Bellator 74: TV Ratings

Bellator got their seventh season underway on MTV2 this past Friday night and made a solid start with an average of 190,000 viewers tuning in for the live action.

That’s up 21,000 viewers from the season six premiere earlier in the year and is one of their highest audiences of 2012 so far.

Interestingly, Bellator’s positive ratings came on the same night that The Ultimate Fighter 16 Episode 3 was experiencing it’s worst ratings so far on the FX channel.

This is Bellator’s final season on MTV2 before they make there big move to Spike TV in 2013 which will coincide with an influx of notable fighters into their ranks including Muhammed ‘King Mo’ Lawal and Renao ‘Babalu’ Sobral.

Ross launched MMA Insight (previously FightOfTheNight.com) in 2009 as a way to channel his passion for the sport of mixed martial arts. He's since penned countless news stories and live fight reports along with dozens of feature articles as the lead writer for the site, reaching millions of fans in the process.