UFC Fight Night 75 drew an average viewership of 841,000 863,000 viewers on Saturday night on FS1 via Sports TV Ratings. The rating reflects a slight increase from Sunday’s UFC Fight Night 74 from Saskatoon. In addition, the prelims drew 270,000 viewers.
UPDATED: TV By Numbers notes that UFC Fight Night 75 drew 841K viewers. The 841,000 viewers is correct.
In the main event, Josh Barnett defeated Roy Nelson via unanimous decision.
| UFC Fight Nights 2015 | |
| Main Card (Live +SD) | |
| UFC Fight Night 59 | 2,751,000 |
| UFC Fight Night 60 | 913,000 |
| UFC Fight Night 61 | 1,200,000 |
| UFC Fight Night 62 | 617,000 |
| UFC Fight Night 63 | 389,000 |
| UFC Fight Night 66 | 575,000 |
| UFC Fight Night 67 | 813,000 |
| UFC Fight Night 68 | 950,000 |
| UFC Fight Night 70 (prelims on FS2) | 909,000 |
| UFC Fight Night 71 | 801,000 |
| UFC Fight Night 72 | 508,000 |
| UFC Fight Night 73 | 1,159,000 |
| UFC Fight Night 74 | 796,000 |
| UFC Fight Night 75 | 841,000 |
Payout Perspective:
Decent numbers considering that the event which aired from 10-1:15am ET went up against 3 Pac 12 college football games on ABC (2.38M avg over course of game), Fox (3.4M) and ESPN (2.1M) (all 3 turned out to be blowouts) as well as crossing over with PBC on NBC. The event is a slight increase from the last event but a drop off from an early August event that occurred on a Saturday night. The average viewership for the years is at 946,000.
We will update with prelims soon.
It’s good relative to FS1, and considering the fights were in Japan, between guys who are not currently in line for a title shot. But it’s certainly not great.
But after all the promotional circus and all the hype, you’d expect the ratings to be a lot better. Plus, I think most of the viewers were North Americans. I don’t know. The ratings were average. It wasn’t worth holding the fight in Japan. It really didn’t pay off.
PBC currently averaging 1.105M viewers a show.
UFC currently averaging 986k viewers a show.
Looks like they do about the same numbers with the exception that boxers get paid more.
If we were too add in HBO and Showtime fights the number would likely go up for boxing while adding Bellator and WSOF number to the UFC numbers would make it likely go down.
So boxing is still getting more viewers than MMA but realistically they are pretty close.
I wonder what the actual crossovers are. How many people are watching both sports?
Na, more lies. The UFC destroys PBC. Bellator beats PBC. The G**est can’t handle it. Hahaha.
WHere are you getting PBC averages 1.1 mill?
Just making shit up.
Go pull up all the NBC primetime numbers, SPike numbers and ESPN numbers.
Looking at the numbers its easy to keep track of UFC but with PBC not sure if all events are there since they are spread all over but from what I see the numbers are like this.
Newtork
PBC on NBC 4 events 2.65 mill
UFC on Fox 3 events 2.86 million
Cable
UFC on FS1 14 events 946k
PBC on Spike 6 events 653k
PBC on ESPN 3 events 1 mill
PBC total Spike/ESPN network 826k
ESPN/Spike are also in more homes and bigger networks than FS1 and UFC has 3 events that happened in afternoon all doing under 600k which brings down their average.
We arent including PBC on FS1 events doing 150k or Bounce TV or NBC SPorts all doing under 300k which would bring their ratings down by half if we actually counted all PBC cable cards.
Even with that UFC is averaging better on Network and Cable.
This is FACTS, REAL NUMBER, not bullshit pulled out of thin air by trolls on this site.
Ask Jason to do a complete breakdown, ask him if these are correct numbers, he’ll tell you they are.
also UFC PPV prelims over 10 events are averaging 983k, so UFC PPV prelims are doing better than PBC events.
This isnt about shitting on PBC its about idiot trolls on this site who come here to make shit up, the UFC is doing better ratings than PBC, thats fact.
He just lies as he goes along. He literally stalked me from Yahoo to here.
This summarizes what kind of nut he is- he believes that Art Jimmerson lost at UFC 1 because he didn’t know the rules.
Riiiiiiiiiight Chris. You’re cherry picking your events. You take the worst PBC events and compare them to the best UFC events.
What about the numbers that show the UFC’s pathetically low PPV buys in March and April? Combined they were worse than those of the WSOF! Less than 300k!
And I can’t emphasize enough the Mayweather-Pacquiao PPV buys that went as high as 5 million. One boxing event sold more PPVs in one night than the UFC did in almost a year!
I can’t wait to see what you’re gonna say after the antitrust lawsuit against the UFC reveals how much BS the UFC has been selling you.
This was posted on a mma website.
PBC 28 events = 30.939M=1.105M Ave.
UFC 42 events = 41.415M=986K Ave.
Thats apparently including all the UFC prelims which really makes this difficult because the UFC is essentially getting two sets of viewership numbers for 1 event.
PBC+HBO 39 events=44.605M= 1.14M ave.
UFC 42 events =41.415M= 986K.
“PBC currently averaging 1.105M viewers a show.
UFC currently averaging 986k viewers a show.
Looks like they do about the same numbers with the exception that boxers get paid more.”
Those numbers seem OK to me. I’m willing to believe them. My issue with PBC is that they are not getting better numbers than the UFC and yet they are spending a lot more money. So yes, those boxers may get paid more, but PBC is circling he drain. What happens when they go out of business? If the PBC model is not sustainable, and as of now it looks like it is not, then salaries will have to be cut. Good for those fighters currently drawing a fat paycheck, but the economic performance of their promoter suggests that they are being overpaid. Time will tell, but the trend is not encouraging for PBC or their fighters.
http://www.badlefthook.com/2015/10/1/9431533/pbcs-stock-continues-to-fall-on-nbc
By the way
here are the UFC breakdowns
UFC PPV prelims 10 events = 983k
UFC FS1 Fight Nights 14 events =944k
UFC Fight Night Prelims, FS1/FS2 = 499k
UFC on FOx 3 events = 2.86 million
41 Events = 1.32 million.
UFC > PBC and this is real numbersl
Breakdown for accuracy
PPV prelims
182 1.04mill
183 1.55 mill
184 1.2 mll
185 1 mill
186 710k
187 780k
188 727k FX
189 847k
190 1.32 mill
191 663k
Average 983k
UFC on Fox
Fox 14 3.05 mill
Fox 15 2.75 mill
Fox 16 2.8 mill
Average 2.86 million
UFC on FS1 Fight Nights
59 2.75 mill
60 913k
61 1.2 mill
62 617k
63 389k Afternoon
66 575k Afternoon
67 813k
68 950k
70 909k
71 801k
72 508k Afternoon
73 1.16 million
74 796k
75 841k
Average 945k
UFC Fight Night Prelims
59 908k
60 775k
61 813k
62 280k FS2
63 304k FS2
66 246k
67 713k
68 782k
70 223k FS2
71 543k
72 292k
73 306k FS2
74 542k
75 270k FS2
Average 500k
Total Average 41 events 1.32 million across all platforms on tv Fox, FS1, FS2 and 1 FX PPV prelim.
Ok your turn to break down all PBC numbers and give proof. Until then your shit is just made up cause I just proved the numbers you listed for UFC are wrong.
Correction, I forgot to add UFC on FOx prelims
Fox 14 on FS1 607k
Fox 15 1.4 mill on Fox
Fox 16 1.3 mill on FOx
Fox Prelims Average 1.1 mill
Added to total that comes to 44 Events,
Fox 2.86 mill
FOx prelims 1.1 mill
FS1 945k
FS1 FN prelims 500k
PPV prelims 983k
Average 1.28 Million
So its actually 27 events with 14 prelims for Fight nights and 3 prelims for Fox cards equaling 44 different times UFC has been on cable or network tv this year.
They were all ready broken down on sherdog which is a mma website.
All u did was go to the fight night article on here and copy pasted the numbers. You didn’t break down anything.
The other issue is what should be counted and what shouldn’t be.
For instance your basically counting two different viewerships for the same event when it comes to fight nights and prelims. Its the same show yet its getting two sets of numbers.
As stated before, UFC nutthugeers always CHERRY PICK their numbers and compare the worst of boxing with the best of the UFC.
Let’s look at it OVERALL. Let’s compare the viewership boxing and the UFC had in a year’s span. How about that?
The numbers you put equals an average of 966k for the UFC, unless i added it up wrong.
But what you put down equals 42.506M for 44 events equaling 966k average per show.
Ok so lets not count double for events.
So that would be
UFC on Fox events averaging 2.86 mill
UFC Fight Night events 945k
UFC PPV prelims 983k
That means no Fox prelims and no Fight Night prelims so those events wouldnt get counted twice.
That would average 1.6 million, haha, you not wanting them to count double events makes it even more.
Face it, your whole fucking argument just blew up in your face, hahaha.
I give you real numbers you give made up bullshit with no source and no fact and the numbers you were bragging about being correct are still lower than UFC numbers.
BUt let me guess, now all of a sudden those numbers you were posting and swearing by arent real, right Greatest?
OWNED
I added your numbers and the average was worst then the numbers i posted.
So like I said PBC is averaging better than the UFC and boxing in general is getting more viewers and a better average per event.
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Funny how you screwed up and all of a sudden you want to switch up the formula.
Boxing wins, even with your numbers.
PBC+HBO boxing 1.14M
UFC 953k or 963k
Its what it is.
No [removed] way that im off by 150k.
I added the numbers you posted really quick and i got 966k
I then did it later and got like 953K I think.
Add them up yourself.
Seriously I dont know what u were thinking. You shouldve done the math.
Got to admit but even D wouldn’t of botched something like thisthis.