Bellator’s strategy to run its heavyweight tournament semifinals on two nights over the same weekend yielded somewhat mixed ratings results.
The Friday night Bellator 207 semifinal, featuring Ryan Bader’s win over Matt Mitrione from the Mohegan Sun Casino in Uncasville, Conn., did 416,000 viewers on Paramount Network. The number, while very low by pre-2018 standards, was the best rating the company has done in nearly four months.
The last Bellator television show on Paramount to beat that mark was the June 29 event headlined by Ilima-lei MacFarlane’s win over Alejandra Lara, which did 466,000 viewers.