The HBO replay of the Canelo Alvarez-Liam Smith fight drew 459,000 HBO subscribers on Saturday night according to Sports TV Ratings. The replay was the only fight as there was no live event to go along with the fight. It drew another 216,000 viewers in the adult 18-49 demo. Alvarez stopped Smith in the 9th […]
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Report: Canelo-Smith draws less than 300K PPV buys
Lance Pugmire of The LA Times reports that the early information for the buy rate of the Canelo Alvarez-Liam Smith PPV last Saturday drew less than 300,000 buys. Alvarez stopped Smith in the 9th Round before a packed AT&T Stadium in Arlington, Texas. Canelo drew 450,000 PPV buys against Amir Khan this past May. Prior […]
Top Rank to distribute Pacquiao-Vargas PPV
The Sports Business Journal reports that Top Rank will not seek a distributor for Manny Pacquiao’s fight against Jessie Vargas on Saturday, November 5th. There will not be shoulder programming (i.e. HBO 24/7s) to help promote the fight. Pacquiao’s promoter, Bob Arum, could lose out on rights fees from the rebroadcast of the fight. According […]
September’s PBC on Spike draws 547,000 viewers
PBC on Spike TV Friday night drew 547,000 per Sports TV Ratings. In the main event Daniel Jacobs stopped Sergio Mora to retain his middleweight world title. Per Sports TV Ratings, it drew 187,000 viewers in the adult 18-49 demo. The event was up a slight increase from PBC last event on Spike TV in […]
GGG draws 843K HBO viewers for Saturday afternoon fight
HBO Boxing on Saturday afternoon featuring Gennady Golovkin taking on Kell Brook drew 843,000 subscribers. The event aired in the afternoon from 3:10pm-3:28pm PT per Sports TV Ratings. It drew 393,000 viewers in the adult 18-49 demo. The event was replayed later that night in addition to two other live fights. 7:13pm-7:45pm PT – Kamegai […]