ESPN reports that boxing promoters for former junior middleweight world titleholder Demetrius Andrade have filed a lawsuit against Jay Z’s Roc Nation Sports in New York. The promoters Artie Pelullo of Banner Promotions and Joe DeGuardia of Star Boxing claim that Jay Z’s boxing promotion arm intentionally interfered with their exclusive contractual agreement with Andrade. […]
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PBC on ESPN draws 1.073M viewers
PBC on ESPN this past Saturday drew 1.073 million viewers according to Sports TV Ratings. The event, which went from 9-10:57pm ET featured Danny Garcia taking on Paulie Malignaggi. Garcia defeated Paulie with a 9th round TKO in a fight that was dominated by the Philly fighter. The first fight of the night was short-lived […]
Can Rousey carry another UFC PPV?
How will UFC 190 fare Saturday? It’s the second straight event where Ronda Rousey is the selling point for the PPV. The last time out, Rousey and Cat Zingano drew approximately 590,000 PPV buys at UFC 184 in February. It was a success considering the undercard was not very strong. We predicted 184 to draw […]
Kovalev-Mohammedi draws 1.041 million viewers
ESPN’s Dan Rafael reports that HBO Boxing’s event featuring Sergey Kovalev against Nadjib Mohammedi drew an average subscriber viewership of 1.041 million viewers with a peak of 1.082 million. In addition, the first fight on HBO on Saturday featuring Jean Pascal taking on Yunieski Gonzalez drew an average viewership of 883,000 viewers peaking at 1.082 […]
PBC on NBC Sports Network Saturday draws 247K viewers
PBC on NBC Sports Network Saturday night drew an average of 247,000 viewers per Sports TV Ratings. The event featured a cruiserweight bout between B.J. Flores and Bebut Shumenov. Notably, the event which aired from 9-12:18pm ET went up against HBO Boxing and a Sergey Kovalev title defense. Although the complete ratings are not in, […]