This past Friday’s third episode of “The Ultimate Fighter 16: Team
Carwin vs. Team Nelson” drew a total audience size of 775,000 viewers to
FX.
MMAjunkie.com today confirmed the ratings information with industry sources.
The one-hour episode featured the second round-of-16 fight from the
season’s welterweight contestants, as Team Nelson’s Joey Rivera earned a
majority decision over Team Carwin’s Sam Alvey. The ratings figure
marks figure marks an 11-percent decrease from the 872,000 viewers who
tuned in to FX for the second episode of “The Ultimate Fighter 16” one
week earlier.