The UFC 175 Preliminary Card on Fox Sports 1 took place this past Saturday and featured Urijah Faber submitting Alex Caceres with a rear-naked choke in the third round.
According to Nielsen sources, the UFC 175 preliminary overnight viewership number for the preliminary card landed at 1,000,000 viewers and this is the first time in 2014 that the pay-per-view prelims reached one million viewers.
Saturday’s viewership is up 43 percent from the last pay-per-view preliminary card to air on Fox Sports 1 and the average viewership for a pay-per-view preliminary card on Fox Sports 1 in 2014 is now 863,000.
Here is the UFC pay-per-view preliminary card numbers in 2014 to date.
UFC 169: 933,000
UFC 170: 936,000
UFC 171: 305,000 (aired on Fox Sports 2)
UFC 172: 750,000
UFC 173: 697,000
UFC 174: 784,000 (aired on FX)
UFC 175: 1,000,000
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