ESPN Top Rank Boxing fought some stiff competition in cable TV ratings on St. Patrick Day as it drew 488,000 viewers Saturday night opposite the NCAA Tournament according to Nielsen via ShowBuzz Daily. The event featured Michael Conlan as he faced David Berna in a super bantamweight matchup in New York. Conlan dispensed of Berna […]
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ESPN scores highest cable boxing ratings in 2018 thus far
Top Rank Boxing on ESPN drew over 1 million viewers for its Saturday night telecast featuring Oscar Valdez and Scott Quigg scored 1,082,000 on Saturday night. The 123-minute telecast drew a 0.37 rating in the A18-49 demo. According to Nielsen, the Andy Vences-Erick De Leon fight was the highest-rated boxing event on cable for 2018 […]
ESPN Top Rank Boxing Saturday night scores highest overnights this year
Saturday night’s ESPN Top Rank event drew the highest overnight ratings (in terms of market rating) for 2018 according to the network. It was the prelim fight between Andy Vences and Arick De Leon that scored a 0.8 metered market rating. Last week’s Deontay Wilder-Luis Ortiz drew a 0.7 rating on Showtime and 1.055M viewers. […]
2017: The year in boxing
2017 was a great year for boxing which saw some great fights and the spectacle that was Mayweather-McGregor. The year started off with the talk about Mayweather-McGregor as the UFC’s lightweight champion stirred the pot by going on a rant on Instagram where he wrote “F*** the UFC.” Dana White warned that if Conor went […]