Tito Ortiz's retirement fight with Chael Sonnen on Saturday led Bellator to its third most-watched broadcast in its history.
The three-hour plus show averaged 1,374,000 viewers, putting it behind the 1,964,000 viewers for the Feb. 2016 show that featured bouts between Royce Gracie vs. Ken Shamrock and the late Kimbo Slice vs. Dada 5000, and the 1,580,000 viewers that tuned in for the June 2015 show headlined by Slice vs. Shamrock. Saturday night’s number was slightly ahead of the 1.2 million viewer average for the Nov. 2014 show headlined by Ortiz vs. Stephan Bonnar.
The main event itself averaged 1.