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. […]
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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 […]
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Loma-Rigo draw 1.73M viewers on ESPN Saturday night
Top Rank Boxing on ESPN Saturday night drew 1,730,000 million viewers. It is the second-highest rating for Top Rank since partnering the network in July. The event featured Vasiliy Lomachenko and Guillermo Rigondeux in the main event. Loma easily earned the victory when the Cuban challenger quit on the stool due to a hand injury. […]
Loma-Rigo 2nd highest rated boxing telecast on cable this year
Last night’s Vasiliy Lomachenko-Guillermo Rigondeaux fight was the second highest-rated boxing telecast on cable in 2017 according to Nielsen overnight ratings via ESPN. The fight which was won by Lomachenko, was second only to the Manny Pacquiao-Jeff Horn fight this past July. Although no viewership ratings are yet available, Nielsen indicates that it drew a […]