gate in the world domination bahahhahahaha Nice try.
Everything Sal says is completely delusional. He doesn’t have a clue about any of the overhead of either production and is delusional about the fact that the ratings go down gradually after debuting.
Not to mention what difference does the promotion mean, this isn’t a new product? Technically this isn’t even a new promotion, it is a new league.
3500 in Brazil with a Brazilian not even ranked in the top15th headlining vs. 7,000 with a guy who is being deemed Mayweather’s next opponent at Barclay’s Center in the US………hardly a level comparison. And only one of these events lost tons of money and it wasn’t the ufc.
Talk about pissing away a half a billion dollars, after PBC burns through that in 2-3 years(if they make it that far), they won’t have ppv, various other sources of income to bail them out like the ufc will if they do take massive losses from loans(which have not been substantiated by anyone who is relevant). PBC will have nothing to show for either. It isn’t a reputable brand name, it will be synonymous with the XFL in a year or two. Even if the UFC folded tomorrow, someone would buy it for a ton of money it has a ton of value unlike PBC’s shit name.
When you have costs that range in the 5m area for Spike tv cards and can only draw 700k viewers on avg, with big names early on, you are doomed to fail. The NBC shows are ranging in the 2-3m area. This is horrible considering the costs. This is a long term play that they are banking on getting viewership in the NBA/MLB audience range and it will never happen, not even close. They aren’t even beating the UFC which has a fraction of the overhead and lower profile fight cards.
So again…
Anything over 500k viewers for combat sports is a win.
If you hit 1mm viewers you’re in heaven.
MLB ratings info:
http://www.sbnation.com/2013/7/2/4484824/why-do-baseball-ratings-continue-to-trend-downward
Decent numbers for UFC Brazil show, beating out Khan on Spike is surprising.
Also Jason your numbers are wrong. UFC FN 59 was not on Fox, it was McGregor/Siver on FS1 and it did 2.75 million viewers not 1.7 million.
If you want factual numbers then you need to change it.
http://mmajunkie.com/2015/01/the-conor-effect-ufc-fight-night-59-gets-record-breaking-mma-ratings-for-fox-sports-1
This is how stupid D is. Pbc is one of many boxing companies and the ufc is really the only mma company. Funny how all the hbo shows have been doing decent numbers. Pbc and the ufc have one major thing in common. They are both going down. Who will go down first?? So far the ufc us going sown pretty fast hahaha. If d didn’t have pbc he wouldnt be able to spin shit shit utc numbers that are everywhere!!
PBC is not one of many boxing companies like the UFC. They are the only one’s with a league format. Sal is too stupid to comprehend this. As a matter of fact, they are somewhat copying the UFC’s league style plan. Problem with it is their plan runs too costly in overhead and will never achieve the ratings the UFC has.
HBO had a few shows do very good numbers. That will go back to normal shortly.
Good to see Sal at least realizes PBC is doing shit and going in the toilet. Nice flip flop.
Joe, not everything over 500k in combat sports is a win. It depends on how much you put into it. If this was a no name fight card with prospects, than it would be great, but for those two names it was very bad. Of course this is a long term play for PBC, but the numbers are already declining and they weren’t impressive to begin with.
Decent numbers, indeed!
Nice to see the upward trend with the last three shows.
Pbc was on a Friday lol Saturdays usually does better .. Peaking over 1 million on a Friday is better damn solid … Besides hbo cards this year did better than most ufc cards on fox sports and hbo has millions less viewers stop comparing shit ridiculous.Enjoy both sports like many of us do
Show some evidence that Saturday’s do clearly better. Also, how about the fact that Spike is a bigger audience- FS1 is a relatively new station. Spike has been around. Bellator numbers have doubled the Khan numbers. HBO shows also have exceeded the network numbers on occasion for PBC.
Peaking at 1m is not impressive considering the fight. They are paying these guys millions and can’t cover the costs with ad money.
D is in a fantasy world of star wars and heavy masturbation! Comparing the UFC to any other mma promotion is a joke! Even bellator!
Sal is a fag who sucks dick on a daily basis.
Ufc been on one channel fs1 for how long now ? There is reason why most big fights are on Saturdays … Man keeps bringing up how much fighters get paid lmao it was good ratings man let it be … It did better than a lot of other combat sports in that same channel !
Not very long. It’s been around for a little over a year and has had horrible ratings across the board for everything other than UFC and NASCAR. If they were still on Spike their ratings would be much better. Look at Bellator’s numbers. On FS1, they would be doing half of what they are doing on Spike.
Those numbers for PBC were pathetic. There were a number of Bellator events that beat it, one of which nearly doubled it.
Random UFC card from Brazil on a channel in less homes > Khan on Spike.
Ouch for PBC