HBO Boxing Saturday night drew 833,000 network subscribers on Saturday for the Francisco Vargas-Orlando Salido fight. The live fight, which aired from 11:44pm-12:32 am, per Sports TV Ratings was the third-most watched cable sports program on Saturday night. It bested the UFC Prelims which drew 798,000 viewers. The HBO fight received 393,000 viewers in the […]
TUF 23 Episode 8: 376,000 viewers
The Ultimate Fighter Episode 8 drew an average of 376,000 viewers in Live + SD rating on FS1. Per Sports TV Ratings, the viewers for this episode in the adult 18-49 demo was 199,000. The season average increases slightly to 376,000. In the fight of the episode, Team Joanna finally posted a victory with Josh […]
Spike TV to air tribute to Kimbo Slice prior to Bellator 157
Spike TV will air a one-hour special paying tribute to Kimbo “Kevin Ferguson” Slice who passed away on Monday. The special will air prior to Bellator’s quarterly tentpole event, Bellator 157: Dynamite 2. Slice passed away on Monday, June 6th. He was 42 years old. According to a report, Slice passed away of heart failure […]
Lesnar subject to UFC’s anti-doping policy
MMA Fighting reports that Brock Lesnar has been entered into the UFC’s anti-doping policy testing pool. Since Lesnar’s return to the Octagon comes sooner than the official policy giving USADA four months’ notice to be entered back into the pool. According to section 5.7.1 of the UFC anti-doping policy, it states: An Athlete who gives […]
UFC 199 Prelims: 798,000 viewers
The UFC 199 Prelims on FS1 drew 798,000 viewers per Sports TV Ratings. The ratings reflect a slight increase from last month’s PPV. UPDATED 6/8/16: According to Nielsen, UFC 199 ratings reflected a 7% gain over the averag of Q2 2015 PPV prelim cards on FS1 (744,00 viewers) and up 10% over last June’s UFC […]