FX prelims fall below 1 million viewers

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The roller-coaster ratings for FX's UFC preliminary-card broadcasts continue.

The most recent two-hour broadcast, which coincided with this past weekend's UFC 150 event, fell below 1 million viewers.

Of FX's nine preliminary-card broadcasts to date, it ranked seventh.

Overall, the Aug. 11 broadcast averaged 974,000 viewers, MMAjunkie.com (www.mmajunkie.com) today confirmed with event sources.

UFC 150 took place at Denver's Pepsi Center. The night's main card, including lightweight champion Benson Henderson's narrow split-decision victory over Frankie Edgar, aired on pay-per-view. Dennis Bermudez, Michael Kuiper, Erik Perez and Chico Camus picked up victories on the FX broadcast, which followed a one-bout stream on Facebook.

The most-recent UFC-FX prelims broadcast, UFC 149, averaged 1 million viewers. Prior to that, UFC 148 set a new high watermark with 1.8 million viewers.

The UFC and FX have now averaged 1.27 million viewers for each of its nine preliminary-card broadcasts. (FX's five UFC main-card broadcasts have averaged 1.22 million viewers each.)

The next preliminary-card broadcast is set for Sept. 1, when UFC 151 takes place in Las Vegas. Lightweights Danny Castillo and Michael Johnson meet in the featured preliminary-card bout, which precedes the PPV main card and a championship headliner between light-heavyweight titleholder Jon Jones and Dan Henderson.

The all-time UFC-FX preliminary-card ratings include:

UFC 148 ratings: 1.8 million viewers
UFC 145 ratings: 1.6 million
UFC 144 ratings: 1.5 million
UFC 143 ratings: 1.4 million
UFC 146 ratings: 1.3 million
UFC 149 ratings: 1.0 million
UFC 150 ratings: 974,000
UFC 147 ratings: 969,000
UFC 142 ratings: 880,000

Not bad considering it was a big night of Olympic sports and i think a preseason nfl game

bigbeastcardinal12 wrote:

Not bad considering it was a big night of Olympic sports and i think a preseason nfl game

I disagree. It was not a big night for the Olympics if I remember correctly. All the big events were already done. Also pre-season football is not a major event. Who watches more then 1 half anyways?

Preseason football is whatever, but Olympics, big event or not, is a big draw.