Top Rank Boxing on ESPN Saturday night drew 965,000 viewers per Nielsen via ShowBuzz Daily. The main event featured Terrence Crawford and Julius Indongo.
The Crawford-Indongo main event drew the second-highest boxing match on cable for 2017.
The third big event for Top Rank on ESPN was an improvement on Vasyl Lomachenko’s debut on the network earlier this month.
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The ratings are promising and likely let casual boxing fans see Terrence Crawford for the first time. The good news is that he was impressive in his body shot 3rd round KO of Indongo. Thus far, it looks like the new partnership between Top Rank and ESPN is working out.
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