There was more bad than good, and a major lesson told, when it came to ratings on a week where both UFC and Bellator ran two shows each, including one head-to-head.
The bad included both companies doing record lows. The UFC did its lowest prime-time number on FS 1 in history with 399,000 viewers on average for the Friday night finals of The Ultimate Fighter, headlined by Kamaru Usman’s decision win over Rafael dos Anjos.
Bellator on Saturday did an experiment, airing a European show live, instead of on a tape delay in prime time. The show from Genoa, Italy, which aired starting at 4 p.