Nielsen has provided some additional ratings from this past weekend’s Mayweather-McGregor fight. Notably, the prelims drew 2,568,000 viewers across Fox, Fox Deportes and Fox Sports Go. The show peaked at 3,110,000 viewers. The Prelims on Fox drew 2,438,000 from 7-9pm ET. In the A18-49 category, it drew 1,156,000 viewers and was up over 150% versus […]
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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 […]
The Ratings Buffet for the week ending August 18th
The Ratings Buffet for the week ending August 18th was relatively quiet this past week with no live UFC events on television. But, this week should step up considering its fight week for Mayweather-McGregor as well as Golden Boy and Top Rank having back-to-back live events on ESPN. Friday Showtime: All Access Mayweather-McGregor 10:00pm-10:23pm 105,000 […]
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 […]