UFC Fight Night 20 ratings SmackDown on Spike TV for 'Maynard vs Diaz'
by James Iannotti on Jan 13, 2010 5:28 PM EST
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UFC Fight Night 20, featuring a lightweight main event between fellow former TUF 5 housemates Gray "The Bully" Maynard and Nate Diaz, pulled in an average of 1.7 million viewers and a 1.2 share for Monday's Spike TV broadcast, according to the network.
The numbers are worth looking at because the event was held on a Monday, which is clearly not standard protocol for a UFC show. WWE's "Monday Night Raw" has traditionally owned the Monday night ratings slot, and, apparently it still does despite the the powerhouse promotion's latest efforts.
That's right, WWE dominated the numbers by hauling in an average of 5.45 million viewers. For those keeping score at home, that's more than three times that of the UFC.
Of course, it didn't hurt that WWE president Vince McMahon had booked former boxing heavyweight champion "Iron" Mike Tyson as the quest host. For some reason, people still can't seem to ever get enough of the Bronx bomber.
UFC President Dana White expressed before the fight that going head-to-head competing for ratings with the WWE on Monday nights is not something that will become a regular thing.
Looking at these numbers, who could blame him?
Here's a snip:
"I love Vince. He's an animal isn't he? I mean, we're not trying to go against him. That night is the night Spike wanted the fight. Spike wanted the fight that night. They got some show airing, so that's the night that they called for. Vince goes into war mode man. He's calling up Tyson, he's bringing this guy back and the Rock might come back. I love it. He's a fucking animal. To be honest, you've never heard me say, "we're going to kick the shit out of them. Vince is going down." I think that we're two totally different, you know, wrestling is completely different than the UFC and mixed martial arts. I respect Vince McMahon. I like this guy. I've had breakfast with him, this and that, but he is a fucking animal man. I'm not trying to beat him on Monday night. I don't think we would beat him. Those guys pull killer ratings. It's been like the highest rated show on television forever. We're just putting on a fight on Monday night because Spike wants us to. Now if he was in the MMA business, that would be a whole different ballgame."
For complete UFC Fight Night 20: "Maynard vs. Diaz" results and blow-by-blow coverage of the main card action click here and here.
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Are they serious?
I didn’t realize there were that many white trash rednecks still out there. Pro Wrasslin’ is so g@y.
LOL
Wrestling has been around for many years Micah one day this will be par for a UFC event but really with the lack of star power 1.7 is pretty good. not to mention there were probally many interested in listning to Tyson be an announcer.
"He broke tim sylvia’s arm…...So what?" – Brock Lesnar
I’m not going to lie, I was flipping back to the WWE event while commercials were on, not because I like wrestling or have ever liked it but because I was hoping that Iron Mike didn’t understand wrestling is fake and he would actually start knocking guys out on the show lol.
every race has their trash
“white trash” is just our garden variety
by kibbled_bits on Jan 13, 2010 6:24 PM EST up reply actions
It's simple really
Elementary age kids don’t watch the UFC. I like the WWE and even though it’s often risque with their innuendo, it was always viewed as a show that we watched as a family.
hard to believe
i thought for sure that mma would shut fake wrestling down, because how could it compete, its the same thing but one is real and one is fake, yet some how these guys watch mma and say “oh thats gay, two gus humping each other”. then look at wrestlers in there spedos and pretend to fight each other, and go “hell yeah that shawn michals is the man” (as he tells another dude to suck it).
I understand parents would rather have there kids watch fake violence, but with all the sex scandels, and bad words, and chair shots, and womenizing (sp) is it really better for them to watch. i remember being a kid agueing with kids about it being real or not, and the kids who did watch it were the ones trying to say it was real.
The worst part is that it’s the “sport” of pro wrestling. In my opinion it’s nothing but a soap opera geared towards the male audience.
Not bad
1.7 million isn’t bad considering there wasn’t really a “star” on this event. True, the WWE beat them, but consider how long the WWE has been in existence. Brand loyalty really. Not bad numbers at all though.
Too bad.
All great (televised) fights…ANYONE HAVE A LINK ON THE LEBEN VS. SILVA fight?
"Sweat is the cologne of accomplishment"
- Heywood Hale Brown
you cant compare the 2
Wwe does that show every monday and has built up its fan base and also uses its top stars on that show. We are comparing it to a ufc show headlined by maynard vs diaz. If ufc wanted to put all there top stars up against wwe every single monday (I know fighters can’t fight that frequently) then the ratings would be comparable. I also think the ufc ppv numbers vs wwe ppv numbers are a far better and more even comparison.
by DrewMoney$$$ on Jan 13, 2010 6:39 PM EST via mobile reply actions
ppv buys
Ufc 100 and 101 sold as much as every wwe ppv combined for the whole year.
by DrewMoney$$$ on Jan 13, 2010 6:46 PM EST via mobile up reply actions
is it just me . . . was anybody else completely underwhelmed by that fight night. i dont know, maybe it is because all the champs besides bj are out of commission but i havent really been jones’ing for ufc events like i used to.
I actually thought that it was an awesome card. Simpson vs. Lawler and Dunham vs. Escudero were absolutely amazing. Maynard vs Diaz was better then I thought it would be, I was thinking it was going to look a lot look Guida vs. Diaz (Gray doing his best impression of a blanket).
I absolutely love the fight night cards, it seems like those guys are always fighting their hearts out. Don’t let the lack of star power fool you, every fighter on that card brung it.
crap, vince must be rolling in the money!!!!!
damn, those are big numbers.
by Conan the Barbarian on Jan 13, 2010 7:57 PM EST reply actions
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