Robert Whittaker and Derek Brunson may have had one of the most exciting one-round fights of the year, but their name value wasn't enough to draw a big television audience.
Saturday's UFC show from Melbourne, Australia, featuring a battle of top 10 middleweights averaged 686,000 viewers, a drop of 17 percent from the previous week. Whittaker's win was seen by the third-lowest prime time UFC Fight Night of the year on FS 1. Part of the reason was the tough college football competition, but that's the case every fall, and HBO airing a replay of the Andre Ward vs.