HBO Boxing After Dark this past Saturday drew 796,000 viewers for the main event featuring the rematch of Sor Rungvisai and Roman Chocolatito Gonzalez.
The event featured 3 fights on the telecast and ran opposite UFC 215 this past Saturday. The event was dubbed, “Superfly,” since it featured super flyweights on Saturday event.
The main event pitted the rematch in which Rungvisai knocked out Chocolatito in the fourth round of their super flyweight championship. The peak occurred during their fight and scored 835,000 viewers.
The co-main event of the evening featured Japan’s Naoya Inoue defeating Antonio Nieves. Inoue, perhaps the next challenger to Rungvisai, defeated Nieves after the banker featured in the Wall Street Journal the same day, did not come out for round 7. The event drew 735,000 viewers and peaked at 770,000.
In the first fight of the evening, Juan Francisco Estrada defeated Carlos Cuardras. The fight drew 608,000 viewers with a peak of 714,000 viewers.
Payout Perspective:
Very good ratings for the main event considering that this telecast focused on fights in some of the smallest weight divisions in boxing. Many people had heard or saw the first fight between Rungvisai and Chocolatito and wanted to see they could match the action of their first fight. It did not go to a decision but fans should have been impressed with Rungvisai’s stoppage of Gonzalez.
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