There is good early news for UFC 232’s business metrics as the prelims on FS 1 averaged 1.15 million viewers.
This would be the second-biggest number of 2018, for the final airing of MMA on FS 1. The number trailed only UFC 229, the Khabib Nurmagomedov vs,. Conor McGregor, which did 1.3 million viewers, and those prelims led to what was, by far, the largest UFC PPV number in history with nearly 2.4 million worldwide buys.
UFC 232 got a lot of late week publicity due to the controversy of Jon Jones fighting while having three failed tests for the steroid Turbinabol between Aug.