UFC Chile: Usman vs. Maia averages 870,000 viewers

Boosted by a NASCAR lead-in, the show beat the 2017 average for the series by nine percent. The UFC’s debut Saturday night in Santiago, Chile did slightly above-average ratings despite, on paper, being a lackluster card when it came to name fights.
UFC Chile averaged 870,000 viewers on FOX Sports 1, which put it above the 2017 FS1 Fight Night average of 795,000. That should be considered good, even more so with Kamaru Usman — an unproven headliner whose current talent eclipses his n