A Showtime Boxing Special Edition on Saturday night drew an event high of 311,000 Showtime subscribers on Saturday night with the main event being Julian Williams defeating Marcello Matano in a middleweight bout. The Williams-Matano bout drew just 125,000 viewers in the 18-49 demo per Sports TV Ratings. The event high occurred between 11:50pm-12:19am ET. […]
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Showtime boxing draws just 267,000 for Santa Cruz-Martinez
Showtime boxing’s Saturday night fight between Leo Santa Cruz defeated Kiko Martinez drew just 267,000 per Nielsen via Dan Rafael. The event is one of the lowest ratings in recent memory for boxing on Showtime. The last event on Showtime featuring heavyweight champion Deontay Wilder drew 500,000 subscribers. Prior to that, a December event featuring […]
Showtime Boxing feat. Wilder last Saturday draws 500K
Showtime Boxing’s Saturday night event featuring Deontay Wilder defending his heavyweight title against Artur Szpilka drew just 500,000 viewers and peaked at 623,000 according to Nielsen. The event was up against NFL Football last Saturday night. Notably, Wilder fought almost one year earlier against Bermane Stiverne on Showtime and drew 1.24 million viewers. The peak […]
Showtime Boxing main event draws 386,000
Showtime Boxing on Saturday night featuring the battle of Brooklyn boxers Daniel Jacobs and Peter Quillin drew a televised event high of 386,000 viewers according to Sports TV Ratings. Jacobs defeated Quillin via a stunning first-round stoppage. Jacobs landed multiple shots which staggered Quillin causing the ref to stop the fight 85 seconds in. It […]
HBO, Showtime boxing events produce uninspired ratings
Dan Rafael of ESPN reports that Saturday night’s boxing events on HBO and Showtime were down based on ratings from Nielsen Media Research. HBO’s event drew an overall average of 663,000 subscribers for the live event. Showtime’s event, which aired at about the same time as HBO’s event drew an overall average of 400,000 subscribers. […]