UFC Fight Night 87 drew 656,000 viewers on FS1 Sunday afternoon according to Sports TV Ratings. The Prelims which preceded the main card drew 494,000 viewers.
The main card featured Alistair Overeem taking on Andre Arlovski. Overeem, the crowd favorite, stopped Arlovski in the second round. The prelims were highlighted by Rustam Khabilov as he defeated Chris Wade via unanimous decision.
Notably, the main card ratings were slightly below last month’s Sunday UFC show (781,000) from Croatia. However, the prelim card was better than last month’s rating (443,000).
According to Sports TV Ratings, the main card drew 340,000 viewers in the adult 18-49 demo. The prelims drew 257,000 viewers in the adult 18-49 demo.
| UFC Fight Night 2016 | ||||
| Main Card | Prelims | |||
| UFC Fight Night 81 | 2,288,000 | 1,767,000 | ||
| UFC Fight Night 82 | 1,300,000 | 1,093,000 | ||
| UFC Fight Night 83 | 983,000 | 829,000 | ||
| UFC Fight Night 85 | 1,149,000 | 766,000 | ||
| UFC Fight Night 86 | 781,000 | 443,000 | ||
| UFC Fight Night 87 | 656,000 | 494,000 | ||
Payout Perspective:
I am not opposed to Sunday morning UFC but due to the international audience and start times that relate to the region, the ratings are affected. Of course, Mother’s Day may have played a part as well. It will be interesting to see what the DVR rating is for this event.
That’s a heavy decline
Yeah, that’s almost as low as PBC numbers, but not quite that bad. Hahahaha.
Decent number for Sunday afternoon.
But holy shit looks like Canelo/Khan only did 332k buys.
Wow. If true Oscar was talking about how it would be bigger than Cotto/Canelo which did 900k.
http://www.badlefthook.com/2016/5/11/11661142/canelo-vs-khan-hbo-not-releasing-ppv-numbers-which-are-rumored-to-be
Canelo is a great fighter, a good ticket seller, good tv draw and with the right name in the B slot he’s a good PPV draw but on his own he’s not a PPV star yet.
He needs a Floyd, Cotto, Manny in that B slot to do big numbers. If those numbers are true thats a horrible buyrate.
Looks like this guy is full of shit and other reporters are saying Canelo/Khan did just under 600k.
Thats much better number, still under what you’d want for Canelo as the next superstar of boxing but its a whole hell of alot better than the number the other guy was saying.
We all hope GGG fight is next but I could see Golden Boy going with Cotto rematch, trying to get Floyd fight or maybe trying to get Manny to come back.
He needs one of them for a big million buy PPV.
Chris, I wouldn’t assume he lied. The 600k figure was the Bob Arum figure. He is about as honest as a drug addict.
Pacquaio is done.
The only way Mayweather fights is against someone he can walk over.
GGG is by far the best boxer out there, but no one has the stones to fight him and Canelo will continue to duck him because he is terrified of him.
Correction, GB claimed that number which no one should take seriously seeing how HBO refuses to release the number.
Turns out 600k is also not true.
According to Iole the real number is 460k.
So not disaster numbers but not very great numbers, more in middle of meh.