TUF: Live Earns 875,000 Viewers
Posted on 30 May 2012
by MMAScoops.com Staff

The latest episode of The Ultimate Fighter Live, which aired this past Friday, had an audience of 875,000 viewers, up slightly from the all-time low of 821,000.

This is the sixth episode of the show to have lower than one million viewers. It featured two fights, with Team Faber's Mike Chiesa and Al Iaquinta winning semifinal round fights to go to the 32-man final round, which will take place Friday.

The show features UFC bantamweight champ Dominick Cruz and former WEC titleholder Urijah Faber as the coaches. The initial group of 32 from the premiere (a two-and-a-half-hour episode) has dropped to sixteen, and so on with live fighting each week. The pre-taped content airs first, followed by at least one live fight.

The 12th episode is the final edition of TUF: Live as the live finale event will take place on Friday in Las Vegas, airing on FX.

Spike TV first began airing the show in early 2005, but it then moved to FX after a deal with FOX in 2012. While it was on Spike, it averaged 1.7 million viewers. TUF: Live averaged 1,014,500 viewers in its debut.

Dana White previously said that FOX and FX are satisfied with the ratings, but changes will be made before the next season.

Here are the episode-by-episode ratings for the program.

"The Ultimate Fighter: Live" episode No. 1: 1.3 million viewers
"The Ultimate Fighter: Live" episode No. 2: 1.1 million
"The Ultimate Fighter: Live" episode No. 3: 1.2 million
"The Ultimate Fighter: Live" episode No. 4: 1.1 million
"The Ultimate Fighter: Live" episode No. 5: 947,000
"The Ultimate Fighter: Live" episode No. 6: 1 million
"The Ultimate Fighter: Live" episode No. 7: 1 million
"The Ultimate Fighter: Live" episode No. 8: 929,000
"The Ultimate Fighter: Live" episode No. 9: 954,000
"The Ultimate Fighter: Live" episode No. 10: 948,000
"The Ultimate Fighter: Live" episode No. 11: 821,000
The Ultimate Fighter: Live" episode No. 12: 875,000