On a night with a lot of sports competition, UFC did its best numbers ever on ESPN 2 this past Friday night.
The UFC on ESPN 6 event, headlined by Chris Weidman’s unsuccessful move to light heavyweight, where he lost via first-round stoppage to Dominick Reyes, averaged 805,000 viewers.
That’s a strong number for ESPN 2, and even beat out the Top Rank Boxing show on ESPN that went head-to-head and did 635,000 viewers.
The Reyes vs. Weidman main event did 1 million viewers, and would have likely done well over that figure had it went longer.