Kevin Iole of Yahoo! Sports penned an informative article about the HBO-Showtime boxing viewership this year which turns out to be a great time for the boxing fans. It also shows the HBO-Top Rank v. Showtime-Golden Boy is heating up. Iole reports that 25 events on HBO and Showtime scored over 1 million viewers in […]
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Second week in a row HBO Boxing scores best ratings of year
This past Saturday’s Miguel Cotto versus Delvin Rodriguez fight on HBO scored the best ratings for HBO Boxing this year. It received 1.555 million viewers and eclipsed the Julio Cesar Chavez, Jr. fight held just a week prior as the best for the year on the network. HBO also showed Wladimir Klitschko as he defeated […]
HBO Boxing averages 1.4 million for Chavez, Jr. fight
ESPN’s Dan Rafael reported via tweet that ratings for HBO Boxing’s Saturday night of fights did its best for 2013. The main event which featured Julio Cesar Chavez, Jr. win a controversial decision over Brian Vera garnered an average of 1.416 million viewers. In addition to Chavez, Jr.’s fight, the night also had Adonis Stevenson […]
Froch-Kessler score for HBO Boxing
ESPN’s Dan Rafael reports (via HBO Boxing) that last Saturday’s fight between Carl Froch and Mikkel Kessler drew a total of 1,070,000 viewers in two showings. As the fight was aired live from England, it was shown at 3pm PDT/6pm EDT and then again at 10pm PDT/EDT . It received 493K for the live event […]