UFC Fight Night: Kattar vs. Chikadze drew 482,000 viewers on ESPN Saturday night per Nielsen via ShowBuzz Daily. It drew 201,000 viewers in the A18-49 demo and a household rating of 0.28.
The telecast made it 9th overall in cable ratings on Saturday.
It drew 0.15 in A18-49, 0.10 F18-49, 0.21 M18-49, 0.08A18-34, 0.06 F12-34, 0.08 M12-34, 0.19 A25-54 and 0.21 in over 50.
NFL Wildcard Weekend was the overwhelming winner this past weekend and the UFC show aired during the afternoon on Saturday with prelims starting ESPN+ at 1pm Saturday and the main card occurring later in the afternoon. Thus, it was unlikely that huge ratings would occur.
For wild-card weekend, over 102 million total viewers tuned in Saturday, Sunday and Monday, and the six games averaged 30.5 million viewers (TV+Digital).
— Adam Schefter (@AdamSchefter) January 19, 2022
The 30.5 million average viewers are up +21% vs. 2020 and is the second-highest Wild Card Weekend average since 2015-16.
The UFC did serve as a lead-in to Top Rank Boxing which drew 460,000 overall viewers on ESPN at 10:05pm ET.
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