Despite its early start time (especially on the West Coast), Sunday’s dramatic showdown between Team USA and the Netherlands in the FIFA Women’s World Cup final drew a massive audience for Fox Sports and Telemundo. Per Nielsen, the American victory was seen by 14 million viewers on the Fox broadcast net, outperforming last year’s men’s World Cup final by more than 20 percent (11.4 million) to rank as the biggest Stateside soccer match since 2015 — the last time the women’s team brought home the trophy. As
Ad Age reporter
Anthony Crupinoted on Twitter, that 14 million viewer figure beats most of this year’s World Series and NBA Finals games and every edition of ESPN’s
Monday Night Football — an amazing feat given the match aired on a Sunday morning during a holiday weekend, with West Coast viewers having to get up by 8 a.m. to watch.
https://www.vulture.com/2019/07/womens-world-cup-soccer-final-scores-14-million-viewers.html
The final drew more viewers than the NBA Finals and Monday Night Football. Women's soccer isnt huge globally yet, but it's a powerhouse in the US. And way more popular than MMA both nationally and abroad.
MMA can't even match PGA viewership- and that's WITHOUT Tiger. With Tiger competing they double their ratings and UFC isnt even in the conversation.
To give you an idea of how far down the list UFC is- NASCAR is panicking right now as everyone declares it dying, yet its ratings are still higher than UFC's free TV cards. lol. UFC is on par with minor league baseball at best.
