Bellator 132 took place on Friday night at the Pechanga Resort and Casino in Temecula, California and the card was headlined by Patricio Pitbull retaining the Bellator featherweight title with a submission victory over Daniel Straus in the fourth round.
According to Nielsen sources, Bellator 132’s preliminary live viewership landed at 767,000 total viewers and the peak of the broadcast came at 11:21 p.m. ET during the main event with 1.2 million viewers.
Overall, the main event title fight between Pitbull and Straus average 1.1 million viewers (10:52-11:25 p.m. ET) and the peak number came at the end of the fight.
This fight card marked the first event for Bellator 132 in 2015 and their average in the preliminary ratings during the recently completed season eleven was 727,000 viewers. It should be noted that during the nine fight cards in season eleven, only three of the events average more than 700,000 viewers.
Below is the entire preliminary ratings average for the Bellator events that aired on Spike TV in 2014.
Bellator 110: 880,000
Bellator 111: 653,000
Bellator 112: 699,000
Bellator 113: 507,000
Bellator 114: 711,000
Bellator 115: 828,000
Bellator 116: 572,000
Bellator 117: 617,000
Bellator 118: 701,000
Bellator 119: 667,000
Bellator 120: 712,000 (PPV Prelims)
Bellator 121: 668,000
Bellator 122: 572,000
Bellator 123: 667,000
Bellator 124: 771,000
Bellator 125: 742,000
Bellator 126: 656,000
Bellator 127: 609,000
Bellator 128: 668,000
Bellator 129: 564,000
Bellator 130: 664,000
Bellator 131: 1.2 million
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