Bellator 69 ratings: Event scores season-best numbers on MTV2

This past weekend's Bellator 69 event drew the best ratings of the organization's current sixth season, and ir also topped the 200,000-viewer mark for the first time in 10 events stretching back to late 2011.

Overall, the May 18 broadcast averaged 209,000 MTV2 viewers.

MMAjunkie.com (www.mmajunkie.com) today confirmed the figures with an industry source.

Bellator 69 took place at L'Auberge du Lac Casino Resort in Lake Charles, La. In addition to the MTV2-televised main card, Spike.com and MMAjunkie.com streamed the entire card, including prelims.

In the night's main event, Maiquel Falcao topped rival Andreas Spang via unanimous decision to win the season-six middleweight tournament. Additionally, Karl Amoussou narrowly edged David Rickels via split decision to advance to the final of a welterweight tourney that now concludes during the upcoming "Summer Series" of events. In another featured bout, Jessica Aguilar edged fellow top female fighter Megumi Fujii via close unanimous decision.

Bellator's previous nine season-six shows averaged 153,000 viewers.

The all-time Bellator-MTV2 ratings include:

Bellator 69 ratings: 209,000 viewers
Bellator 68 ratings: 169,000
Bellator 67 ratings: 165,000
Bellator 66 ratings: 109,000
Bellator 65 ratings: 163,000
Bellator 64 ratings: 175,000
Bellator 63 ratings: 140,000
Bellator 62 ratings: 175,000
Bellator 61 ratings: 108,000
Bellator 60 ratings: 169,000
Bellator 49-59 ratings (season five average): 186,000
Bellator 46-48 ratings (Summer Series average): 229,000
Bellator 35-45 ratings (season four average): 204,000

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Great to see their ratings up. They put on some solid shows with some great fighters.