Sunday night's ESPN 2 tape-delay broadcast of GLORY 27 CHICAGO scored a 33% ratings increase on the preceding event, GLORY 26 AMSTERDAM - and that's without factoring in the ESPN 3 broadcast and DVR numbers.
Airing at 9pm ET, the re-run of the Friday night event averaged out at 225,000 viewers. That is a 33% increase on the 168,000 average for GLORY 26 AMSTERDAM and a 13% uplift on GLORY 25 MILAN, the organization's ESPN debut, which scored 198,000, according to Nielsen ratings.
GLORY events air live on ESPN 3, the organization's online platform, and re-air on ESPN 2 on the Sunday evening.