Bellator’s first attempt at exclusively streaming an event online was expected to have hiccups, but it was the United Kingdom’s television viewers that experienced the biggest disturbance.
When the highly anticipated Bellator 206 main event between middleweight champion Gegard Mousasi and welterweight champion Rory MacDonald finally kicked off on Saturday evening, it was 10 p.m. in San Jose, Calif. (where the event was taking place) and 6 a.m. over in the U.K. Instead of seeing that superfight, British MMA fans who had stayed up to watch the show on Channel 5 were instead switched over to an episode of the children’s program Peppa Pig.