On the day of Opening Night of the NBA season I speak with our good friend Rafe Bartholomew. We talk NBA, boxing and of course Filipino National Basketball Team. You can find Rafe at X (formerly twitter) @rafeboogs and @tiyopaeng on IG.
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Top Rank Boxing draws 602K viewer avg on ESPN
Top Rank Boxing on Saturday night drew 602,000 viewers on ESPN. The telecast also received 0.15 in the 18-49 demo per Sports TV Ratings. The telecast featured a battle of middleweights with Kazakkhstan’s Janibek Alimkhanuly stopping Vincenzo Gualtieri via TKO in the 6th round in their fight in Rosenberg, Texas. The undefeated former Olympian retained […]
Showtime Sports to close at end of 2023
Paramount Global announced on Tuesday that it will no longer be allocating resources to Showtime Sports after the end of 2023. This ends 37 years of Showtime Championship Boxing. Al Haymon’s PBC provided the bulk of events on Showtime since 2013. The last event on the Showtime Boxing calendar at this point is the November […]
Canelo-Charlo draws reported 600-700K buys
Dan Rafael reports that the fight between Canelo Alvarez and Jermell Charlo drew 600-700K PPV buys. The reported buys would make it the third-highest selling fight of the year next to Tank-Ryan Garcia and Jake Paul-Tommy Fury earlier this year. Alvarez won a one-sided unanimous decision over Charlo and retained his undisputed super middleweight titles. […]