UFC 173 prelims: 697,000 average

Courtesy John Ourand @Ourand_SBJ

Top FS1 audience last week: Saturday night UFC averaged 697,000 viewers

Still a record low for FS 1 prelims but looks like I lost my sig bet.

 

Sig bets = got outside more son.

 

There wasn't a single truly recognizable name on the prelims, even if they were pretty good

 

Bellator taking over!

 

Anybody know what the buyrate for the PPV was?

 

Probably at least a week away from getting a reliable estimate but trending factors are indicating around 200K

 

thats quite low.... somone should make a UFC is dying thread....

 

Way too early to really know ALTHOUGH the rule of thumb is that if the # doesn't "leak" within a week, it didn't blow the doors off.

 

Not always true, Meltzer didnt report UFC 168 doing over a million buys till Jan 16th.

 

What was the sig bet? And why would you make a sig bet about viewership for prelims?

 

Not always but most of the time. Iole had it doing a million pretty early, like before the Singapore event. The problem is most people don't give him or anybody else credit for PPV numbers. I don't think they're expecting this event do some massive number though.


Not great prelim numbers but this wasn't a PPV that was buzzing to begin with.

 

nice num

 

Is that bad?

 

Its low, 172 did 750k but before that the prelims were doing 1 mill and 1.5 for UFC 168.

NBA/NHL playoffs dont help and it was one of the less anticipated Memorial day cards.

next big one should be 175.

 

OMG OMG UFC is dying, MMA is dying YOLO, SWAG

 

Article up here, http://www.mmadraws.blogspot.ca/2014/05/ufc-173-prelims-outperform-expections.html looking at the number and how it affects fighter's star power going forward along with recent UFC TV numbers as they compare to projections.

 

I imagine UFC 175 and UFC on Fox 12 are the only upcoming cards that will pull in good numbers.

 

#1, I wasn't even 100% sure what a sig bet even was and #2, because it seemed like the thing to do at the time. We all learn from our mistakes.

And I'm not sure what the sig bet is, other fellow hasn't told me.

 

not great, was expecting at least 698k

 

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