The headliner, Rashad Evans vs. Phil Davis, was a stinker, it turned into a boring five round wrestling match that ended in an Evans victory. The rest of the card was pretty damn good.
The highlights were Charles Oliveira's insane knee lock, Cub Swanson's thunderous knockout and the former Chicago cop Mike Russow's victorious return to Chicago. All of those moments were on the early broadcast on Fuel.
The last three fights on Fox weren't as interesting. The Chael Sonnen/Michael Bisping fight was the most competitive of the main fights, but it wasn't great. It resulted in a Sonnen decision victory, all three fights were decisions. Demian Maia vs. Chris Weidman, the first fight on Fox, showed Maia take a beatdown for three rounds.
As a whole, the event that started at 3:30 and ended around 10 was enjoyable for Chicago fight fans. "The whole day was awesome, but Davis and Evan sucked," said Chris Walters, who was at the January 25th event.
MMA fans at home tuned into the fights in bunches.
UFC on Fox 2 is the second highest rated UFC cable event ever, even though there were no titles on the line. The ratings were down from UFC on Fox 1 that an average 6.4 million viewers. It still put up an average 4.7 million viewers, ranking third among Saturday night programming on broadcast television.
Ratings were provided by tvbythenumbers.zap2it.com.
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