{"id":412279,"date":"2010-03-10T15:15:22","date_gmt":"2010-03-10T20:15:22","guid":{"rendered":"urn:newsml:sports.yahoo,yhoo:20050301:mma,article,yhoo-ept_sports_mma_experts-227221:1"},"modified":"2010-03-10T15:15:22","modified_gmt":"2010-03-10T20:15:22","slug":"television-ratings-low-for-wec-47","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/412279","title":{"rendered":"Television ratings low for WEC 47"},"content":{"rendered":"

Despite a fight card that had highlight knockouts, quick submissions, a championship belt changing hands and lots of blood, ratings for the WEC 47 broadcast on Versus were low. According to MMA Junkie<\/a>, the fights drew a 0.46 share and 373,000 viewers. <\/p>\n

In comparison, WEC 46, which featured Urijah Faber in his first bout back since injuring both hands in a fight with Mike Brown, and a title unification bout between Ben Henderson and Jamie Varner, drew 640,000 viewers.  <\/p>\n

In Columbus, the fight card was a success. After strong walk-up and day before sales, 8,345 people filled Nationwide Arena, the WEC’s fifth largest crowd. <\/p>\n

So what is the problem? Versus being pulled off DirecTV is partly to blame, but Versus was off DirecTV in January when WEC 46 pulled in such strong numbers. <\/p>\n

Was it the line-up? Though Dominick Cruz and Brian Bowles, the card’s headliners, are not the most well-known fighters, Jens Pulver and Miguel Torres were on the card. Regardless of the fact that they both lost, they’re usually both popular enough to get people to watch. <\/p>\n

The good news is that if you didn’t tune in, you still have a chance to see Scott Jorgensen’s foot-dangling submission<\/a>, Cruz taking the bantamweight belt<\/a> from Bowles and Torres’ head getting busted open<\/a> by Joseph Benavidez’s elbow. WEC 47 is replaying on Versus tonight at 9 ET.<\/p>\n

In the meantime, we want to know. Did you watch WEC 47? Why or why not? Take our poll and tell us in the comments.<\/p>\n

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Despite a fight card that had highlight knockouts, quick submissions, a championship belt changing hands and lots of blood, ratings for the WEC 47 broadcast on Versus were low. According to MMA Junkie, the fights drew a 0.46 share and 373,000 viewers. In comparison, WEC 46, which featured Urijah Faber in his first bout back […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4013,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-412279","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/412279","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4013"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=412279"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/412279\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=412279"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=412279"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=412279"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}