UFC on FOX 23 was an entertaining card, with finishes in all of the main card bouts, including Valentina Shevchenko’s slick armbar of Julianna Pena in the night’s headlining fight. As for how it fared in the television ratings, however, the promotion’s first trip to Denver in over four years was a bit of a dud. MMA Fighting’s Dave Meltzer breaks down the final numbers for this card.
“The show averaged 2,189,000 viewers on a night that aside from an NBA game on ABC, had little in the way of major sports competition.