On Saturday, Top Rank Boxing announced a deal with ESPN that will bring the promotion to the network as well as obtaining the fight library which shall be a part of a streaming service that will launch in 2018. Taking advantage of the assembled media in Las Vegas for the Mayweather-McGregor fight, the company announced […]
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Top Rank Boxing on ESPN featuring Crawford draws 965K
Top Rank Boxing on ESPN Saturday night drew 965,000 viewers per Nielsen via ShowBuzz Daily. The main event featured Terrence Crawford and Julius Indongo. The Crawford-Indongo main event drew the second-highest boxing match on cable for 2017. The third big event for Top Rank on ESPN was an improvement on Vasyl Lomachenko’s debut on the […]
Terrence Crawford fight draws second-highest cable TV ratings for boxing in 2017
ESPN reports that Saturday night’s Top Rank Boxing telecast of Terence Crawford-Julius Indongo drew the second-highest boxing match on cable television in 2017. Crawford disposed of Indongo with a body shot in the third round to unify 4 titles in the junior welterweight division. The event drew a 1.0 metered market rating during the main […]
The Ratings Buffet for the week ending August 11th
The Ratings Buffet for the week ending August 11th was highlighted by Saturday night’s UFC and Top Rank Boxing which went head to head. Friday ESPN: Golden Boy Boxing 9:00-11:09pm ET 415,000 viewers, 0.13 A18-49 Saturday FS1: UFC 214 Pre-Fight Show: 7:26-8:00pm ET 208,000 viewers, 0.07 A18-49 FS1: UFC Fight Night Prelims 8:00-10:00pm ET 633,000 […]
Top Rank Boxing on ESPN Saturday night draws 728,000 viewers
Top Rank Boxing on ESPN Saturday night drew 728,000 according to Nielsen. The event featured Vasyl Lomachenko as he handily took care of Miguel Marriaga. There was an overlap with the NFL Hall of Fame ceremonies which may have skewed the ratings. Still, the main event went up against UFC Fight Night’s main event of […]