The Andre Ward-Sergey Kovalev replay on HBO drew 834,000 viewers on Saturday night per Sports TV Ratings. The live fight between Vasyl Lomachenko and Nicholas Walters drew 761,000 viewers. The replay of the PPV fight aired from 10:42pm-11:33pm ET aired first followed by the Lomachenko-Walters fight from 11:59pm-12:27am ET. Per Sports TV Ratings, Ward-Kovalev drew […]
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Ward-Kovalev draw 160K PPV buys
The Andre Ward-Sergey Kovalev PPV drew just 160,000 PPV buys as first reported by Kevin Iole. TheRing.tv also reported the PPV buy rate for last Saturday’s event. Ward defeated Kovalev in somewhat of a controversial decision as unofficial scorers had the fight for Kovalev. Hearing that the Kovalev-Ward PPV numbers are going to come in […]
How will Kovalev-Ward do on PPV?
On Saturday night, Sergey Kovalev will take on Andre Ward in a much-anticipated fight for a variety of titles at light heavyweight and will answer the question as to who is the best pound-for-pound boxer. How will the HBO PPV do? For combat sports fans, November is/will be an expensive month as Kovalev-Ward will be […]
Pacquiao-Vargas draws “a little over 300,000” PPV buys
USA Today reports that the November 5th fight between Manny Pacquiao and Jessie Vargas deliver “a little over 300,000” PPVs according to Bob Arum. The event was the first event in years without support without HBO as its PPV distributor. Pacquiao defeated Vargas via unanimous decision and won a welterweight title in the process. Arum […]
Report: Crawford-Postol PPV draws 50K-60K PPV buys
ESPN’s Dan Rafael notes that July’s HBO PPV featuring Terrence Crawford as he took on Viktor Postol drew between 50,000-60,000 PPV buys. Bob Arum noted that a “stronger-than-expected” gate helped offset losses although he noted that Top Rank lost $100,000 on the fight. Arum noted in the ESPN piece that he wanted the fight to […]