A UFC show with little-known headliners beat a boxing show with a world title fight on a stronger network head-to-head on Saturday night.
And the big surprise is that the difference was an audience over the age of 50.
That flies in the face of what most would expect on a head-to-head basis.
UFC Fight Night from Mexico City averaged 859,000 viewers on FS 1. The high point, the Alexa Grasso vs. Randa Markos co-main event, which went head-to-head with the boxing, averaged 988,000 viewers.
Top Rank Boxing on ESPN, which opposed the last two fights of the UFC show, built around Vasyl Lomancheko's WBO featherweight (130 pounds) title defense over Miguel Marriaga, did 728,000 viewers.