As Canelo Alvarez takes on Amir Khan Saturday night on one of the busiest days in sports, we take a look at prior May boxing events and where this PPV can go. Per Sports Business Journal Research, these are the top-grossing boxing PPVs: Mayweather-Pacquiao – May 2015: 4.4M PPV buys Oscar de la Hoya-Mayweather – […]
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Is “Money” coming back?
Floyd Mayweather, Jr. may be returning from his short retirement based on a couple trademarks filed late last month with the United States Patent and Trademark Office. In an interview with Showtime this past Saturday, the 49-0 fighter maintained he is staying out of the ring but conceded he has had talks with CBS and […]
PBC on Spike TV draws 513,000 viewers
PBC on Spike TV this past Friday night drew 513,000 viewers a cording to Sports TV Ratings. The ratings show a 40% drop from its April 1 event. In the main event, Andre Dirrell defeated Blake Caparello despite Direll being knocked down in the fight. According to Sports TV Ratings, it registered just 180,000 viewers […]
Will the Ali Act help protect MMA fighters?
PBC on Fox draws 1.51 million viewers
Premier Boxing Champions on Fox drew 1.51 million viewers Saturday night according to TV By the Numbers. It was fourth in its time slot in terms of overall viewers. The event featured the rematch between Andre Berto and Victor Ortiz. Berto stopped Ortiz in the fourth round despite going down to Ortiz earlier in the […]