As Canelo Alvarez and Julio Cesar Chavez, Jr. get set to fight on the traditional Cinco de Mayo weekend boxing card, we wonder about boxing’s next big pay-per-view draw. The two fighters in the main event were thought to be the future of boxing. You can argue that only one of them has lived up […]
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Joshua-Klitschko to air on Showtime and HBO Saturday
Promoters for heavyweight boxers Anthony Joshua and Wladimir Klitschko have come to terms to air the IBF heavyweight title fight on both Showtime and HBO. Showtime will air the live broadcast at 1:15pm PT and HBO will rebroadcast it in prime time at 7:45pm PT. The event takes place at Wembley Stadium in London. Per […]
HBO Boxing draws 806,000 for Crawford-Molina
HBO Boxing’s main event of Terrence Crawford versus John Molina drew 806,000 subscribers per Sports TV Ratings. It drew 416,000 viewers in the adult 18-49 demo. According to Nielsen, the viewership peaked at 871,000 viewers. Crawford made a defense of his junior welterweight title in his hometown of Omaha, Nebraska. The ratings are below average […]
Ward-Kovalev PPV replay on HBO draws 834,000 viewers
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 […]
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 […]