UFC On Fox Results - New Heavyweight Champion

[key2win]

The debut of UFC on Fox saw Junior Dos Santos knockout Cain Velasquez in 64 seconds to become the New UFC Heavyweight Championship. Ben Henderson defeated Clay Guida in a great bout that should have also been aired on the main live card. Henderson is expected to get the next Lightweight Championship Match against Frankie Edgar.

Main Card
Junior Dos Santos Defeated Cain Velasquez Via KO at 1:04 of Round 1

Preliminary Card
Ben Henderson Defeated Clay Guida Via Unanimous Decision
Dustin Poirier Defeated Pablo Garza Via Submission at 1:32 of Round 2
Ricardo Lamas Defeated Cub Swanson Via Submission at 2:16 of Round 2
Damarques Johnson Defeated Clay Harvison Via TKO at 1:34 of Round 1
Darren Uyenoyama Defeated Norifumi Yamamoto Via Unanimous Decision
Robert Peralta Defeated Mackens Semerzier Via TKO at 1:54 of Round 3
Alex Caceres Defeated Cole Escovedo Via Unanimous Decision
Mike Pierce Defeated Paul Bradley Via Split Decision
Aaron Rosa Defeated Matt Lucas Via Majority Decision

Fight of the Night: Ben Henderson Vs Clay Guida
Knockout of the Night: Junior Dos Santos
Submission of the Night: Ricardo Lamas

[JesRey]

That Henderson/Guida was nuts. Dana dropped the ball on not showing that fight on TV.

Congrats to Dos Santos, he hit Cain with a nice shot.

[key2win]

UFC's Fox debut delivers a ratings knockout - UFC - Yahoo! Sports

UFC on Fox did a 3.1 rating and 5.7 million viewers for the one-hour broadcast, based on the fast national Nielsen numbers. It was the largest audience ever to watch an MMA television show in the United States, breaking the record of 5.3 million set on Sept. 30, 2009, for an episode of “The Ultimate Fighter” reality show on Spike TV featuring a taped match of Kimbo Slice vs. Roy Nelson. Ratings for the main event match itself, where Junior dos Santos quickly dispatched Cain Velasquez to win the UFC heavyweight title, won’t be available until early in the week.

[ac-n-mike]

I would be curious to see the WORLD WIDE ratings....

[key2win]

8.8 Million Viewers Indicate the Sky’s the Limit for UFC on Fox - UFC - Yahoo! Sports

In a ratings release on Sunday, the UFC on Fox averaged 5.7 million viewers for the entirety of the one-hour broadcast that aired during the 9 to 10 p.m. ET time slot.

According to Nielsen Ratings sent to MMAWeekly.com, the 15-minute averages steadily increased as the show got closer to the actual fight, which didn’t kick off until after 9:30 p.m. ET.

Starting at 9 p.m. ET, the UFC on Fox broadcast pulled in 5.3 million viewers and then jumped to 5.5 million viewers during the 9:15 to 9:30 time slot. The real jump happened during the fight between Cain Velasquez and Junior Dos Santos.

The peak hit at 8.8 million viewers during the fight, the highest ever for any mixed martial arts fight in television history, surpassing the numbers reached during the EliteXC broadcast featuring Kimbo Slice against James Thompson.

The overall rating during the 9:30 to 9:45 p.m. time period averaged 7.1 million viewers. The decrease was due to the amount of fans that changed the channel after the heavyweight title fight ended with the viewership going to 5.9 million within three minutes of the fight’s conclusion.