UFC on FOX 11 produced the lowest overnight rating in the series' history

UFC on FOX Ratings:
UFC on FOX 1: 5.70M viewers (3.1 rating)
UFC on FOX 2: 4.70M viewers (2.6 rating)
UFC on FOX 3: 2.42M viewers (1.5 rating)
UFC on FOX 4: 2.44M viewers (1.4 rating)
UFC on FOX 5: 4.40M viewers (2.5 rating)
UFC on FOX 6: 4.22M viewers (2.4 rating)
UFC on FOX 7: 3.70M viewers (2.2 rating)
UFC on FOX 8: 2.38M viewers (1.5 rating)
UFC on FOX 9: 2.80M viewers (1.8 rating)
UFC on FOX 10: 3.22M viewers (1.9 rating)
UFC on FOX 11: 1.99M viewer (0.8 rating)

http://www.bloodyelbow.com/2014/4/20/5633898/ufc-on-fox-11-overnight-numbers-lowest-ufc-news

    

Card was far from full of household names and Co main was a female fight.

Ufc is ruining their product lol

Captain America is still in theaters so that was probably it. Damn Marvel movies.

Sinking ship.

MMA will never reach it's true potential unless those guys self destruct. Their day of reckoning is coming. You don't focus on global expansion when your home/major market is imploding. That's a move of desperation to try and make up for your domestic market drying up.

fka wrote:Card was far from full of household names and Co main was a female fight.

Every card is full of people that aren't household names.

Dana/Zuffa's terrible promotion and business decisions have left the UFC with 2 fighters that are considered "stars"...Jon Jones and Rousey.

Dagwood wrote:You don't focus on global expansion when your home/major market is imploding. That's a move of desperation to try and make up for your domestic market drying up.

Well said.

Bellator is gaining momentum and Zuffa is slowing down.

Jon Jones is far from being a star, more like a clown that ducks Alex & the HW division

Quantity over quality

Even Meltzer says that the U.s in particular is losing interest in the UFC.








Dana White was reported to have texted him saying: "YOU ***** DUMMY PEOPLE WATCH THE ****** UFC. PEOPLE LOVE THIS ****. ROUSEY IS OUR BIGGEST ******* STAR AND CARANO IS ***** CHARMING. **** YOU MORON"

mma is almost completely dead. No one watches this shit.

iforgotmypassword wrote:mma is almost completely dead. No one watches this shit.

mma UFC is almost completely dead. No one watches this shit.

Numbers are down across the board. There is no mma success story going on right now in the US. Not even bellator. Cops reruns out draw bellator.

I like bellator but the ufc is sinking the entire market and taking away the oxygen bellator needs to breathe. Until they are completely gone could a company have success and bring the entire sport back to relevance in the US. As long as the wounded giant lumbers on Bellator is never going to have a chance to save the sport.

Mikal wrote:Even Meltzer says that the U.s in particular is losing interest in the UFC.








Dana White was reported to have texted him saying: "YOU ***** DUMMY PEOPLE WATCH THE ****** UFC. PEOPLE LOVE THIS ****. ROUSEY IS OUR BIGGEST ******* STAR AND CARANO IS ***** CHARMING. **** YOU MORON"

It´s time for Bellator to step up and take over the american mma scene.

iforgotmypassword wrote:I like bellator but the ufc is sinking the entire market and taking away the oxygen bellator needs to breathe. Until they are completely gone could a company have success and bring the entire sport back to relevance in the US. As long as the wounded giant lumbers on Bellator is never going to have a chance to save the sport.

Bellator can surpass Zuffa FC if they start co-promoting with the biggest promotions in other parts of the world. They should even try the ring every now and then to give the american fans something refreshing. If the ring becomes popular again Zuffa will definietly go down because that´s something they will never be able to use.

yes I agree, bellator needs to change the production. Way too cage centric and always dark lighting. Let the pride producers or KSW producers come in and produce the show. That plus tournaments will bring MMA back. What the UFC turned mma into will not sell in the modern world. No one wants to watch ugly cage fighting with Rogan yelling at them. It's a turn off and the sport is dying quickly. In the US. Most fans refuse to support the ufc simply because of White and his stupid image.

Rumors on twitter are Coker is coming in with viacom. Rebney maybe gone and Coker can re connect with his asian connections and stop the sport from dying.

MMA simply lacks class. Bellator and UFC project crude images to the public. Successful sports present themselves with dignity and grace.

iforgotmypassword wrote:yes I agree, bellator needs to change the production. Way too cage centric and always dark lighting. Let the pride producers or KSW producers come in and produce the show. That plus tournaments will bring MMA back. What the UFC turned mma into will not sell in the modern world. No one wants to watch ugly cage fighting with Rogan yelling at them. It's a turn off and the sport is dying quickly. In the US. Most fans refuse to support the ufc simply because of White and his stupid image.

Rumors on twitter are Coker is coming in with viacom. Rebney maybe gone and Coker can re connect with his asian connections and stop the sport from dying.

Coker steering the Bellator ship would be f#cking awesome. Up until now many promotions try to imitate UFC since they´ve been making money but with the latest Zuffa ratings promotions might start looking at other options. If KSW becomes as big in England as in Poland and keep their version of mma all euro organizations will copy them. Hopefully the americans will do the same.

LEGEND will save sport!!! 100%
LEGEND will become big in Russia and Europe
UFC will fall in US and people in US will hear for LEGEND and LEGEND will take over world!

Bellator is the tortoise to the Zuffa hare.

LEGENDMMA=PRIDEFC wrote:LEGEND will save sport!!! 100%
LEGEND will become big in Russia and Europe
UFC will fall in US and people in US will hear for LEGEND and LEGEND will take over world!

That would be badass! Hopefully they´ll have high profile mma fights on their next card.

The ratings for Saturday's UFC on FOX show were well below average for the series, but they weren't as bad as the initials numbers that came out Sunday morning indicated.

The show delivered a 1.6 rating and 2.5 million viewers. Of the 10 previous shows on the network, it beat out three of them and was behind the other seven. However, of the five specials that took place outside of football season over the past three years, it was the second highest rated and most-viewed, trailing only last year's April show. That show had a far stronger lineup with Benson Henderson defending the lightweight title against Gilbert Melendez, the Strikeforce champion in the division when the promotion closed, plus support of Daniel Cormier vs. Frank Mir and Josh Thomson vs. Nate Diaz.

The overnight numbers for Saturday were the lowest the show had done to date, with 1.99 million viewers. The reason for the major difference is because the overnights only measure the 8-10 p.m. time slot across the country, meaning that whatever programming aired in that slot on the West Coast (where the UFC show aired from 5 p.m. to 7:30 p.m.) was figured into that number, nor was most of the main event figured in.

The Fabricio Werdum vs. Travis Browne main event, most of which took place after 10 p.m., did a 2.0 rating and 3.3 million viewers. The inclusion of the main event also took the show from third place in the 18-49 demo for the night to tying ABC for first place on network TV. It was second in Males 18-49 overall, behind NBA playoff coverage on ESPN. Had the main event itself been considered a separate half hour show, it would have been in the top five in Males 18-34 among prime time shows for the past week among all network broadcasts.

While down from a 1.9 rating and 3.22 million viewers for the Jan. 26 airing, headlined by Benson Henderson vs. Josh Thomson, the UFC on FOX events always do significantly better during football season, since they are heavily promoted on NFL and college broadcasts with a high concentration of adult male viewers.

Last year's two shows outside of football season were the April show, which did a 2.2 rating and 3.74 million viewers, and a July show headlined by Demetrious Johnson vs. John Moraga for the flyweight title, which did a 1.5 rating and 2.38 million viewers.

The prelims on FS 1 did a 0.49 rating and 521,000 viewers. That's down from a 0.60 rating and 713,000 viewers in January.
http://www.mmafighting.com/2014/4/22/5641146/ufc-on-fox-11-does-2-5-million-viewers

Still weak numbers just not as bad