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Kimbo Slice and Elite-XC scored big in the Los Angeles Market Ratings, but
is the Internet Sensation a one-hit wonder after his performance against James
"The Collosus" Thompson on Saturday Night?
THE LOS ANGELES TIMES reported on the Stanley Cup -
crunching numbers, stating the following:
The first mixed martial arts event shown in prime time on a major
network was a big hit for KCBS-TV Channel 2.
The Saturday night
tape-delayed Elite Extreme Combat event from Newark, N.J., came in with a local
overnight rating of 4.7 and a 9 share. The rating peaked at 7.2 the final 15
minutes.
By comparison, a Stanley Cup final hockey game shown earlier in the
evening on KNBC-TV Channel 4 averaged just a 1.3 local rating and a 3
share.
The MMA national overnight rating, which is an average for the
nation's 54 largest markets, was a 2.7 with a 5 share.
The main event for
the five-card night featured Kimbo Slice, a former street brawler from Miami
whose real name is Kevin Ferguson, against James "The Colossus" Thompson of
England. Slice won by technical knockout. The fight was stopped 38 seconds into
the third round with a dazed Thompson bleeding from the ear after taking a few
explosive punches to the head.
Jared Shaw, vice president of fighter
relations for EliteXC, said he was extremely pleased with the overnight
viewership numbers in L.A.. Three other fights are scheduled to be shown on CBS
later this year.
"The rating is phenomenal," he said. "With each big
city, the numbers should be very similar."
The event was scheduled to run
from 9-11 p.m., but ran about 45 minutes longer, causing the KCBS local news to
be delayed and shortened in length by about 20 minutes.
In some parts of
the country, "CBS EliteXC Saturday Night Fights" was delayed and, in one case,
not shown at all.
In the Billings, Mont., area and parts of central Ohio,
some viewers tuned in but found a pre-scheduled Children's Miracle Network
telethon instead. Most of those CBS affiliates chose to show the MMA event at a
later hour.
That wasn't the case in Greensboro, N.C., where WFMY gave
rights to the event to a low-wattage network 25 miles away in Reidsville,
according to program director David Briscoe. Instead, the CBS affiliate
televised a 1992 made-for-TV movie called "Getting Up and Going Home," which
stars Tom Skerritt as a divorced attorney who copes with his mid-life crisis by
having multiple affairs.
In an earlier statement sent to
greensborosports.com, Briscoe wrote: "We have concern for the content in CBS'
EliteXC."
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