UFC Fight Night 73 drew an average viewership of 1.159M viewers on FS1 Saturday night according to Sports TV Ratings. The event made it the third-most watch UFC Fight Night of 2015.
In addition, the Fight Night Prelims which aired prior to the main card drew 306,000 viewers from 8-10pm ET. The main card, which aired from 10pm-1am featured Glover Texeira and Ovince Saint Preux with Texeira taking the submission victory.
The main card was the second-most watched cable sporting event on Saturday night next to NASCAR on NBC Sports Network earlier in the day.
| UFC Fight Nights 2015 | ||
| Main Card | Prelims | |
| UFC Fight Night 59 | 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 |
| UFC Fight Night 68 | 950,000 | 782,000 |
| UFC Fight Night 70 (prelims on FS2) | 909,000 | 223,000 |
| UFC Fight Night 71 | 801,000 | 543,000 |
| UFC Fight Night 72 | 508,000 | 292,000 |
| UFC Fight Night 73 | 1,159,000 | 306,000 |
Payout Perspective:
Saturday’s UFC event is a reason why FS1 wants the promotion on its network. The UFC delivered with high ratings for the main card which brought the average up to 877,000 for all televised Fight Nights in 2015. Last year, only 2 events exceeded 1 million viewers. UFC Fight Night 73 featured fringe fighters that most casual viewers would not know. Thus, not a big reason to tune in. One might conclude that the reason so many people tuned in was that it was live and a UFC event. A positive for FS1 and the UFC.
Another solid rating. Goes to show you the influence big ppvs have on their free fights.
Great rating, honestly this card had no business doing that good, UFC is def hot right now with McGregor and Ronda so you probably had some carryover from that.
Plus its middle of summer and not much going on in sports.
I dont expect the next card to do that good, Sunday, Oliveira/Holloway is great fight but two FW who arent really known.
But UFC’s having a good summer, two huge PPV, best Fox summer ratings, good cable ratings.
You really need to update your ratings chart, UFC Fight Night 59 did 2.7 million viewers not 1.7 million.
If you want accurate numbers you need to change it.
Even with all the oversaturation issues UFC can still surprise you with their numbers.
Its about time they broke a million again, one show doesn’t fix the last 8 that were terrible! But the ufc and the girls will take what they can get. Lets see, how many years have they been doing fight nights on FS1? What is the yearly average as compared to former years?? Until its higher or until they average 1 million I would STFU already.
@ Sal
You probably sit around all day eating KFC and looking at porn.
More decent ratings (even with a mediocre card)!
Great for FS1.
MMA continues on its roll.
hey combo its impossible to roll up a hill!!! hahaha
@ Sal
Dude you are pathetic go crawl back in your hole. You only post one sided kid comments.
Anti troll why don’t you go suck a dick all you do is criticize people who post truths about the lies of the ufc you are a troll loser to the full extreme. Nice try fuck girls!! the 2015 average is 877k after 4 years or so bahahahah SUCKS THE BIG ONE! Please brag and piss your pants when the average is at least 1 million or better yet 1,5 mil!!! you are all chumps.
Ali act for UFC fighters! Hahahaha
“@Sal
You probably sit around all day eating KFC and looking at porn.”
That’s an insult to KFC and porn.
Fox Sports 1 debuted in 17 August 2013, that’s not 4 years by any count.
The channel was previously called Speed and basically showed motor racing 24 hours a day.
They were on FX & Fuel (now FS2) before FS1 debuted.
Actually for all cards this year on FS1 they are averaging 961k
For primetime cards not including the 3 that aired in morning/afternoon the average would be 1.029 million.
Jason keeps listing UFC FN 59 ratings as 1.7 mill when the real number is 2.75 mill.
And for proof
http://mmajunkie.com/2015/01/the-conor-effect-ufc-fight-night-59-gets-record-breaking-mma-ratings-for-fox-sports-1
“The main card peaked in the final 15 minutes of the live broadcast, during the main event between midnight and 12:15 a.m. ET, with 3.162 million viewers. The average viewership was 2.751 million, according to the Nielsen ratings.”