POSTED: July 22, 2008 - 2:57 pm
CATEGORIES: MMA, International
Spike TV issued a press release today with official numbers from the UFC Fight Night 14 show this past weekend. The show did a 2.1 household rating with an average of 3.1 million viewers.
The peak for the show was at 11:30 p.m. ET, right in time for the main event between Anderson Silva and James Irvin, with a viewership of 3.8 million.
UFC Fight Night 14 surpassed Saturday afternoon baseball coverage on Fox, and did better in the males 18-34 and 18-49 demographics than ESPN's ESPY awards on Sunday night.
The free card put Spike TV into the number one spot compared to all basic cable and broadcast networks in the following demographics: males 18-34 (audience of 903,000), males 18-49 (1,550,000), males 25-34 (622,000) and males/females 18-34 (1,326,000).
Pay-per-view numbers for MMA counter programming, Affliction: Banned, have yet to be processed.

