HBO Boxing’s Saturday night telecast, Superfly 2, drew 639,000 for the main event featuring Sor Rungvisai and Juan Francisco Estrada peaked at 753,000 viewers according to Nielsen. Runvisai successfully defended his WBC super flyweight title against Estrada with a majority decision. The co-feature saw McWilliams Arroyo defeat Carlos Cuardras and draw 548,000 viewers and peaked […]
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Danny Garcia tops salaries for HBO event at Mandalay Bay
MMA Payout has obtained from the Nevada Athletic Commission the payouts, attendance and gates from last week’s boxing event at the Mandalay Bay Events Center featuring Danny Garcia and Brandon Rios. The event sold 4,139 tickets for a gate of $925,180. There were 1,439 total comps. The payouts were as follows: Danny Garcia $1,250,000 def. […]
Garcia-Rios on Showtime Saturday peaks with 558,000 viewers
The return of Danny Garcia to the ring saw him draw 516,000 viewers on Showtime Saturday night according to Nielsen. His fight against Brandon Rios peaked at 558,000 viewers. Garcia KO’d Rios in the 9th round. It drew 0.18 in the A18-49 demo per Nielsen. It was the main event of a 3-fight telecast on […]
PBC on Fox draws 1.06M viewers opposite Winter Olympics
Showtime lands Joshua-Parker rights in U.S.
ESPN reports that Showtime has secured the U.S. rights to the Anthony Joshua-Joseph Parker heavyweight title fight on March 31st. The fight will unify three world title belts. The fight will take place at Principality Stadium in Wales where its anticipated that 80,000 will be in attendance. The event will air 2pm PT/5pm ET. The […]