While not doing the big numbers of UFC's first two FS1 fight nights of the year, Sunday's battle of the 'Cowboys' still finished 11 percent above the 2015 average for prime time Fight Nights on the station.
The welterweight main event, featuring former lightweight top contender Donald "Cowboy" Cerrone against Brazil's Alex "Cowboy" Oliveira, averaged 983,000 viewers. The main event did the show's peak number of 1,207,000 viewers.
UFC was coming off big numbers for its first two events of the year. The Jan. 17 show, headlined by Dominick Cruz beating T.J. Dillashaw for the bantamweight title did 2,288,000 viewers, the second best MMA number in the history of the station.