For those who thought that UFC being the last sports organization running a live event on television would mean record numbers due to lack of competition, that theory didn’t hold up.
The last UFC show for at least a month, this past Saturday’s empty arena show from Brasilia, Brazil, averaged 672,000 viewers on ESPN.
The number sounds low because of UFC fights of late that had been topping 1 million viewers consistently. But there are a number of circumstances in place here.
The key one is the time slot. The show aired from 3 p.m. to 8:30 p.