HBO Boxing featuring Gennady Golovkin facing Dominic Wade drew an average subscriber rating of 1.325M viewers per Sports TV Ratings. The GGG fight is comparable to his last HBO fight this past May. The fight drew 758,000 viewers in the adult 18-49 demo. The fight preceding GGG-Wade was Roman “Chocolito” Gonzalez soundly defeating McWilliams Arroyo. […]
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Disappointing PPV buy rate for Pacquiao-Bradley III
The Manny Pacquiao-Tim Bradley trilogy did poorly on PPV according to Bob Arum in a report from ESPN’s Dan Rafael. The Top Rank promoter admits that the PPV did between 400K-500K buys and that the event lost money. Arum admitted that the April 9th event will be closer to 400K PPV buys than 500K and that […]
Replay of Pacquiao-Bradley trilogy draws 750K on HBO
The HBO replay of the Manny Pacquiao-Timothy Bradley fight from April 8th drew 750,000 network subscribers per Sports TV Ratings. The event drew 347,000 viewers in the Adult 18-49 demo. The event was marred by Pacquiao’s controversial comments about same sex relationships which cost him his Nike sponsorship. Notably, Pacquiao still wore Nikes in his […]
PBC on NBC draws 1.24M viewers in overnight ratings
Premier Boxing Champions posted its worst ratings on NBC drawing just 1.24 million viewers in overnights per Television By Numbers. The card featured Errol Spence, Jr. against Chris Algieri with Spence scoring the victory. The event, which aired from 8:30-11pm ET drew a 0.3 rating in the adult 18-49 demo and a 1 share. The […]
Algieri situation presents problem with Ali Act
While there are many proponents that endorse expanding the Muhammad Ali Act to include the protection of MMA fighters, the federal law has its issues. The case of Chris Algieri provides a good example. Algieri, the New York fighter that is best known for his upset win over Ruslan Provodnikov which scored him his big […]