Showtime Boxing Friday night drew a telecast high of 376,000 viewers for the main event featuring Claressa Shields and Hanna Gabriels. The “special edition” featured Shields as she defeated Gabriels in T-Rex’s first real challenge in her young pro career. In addition, the first bout of the telecast featured Umar Salamov taking on Brian Howard. […]
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Spence-Ocampo fight on Showtime drew 683,000 viewers
The Errol Spence-Carlos Ocampo fight on Showtime this past Saturday topped out at 683,000 viewers according to Nielsen via ShowBuzz Daily. Spence downed his overmatched opponent in the first round with a body shot. The main card drew 301,000 viewers in the A18-49 demo and a 0.43 household rating. The first round stoppage peaked at […]
Roster payouts from Horn-Crawford event
MMA Payout has obtained the official payout sheet from last Saturday’s Jeff Horn-Terrence Crawford fight taking place at the MGM Grand Garden Arena in Las Vegas. Terrence Crawford earned $1.75 million for his TKO victory over Jeff Horn. Crawford won the WBO World Welterweight Title. Horn earned $500,000 according to the disclosure from the Nevada […]
Canelo-GGG set for rematch September 15th
Canelo Alvarez and Gennady Golovkin are set for their rematch September 15th in Las Vegas according to the LA Times. The deal was made shortly after a self-imposed deadline made by Alvarez’s camp. GGG did not obtain a 50-50 split as he originally requested. But, he likely did better than the 42.5% of the fight […]
Santa Cruz-Mares draws 600K on Showtime
The rematch between Leo Santa Cruz and Abner Mares drew 600,000 viewers Saturday night on Showtime according to Nielsen via ShowBuzz Daily. The fight peaked at 633,000 viewers which is less than their first fight. The first fight, which took place on ESPN in August 2016, between Santa Cruz and Mares drew 1.217 million viewers […]