Bellator MMA Live on Spike TV drew an average viewership of 666,000 viewers per Sports TV Ratings. It was second only to PGA Golf on the Golf Channel Friday night when it comes to cable sports TV ratings this past Friday.
UPDATED: The event peaked at 929,000 viewers per Nielsen source.
| Overnight | Peak | |
| Bellator 132 | 767,000 | 1,200,000 |
| Bellator 133 | 565,000 | 967,000 |
| Bellagtor 134 | 872,000 | 1,200,000 |
| Bellator 135 | 607,000 | 922,000 |
| Bellator 136 | 655,000 | 900,000 |
| Bellator 137 | 594,000 | 768,000 |
| Bellator 138 | 1,580,000 | 2,100,000 |
| Bellator 139 | 764,000 | 988,000 |
| Bellator 140 | 722,000 | 977,000 |
| Bellator 141 | 666,000 | 929,000 |
The event did see an 8% decrease from July’s Bellator 140. In the main event Friday night, Melvin Guillard was upset by Brandon Girtz.
Friday night’s event brought Bellator’s overnight viewership average for 2015 to 780,000 viewers.
Notably, Friday night’s live event saw an overrun of about 5 minutes. The following program was a Bellator MMA special featuring top knockouts from the promotion. It drew an average of 466,000 viewers.
Payout Perspective:
Despite being the second-highest rating for cable sports on Friday night, Bellator 141 did not exceed (or even draw 700K viewers) the ratings for the last two events. Perhaps it was not an attractive card to watch and people decided not to tune in.
Please! this card was consistent with all the other shows except kimbo Perhaps unless its a worked fight or some twat mma can’t draw?
Looks like Bellator needs some names on their cards if they want to draw better numbers.
On a lighter note, looks as if Fedor will sign with the UFC.
@ mmaguru where did you see that information?
He is basing it on Coke saying they were not trying to get him or something a few days ago.
From what I have heard, the deal is done. The deal with Reebok will also likely be announced shortly.
@BrainSmasher,
There are other promotions with deep pockets interested in Fedor’s services, but they do not provide the level of competition that the UFC can offer. Add to that the fact that the UFC has now entered the Russian market with VGTRK and that Reebok have been working to sign Fedor to an individual deal (signing of Khabib is a big clue to their plans to enter the Russian market), I think the writing is on the wall. I would expect an announcement in the next few weeks at the latest.