Fight Night 83 fails to average 1 million viewers

[Wild]

UFC Fight Night: Cerrone vs. Oliveira averaged 983,000 viewers (prelims at 829,000) on FS1, which is well down from the 1.3 million average for Stephen Thompson's win over Johny Hendricks on Super Bowl weekend. It did peak at 1.2 million viewers for the main event between Donald Cerrone and Alex Oliveira. The January 17th show headlined by T.J. Dillashaw and Dominick Cruz averaged about 2.28 million, although the card peaked during Travis Browne vs. Matt Mitrione.

LINK: Ratings: Bellator 149 peaked at 2.7 million viewers, UFC fails to average 1 million

 

[Kingtony87]

Not surprising. Wasn't too compelling a card. Cowboy was the only draw and he had just recently gotten beat pretty convincingly.

 

[TheEmperorRises]

Not surprising. Wasn't too compelling a card. Cowboy was the only draw and he had just recently gotten beat pretty convincingly.

It was almost weird how little the UFC promoted it.

 

[Kingtony87]

It was almost weird how little the UFC promoted it.

They have bisping Silvia and 196 coming up. Hard to promote 3 cards at once.

 

[hit4me4]

 

[Ministry of Silly Walks]

well below the 2.5 average from bellator

 

[ChaosOverkill]

Figure out how to enhance the mid to upper range star power and stoke interest in the technical or only break new ground with the select few megastars.

Applies to all promotions.