ESPN’s Dan Rafael reports that Saturday night’s HBO Boxing After Dark featuring Terence Crawford scored an average of only 836,000 viewers of its subscribers with a peak at 936,000. The event also include the replay of Manny Pacquiao-Chris Algieri from the week before which scored an average of 904,000 with a peak of 1.120 million […]
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SBJ survey looks at UFC growth, Fight Pass
The Sports Business Journal revealed its annual reader survey on various topics related to sports business. This year included questions about the UFC, WWE and boxing. In a survey related to over the top networks, readers indicated that the UFC is the “Fight sport” that will see the biggest growth over the next five years. […]
Payout Perspect: Pacquiao-Algieri Perspective
Welcome to a special edition of Payout Perspective. This time we take a look at Manny Pacquiao’s latest fight this past Saturday against Chris Algieri at the Venetian Macao off of mainland China. Pacquiao posts 6 knockdowns in rout of Algieri Maybe 2 of the knockdowns were due to slipping in Pacquiao’s corner. Yet, the […]
With Pacquiao fight Saturday, ongoing question of whether PPVs are sustainable
With Manny Pacquiao returning to PPV Saturday night, the standard question of whether PPVs are worth it surfaced. In a Newsday column published this week, there are quotes from both boxing and UFC executives which address the question of PPV as a viable platform. The conclusion appears to be that it takes a big event […]
Kovalev-Hopkins draws 1.328 million
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 […]