Sports TV Ratings reports that Wednesday night’s UFC Fight Night drew an average of 801,000 viewers and a 0.4 rating in adults 18-49. The prelims drew an average of 543,000 viewers.
UFC Fight Night 71 which officially aired from 7pm-10:04pm PT and featured Frank Mir and Todd Duffee drew 801,000 viewers. The prelims which featured Sam Sicilia and Yaotzin Meza aired from 5pm-7pm PT drew 543,000 viewers.
UFC on Fuel TV 4 – July 11, 2012: 211,000 (Fuel TV)
No mid-July fight in 2013 (July 2013 fights were UFC 162 and UFC on Fox 8)
UFC Fight Night 45 – July 16, 2014: 640,000 (FS1)
UFC Fight Night 71 – July 15, 2015: 801,000 (FS1)
UPDATE: Per Nielsen the main card peaked at 928,000 viewers from 8:15-8:30pm PT. UFC programming made FS1 the top ad-supported cable sports network on Wednesday in primetime. The prelims were up 31% (415K viewers last year) from last year’s UFC Fight Night 45 from New Jersey. Post-fight coverage on Fox Sports Live averaged 211K viewers which was up 66% (compared to 127K) from last year as well.
Payout Perspective:
Good ratings based on previous mid-week July cards by the UFC. These cards take advantage of the lull in sports mid-July and viewership was up. Per Sports TV Ratings, it was the second most-viewed sports cable programming of the night to a Gold Cup Match on Univision Deportes. The ratings did exclude the ESPY awards which aired on ESPN. An ESPY countdown show drew 665,000 on ESPN.
A fight night on FS1 no one knew was even on that followed a massive ppv outdraws PBC’s ESPN debut. PBC = XFL. HAHAHAHAHAHAHA!!!!
Didn’t outdraw it.
PBC peakes at 1.2m.
Fight night didnt even hit 1m.
Math. Learn it.
Peaks*
yea a promotion that just started, and is pushing something that is 100 years from being anything new, against the fastest growing sport that has been pushing Fox and fight nights like a drunk hooker selling cheap pussy. bahahahaha 1.2 million against 800k OH well at least Mir looked good! Always been a big fan of his. I didn’t even watch espn show hahaha
“Didn’t outdraw it.
PBC peakes at 1.2m.
Fight night didnt even hit 1m.
Math. Learn it.”
Did outdraw it. Everyone analyzes these by average viewership. PBC averaged 799k, UFC Fight Night averaged 801k.
Math, logic, reason, sanity, learn it.
I have no idea what the hell the point of Sal’s rant was there. It is incoherent beyond recognition.
last time i check 1.2 million peak is more than 928k. this also averaged. it also outdrew it by 2k. whopty doo. thats what your celebrarting thse days. i noticed your quiet on ufc 187 ppv buys. 3 stars on the card. 375k buy rate. sad.
1.2m.
Math.
More people watched PBC on ESPN then watched UFC Fight night.
Fact.
1.2M viewers for boxing > 928K for UFCaca
Haha. Debut on ESPN for PBC =799k viewers……shit numbers. Haha. Less than an unknown FS1 fight night show.
PBC = 500 million dollar failure.
“last time i check 1.2 million peak is more than 928k. this also averaged. it also outdrew it by 2k. whopty doo. thats what your celebrarting thse days.”
Last time I checked you retards cherry pick stats whenever it fits your bullshit argument. This show averaged 799k viewers. That is less than the FS1 show. Everyone evaluates these based on average viewership including you- unless it doesn’t fit your idiotic angle. The PBC show was also on ESPN a channel with much higher average numbers across the board than FS1, had Thurman headlining, yet couldn’t even put up decent numbers for their debut. That is awful. Everyone evaluating PBC, with the exception of the boxing fans/writers in denial, are pointing out how there numbers have not been good. PBC has been around since March now and have had quite a number of shows now for us to analyze. Their numbers have been God awful. Their goal of attracting the 18-49 demo has been a miserable failure. They thought bringing out things like different high tech camera angles, having Hanz Zimmer compose, have that massive unique jumbo tron and their own platform for the ring was going to appeal to the youth, but it hasn’t at all. Everyone who comprehends their business approach is aware of how bad this is looking for them.
” i noticed your quiet on ufc 187 ppv buys. 3 stars on the card. 375k buy rate. sad.”
Hey moron, I was the one who first posted what Meltzer was reporting on 187. Go check out the archives you idiot. Also, who gives a shit? They just killed it with McGregor. Boxing PPV is taking a nose dive. McGregor is the biggest ppv star in the world right now. HAHAHAHA!!!
“1.2m.
Math.
More people watched PBC on ESPN then watched UFC Fight night.
Fact.”
Cherry picked stats. Retards focus on numbers that benefit their argument only. More average viewers for low profile FS1 show than ESPN big debut.
Fact.
did you just say mcgregor is the biggest star in the world right now??? dude no one knows who he is except a bunch of irsihman in Boston. get the fuck out of here. dude cant clear 750k outside of an aldo fight that is promoted all damn day. his gate did 7.1 million. mayweather/pac did 75 million. cotto vs canelo will beat that also. stop it already. his facebook page has a whopping 1 million people. canelo has that and dude cant even speak english. fyi, kovoov vs ward is being discussed. thats 2 million views on hbo 3.5 million on network. 3 million basic cable. gennady and errol spence will soon be bigger as well than the leprechan
actually gennady is already bigger. just let him beat one star and he’ll be huge.
D is under the impression that Meltzer is God..
Regardless, more ppl watched PBC on ESPN than UFC on FS1.
Thats a fact. No cherry picking to it.
“did you just say mcgregor is the biggest star in the world right now??? dude no one knows who he is except a bunch of irsihman in Boston. get the fuck out of here. dude cant clear 750k outside of an aldo fight that is promoted all damn day. his gate did 7.1 million. mayweather/pac did 75 million. cotto vs canelo will beat that also. stop it already. his facebook page has a whopping 1 million people. canelo has that and dude cant even speak english. fyi, kovoov vs ward is being discussed. thats 2 million views on hbo 3.5 million on network. 3 million basic cable. gennady and errol spence will soon be bigger as well than the leprechan”
Right no one knows him. That’s why he can draw 3m viewers on FS1 and just did a huge ppv draw with a replacement opponent. Name me one boxer who can do that right now. Just 1. Not even Mayweather. His 1st fight against Maidana and Guerrero went under 900k. It seems like McGregor beat that number, if that is the case, that proves what I’m saying to be true.
His gate against Mendes did 7.1m, his gate against Aldo will go over 10m. I doubt Canelo-Cotto is doing that type of gate. You are exaggerating how big that fight will be. Not to mention you and I both know that his ppv with Aldo will beat Canelo-Cotto. Mayweather-Pacquaio is history. Past tense. Over. Not to mention, it took Mayweather AND Pacquaio to do that number. McGregor doesn’t have a Pacquaio to compete with or else his number would be considerably higher also.
HAHAHAHA!!! FB Pages. Yeah, really relevant. How did Canelo do against low profile opponents on ppv? 350k buys? HAHAHA!!! Kovalev-Ward will do 2m viewership? That is no guarantee at all and furthermore, that is not as impressive as 3m on FS1. HBO has more people watch than FS1. FS1’s ratings as a whole including their NASCAR stuff(which has very good ratings elsewhere) are lower than other cable channels. Just wait until boxing hits FS1 and you’ll see how shit their ratings are. They will be considerably lower than the UFC’s.
GGG and Spence will be bigger?? HAHAHAHAHAHAHA!!! No one outside of people who follow boxing closely even know who Spence is. He’s never headlined a major card, let alone sold a ppv buy. GGG will eventually make it to ppv, but by what age? 35? Everyone dodges him and even when he gets to ppv, he can’t speak English and just isn’t a huge draw. They will never hit McGregor status.
Get ready for your new name Fagbusiness.
The Gayest is reporting from the mental wing of Bellvue.
“actually gennady is already bigger. just let him beat one star and he’ll be huge.”
Right, that’s why he’s never even headlined a ppv. Do you actually take yourself seriously? How the fuck do you rationalize what you just said?
Isn’t the UFC $600 million in debt?
Ahahahahahaha
Na, you must be confusing PBC’s losses, they range around 600m.
HAHAHAHAHAHA!!!
D cant even face facts, what a fuck knob bahahhaha the UFC has had years to build and look, they are sucking it big time!
The brief, and I mean brief spike in UFC popularity was the worst thing to happen to them! Look whats happening now! Down everywhere, still waiting for stats and figures that the UFC is growing!
OH wait women’s ufc is up! bahahahahahahahahha but wait! women’s ufc is one person! hardly a sport with any depth!! bahjajajajajaja what a bunch of CRAP!!!
Sal ranting again- time for his meds and diapers.
I completely agree with everything d has said. It sounds like Fight business is in the wrong website. Go bad left hook .com. they will be able to help you out over there and agree with all of them ridiculous points you are bringing up