TUF 22 Episode 7 draws lowest rating of season

TUF 22 drew an average viewership of just 379,000 on FS1 Wednesday night per Sports TV Ratings.  It’s the lowest live viewership of the season.

TUF 22 just came back from a week’s hiatus due to the World Series.  The NBA on ESPN featuring New York and Cleveland in game 1 drew 2.296 million viewers (8:05-10:34pm ET) and game 2 featured the LA Clippers playing Golden State (10:34pm-1:24am ET).  The second game between the bitter rivals drew 2.85 million viewers which was tops for sports cable programming Wednesday night.  Notably, the west coast showing of episode 7 on FS1 drew just 50,000 more viewers from 10pm-11pm PT per Sports TV Ratings.

In the fight of the show, Martin Svensson of Team Conor submitted Than Le of Team Faber.

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Perhaps the hiatus and the NBA hurt the return of a new episode of TUF.  The low rating draws down the season average to 516,000 viewers.  Notably, this season has about the same average through 7 episodes as it did last fall’s TUF 20.  It is doing better than last spring’s TUF 21.