{"id":28413,"date":"2013-04-23T18:31:28","date_gmt":"2013-04-23T23:01:28","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/ringsidereport.com\/?p=28413"},"modified":"2013-04-23T18:31:28","modified_gmt":"2013-04-23T23:01:28","slug":"ufc-shocker-dana-white-announcement-mma-news","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ringsidereport.com\/?p=28413","title":{"rendered":"UFC SHOCKER: Dana White Announcement \u2013 MMA News"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/ringsidereport.com\/?p=28413 \"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-full wp-image-7243\" style=\"margin-left: 10px; margin-right: 10px;\" title=\"danawhiteheader2\" src=\"http:\/\/ringsidereport.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/02\/danawhiteheader2.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"232\" height=\"169\" \/><\/a>FOX UFC SATURDAY powered the network to a primetime win across key demographics this past Saturday night, including in Adults 18-49, according to Nielsen Media Research.<\/p>\n<p>The seventh installment of UFC on FOX, which saw lightweight champion Benson Henderson successfully defend his title in a dramatic split decision victory over Gilbert Melendez, posted a 2.2\/4 average household rating\/share, with 3.7 million viewers, representing a +47% increase over last year\u2019s comparable UFC on FOX event on May 5, 2012 (1.5\/3, 2.4 million viewers). FOX UFC SATURDAY out-rated the combined averages of ABC, CBS and NBC among Men 18-34 (2.2 vs. 1.0), Men 18-49 (2.7 vs. 1.6) and Men 25-54 (2.8 vs. 2.2). <!--more--><\/p>\n<p>Viewership for the title bout between Henderson and Melendez peaked at a 2.7\/5, with 4.7 million viewers, and posted a 2.7 in Men 18-34 and a 3.3 in Men 18-49, which would have made it the second highest rated show in those two demos for the week among all broadcast networks in prime time.<\/p>\n<p>Kansas City led all markets with a 4.6\/8, followed by Portland, OR (3.8\/9), Minneapolis (3.6\/8), Fort Myers (3.4\/6), Indianapolis (3.3\/6) and Greensboro (3.3\/5).<\/p>\n<p>After two events this year, UFC on FOX is averaging a 2.3\/4, with 4.0 million viewers, which is a +10% increase in households and a +11% increase in average audience over the two-event average from 2012. Among the main male demographics, UFC on FOX is up +8% in Males 18-34 (2.6 vs. 2.4), up +16% in Males 18-49 (2.9 vs. 2.5) and up +19% in Males 25-54 (3.1 vs. 2.6) over last year.<\/p>\n<p>The next FOX UFC SATURDAY event airs Saturday, July 27 (8:00 PM ET) from KeyArena in Seattle.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.newzbreaker.com\/\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-19486\" title=\"NEWZBREAKER-BANNER\" src=\"http:\/\/ringsidereport.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/06\/NEWZBREAKER-BANNER.gif\" alt=\"\" width=\"500\" height=\"100\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>FOX UFC SATURDAY powered the network to a primetime win across key demographics this past Saturday night, including in Adults 18-49, according to Nielsen Media Research. The seventh installment of UFC on FOX, which saw lightweight champion Benson Henderson successfully defend his title in a dramatic split decision victory over Gilbert Melendez, posted a 2.2\/4 [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[8568,2261,736,7477],"class_list":["post-28413","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-boxing-news","tag-dana","tag-shocker","tag-ufc","tag-white"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/ringsidereport.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/28413","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/ringsidereport.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/ringsidereport.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ringsidereport.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ringsidereport.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=28413"}],"version-history":[{"count":-4,"href":"https:\/\/ringsidereport.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/28413\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/ringsidereport.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=28413"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ringsidereport.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=28413"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ringsidereport.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=28413"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}