The fourth episode of The Ultimate Fighter 22 debuted last night on FOX Sports 1 and featured Marcin Wrzosek of Team McGregor defeating Tom Gallicchio of Team Faber.
According to Nielson sources, The Ultimate Fighter 22 debuted at 10 p.m. ET on FOX Sports 1 to 538,000 viewers and the replay showing at 1 a.m. ET drew an average audience of 100,000 viewers.
Through the first four episodes, The Ultimate Fighter 22 is delivering its largest audiences since its first season on FOX Sports 1 when the coaches were Ronda Rousey and Miesha Tate. The fourth episode on Wednesday was up 88 percent from the fourth episode of the spring season (286,000), and up 4 percent compared to last fall’s season average (515,000).
In addition to the viewership from last night, the reality show was shown on FOX this past Sunday following NFL football. That episode was viewed by 2.016 million viewers, up 15 percent over last year’s The Ultimate Fighter 20 episode that similarly aired on an NFL Sunday.
The ratings history of The Ultimate Fighter 22 is below.
Episode 1: Live+SD – 622k, +3 DVR – 902k
Episode 2: Live+SD – 463k, +3 DVR – 740k
Episode 3: Live+SD – 533k, +3 DVR – 769k
Episode 4: Live+SD – 538k, +3 DVR – Available next week