haha Holy Shit Spike TV gets Higher Rating than UFC on VS

A rebroadcast of UFC Fight Night 22 drew an average audience of 793,000 viewers while the "Kongo vs. Barry" event garnered 744,000 views for its live broadcast on the Versus channel, according to Sherdog.


wow

lol, comedy

Leads to why it was so odd for them to be countering in the first place. Then Nate goes out, maybe some fan interest was lost.

How about dumb people thinking it was the live show?

I bet that had something to do with it Josh, especially the Tivo crowd

josh200612 wrote:

How about dumb people thinking it was the live show?

THIS! I was watching it on VS and my buddy calls me over to his house to watch "the fights" so i went over right after the meathead fight, i come there and his dumb ass is on SPIKE lol

it was very misleading tho, they had a live ufc132 prelims stamped on the bottom of the screen so i could see how he got it kinda confused

Yep I always see this happen with dumb MMA fans that follow a little bit aka my DAD.

Ouch, i thought only the internet could bitchslap the UFC.

It shows that UFC on Spike is pretty much done with...Spike won this round but they'll lose in the end.

I wonder though..would Spike still be allowed to air UFC/Spike events after the UFC is gone? Such as Fight Nights, Unleashed, TUF re-runs, and finales? I would have thought not originally but Spike being able to just use UFC against UFC on Sunday makes me re-think that. Probably just terms of current contract.

Thats surprising to me that Spike drew more but there are alot of houses that dont get Versus. I believe more people get Spike than Vs.

KingsOwn19 wrote:

Ouch, i thought only the internet could bitchslap the UFC.

It shows that UFC on Spike is pretty much done with...Spike won this round but they'll lose in the end.

I wonder though..would Spike still be allowed to air UFC/Spike events after the UFC is gone? Such as Fight Nights, Unleashed, TUF re-runs, and finales? I would have thought not originally but Spike being able to just use UFC against UFC on Sunday makes me re-think that. Probably just terms of current contract.

without a doubt they can keep it

whatever airs on their program is their material, UFC will have the stuff in their library as well, but any Spike event is Spike t.v.'s

What's weird is on my cable all the channels are between 200-400, premiums are 500-550, and locals are between 1-99.

Versus is like somewhere out in 683 land. I didn't even think I got it until I looked it up on the internet.

GDPofDRC wrote:

What's weird is on my cable all the channels are between 200-400, premiums are 500-550, and locals are between 1-99.

Versus is like somewhere out in 683 land. I didn't even think I got it until I looked it up on the internet.

I know some of my buddies around here have Dish and they dont get versus.

Spike will not have the ability to air past UFC events, no way Zuffa is that dumb, it could still be half Spike's schedule if it were the case.

I think it is also important to point out that the VS ratings were up from the last event, it's not like it did bad numbers. Which is a good sign considering this card was fucked up by injuries and big names like Kampmann,Marquardt and Rumble were pulled from the card.