Kevin Iole of Yahoo! Sports reports that UFC on Fuel TV 8 was the most watched UFC live event in the network’s history. Saturday night’s event from Japan scored twice the previous high of 485,000 viewers.
Also impressive was that the rerun received another 219,000 viewers. Wanderlei Silva versus Brian Stann was the main event for the show.
Via Dave Meltzer at MMA Fighting:
Both the pre-fight show (250,000 viewers) and post-fight show (219,000) became the second and third most-watched shows in station history. Even more impressive is the post-fight show didn’t start until 1 a.m.
UFC on Fuel TV 7: 195,000 live, 116,000 replay
UFC on Fuel TV 6: 88,000 live, 143,000 replay
UFC on Fuel TV 5: 111,000 live, 140,000 replay
UFC on Fuel TV 4: 211,000
UFC on Fuel TV 3: 173,000 live
UFC on Fuel TV 2: 197,000 live
UFC on Fuel TV 1: 217,000, live
Payout Perspective:
Outstanding numbers for a show that lacked big names and served as a ‘tweener show as the big event is in Montreal on March 16th. It was unlikely that Silva-Stann as the main event would draw such a high rating but it was a pleasant surprise.
Source: http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/Payout/~3/9iacJ-rJLfQ/
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