Bellator Rating Hit All Time Low On MTV2 Last Weekend
It should come as no surprise that last weekend’s Bellator 50 events ratings where a little on the low side.
According to reports only 114,000 people tuned in to MTV2 to view the opening round of the Bellator middleweight tournament. The number marks the lowest rating since the promotional debut on MTV2 16 events ago.
Despite an amazing night of fights that included the likes of Bryan Baker, Brian Rogers, Vitor Vianna and last season’s tournament winner Alexander Shlemenko, the show did not live up to expectations from a business stand-point.
It was however a busy weekend for combat sports fans. Floyd Mayweather vs. Victor Ortiz squared off on the same evening as did Jake Shields vs. Jake Ellenberger for free on Spike TV. The poor drawing power of last weekend’s event should not discourage the promotion, the network or Bellator fans as the low rating had to be expected up against the aforementioned events on the same evening.
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Bellator should have rescheduled this. The fights weren’t that amazing at all. Vito Vianna should have lost to smiley and Rogers got a fake TKO behind his name, cause it was a premature stoppage. Wouldn’t have mattered cause it was the refs fault not his. But being a douche and putting on your silly predator mask afterwards is a bit too much….bitch.
duded you are sad, that stoppage was fair. He got kicked in the head took a few more shots and fell down, he started to take hammerfist after hammerfist and wasnt trying to move. Thats what he does its put on the mask, get over it duded lost and your just pissed.
Here’s a like for you to see it again it starts at 3:38 secs he gets head kicked takes a few more punchs and falls back on his back ( to me it looks like he falls down himself)
http://standthemup.org/dr/content/bellator-50-brian-rogers-vs-victor-odonnell-full-fight
Watched it again….. it’s still an early stoppage. You can see clearly the hammerfists weren’t that hard nor damaging. O’Donnel was reaching for wristcontrol. Early stoppage, pure and simple.
And again I wouldn’t hold that against Rogers cause it was the refs fault. I just think he should have handled this in a more humble way and leave that silly mask off.