In Nov. 2014, Bellator MMA scored the biggest MMA audience on cable television that year with "Ortiz vs. Bonnar" at Valley View Casino Center in San Diego, California.
Even critics had to admit the familiar names and trash talking delivered big time in the ratings department ... even if the matches, overall, fell a bit flat.
Bellator 131 averaged 1.8 million viewers and peaked at 2 million on Nov. 15, 2014. And in the coveted 18-34 and 18-49 male demographics, "Ortiz vs. Bonnar" eclipsed every MMA fight in 2014 other than UFC's "Henderson vs.