Bellator averages 750,000 viewers over two platforms for Fedor vs. Mir

Bellator’s 2005 dream fight, taking place 13 years later, of Fedor Emelianenko vs. Frank Mir headlined a Saturday night show that averaged 750,000 viewers on a night filled with sports competition.

Emelianenko’s 48-second win in what was the only real marquee-level match on the show, didn’t allow the rating to build like a longer fight would have. The viewership averaged 581,000 viewers on Paramount and another 169,000 viewers on CMT, the company’s second-best showing so far this year, but below what fights with names of that level were doing on Spike alone in past years.

The show was built around the idea that Emelianenko was the Pride champion in 2005, while Mir at the same time was the UFC…