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Ratings report: ONE debuts on U.S. TV live to 264,000 viewers

The debut of the ONE promotion this past Saturday night on TNT did 264,000 viewers in the 11 p.m. to 1:05 a.m. ET slot for a three-match television event from Ryogoku Sumo Hall in Tokyo.

The ONE Century show was broken down into three matches on television. The preliminaries as well as the second of two shows in the building, aired on the Turner Broadcasting streaming service, B/R Live.

The big draw for the show was Demetrious Johnson’s flyweight Grand Prix win over Danny Kingad via unanimous decision. The other two fights saw Christian Lee beat Saygid Guseyn Arslanaliev to win the lightweight Grand Prix via decision, and Angela Lee, one of ONE’s major stars in Asia, retain her women’s Atomweight title via fifth-round submission over Jing Nan Xiong in what was the main event of the broadcast.