BJPENN COM

MMA News

Wednesday, 11/09/2011, 11:00 am

UFC 138 draws 2.1 million viewers on Spike TV


This past weekend’s UFC 138 event was available to approximately 100 million Spike TV subscribers in the US. It drew in a very respectable 1.8 million viewer average with a peak audience of 2.1 million and a 1.2 household rating.

Spike TV released the ratings information late yesterday afternoon.

“UFC 138: Munoz vs. Leben” went down tonight at the LG Arena at the National Exhibition Centre in Birmingham England. The Spike TV card aired stateside via tape-delay and featured a main event between middleweights, Mark Munoz and Chris Leben in the UFC’s first ever 5-round non-title fight.

While the main event was scheduled for a full twenty-five minutes it took Mark Munoz just ten to force the corner of Leben to halt the action due to a vicious cut above that eye that left Chris unable to see.

The tape-delayed broadcast was the number 1 rated program on cable television in the timeslot among the male age’s 18- 34 and 18-49 demographics.

The UFC 138 ratings are right in line with the average Spike card viewership. Septembers Fight night 25 drew in 1.8 million viewers, Fight night 24 hit the mark with 2.2 million viewers and Fight Night 23 drew in 1.85 million viewers.



comments





Related:

About the Author

Pedro Carrasco
Word Press Twitter Face Book

By JAKE CHASTAIN | Our boys Kinch and Chase Raymond recently invited Bellator welterweight and…

11.9.12@4:43 PM
Full Story »

UFC Vice President of Regulatory Affairs, Marc Ratner, stated today that the UFC’s debut on…

11.9.12@2:08 PM
Full Story »

Upstart promotion, AriseFC made its debut last Saturday from the Santa Clara Convention Center in…

11.9.12@1:37 PM
Full Story »

Internet sensation Tommy Toe Hold joined BJPENN.COM’s Fist-Ta-Cuff Radio show this past Sunday, June 16,…

11.9.12@1:13 PM
Full Story »

UFC heavyweight champion has something to prove at UFC 166 as he faces off against…

11.9.12@1:10 PM
Full Story »

UFC on FOX 8 welterweights Jake Ellenberger and Rory MacDonald traded verbal jabs yesterday on…

11.9.12@1:08 PM
Full Story »

At the Metamoris 2 event in Los Angeles, California UFC heavyweight fighter, Brendan Schaub failed…

11.9.12@1:02 PM
Full Story »

Josh Burkman took revenge last Friday as he dispatched perennial UFC welterweight contender Jon Fitch…

11.9.12@1:00 PM
Full Story »

UFC 161 took place last weekend from Winnipeg, Canada. In the main event Rashad Evans…

11.9.12@12:59 PM
Full Story »

Former UFC fighter turned commentator, Kenny Florian, took to twitter recently to echo the sentiments…

11.9.12@12:51 PM
Full Story »

CM Punk goes one-on-one with World Champion Alberto Del Rio and then gets attacked by…

11.9.12@12:45 PM
Full Story »

No charges will be laid as a result of a fight in the stands between…

11.9.12@12:34 PM
Full Story »

6 Comments

6 Comments to UFC 138 draws 2.1 million viewers on Spike TV

  1. Fortyb4five says:

    Gotta say that was a really solid card. Just finished watching it, been on the dvr.

  2. Long-Strong says:

    eh… these numbers could be better. i think it was the way the card was presented on Spike; the fights were kinda boring in my opinion. Really don’t understand how Munoz and Leben didn’t get fight of the night; it was the only entertaining fight of the evening in my opinion.

  3. chrismmafreak says:

    @lon-strokes where u high on crack when you saw the fights they were all awesome with mostly 1st round finishes

  4. Yaydrian says:

    That’s when u know ur one of those “when is chuck fighting” I actually thought the other fights were better than the main event…maybe cuz I was rooting for leben but some amazing fights all together

  5. AbsalomW says:

    All I have to say is: What kind of creepy sleezy company airs condom commercials when the kids are at home watching? Spike sucks lemons.

Leave a Reply

Your email address will not be published. Required fields are marked *

*

You may use these HTML tags and attributes: <a href="" title=""> <abbr title=""> <acronym title=""> <b> <blockquote cite=""> <cite> <code> <del datetime=""> <em> <i> <q cite=""> <strike> <strong>