The World Series of Fighting drew 167,000 viewers on NBC Sports Network Saturday night per a Nielsen source. The event is a 10% decrease from WSOF 23.
The event on Saturday saw Jon Fitch defeat Yushin Okami via unanimous decision. In the co-main event WSOF Heavyweight Champion Blagoy Ivanov defeated Derrick Mehmen.
Saturday night was a bad night for WSOF as game 1 between the Chicago Cubs and New York Mets took place on TBS. The MLB playoff game drew 7.89M viewers in the same time frame as WSOF. Also, the ESPN college football game between Florida and LSU drew 6.7M viewers between 7:30-10:30pm ET. (ratings per Sports TV Ratings) In addition, boxing fans had GGG-David Lemiux on PPV Saturday night.
| World Series of Fighting | ||
| WSOF 1 | 198,000 | |
| WSOF 2 | 210,000 | |
| WSOF 3 | 201,000 | |
| WSOF 4 | 264,000 | |
| WSOF 5 | 227,000 | |
| WSOF 6 | 161,000 | |
| WSOF 7 | 94,000 | |
| WSOF 8 | 212,000 | |
| WSOF 9 | 242,000 | |
| WSOF 10 | 365,000 | |
| WSOF 11 | 781,000 | |
| WSOF 12 | 206,000 | |
| WSOF 13 | 246,000 | |
| WSOF 14 | 229,000 | |
| WSOF 15 | 179,000 | |
| WSOF 16 | 181,000 | |
| WSOF 17 | 222,000 | |
| WSOF 18 | 209,000 | |
| WSOF 19 | 216,000 | |
| WSOF 20 | 128,000 | |
| WSOF 21 | 203,000 | |
| WSOF 22 | 254,000 | |
| WSOF 23 | 184,000 | |
| WSOF 24 | 167,000 | |
Payout Perspective:
Once again, WSOF was up against stiff competition for viewers up against the MLB playoffs. Not only is it the playoffs, but it was a game between two of the biggest media markets for viewers, New York and Chicago. The viewer average for WSOF events for 2015 is 197,000.
They should merge with Bellator.
GREAT GREAT article on the UFC’s finances on Bloodyellow.com:
http://www.bloodyelbow.com/2015/10/20/9547333/what-deutsche-bank-moodys-and-standard-poors-tell-us-about-the-ufc
Article by John Nash
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Pretty fair to say that article was a hit piece that was poorly researched at best, and possibly partially intentionally fabricated. They didn’t list the ppv numbers accurately and they presented hypothese in a number of unproven calculations. To be blunt that article should be taken with a grain of salt.
I am starting to believe that WSOF is fronted by Zuffa. Otherwise they would be dead by now. NBCSN will probably dump them. They bring in no ratings and can’t even draw with UFC castoffs. But neither can Bellator.