BAD MMA - The origins of combat™ » Counterpart https://www.badmma.com The BADDEST Brand on the Planet™ Fri, 24 Jul 2026 06:38:48 +0000 en-US hourly 1 Bellator Summer Series and Fight Master Open to Disappointing TV Ratings https://www.badmma.com/bellator-summer-series-and-fight-master-open-to-disappointing-tv-ratings.html https://www.badmma.com/bellator-summer-series-and-fight-master-open-to-disappointing-tv-ratings.html#comments Fri, 21 Jun 2013 02:17:48 +0000 BAD MMA News http://www.badmma.com/bellator-summer-series-and-fight-master-open-to-disappointing-tv-ratings.html Bellator and Spike TV launched the new reality series Fight Master: Bellator MMA on Wednesday night with the Bellator 96 live event serving as lead-in programming. The TV ratings for the night could only be characterized as disappointing in comparison to Bellator’s strong Season 8 showing on Spike TV. Bellator 96 drew an audience of 480,000 viewers for its two hours of live fights, while the one-hour Fight Master premiere averaged 432,000 viewers, according to Spike TV officials. To put that in perspective, Bellator 96’s audience was slightly more than half the average viewership for the promotion’s first season on Spike TV. Bellator Season 8’s live events averaged slightly less than 800,000 viewers per show. Fight Master ’s 432,000 viewers on Spike was well below the final season of its counterpart’s run on the network. The Ultimate Fighter wrapped its run on Spike averaging 1.5 million viewers per episode. Bellator 96 and Fight Master did have significant hurdles to overcome

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]]> https://www.badmma.com/bellator-summer-series-and-fight-master-open-to-disappointing-tv-ratings.html/feed 0 UFC 161 preview: Can Rashad Evans get out of his own way to beat Dan Henderson? https://www.badmma.com/ufc-161-preview-can-rashad-evans-get-out-of-his-own-way-to-beat-dan-henderson.html https://www.badmma.com/ufc-161-preview-can-rashad-evans-get-out-of-his-own-way-to-beat-dan-henderson.html#comments Fri, 14 Jun 2013 20:35:00 +0000 BAD MMA News http://www.badmma.com/ufc-161-preview-can-rashad-evans-get-out-of-his-own-way-to-beat-dan-henderson.html Add up everything you know and have heard about Rashad Evans (29-9 MMA, 6-3 UFC) and Dan Henderson (17-3-1 MMA, 12-3-1 UFC) in advance of UFC 161, and guess which one has the richer internal life. If you answered Evans, you’re right. The former champ and psychology major is far more susceptible to swings in sentiment than his former Olympian counterpart, and that could be as big a factor as any in deciding whether the winner of a Saturday headliner moves on to a future title shot – or hits the glass ceiling. The light heavyweights top Saturday’s event at MTS Centre in Winnipeg. The pay-per-view main card (10 p.m

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