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UFC Fight Night 87 enjoys record-setting ratings for 'Overeem vs Arlovski' undercard

Ultimate Fighting Championship (UFC) staged its latest FOX Sports 1-televised event last weekend (Sun., May 8, 2016), UFC Fight Night 87, from Rotterdam, Netherlands, featuring a Heavyweight main event between teammates Alistair Overeem and Andrei Arlovski.

The event, which also saw Stefan Struve obliterate Antonio Silva in 16 seconds in the co-main event, did 656,000 viewers for the main card. The main event, though, attracted 805,000 viewers, according to a report from MMA Fighting. While decent, it wasn't good enough to top UFC Fight Night 86, which went down on April 10, from Zagreb, Croatia, featuring another Heavyweight showdown, as Junior dos Santos picked apart Ben Rothwell en route to a unanimous decision victory.