The Ultimate Fighter Episode 8 drew 303,000 viewers on FS1 Wednesday night according to Nielsen via ShowBuzz Daily. The show drew 0.12 viewers in the A18-49 demo.

The show featured two fights. Hayder Hassan took care of Joe Stevenson with a first round TKO in the special wild card fight. In the second fight of the night, Tom Gallicchio submitted Justin Edwards in the first round via RNC.

The show featured the annual coach’s challenge which was a game of tetherball in a pool with each coach having to balance on planks. TJ Dillashaw came back to win the challenge and the money associated for him and his team.

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With Game 3 of The Finals happening the same night as TUF, it was clear that this was not going to be a night for live viewership. Noticeably, DVR ratings are starting to increase over the course of the show, so we might be seeing people viewership pick up on the recording side.