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 […]
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WSOF 28 draws 161,000 viewers
World Series of Fighting 28 on the NBC Sports Network Saturday night drew an average viewership of 161,000 viewers per Nielsen. The event Saturday night is down 24 percent from WSOF 27. The event featured Marlon Moraes defend his Bantamweight Championship against Joseph Barajas. Moraes won handily. 2016 WSOF Events WSOF 27 – 211,000 WSOF […]
UFC Fight Night 83 draws 983K, Prelims 829K
UFC Fight Night 83 drew an average viewership of 983,000 on FS1 Sunday night per Sports TV Ratings. The prelims drew 829,000 on FS1 on Sunday. The main card airing from 9pm-11:38pm ET featured Cowboy versus Cowboy with Cerrone defeating Oliviera. The prelims which preceded the main card aired from 7-9pm ET. Only the NBA […]
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 […]