Bellator’s 2005 dream fight, taking place 13 years later, of Fedor Emelianenko vs. Frank Mir headlined a Saturday night show that averaged 750,000 viewers on a night filled with sports competition.
Emelianenko’s 48-second win in what was the only real marquee-level match on the show, didn’t allow the rating to build like a longer fight would have. The viewership averaged 581,000 viewers on Paramount and another 169,000 viewers on CMT, the company’s second-best showing so far this year, but below what fights with names of that level were doing on Spike alone in past years.