Every Bellator fight at Bellator 149 drew over 1 million average viewers according to Spike TV. The Kimbo Slice-Dada 5,000 drew the highest rating with 2.9 million viewers. The breakdown is as follows: Emmanuel Sanchez-Daniel Pineda: 1.9 million viewers Linton Vassell-Emmanuel Newton: 1.9 million Derek Campos-Melvin Guillard: 2.4 million Kimbo Slice-Dada 5K: 2.9 million Royce […]
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Kimbo-Dada fight ratings up to 2.9M viewers
The DVR numbers for Bellator 149 this past Friday reflect higher ratings for the Kimbo Slice-Dada 5000 fight as the fight between the two drew 2.9 million viewers. The Royce Gracie-Ken Shamrock fight drew 2.7 million viewers. Overall, Bellator 149 drew 2.2 million viewers for the 3 hour fight card. Kimbo-Dada drew 2.9 million from […]
Bellator MMA 149: Payout Perspective
Welcome to a special edition of Payout Perspective with a look at the latest Bellator tentpole event from Houston, Texas. The event was a spectacle to say the least about Friday night’s event. Gracie stops Shamrock in Round 1 The intros for this fight were well done as Bellator invested a lot into the production […]
Bellator 149 draw 1.9M, Kimbo-Dada draw 2.5M viewers
Bellator 149 delivered huge ratings on Friday night according to Sports TV Ratings. The event was the highest-rated cable sports show on Friday drawing an average of 1.964,000 viewers on Spike TV. In fact, the pre- and post-fight programming featuring Kimbo Slice and Benson Henderson respectively posted huge ratings as well. Bellator 149 was headlined […]
Kimbo Slice = Ratings
The New York Times reports on Bellator 149 tonight mainly focusing on Kimbo Slice’s return to the television. Regardless of his ability, the former street fighter has produced ratings and Friday night should not be any different. The brief NYT article characterizes Bellator as a “smaller mixed martial arts organization” that uses “card attention-grabbing fights […]