ESPN’s Dan Rafael reports that Saturday night’s HBO Boxing event featuring Timothy Bradley Jr. and Jessie Vargas drew an average of 1.121 million viewers for the live event from Carson, California. The fight peaked at 1.228 million viewers on a night where Bradley pulled off a unanimous decision. The undercard featuring Oscar Valdez and Ruben […]
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HBO, Showtime produce lower ratings for Saturday events
ESPN Dan Rafael reports the ratings from this past weekend’s boxing events on HBO and Showtime. Notably, the ratings are much lower for the Showtime broadcast of Deontay Wilder’s first title defense drew 678,000 viewers. The rating for just the fight between Wilder versus Eric Molina drew 678,000 viewers. In the first fight of the […]
Cotto-Geale scores 1.589 million viewer average on HBO
ESPN’s Dan Rafael reports that Saturday night’s HBO Boxing event featuring Miguel Cotto taking on Daniel Geale drew an average of 1.589 million subscribers for the night. The one fight event which lasted less than an hour as Cotto stopped Geale in 4 rounds peaked at 1.621 million viewers. The ratings reflect a great run […]
GGG draws 1.3M viewers on HBO
ESPN’s Dan Rafael reports that Saturday night’s HBO Boxing event featuring Gennady Golovkin taking on Willie Monroe, Jr. drew an average HBO subscriber viewership of 1.338 million with a peak at 1.474 million. GGG dropped Monroe throughout the fight eventually earning the stoppage in the 6th round. In addition, Flyweight Roman Gonzalez obliterated Edgar Sosa […]
Canelo-Kirkland on HBO draws best rating since 2006
The Canelo Alvarez-James Kirkland fight drew 2.146 million HBO subscribers on Saturday night via Sports TV Ratings. The average is the best since 2006 when Bernard Hopkins took on Antonio Tarver. The fight was aided by the replay of the Floyd Mayweather-Manny Pacquiao replay. For those not willing to pay the $100 PPV, it was […]