Bellator 133 took place on Friday night at the Save Mart Center in Fresno, California and the card was headlined by Alexander Shlemenko defeating Melvin Manhoef by knockout in the second round.
According to Nielsen sources, Bellator 133’s preliminary live viewership landed at 565,000 total viewers and this is down 26 percent from the Bellator 132 number of 767,000 viewers last month.
When it comes to the +3 DVR ratings, the fight card average viewership went up 7 percent to 606,000 viewers and the peak of the broadcast was 967,000 viewers.
The average viewership number of 565,000 is the lowest average number for a Bellator card since Bellator 129 on October 17th of last year and is the fourth time since the beginning of last year that the average viewership has been less than 600,000 viewers.
Below is the preliminary ratings average for the Bellator events that aired on Spike TV since Scott Coker took over as President of Bellator.
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