Welcome to another edition of The Ratings Buffet for the week ending July 14th. UPDATED – Now includes ratings from last Friday’s TUF 25 Finale. Friday FS1: TUF 25 Finale Prefight 6:00pm ET 130,000 viewers; 0.06 A18-40 FS1: TUF 25 Finale Prelims 7:00pm ET 453,000 viewers; 0.15 A18-49 FS1: TUF 25 Finale Prelims 9:00pm ET […]
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Mayweather-McGregor Press Conference in LA draws 124,000 viewers on FS2
Tuesday’s Mayweather-McGregor Press Conference on FS2 drew 124,000 live viewers according to Nielsen. A re-air of the World Tour on FS1 drew 133,000 viewers. The launch of the World Tour at the Staples Center in Los Angeles aired live on FS2 at 2:30pm. It peaked with 176,000 viewers. The re-air on FS1 at 8:00pm peaked […]
UFC 213 Prelims are the lowest this year
The UFC 213 Prelims on FS1 drew 657,000 viewers Saturday Night per Nielsen. It’s the lowest-rated Prelims this year. The feature fight for the Prelims was Travis Browne taking on Oleksiy Olynik with the Russian winning via rear naked choke. Per Nielsen it drew 0.24 in the A18-49 demo. The post-fight show 1:12am-2:12am ET on […]
Gaethje tops TUF 25 Finale salaries
The Nevada State Athletic Commission has released the payouts from TUF 25. Newcomer to the UFC, Justin Gaethje drew $300,000 including bonuses for Friday’s fight against Michael Johnson. Via MMA Junkie: Justin Gaethje: $200,000 (includes $100,000 win bonus) def. Michael Johnson: $47,000 Jesse Taylor: $30,000 (includes $15,000 win bonus) def. Dhiego Lima: $15,000 Drakkar Klose: $24,000 […]
UFC 213: Payout Perspective
Welcome to another edition of Payout Perspective. This time we take a look at UFC 213 from the T-Mobile Arena in Las Vegas, Nevada. Whittaker wins interim middleweight title Robert Whittaker won a unanimous decision over Yoel Romero to win the interim middleweight title. Originally, a co-main feature, it took over as the last fight […]