Showtime’s Executive Vice President Stephen Espinoza reported that last week’s Adrien Broner vs. Marcos Maidana on the network did 1.3 million viewers. ESPN’s Dan Rafael reported the ratings via twitter. The fight which featured the undefeated, brash Broner versus the brawler Maidana was a slugfest. Maidana put Broner down on the canvas twice although Broner […]
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2013 big for boxing on HBO-Showtime
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 […]
Broner-Maidana off of PPV
It was announced on Saturday that Golden Boy and Showtime will be taking its December 14th Adrien Broner-Marcos Maidana off of PPV and move it to the Showtime. The Broner-Maidana fight occurs one week before another Showtime event featuring Paulie Malignaggi and Zab Judah. As the December 14th event will be taken off PPV, it […]
“The One” Payout Perspective
Welcome to another edition of Payout Perspective. This time we look at “The One,” the fight between Canelo Alvarez and Floyd Mayweather, Jr. Mayweather dominates in Majority Decision The look on Mayweather’s face when a Majority Decision was announced was not worth the $75 PPV price tag but it was still pretty good. Notably, CJ […]
Carriage fees central issue to Fox Sports 1 holdouts
With its launch date Saturday, Fox Sports 1 replaces the Speed Channel and Fox Sports 2 replaces Fuel TV. But, DirecTV, Dish Network (Dish) and Time Warner Cable (TWC) do not have agreements to run FS1 and subscribers wonder if a deal will be done by Saturday. DirecTV, Dish and TWC represent a total of […]