Boxer Canelo Alvarez has signed a muli-fight deal with HBO which will begin on December 6th or December 13th on the network. The deal is a major move in the world of boxing as Alvarez, considered the future of boxing, and a Golden Boy promoted fighter has joined the network dominated by fighters promoted by […]
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Mayweather-Maidana II: 925,000 PPV buys
Kevin Iole of Yahoo! Sports reports that the rematch between Floyd Mayweather and Marcos Maidana did 925,000 PPV buys. Mayweather PPV buys under Showtime contract: Mayweather-Guerrero, May 4, 2013: 1 million PPV buys (although disputed by ESPN’s Dan Rafael (who indicated that the buys were under 1M) and Showtime which stated that the buys were over 1 […]
Fight purses: Mayweather $32M; Maidana $3M
Floyd Mayweather will make at least $32 million for his rematch against Marcos Maidana Saturday night in Las Vegas. Maidana will make $3 million for the fight. ESPN’s Dan Rafael among others reported the payouts. The contracted salaries were released by the Nevada State Athletic Commission prior to Friday’s weigh-ins. The $32 million purse does […]
Garcia on Showtime scores 608K viewers
ESPN’s Dan Rafael tweeted the ratings for this past Saturday’s boxing event on Showtime which featured Danny Garcia received an average viewership of 608,000 of its subscribers. Rafael noted that HBO boxing events on its network average 957K viewers while Showtime averages 587K. Of course, this is based on subscribers and HBO has more subscribers. […]
Crawford-Gamboa on HBO Saturday receives 1.2M viewers
ESPN reports that Saturday night’s HBO live boxing event featuring lightweight Terence Crawford defeating Yuriorkis Gamboa scored a rating of 1.208 million HBO subscribers with a peak at 1.286 million. The Crawford-Gamboa fight was a back and forth action-packed fight. It was the second week in a row that had an entertaining fight as Robert […]