Bellator 175 on Friday night drew 1.4 million viewers for the main event featuring King Mo Lawal and Rampage Jackson according to a Spike TV release. The main event peaked at 1.6 million viewers.
According to Sports TV Ratings, the overall event drew 907,000 viewers. The DVR +3 ratings drew 1 million viewers and a 0.9 rating with Men 18-49.
Per the Spike TV release, Bellator programming on Spike TV is averaging 993,000 viewers which is a 26% increase over 2016.
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The ratings are better than I had expected. 1.4 million for King Mo-Rampage is very good considering the lack of any spark for this event. It does show that Rampage is still an interesting fighter despite being on the other side of his career. Will he continue it in the UFC?
What’s going on here? Some of the information here directly contradicts with the original story you ran on the ratings for this event, including the main event average and the average viewers for the year. I suspect these are all DVR+3 numbers in this press release, but they’ve just not reporting that in order to spin this more positively. Which is weird, because the SD number isn’t that bad.
Well done….and on a friday night too, very impressive.
Good numbers.
@Blackwatch The above are the DVR+3 numbers. The SD numbers did 907K. Thus, the DVR+3 was over 1M viewers. I was told that the main event did 1.2M viewers. The release stated 1.4M with a peak of 1.6M.