MMA Payout has learned from a Nielsen source that the fifth episode of TUF received an average viewership of 509,000 viewers. In addition, MMA Payout has learned that the Wednesday night’s UFC Tonight scored an all-time high on FS1 with 242,000 viewers. First, the 5th episode of TUF featured Felice Herrig defeating Heather Jo Clark […]
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Bellator 129 Live + 3: 683,000 viewers
HBO Boxing tops events so far in 2014
ESPN’s Dan Rafael tweeted out the top live, first-time airings of boxing events for 2014. Notably, the top 10 are all HBO events. Chavez-Vera 2 (HBO) 1.39M (peak 1.53M) GGG-Rubio (HBO) 1.304M (peak1.323M) Crawford-Gamboa (HBO) 1.208M (peak 1.286M) Marquez-Alvarado (HBO) 1.198M (peak 1.322M) Donaire-Walters (HBO) 1.088M Provodnikov-Algieri (HBO) 1.017M Salido-Lomachenko (HBO) 1.017M Kovalev-Agnew (HBO) 1.006M […]
Bellator 129 posts lowest ratings of season
MMA Payout has learned from a Nielsen source that Friday’s Bellator 129 received a season low of 564,000 viewers with a peak of just 780,000. It was the worst output of the season for Bellator. Bellator Season 11 overnight ratings Bellator 123: 667,000 Bellator 124: 771,000 Bellator 125: 742,000 Bellator 126: 656,000 Bellator 127: 609,000 […]
Spike TV programming to support Bellator 131: Tito vs. Bonnar
Bellator announced shoulder programming on Spike TV to support November’s upcoming card featuring Tito Ortiz versus Stephan Bonnar. The schedule is as follows via Bellator press release: “Tito vs. Bonnar: Winner Take All” Premieres on Wednesday, November 12 at 11pm ET/PT Before they battle it out in the cage, watch MMA light heavyweights, Tito Ortiz and […]