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Canelo Alvarez to headline Wembley Stadium against British fan-favorite

BAD MMA News — Fri, 26 Sep 2025 00:28:02 +0000

Last time out, Canelo Alvarez dared to be great as he often has done throughout his career, but fell short of his lofty expectations. The Mexican icon has nothing left to prove in the ring, boasting one of the better careers of his generation. With his 36th birthday on the horizon, Alvarez is approaching the tail end of his career, though his name is still being linked with big spectacle matchups . Despite failing to get his hand raised, Canelo Alvarez made history alongside Terence Crawford when they met on September 13.

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The Ultimate Fighter 18 TV Ratings Hit New Series Low with Episode 3

BAD MMA News — Fri, 20 Sep 2013 01:59:18 +0000

The third episode of the latest season of The Ultimate Fighter saw the TV ratings drop off following a week two upswing. The Ultimate Fighter: Team Rousey vs. Team Tate opened to the lowest viewership of any season of the venerable reality series, but Wednesday night’s Episode 3 notched a new low point for the series at 639,000 viewers, according to the Nielsen TV ratings

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The Ultimate Fighter 18 TV Ratings Up 14-Percent Week-Over-Week

BAD MMA News — Fri, 13 Sep 2013 04:19:36 +0000

The second episode of The Ultimate Fighter: Team Rousey vs. Team Tate bucked a historical trend, becoming only the fifth season in the life of the reality series to improve its audience from episode one to episode two. Episode two, which featured Team Tate’s Julianna Pena upsetting Team Rousey’s Shayna Baszler , scored an audience of 870,000 viewers, improving upon the premier episode’s 762,000 viewers, according to the Nielsen Ratings. That represents a 14-percent increase in viewership week-over-week.

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Fight Master: Bellator MMA TV Ratings Continue to Climb

BAD MMA News — Fri, 12 Jul 2013 21:16:40 +0000

function not found Bellator’s reality series, Fight Master: Bellator MMA debuted with less than stellar TV ratings in its first episode but has seen a marked increase in viewership. The premier drew 432,000 viewers while the second episode improved to 545,000 viewers. After a week off, the reality series returned with its third episode on Wednesday with 676,000 viewers. Fight Master: Bellator MMA is similar to its Spike TV predecessor, The Ultimate Fighter , but has a slightly different twist to how the teams are divvied up. Much like the singing competition The Voice the participants select their teams instead of being chosen by the coaches. The show started with 32 welterweight athletes that pair off, trying to fight their way onto the show. The winners of the fights gain the opportunity to select from one of four coaches

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Fight Master: Bellator MMA TV Ratings See 26-Percent Increase in Week Two

BAD MMA News — Fri, 28 Jun 2013 02:30:56 +0000

Bellator ’s new reality series, Fight Master: Bellator MMA , opened to less than stellar TV ratings in its first week, but saw a marked increase for its second episode. While the premiere drew 432,000 viewers, Wednesday night’s Episode 2 improved to 545,000 viewers. That is a 26-percent increase week over week. Fight Master’s season premiere was up against the NHL’s Stanley Cup Finals, so some of the increase in viewership could stem from the hockey final having finished up a few days ago. Fight Master: Bellator MMA is similar to its Spike TV predecessor, The Ultimate Fighter , but has a slightly different twist to how the teams are divvied up. Much like the singing competition The Voice the participants select their teams instead of being chosen by the coaches. The show started with 32 welterweight athletes that pair off, trying to fight their way onto the show. The winners of the fights gain the opportunity to select from one of four coaches

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Bellator Summer Series and Fight Master Open to Disappointing TV Ratings

BAD MMA News — Fri, 21 Jun 2013 02:17:48 +0000

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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Bellator Season 9 Moves to Friday Nights Following Sept. 7 Fight Master Live Finale

BAD MMA News — Tue, 11 Jun 2013 23:24:30 +0000

Following a successful debut season on Spike TV on Thursday nights, Bellator MMA is moving to Friday nights for Season 9 this fall. Spike TV president Kevin Kay revealed the move this week to SI.com . Bellator will kick off Season 9 with a special Saturday live event on Sept. 7, which will also serve as the season finale to its own reality series, Fight Master , but on Sept. 13 will shift to Friday nights for the season. Bellator had its first run on Spike TV from January to April of this year with Season 8, which averaged 862,000 viewers per episode, which includes the industry standard live event plus three days of DVR viewership. The live events alone average slightly less than 793,000 viewers per episode, which was nearly five times better than what Bellator was drawing on its previous network, MTV2. The Thursday night slot for its initial run on Spike included a strong lead-in audience courtesy of Impact Wrestling

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