UFC Fight Night 59 took place on Sunday night in Boston and was headlined by Conor McGregor securing a title shot with a TKO victory in the second round against Dennis Siver. 
According to Fox Sports, the main card broadcast on Fox Sports 1 had an average audience of 2,751,000 viewers and the peak of the broadcast came it at 3,162,000 million viewers from 12:00-12:15 a.m. ET.
With the viewership from Sunday, UFC Fight Night 59 is the most watched MMA event ever on Fox Sports 1, beating out UFC Fight Night 26 in August of 2013. In addition, the fight card is now the most watched MMA event on ad-supported cable television since the UFC’s The Ultimate Fighter Finale on Spike TV (12/5/09).
Prior to the main card, the televised preliminary card also aired on Fox Sports 1 and came in with 908,000 viewers. This is the second most watched non pay-per-view preliminary card in Fox Sports 1 history behind the The Ultimate Fighter 18 Finale prelims in 2013. The prelims peaked at over 1 million viewers in the final quarter hour of the broadcast with 1,486,000 viewers and this was up against the AFC title game.
Following the fight card was Fox Sports Live and this show had 1,167,000 viewers and this is the most watched Sunday edition of the show. In terms of digital traffic, the Fox Sports Go app had it’s largest audience ever for a UFC event as the previous best was UFC Fight Night 54 in October. UFC Fight Night 59 was up 59 percent in total unique viewers in comparison to the October card.
On Sunday, the UFC card was the number one show on ad-supported cable and number two show on all of television, outside of the NFL programming amount the Male 18-34, Male 18-49, and Male 25-54 demos. Overall for Fox Sports 1, it was the third most-watched Sunday (6:00 AM-3:00 AM), averaging 522,000 viewers despite vicious competition form the NFC and AFC Championship Game broadcasts.
The UFC will return to Fox Sports 1 this weekend for the preliminary card of UFC on FOX 14 from Sweden and the main card will air on Fox.