ESPN’s Dan Rafael reports that Saturday night’s HBO Boxing event featuring Gennady Golovkin received 984,000 viewers peaking at 1.048 million. However, the overall night only drew 758,000 live viewers per Nielsen Media Research (via BoxingScene.com) The co-feature fight featuring Bryant Jennings against Mike Perez drew only 602,000 viewers with a peak of 780,000 viewers. As […]
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Crawford-Gamboa on HBO Saturday receives 1.2M viewers
ESPN reports that Saturday night’s HBO live boxing event featuring lightweight Terence Crawford defeating Yuriorkis Gamboa scored a rating of 1.208 million HBO subscribers with a peak at 1.286 million. The Crawford-Gamboa fight was a back and forth action-packed fight. It was the second week in a row that had an entertaining fight as Robert […]
Main Events sues promoter, Schaefer and Stevenson
MMA Payout has obtained a copy of the lawsuit filed by promoters Main Events as it is suing the promoter for Adonis Stevenson for bowing out of an intended fight with Sergey Kovalev. The lawsuit centers around the involvement of boxing insider Al Haymon. It was filed last month with little occurring in the lawsuit […]
Cotto-Martinez: 300-315K PPV buys
SI.com is reporting that the Miguel Cotto-Sergio Martinez Top Rank PPV event that took place on June 7th only drew between 300-315K PPV buys which is well under the expected 500K anticipated. After putting Martinez down three times in the first round, Cotto scored a 10th round KO of Martinez. It was a much anticipated […]