ESPN reports that Saturday night’s HBO live boxing event featuring lightweight Terence Crawford defeating Yuriorkis Gamboa scored a rating of 1.208 million HBO subscribers with a peak at 1.286 million.
The Crawford-Gamboa fight was a back and forth action-packed fight. It was the second week in a row that had an entertaining fight as Robert Guerrero and Yoshihiro Kamegai put on a slugfest on Showtime the preceding week which drew 614,000 Showtime viewer average.
As reported by ESPN’s Dan Rafael, only Chavez, Jr-Vera II did better this year.
Payout Perspective:
The fights on HBO Saturday coincided with UFC Fight Night 44 which received just 702,000 viewers on FS1. The HBO fights featured Terence Crawford fighting in his hometown of Omaha, Nebraska. According to Rafael’s report, it drew 10,943 for a gate of $500,000. It was a good draw for the hometown crowd. This makes it two weeks in a row in which boxing had two “Fight of the Year” fights. Although Guerrero-Kamegai may have drawn less, it was nonetheless a hard fought fight.
Crawford-Gamboa averaged 1,208,000 viewers.
Korobov-Uzcategui averaged 929,000.
I’m surprised the fight did so well. Crawford is just coming on to his own and has really only been popular in his hometown, and Gamboa is not a big draw and has fought sporadically the last few years. This is a great number for a premium channel. And it was a great fight.
Do we know what the two fighters got paid?
The gate is modest, which is to be expected fighting in Omaha, but I would not have guessed that the fight would break 1M viewers.
Good year for.boxing
Wow boxing gets with the program and averages $45 per seat for what some might consider a local fight. Decent HBO numbers too. What an amazing fight, lots of energy. Still this fight lost money at the gate, without HBO and depending on the purses IMO, got to put that in now because some people cant comprehend and are way too retarded to think on their own. I guess when you are educated in special ED you get spoon fed everything. So this is my opinion based on information from this article. I don’t see either fighter being major ppv draws.
Tops,
The way Crawdord fought, I think the could become a PPV draw in a few years. This was a big, dramatic win for him in a very exciting fight. If he gets a few more scalps, he could be ready for PPV.
Sal you are an idiot that doesn’t know shit. You fabricate everything. No one believes your bullshit.
Not bad for a channel in only 28 million homes
James has autism.
James,
I agree. That’s a solid rating based on the limited households (~4.2 rating), and I’m sure with replays and on demand the total viewes will be significantly higher. It’s a hell of a lot better than SF ever did on Showtime. I don’t think they ever cracked a 2.0 rating even for Fedor and Nick Diaz fights. Good job by HBO.
By the way the Guerrero-Kamegai fight on Showtime turning in 614k views is also pretty good, but you would expect that with Guerrero who is well known and liked for his brawling style.
Yeah! Pretty good for showtime being in only 22 million homes.
Looks like Golovkin-Geale is getting close to 9,000 tickets sold at Madison Square Garden with still 3 weeks to go. Not bad for 2 non-Americans headlining in NYC! 🙂
Boxing is doing very well. By the way 11,000 tickets in freaking Omaha.
Well did I fabricate UFC 174 estimated at 80k bahahah
Nice dodge Sal.
Nice dodge on your part whats the matter cant find anything on google to discredit 1.2 million views!!! bahahahahaha
I never denied it idiot.
You got owned again on these gate numbers and you are grasping at any straw you can find. You claim that the UFC without question lost money on those two ufn fights where they did far more gate money in-1 nearly doubled this Gamboa fight, then you claim Gamboa only lost on the gate, but implied they probably didn’t lose overall, it depends on the purses/hbo. Shouldn’t the purses be more in boxing-remember you just got done saying high level boxers make more, right? Something doesn’t add up you little cock sucker.
Fightbusiness,
11k is good, but I think the tickets were priced very low. Which is OK, since it’s in Crawford’s interest to get as many of his fans to the fight, but it means those 11k don’t mean as much.
Diego- Now that he knocked out gamboa he’ll be able to do 15k at normal prices. In freakin Nebraska a state with few minority’s.
crawford wanted the tickets price very low and wanted as much people from his hometown …. close to 11 k damn peole still complain.. it was a hell of fight which drew 1.2 million on hbo that is great number it’s been a epic 3 months of boxing it feels like every weekend something memorable is going on … and the schedule coming up is as good except that horrible danny garcia card yikes lol
Robert Guerrero made I believe $2mil for his fight against Yoshihiro Kamegai.
That’s more than any UFC fighter will make this year D.
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