Showtime Boxing’s event featuring Badou Jack and James DeGale drew 454,000 viewers on Saturday night. The overall event scored 391,000 per Nielsen. According to Sports TV Ratings, the event drew 175,000 viewers in the A18-49 rating. The entertaining fight which sought to unify the super middleweight belts ended in a draw. Each fighter was down […]
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Showtime Boxing Saturday night, Mares-Cuellar: 327,000
The Showtime Boxing event featuring Abner Mares and Jesus Cuellar drew 327,000 viewers on the network and peaked at 368,000 per Nielsen. The three-bout telecast drew an overall viewership of 271,000 viewers. The event aired at the same time as HBO Boxing’s event which may have caused fans to split viewership for both events. The […]
Crawford-Postol replay draws 378,000 on HBO
The PPV replay of the Terrence Crawford-Viktor Postol fight drew 378,000 HBO subscribers per Sports TV Ratings. The event, which aired from 10:15-11:17pm ET also drew 178,000 viewers in the adult 18-49 demo. Showtime Boxing drew 480,000 viewers and 201,000 in the adult 18-49 demo. Not a good showing considering Crawford drew 982,000a live event […]
HBO-Showtime post similar ratings on Saturday night
HBO Boxing edged out Showtime Boxing in ratings as the two went up against one another for most of Saturday night. According to Sports TV Ratings, the fight between Vasyl Lomachenko and Roman “Rocky” Martinez drew 585,000 HBO network subscribers. It drew 269,000 in the adult 18-49 category. Lomachenko scored a stunning KO of Martinez […]
Showtime sues Top Rank for Pacquiao lawsuits
Showtime Networks, Inc. has filed a lawsuit in the U.S. District Court of New York against Top Rank, Inc. citing indemnification and breach of contract related to lawsuits filed by third parties against Showtime and Top Rank stemming from Manny Pacquiao’s claim that he fought with an injury against Floyd Mayweather, Jr. The lawsuits, filed […]