Bellator 124 took place on Friday night at the Compuware Arena in Plymouth, Michigan and the card was headlined by Emanuel Newton retaining the Bellator light heavyweight title with a knockout victory in the third round against Joey Beltran. 
According to Nielsen sources, Bellator 124’s preliminary live viewership landed at 771,000 total viewers and this is up 17 percent from Bellator 123’s preliminary viewership number of 667,000.
The viewership from Friday night marked the sixth time in 2014 that Bellator had over 700,000 viewers in the preliminary ratings and the first time a Bellator main card broadcast has reached the 700,000 viewers since Bellator 118 in May.
The preliminary television ratings for Bellator in 2014 is below.
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
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