The heavily promoted season debut of “The Ultimate Fighter: Live” averaged a 0.95 household rating and 1.3 million viewers on FX.
MMAjunkie.com today confirmed the ratings information with industry sources.
Despite a new format and 16 live elimination-round fights during a super-sized two-and-a-half-hour run time, the “TUF: Live” debut fell short of the two million viewers Spike TV averaged for the first 14 “TUF” season debuts.