HBO’s Saturday night boxing featuring World Heavyweight Champion Wladimir Klitschko drew the highest rating among its subscribers drawing an average of 1.637 million viewers for the fight with Bryant Jennings. The overall telecast drew an average of 1.3 million viewers. It was Klitschko’s first appearance in the U.S. in years and many fight fans tuned […]
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Ratings from Saturday night’s events on HBO-Showtime
ESPN’s Dan Rafael reports the ratings from Saturday’s boxing events on HBO and Showtime. The shows went head to head with two intriguing main events. HBO had the much anticipated fight between Lucas Matthysse and Ruslan Provodnikov drew 1.243 million subscribers and peaked at 1.38 million. Rafael also reports that the fight between Julio Cesar […]
Filipino networks come together to air Mayweather-Pacquiao
Bloody Elbow reports that Manny Pacquiao facilitated a deal in which many of the big Filipino networks will air May 2nd’s fight between Pacquiao and Floyd Mayweather. In an unprecedented move, rival networks that usual vie for broadcast rights of Pacquiao fights have agreed to air the fight. The fight will be available on various […]
HBO Boxing’s Kovalev-Pascal draws 1.152M viewer average
ESPN reports that HBO’s Saturday night’s 3 fight boxing event featuring Sergey Kovalev and Jean Pascal drew an average audience of 956,000 HBO subscribers for the complete event. The main event fight drew an average audience of 1.152 million viewers and peaked at 1.2 million. Kovalev knocked out Pascal in the eighth round in front […]
GGG posts 862K viewers for Saturday afternoon fight on HBO
Steve Kim of UCN Live reports the Nielsen information that HBO’s Saturday afternoon live showing of Gennady Golovkin defeating Martin Murray drew 862,000 viewers and peaked at 938,000. GGG KO’d Murray in the 12th round after dominating most of the fight. The fight was shown live on HBO and replayed later that night. The event […]