This past Friday night saw the number two and three promotions air live fight cards at the same time as Bellator 136 was shown on Spike TV and WSOF 20 aired on NBCSN.
According to Nielsen sources, Bellator 136’s preliminary live viewership landed at 655,000 total viewers and WSOF 20 had 128,000 viewers.
The live viewership number of 655,000 viewers for Bellator 136 is up nearly eight percent from last month’s Bellator 135 (607,000) and the show peaked at 900,000 viewers at 11:06 p.m. ET.
With the viewership from Friday, the average viewership for Bellator in 2015 is 693,000 and since Scott Coker took over as President of Bellator, the average viewership is 705,000.
The complete TV viewership for Bellator since Coker took over is below.
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
Bellator 132: 767,000
Bellator 133: 565,000
Bellator 134: 872,000
Bellator 135: 607,000
Bellator 136: 655,000
For the WSOF, this is the first time since WSOF 16 last year that the viewership has been under 200,000 viewers. Overall, this is the fifth time that the live viewership was under 200,000 viewers and this is the second lowest viewed show in the promotions history.
The complete history of the WSOF Television Ratings are below.
WSOF 1: 198,000
WSOF 2: 210,000
WSOF 3: 201,000
WSOF 4: 264,000
WSOF 5: 227,000
WSOF 6: 161,000
WSOF 7: 94,000
WSOF 8: 212,000
WSOF 9: 242,000
WSOF 10: 365,000
WSOF 11: 781,000 (Aired on NBC)
WSOF 12: 206,000
WSOF 13: 246,000
WSOF 14: 229,000
WSOF 15: 179,000
WSOF 16: 181,000
WSOF 17: 222,000
WSOF 18: 209,000
WSOF 19: 216,000
WSOF 20: 128,000