UFC 207 television numbers indicate major PPV success

Early indications are that UFC 207 was a major success even going against the Orange Bowl game, and being on a less familiar Friday night, the numbers for television stacked up among the tops in company history.
The prelims, headlined by Johny Hendricks vs. Neil Magny, did 1,511,000 viewers, which would have been the fourth-best of the year and the eighth-best on FS 1. The numbers trailed UFC 196 (the first Conor McGregor vs Nate Diaz fight), UFC 200 (which was one of the most loaded shows in co