On a weekend with two major Bellator shows, and the last UFC show on broadcast network television for the foreseeable future, it was very much the end of the old and the beginning of the new.
Very quickly into the UFC show, the departure from FOX was mentioned. The UFC put together videos of fighters thanking FOX for seven years of growing the sport.
When UFC debuted on FOX in 2011 with the Cain Velasquez vs. Junior Dos Santos heavyweight title fight, which peaked at nearly 10 million American viewers, there were a lot of hopes of how big the sport was going to grow with regular network prime time shows.