Bellator 67 ratings: Viewership up 51 percent with 165K

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With Bellator lightweight champion Michael Chandler leading the charge in a non-title fight with Akihiro Gono, ratings for this past weekend's Bellator 67 event were up sharply.

The event averaged 165,000 MTV2 viewers – up 51 percent from Bellator 66, which averaged 109,000 viewers a week prior.

MMAjunkie.com (www.mmajunkie.com) today confirmed the figures with an industry source.

Bellator 67 took place this past Friday, May 4, at Casino Rama in Rama, Ontario, Canada. Prior to the MTV2-televised main card, which also aired in high-definition on EPIX, Spike.com carried the prelims.

Chandler's quick first-round knockout was the featured attraction, though Bellator 67's main card also included Ryan Ford's stunning comeback win over welterweight Luis "Sapo" Santos, a competitive welterweight-tournament-semifinal bout that Bryan Baker won over Ben Saunders, and a grinding heavyweight fight in which Damian Grabowski topped Dave Huckaba via unanimous decision.

Of Bellator's eight season-six events to date, Bellator 67 ranked fourth. It also topped the previous season average of 148,000 viewers.

The all-time Bellator-MTV2 ratings include:

Bellator 67 ratings: 165,000 viewers
Bellator 66 ratings: 109,000
Bellator 65 ratings: 163,000
Bellator 64 ratings: 175,000
Bellator 63 ratings: 140,000
Bellator 62 ratings: 175,000
Bellator 61 ratings: 108,000
Bellator 60 ratings: 169,000
Bellator 49-59 ratings (season five average): 186,000
Bellator 46-48 ratings (Summer Series average): 229,000
Bellator 35-45 ratings (season four average): 204,000

I can't wait for Bellator to hit SPIKE and blow up.

i still can't believe Aoki vs. Alvarez was such a bomb and the second lowest of the season.

Bellator is anywhere from 90 to 70 percent fueled by pure hardcores I think. Trying to track or pin their rating patterns seems almost useless. The mathces on the cards just don't seem to relate to the ratings in any way.