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[pa99fighter]

Originally Posted by smoogy

This blogger doesn't understand the difference between the overall, and demographic ratings. It actually did something in the 1.8-2.0 overall range, and that demo rating of 1.0 (which will likely increase as it is tallied) is up from what CBS averages on Sat. nights.

EliteXC draws a measly 1.0 rating

July 27, 2008 By: Adam Morgan Category: CBS, CBS Saturday Night Fights, EliteXC

The numbers are in for EliteXC’s second showing on national television and the ratings do no look to be good despite a very good overall show:

That airing back on May 31, 2008 scored 4.3 million viewers and a 1.9/6 among 18-49 year olds and since the Kimbo Slice bout for that airing aired past primetime (11p) the most viewed portion wasn’t included. But lacking any Kimbo anticipation, last night’s fights pulled a mere 2.62 million and a 1.0/3 from 9pm-11pm.

A 1.0 on a Saturday night is nothing short of terrible, make no mistake about it. Considering the first show drew a lot of interest and a great rating with Kimbo Slice, Gina Carano, and MMA’s first foray into network television, this show has to be considered a failure in terms of ratings. Like I said, the show was strong as far as the fights go but that doesn’t really matter if no one sees them. The ratings justify the criticism that CBS and EliteXC probably went for too much, too soon after they saw the ratings for the first show. Once they build more stars, they can start running more shows on CBS. But without one or both of those two, for better or worse, these network shows will continue to fail. How EliteXC and CBS didn’t see that is beyond me. Or maybe they did, but chose to turn a blind eye to the fact anyways.

Make no mistake, the first show was a ratings success because of Gina Carano and Kimbo Slice, not because of Robbie Lawler and Scott Smith. These guys are good fighters but they’re just not the fighters that make people want to go out of their way to see. I don’t know what kind of negative impact this kind of rating has on MMA on network television in the future, but it certainly doesn’t help matters any. For EliteXC, the show in October must draw big numbers or it could spell the end for them on national television. Another 1.0 rating will most likely not be acceptable.

Five Ounces of Pain | EliteXC draws a measly 1.0 rating
And who said they didn't need Kimbo?

[Dimson]

Originally Posted by pa99fighter

Five Ounces of Pain | EliteXC draws a measly 1.0 rating
And who said they didn't need Kimbo?

Who said they didn't need to promote their show? Also it would have helped if ESPN would have done a profile of some of their fighters like they did when Kimbo faught. I will admit it is sad though that they got a bad rating because this card was 100% better over all then the last one.

[Quintessential Studmuffin]

And who said they didn't need Kimbo?

Me. Dozens of others. They don't need Kimbo. They need more advertising and promoting. Compare the kind of promotion the first show got compared to this one. Huge difference.

Also, you seem to forget Spike aired UFC 84,one of the best cards of the year at the same time CBS aired Elite.

It's a true shame it got such a low rating. Last night was probably the best show Elite ever put on,and probably my favorite.

[subman]

XFL anybody?!?! Huge opening ratings, then fell off the face of the earth.,,

[atj-lucko]

Originally Posted by The Sundance Kid

Yea the show was 100 times better.

I thought this would happen.

Said it a few times.

It's really a shame.

Better fights and all around better show, I wonder though did the last show put off causal fans? seeing that ear pop and that blood spurt out of Thompson's ear could that turned people off. Or was it that Kimbo wasn't there.
Also seems the hardcore fans didn't even watch this show, for shame..

[Ubermensch]

Typical they finally do a good show and get shit ratings

[Dimson]

Originally Posted by Ubermensch

Typical they finally do a good show and get shit ratings

Because they did shit advertising. Once again I knew about the show because of this site.

[BigBanda]

Ouch! Well I really did not see much advertising on it.

I can see Dana now...

[jrube]

Originally Posted by Quintessential Studmuffin

Me. Dozens of others. They don't need Kimbo. They need more advertising and promoting. Compare the kind of promotion the first show got compared to this one. Huge difference.

Also, you seem to forget Spike aired UFC 84,one of the best cards of the year at the same time CBS aired Elite.

It's a true shame it got such a low rating. Last night was probably the best show Elite ever put on,and probably my favorite.

Agreed. I don't recall seeing any promotion for this event during prime time programming. Some of my friends who are new to the sport, casual fans, didn't even know the EliteXC fights were airing Saturday.

[Dave_44]

I m not gonna lie I wouldn't mind them going under at this point. I ve seen enough I thought they had potential to grow and keep signing a few name fighter while building their own prospects but really I haven't seen them do eather they have some decent talent i would mind seeing fight against good fighters. When i really look at this organization they haven't progressed they have been stuck at stage one for too long I think its time to pack it in.