HBO’s Boxing After Dark Saturday night drew 683,000 viewers for its main event on the network per Nielsen via ShowBuzz Daily. The two other fights on the telecast scored in the 600,000
The event is more than its last Boxing After Dark main event this past January which drew 497,000 viewers. This past Saturday, Joe Smith, Jr. faced Sullivan Berrera. Despite being dropped in the first round, Berrera came back to dominate the fight and win a 10-round bout. In addition, Miguel Berchelt defeated Takashi Miura via unanimous decision and Jerzeel Corrales defeated Robinson Castellanos.
The Berchelt fight drew 617,000 viewers while the Corrales fight drew 629,000. Both scored 0.21 in the A18-49 demo.
There were three boxing telecasts Saturday. PBC on Fox drew 886,000 viewers on the network,while PBC on FS1 served as an add-on to the Fox event. The show on FS1 drew 277,000 viewers and 0.08 in the A18-49 demo for a two-hour telecast which aired immediately after the Fox show. The Fox show peaked above 1 million viewers.
Payout Perspective:
PBC on Fox drew less than a million and the FS1 event did as well as it usually does on the network. The shows on HBO had modest viewership with each of the three fights drawing in the 600s range which is good for the network after losing much of its prized fighters since Bob Arum signed a tv deal with ESPN.
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