There were low expectations for what was not a very compelling UFC Argentina fight card, and on the heels of a very impressive rating for UFC Fight Night: Rodriguez vs. Korean Zombie the week prior, last Saturday’s event in Buenos Aires featured a rarity.
MMA Fighting’s Dave Meltzer notes that the preliminary card actually had more viewers than the main card, which doesn’t usually happen for FS1 shows, but the lead-in was a college football game between Michigan and Indiana.
The UFC Argentina preliminary card, headlined by Michel Prazeres’ first-round submission win over Bartosz Fabinski, drew 707,000 viewers, the best number for prelims on FOX Sports 1 since the first FS1 show of 2018.