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Bellator 171 peaked at 1.1M viewers on Friday

February 1, 2017 by Jason Cruz Leave a Comment

Bellator 171 this past Friday drew 795,000 viewers and peaked at 1.1 million during the Rickels-Derrow fight per Nielsen.

The event was ranked #3 overall in all of cable live sports programming.

The DVR+3 number increases the overnight rating of 720,000 reported two days ago.  The increase is on par with Bellator events.

Bellator 2017
Overnight A18-49 Peak DVR+3
Bellator 170 1,374,000 703,000 2,200,000 1,500,000
Bellator 171 720,000 310,000 1,100,000 795,000

Filed Under: Bellator MMA, DVR+3, ratings, Spike, TV

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