After earning an impressive 1.6 million viewers for its UFC 114
broadcast, Spike TV’s “UFC Prelims” broadcast for this past weekend’s
UFC 116 event dipped slightly for an average of 1.3 million viewers, MMAjunkie.com today
confirmed with an industry source.
The three-fight July 3 broadcast, which featured Brendan Schuab vs.
Chris Tuchscherer and Ricardo Romero vs. Seth Petruzelli, as well as a
bonus fight of Gerald Harris vs. David Branch did peak with 1.5 million
viewers in the final quarter hour.
Additionally, the July 2 broadcast of the UFC 116 weigh-in ceremonies,
the first-ever such broadcast for Spike TV, drew 645,000 viewers.