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Rory MacDonald took on Gegard Mousasi in the main event of the Bellator 206 for the middleweight championship.
The fight took place at the San Jose SAP Center and was transmitted to Channel 5, with the main event scheduled to start around 4 am, English time.
However, the sub card has passed and the main event has been slightly delayed.
MacDonald and Mousasi entered the ring just before 6 a.m The hour of & # 39; England. Yet, as the clock struck 6am, the transmission is over and instead Fans have encountered an episode of Peppa Pig.
Fighting fans have reacted furiously online and the Bellator UK leader has promised to sort the problem.
A Twitter user @nateguildea posted: "Wait, is that real? Is Channel 5 really cutting Bellator right now?
"I stayed awake until 6 am to watch Bellator and they interrupted the broadcast during Rory's walkout to put Peppa Pig hahahahahaha, I'm about to put my head against a wall."
@JamesDoyleMMA wrote: "Bellator had to do better – so many complaints about the beginning of the main event and the switch from Channel 5 to Peppa Pig – no choice of these fights had to be done by 5am"
@Davidgmullins saw the fun side and wrote, "I woke up to watch # Bellator206 and Peppa Pig is on channel 5 instead of the main event.
"At least it's a good episode (the one where George and Peppa go to the playground").
It is believed that 6 am is the cutoff point of the morning watershed, meaning that no show depicting foul language or violence can be broadcast.
Due to the nature of mixed martial arts, this would have fallen into this category.
Scott Coker, President of Bellator, assured fans that a replay would be broadcast as soon as possible and that he was angry in an e-mail exchange about the incident.
In the main event, Mousasi beat MacDonald by stop.
The fight was for Mousasi's middleweight belt, while MacDonald was looking to add to his welterweight crown and become a double-weight champion.
The middleweight king took MacDonald to the ground before unleashing a series of blows to the head, with the referee intervening and stopping the fight.
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