Saturday night featured a great UFC main event between Brian Ortega vs. The Korean Zombie, but that wasn’t even close to the biggest combat sports attraction taking place that evening. Over on ESPN a lightweight unification boxing fight between top P4P-ranked Vasiliy Lomachenko and 23-year-old budding superstar Teofimo Lopez went down. And people watched in droves.
Kevin Iole of Yahoo Sports took to social media to enlighten the masses with the very impressive ratings:
The #LomaLopez did MASSIVE numbers on ESPN Saturday in overall viewers and in 18-49. The entire six-hour block averaged 1.