The UFC 205 Prelims drew 1,801,000 million viewers on FS1 Saturday night per Sports TV Ratings. It is the second-highest rated UFC Prelims on FS1 this year and third-highest all-time on the network.
Only March 2016’s UFC 196 drew more viewers with 1,863,000. UFC 194 in December 2015 drew 1,931,000 viewers. Both shows featured Conor McGregor in the main event of the PPV.
The UFC 205 Prelims featured Frankie Edgar taking on Jeremy Stephens in the last fight of the prelims on FS1. It also had Khabib Nurmagomedov versus Michael Johnson in a lightweight matchup.
The event drew 1,106,000 viewers in the adult 18-49 demo per Sports TV Ratings.
Payout Perspective:
The show had very good matchups and we see the correlation between Conor McGregor shows and the rise in ratings for the FS1 prelims. One should expect a huge PPV buy rate as a result.
2.2 million PPV buys
1.7-1.8 buys
2m
Fight Fan is getting nervous. Haha.
The buy rate should be huge. He’s been on a roll.
Amazing.
Just having McGregor on a ppv card even sells the prelims…….the man is the franchise thats for sure. The new Ric Flair
WOnt do 2 mill buys, not big enough main event.
Great card, stacked but main event is biggest factor.
Conor/Nate 3 or Conor/GSP are the two shows that could do 2 mill buys.
Think 205 ends up in around the same range as last two, in that 1.5-1.7 mill range, right around UFC record. Could just break it, could come in just under it.
Conor holding all the records. Great to see some of these numbers, numbers that a few years ago you’d only see in boxing, now you see in mma.
205 had 14 billion social media impressions, thats 3x what the Superbowl had last year.
Social media impressions mean absolutely nothing.
111.2M people tuned into the Super Bowl last year.
I dont think 111M people on this planet know what MMA is.
The UFC team hitting refresh on that twitter page it seems.
You Gullible Goons.
Caramel City another boxing t.roll on full disaster/spin mode.
This last UFC hit it out of the park. You can’t handle the reality of the situation.
This was the biggest gate in the history of MSG. It beat Holyfield-Lewis II.
It was the 4th biggest gate in combat sports history.
How does it feel seeing boxing implode and watching mma go through the roof?
Hahaha
*Lewis-Holyfield I (which was at MSG)
It also beat Lewis-Holyfield II which was at the Thomas & Mack in Vegas.