Last weekend’s (Sat., January 19, 2019) UFC on ESPN+ 1 from the Barclays Center in Brooklyn, New York, was the UFC’s first event of their new deal with sports giant ESPN.
It looks like the preliminary card portion airing on ESPN brought in some solid numbers as a result. ESPN’s Brett Okamoto reported that the prelims averaged 2.08 million viewers:
The preliminary card featured Donald Cerrone’s thrilling knockout victory over formerly surging lightweight Alexander Hernandez. Buoyed by the impressive win from “Cowboy,” the prelims did a comparable number to December’s Lomachenko boxing match by comparison.
On Sunday, news came that ESPN+, the network’s streaming service, signed up 525,000 new customers due in large to the card airing on the service. The UFC will now ramp up their coverage on ESPN and ESPN+ in 2019. A full slate of events is scheduled for the coming months.
One of the biggest scheduled cards is February’s UFC on ESPN 1. The event features Cain Velasquez vs. Francis Ngannou in the main event from Phoenix, Arizona.
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