Ratings Report: Bellator 155’s main event yields bad decision, but normal numbers

Bellator 155’s Rafael Carvalho vs. Melvin Manhoef Bellator middleweight title fight on Friday night was one of those things you’d probably want to forget.The fight wasn’t particularly entertaining.  The 40-year-old Manhoef’s road to the title shot was winning three of his last seven MMA fights as well as losing a kickboxing match on Spike on April 16. Yet, almost everyone believed the former major star of Japanese MMA and kickboxing’s glory days took the title from Carvalho. Well, except two of the three judges. The verdict, with Carvalho retaining via split decision, was so bad that Bellator’s own announcers, Sean Grande and Jimmy Smith, were openly appalled by it. As far as the viewership went, the show did right as Bellator’s normal levels, with 653,000 …

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