According to Nielsen, Saturday night’s fight on HBO featuring Sergey Kovalev and Bernard Hopkins drew an average of 1.328 million of the network’s subscribers. The rating makes it the second-highest rated boxing event this year next to Chavez-Vera II. A couple weeks ago, ESPN’s Dan Rafael compiled the highest-rated fights of 2014. Rafael reports that […]
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Boxer Garcia agrees to dismiss 3 of his claims against Top Rank
Boxer Mikey Garcia has agreed to dismiss three of his causes of action against promoter Top Rank. The stipulation to dismiss his claims avoids a summary judgment motion brought by his promoter in a dispute over his fight contract. Garcia’s attorneys and Top Rank attorneys stipulated to dismissal of 3 claims that were at issue […]
New poll asks sports execs about relevancy of sports
A new sports poll posted in the Sports Business Journal (subscription required) last week lists boxing and mixed martial arts as sports that some senior-level sports industry executives in pro and college sports thought may slip into irrelevance. The poll, which was a part of bigger feature on horse racing in last week’s issue named the […]
HBO Boxing tops events so far in 2014
ESPN’s Dan Rafael tweeted out the top live, first-time airings of boxing events for 2014. Notably, the top 10 are all HBO events. Chavez-Vera 2 (HBO) 1.39M (peak 1.53M) GGG-Rubio (HBO) 1.304M (peak1.323M) Crawford-Gamboa (HBO) 1.208M (peak 1.286M) Marquez-Alvarado (HBO) 1.198M (peak 1.322M) Donaire-Walters (HBO) 1.088M Provodnikov-Algieri (HBO) 1.017M Salido-Lomachenko (HBO) 1.017M Kovalev-Agnew (HBO) 1.006M […]
GGG fight on HBO tops 1.3 million
ESPN’s Dan Rafael tweeted that this past Saturday’s HBO Boxing event featuring Gennady Golovkin (aka GGG) taking on Marco Antonio Rubio drew an average of 1.304 million viewers. The fight was the fifth most viewed TV fight in the U.S. this year per Rafael (via Nielsen). GGG’s decimation of Rubio lasted only two rounds but […]