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Bellator 172 peaked at 1.2M viewers

February 23, 2017 by Jason Cruz Leave a Comment

Bellator 172 this past Saturday on Spike TV drew 873,000 viewers in DVR +3 ratings per Nielsen.  The event peaked at 1.2 million viewers.

This past Saturday featured Patricky Freire and Josh Thomson as the original main event was scrapped due to an injury to Matt Mitrione.

Bellator
Overnight A18-49 Peak DVR + 3
Bellator 170 1,374,000 703,000 1,850,000 1,500,000
Bellator 171 720,000 310,000 1,100,000 795,000
Bellator 172 807,000 407,000 1,2,00,000 873,000

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

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