UFC does best Fight Night ratings since September with Ortega vs. Swanson

With the Saturday night competition easing somewhat without college football, both MMA and boxing put on four different shows on Saturday night with mixed results.
The big winner was ESPN boxing, a show headlined by Vasiliy Lomachenko's seventh round win over Guillermo Rigondeaux from the Theater in Madison Square Garden. The show did 1,730,000 viewers, coming off a strong lead-in of the announcement of the Heisman Trophy winner. It was the second-best number for boxing this year on basic cable.