Friday night's Bellator championship fight where Rafael Carvalho hit a liver kick out of nowhere to upset Brandon Halsey for the vacant middleweight title drew the lowest ratings of the Scott Coker era with 555,000 viewers.
Bellator was third among live sports events Friday night, trailing the Royals win over the Jays that got them into the World Series. The baseball game did 5,626,000 viewers on FS 1, among the largest audiences in the history of the station, and a Memphis vs. Tulsa college football game on ESPN, that did 1,216,000 viewers.