Top Rank Boxing drew 1.534 million viewers on Saturday night per Nielsen Media Research via ShowBuzz Daily. The event on ESPN featured Vasily Lomachenko and Teofimo Lopez with the 23-year-old coming out on top. The event scored 626,000 viewers in the A18-49 demo (0.65 share), a 0.86 in M18-49 and 0.70 in the over 50 […]
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Top Rank Boxing draws 392,000 for Friday night fights
Top Rank Boxing on ESPN Friday night drew 392,000 viewers according to Nielsen Media Research via ShowBuzz Daily. The event drew 124,000 viewers in the A18-49 and a 0.28 overall share. The event on Friday night featured Emanuel Navarrete as he faced Ruben Villa in a battle of featherweights. Navarrete earned the decision as he […]
UFC on ESPN 16 draws 1.097M viewers
UFC on ESPN 16 drew 1.097 million viewers on Saturday night according to Nielsen via ShowBuzz Daily. It also pulled 514,000 viewers in the A18-49 demo. The event featured Holly Holm versus Irene Aldana in a bantamweight matchup. Holm scored an impressive unanimous decision victory over Aldana. The telecast took place from Abu Dhabi and […]
UFC on ESPN 16 bonuses
UFC on ESPN 16 took place Saturday night from Fight Island. Germaine de Randamie’s impressive submission over Julianna Pena led the bonuses for the night. The striker earned a Performance of the Night bonus with her guillotine submission over Pena which put her to sleep. It was her second career post-fight bonus and her first […]
Report: ESPN did not pressure the UFC to return to action
The Sports Business Journal reports that ESPN did not pressure the UFC in a return back to the Octagon during the pandemic. In an interview with the UFC’s COO Lawrence Epstein, he indicated that despite the lack of programming, the network did not attempt to apply pressure on them. The article does not inquire as […]