Bellator 147 drew an average viewership of 656,000 on Spike TV on Friday night. In the main event Josh Thomson defeated Pablo Villaseca. UPDATED 12/08/15: The event peaked at 833,000 viewers at 11:03pm. The NBA on ESPN featuring LeBron James and the Cleveland Cavaliers facing the New Orleans Pelicans were the tops in sports cable […]
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Bellator 145 draws 814,000 viewers
Bellator 145, the quarterly tentpole event for the organization, drew an average of 814,000 viewers Friday night on Spike TV per Sports TV Ratings. It was a slight increase over September tentpole event, Bellator: Dynamite 1. The event aired Friday night from 9:oopm-12:27am ET. It went up against the NBA on ESPN Friday night. In […]
GLORY-SpikeTV part ways
MMA Fighting’s Luke Thomas reports that GLORY Kickboxing will no longer be seen on SpikeTV. The promotion’s run which started in November 2013, has come to an end. The decision to end the relationship was not sudden according to the report as the two sides had been in talks, but it appears that each has […]
Bellator 143: 669,000 viewers
Bellator 143 drew an average of 669,000 viewers on Friday night on Spike TV per Sports TV Ratings. It’s 17% decrease from Bellator’s tent pole event last week but was a slight increase from Bellator 141. UPDATED 09/29/15 – Per Nielsen source, the peak occurred during Beltran/Grove match which drew 885K viewers at 10:25pm. The […]