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UFC Vegas 24 produces highest Fight Night ratings on ESPN in 2021, ends Saturday as No. 2 program on cable

UFC Vegas 24 wasn’t the most star-studded event, but the card still managed to finish at No. 2 overall for cable ratings this past Saturday.

The card headlined by former middleweight champion Robert Whittaker and Kelvin Gastelum ended the night with 953,000 average viewers on ESPN after the event started at 10 p.m. ET. The preliminary broadcast that kicked off at 7:24 p.m. on ESPN pulled in 879,000 viewers on average and that was good enough to close as the No. 3 rated program across all of cable on Saturday.

Overall, the UFC Vegas 24 card was No.