UFC Fight Night 70 drew a viewership of 909,000 viewers for its live event Saturday night on FS1 per Sports TV Ratings. The prelims which aired on FS2 drew 223,000 viewers.
In addition, the replay featuring Yoel Romero and Lyoto Machida in the main event drew another 276,000 viewers on Monday night on FS1.
UFC Fight Night 70 which aired from 10:00-12:49pm ET on FS1 was to be preceded by a portion of the prelims was pre-empted due to the FIFA Women’s World Cup overrun of the England/Canada game. The 25 minutes on FS1 before UFC Fight Night drew 966,000 viewers.
Payout Perspective:
If you do not include the FOX Fight Night which featured Conor McGregor, the televised Fight Night average is 796,000 viewers. The Fight Night did well considering the card shuffling and the fact that the card was comprised of prospects but for Machida. The event competed with HBO’s boxing event featuring Timothy Bradley which drew 1.12 million HBO subscribers and its post-fight (of about 20 minutes) drew another 1 million.
So, Machida vs Romero did 909,000k, Kongo vs whatever his name was at Bellator 139 did 966,000k ? That’s crazy.
@JF Bellator 138 ratings-bounce?
So boxing on a premium cable channel beat out UFC on a main cable channel
So boxing on HBO which has been around forever with a higher profile fight did better numbers than the UFC on FS1- a channel that has been around for a little over a year.
Boxing on FS1 from the same weekend did 129k for Golden Boy. HAHAHA!
JF, if that is the case, it just shows you how much better the viewership is for Spike than FS1. If the UFC was still on Spike, they would be outdrawing Bellator fights, although Bellator is also beating up on PBC on Spike, so they are still strong ratings.
http://www.tmz.com/2015/07/01/pacquiao-vs-mayweather-promoter-sues-manager-hes-rigging-boxing
HAHAHAHAHAHA!!! More bad news for PBC and boxing!! Lawsuits all over the place!
PBC = shit ratings, massive lawsuits pending, hedge fund money drying up, massive overhead, massive losses, etc, etc, etc!!
Ufc is on the decline hahahaha
The UFC is not what it used to be and they seem to be slowly and gradually declining, but I guess we are grading them on an entirely different curve now, in that case the show did probably a little better than what was expected.
Also, what is your perspective on the recent Top Rank lawsuit against PBC?
“Al Haymon and Waddell & Reed are engaged in a sophisticated scheme to gain control of the boxing industry,” said Daniel Petrocelli, lead attorney for Top Rank in filing the lawsuit Wednesday morning. “As the lawsuit explains in detail, they are violating federal law, defying state regulator and absorbing significant short-term losses to drive legitimate operators out of the business.”
That makes literally no sense. Where is the decline? Back 5 years ago, the UFC didn’t have a network deal paying them 100m per year which is why ppv buys were higher then, but of course, the cost of a ppv was considerably less then also.
The FS1 numbers aren’t as good as they were when they were on Spike, but that is because they had fewer shows and because Spike gets far more viewers, unless you are arguing Bellator draws more interest than the UFC does which would lead no one to take you seriously ever again.
Dorothy is power typing like an idiot with lame lame excuses The UFC is running out of time, its really looking bad. Dorothy should be worried but she is too ignorant to know when to bail on a losing, lying, deceitful and bankrupt organization. Major changes coming soon! bahahahahha wait and see. smell the glove.
HAHAHA!! Sal in desperation, spin mode!! LAWSUITS, LAWSUITS, LAWSUITS!!!
JF you are comparing a 3 hour event average to a 15 minute main event.
UFC did 909k and Bellator did 764k
Damn! UFC didn’t even break 1 million viewers?
HORRIBLE
Not nearly as horrible as what Golden Boy did on FS1 with their 129k viewers. Talk about horrible!
Like I said before. Claiming HBO has less viewers and comparing their ratings to cable is misleading. HBO has been the home of boxing for a very long time. If you did not have HBO and Showtime. You couldn’t follow boxing. HBO will draw in the same amount of boxing fans as any other network even if it is NBC. Because all boxing fans have both. The recent PBC ratings prove my theory. There was no huge gain being on NBC. Even with all those casuals to attract. They couldn’t get much more than HBO was getting.
So when bringing up Boxing ratings on HBO or Showtime. The size of their subscriber base means jack shit!
Decent ratings in regards to the average and card.
D acts like anyone give a flying fuck about some lawsuit. No one cares! And it wont effect boxing at all. Keep trying fuck stool. Bahahahaha
Sal is too retarded to realize he’s already commented on the UFC lawsuit and how it will affect the business. He can’t keep up with all of his delusions.