Mikey Garcia’s return to the ring on Showtime Saturday night drew 618,000 viewers on the premium cable network. The fight against Sergey Lipinets peaked at 689,000 viewers. Garcia defeated Lipinets via unanimous decision. The 52-minute fight drew 0.22 viewers in the A18-49 demo. In comparison, ESPN’s Top Rank Boxing drew a 0.37 audience in the […]
NAC give Calvillo 3 more months in addition to USADA suspension
Cynthia Calvillo received an additional three-month suspension from the Nevada State Athletic Commission per MMA Junkie. She was fined 15 percent of her disclosed $41,000 purse ($6,150) in addition to $436.08 in attorney’s fees. USADA suspended Calvillo six-months for an in-competition drug test at UFC 219 that revealed marijuana metabolites in excess of the allowable […]
ESPN scores highest cable boxing ratings in 2018 thus far
Top Rank Boxing on ESPN drew over 1 million viewers for its Saturday night telecast featuring Oscar Valdez and Scott Quigg scored 1,082,000 on Saturday night. The 123-minute telecast drew a 0.37 rating in the A18-49 demo. According to Nielsen, the Andy Vences-Erick De Leon fight was the highest-rated boxing event on cable for 2018 […]
Smith talks Project Spearhead in SBJ article
The Sports Business Journal reports on Leslie Smith and her efforts to organize UFC fighters with Project Spearhead. The effort “by fighters, for fighters,” seeks to collect enough signatures by fighters to obtain an National Labor Relations Board vote to determine the fighter employment states. Via SBJ: In order for the NLRB to look at […]
ESPN Top Rank Boxing Saturday night scores highest overnights this year
Saturday night’s ESPN Top Rank event drew the highest overnight ratings (in terms of market rating) for 2018 according to the network. It was the prelim fight between Andy Vences and Arick De Leon that scored a 0.8 metered market rating. Last week’s Deontay Wilder-Luis Ortiz drew a 0.7 rating on Showtime and 1.055M viewers. […]