Bellator 171 this past Friday drew 795,000 viewers and peaked at 1.1 million during the Rickels-Derrow fight per Nielsen. The event was ranked #3 overall in all of cable live sports programming. The DVR+3 number increases the overnight rating of 720,000 reported two days ago. The increase is on par with Bellator events. Bellator 2017 […]
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Showtime gets victory over HBO in Saturday boxing ratings
Showtime Boxing’s card on Saturday night did better than HBO’s Boxing After Dark. The Showtime card featured Leo Santa Cruz taking on Carl Frampton in a rematch of their first encounter last July. Santa Cruz-Frampton peaked with 643,000 Showtime subscribers and an overall viewership tally of 587,000 for the main event which lasted from 11:07pm-11:57pm […]
UFC on Fox 23 peaks with over 3M viewers, Prelims draw 619,000
The UFC on Fox 23 card drew 2,189,000 viewers in adjusted DVR +3 ratings. The card peaked during the main event between Valentina Shevchenko and Julianna Pena with 3,003,000 viewers. The overnight ratings reflected 2,002,000 viewers. UFC UFC on Fox Ratings Overnights Live + SD UFC on Fox 1 5,700,000 UFC on Fox 2 4,570,000 […]
Bellator 171 draws 720,000
Bellator 171 drew 720,000 viewers on Spike TV Friday night per Sports TV Ratings. The event also drew 310,000 viewers in the adult 18-49 category. In the main event, Chidi Njokuani defeated Melvin Guillard via unanimous decision. Also of note, David Rickels did a pretty cool Mannequin Challenge in which the fans assisted for his […]
Ortiz-Sonnen drew 2.2M viewers on Spike TV
Bellator 170 drew 2.2 million viewers for the main event between Tito Ortiz and Chael Sonnen on Spike TV on Saturday night. The Paul Daley-Brennan Ward fight drew 2 million viewers as well. The entire 3 hour telecast drew 1.5 million viewers in adjusted DVR+3 ratings. Notable DVR+3 main events for Bellator on Spike TV: […]