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ESPN scores highest cable boxing ratings in 2018 thus far

March 14, 2018 by Jason Cruz Leave a Comment

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 […]

Filed Under: boxing, ESPN, Top Rank, TV

ESPN Top Rank Boxing Saturday night scores highest overnights this year

March 11, 2018 by Jason Cruz Leave a Comment

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.  […]

Filed Under: boxing, ESPN, ratings, Top Rank, TV

2017: The year in boxing

January 6, 2018 by Jason Cruz Leave a Comment

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 […]

Filed Under: Ali Act, Attendance, boxing, Boxing vs. MMA, CBS, Drug Testing, Featured, FS1, gate, Golden Boy, HBO, legal, Mayweather-McGregor, Povetikin-Wilder, Premier Boxing Champions, ratings, Top Rank, TV

White rails on Showtime, vows to never work with network again

January 4, 2018 by Jason Cruz Leave a Comment

Dana White believes that he can do boxing better.  In an interview with Yahoo! Sports, White believes he has ideas that could make boxing better. “You need to get a real TV deal,” said Dana White to Yahoo! Sports Kevin Iole in a shot made against Bob Arum’s Top Rank deal with ESPN.  White’s foray […]

Filed Under: boxing, Premier Boxing Champions, Showtime, Top Rank, UFC

Loma-Rigo draw 1.73M viewers on ESPN Saturday night

December 12, 2017 by Jason Cruz Leave a Comment

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. […]

Filed Under: boxing, ESPN, ratings, Top Rank, TV

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