Nielsen Media Ratings for HBO's Pacquiao-Cotto 24/7 & Dawson-Johnson II

[mrpain81]

Nielsen Media Ratings for HBO's Pacquiao-Cotto 24/7 & Dawson-Johnson II

by John Chavez

Nov 30, 1999 -
HBO's regular boxing programming hasn't been what one would consider, "stellar" by any frigment of the imagination in 2009. We've had major lulls and dips in the action as the lack of continuous top quality fights have left the HBO subscriber with much to be desired.

The United States economy is at one of the lowest points in history as the average worker has been increasingly been losing their jobs due to outsourcing of many traditional domestic-based occupations as well as the down-sizing of numerous major firms. One of the key cost-cutting measures of the average consumer is to get rid of all forms of unnecessary expenses and that includes premium network subscriptions. The fact that a great number of boxing fans here in the U.S. come from the demographic that has been heavily affected by this financial down-turn, it wouldn't be suprising to see a big dip in the amount of HBO subscribers that shelled out the extra dollars specifically for boxing.

Here are the Nielsen Media figures for HBO's Miguel Cotto vs. Manny Pacquiao 24/7 series as well as the unwarranted Chad Dawson-Glenn Johnson rematch:


10/24/2009 - HBO - Pacquiao-Cotto 24/7 Pt. 1 - 338,000
10/31/2009 - HBO - Pacquiao-Cotto 24/7 Pt. 2 - 341,000
11/7/2009 - HBO - Pacquiao-Cotto 24/7 Pt. 3 - 424,000
11/7/2009 - HBO - Chad Dawson vs. Glenn Johnson - 774,000

Being that the 24/7 series for Pacquiao-Cotto isn't considered a live sporting event, it's difficult to state whether these figures are considered below or above average. However, the ratings for the Dawson-Johnson rematch are by far the lowest ever seen by an HBO World Championship Boxing bout by leaps and bounds.

LEAPS AND BOUNDS.

The idiot who thought it might be a good idea to make that rematch and pay top dollar on HBO for it is just that... a complete, moronic, imbecilic... IDIOT.

I'd suggest whoever ok'd that bout and approved the millions of dollars for that bout should proceed to slap themselves with a hammer in the face.

Hopefully going forward, Time Warner will realize that they have morons working at HBO sports and have morons running HBO's boxing programming. Fire everyone, hire some knowledgeable boxing guys regardless of their "law school" backgrounds and get this high budget network back on track. Hire back Lou Dibella, boxing brain Johnny Boz, Don "War-A -Week" Chargin as the match-maker and let the boxing fans vote on what they want to see. It's really that simple.


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After HBO having such a great year with great ratings for Boxing this was the worst ratings ever for WCB, HBO might have to let Dawson go because he is way overpaid for the type of numbers he brings to the table.

[warp1432]

So Pacquiao Cotto's numbers were worse then Mayweather Marquez's for 24/7. That's hilarious, but it really doesn't matter.

It sucks that Dawson-Johnson did poor as it wasn't a bad fight at all.

[Syf]

http://theboxingtruth.com/article.php?id=1215

After HBO having such a great year with great ratings for Boxing this was the worst ratings ever for WCB, HBO might have to let Dawson go because he is way overpaid for the type of numbers he brings to the table.

yeah...Dawson still has some haters amongst boxing writers, I see.

But to their credit... I watched the entire Zab Judah undercard, and the Zab Judah mismatch without batting an eye... I watched The Haye-Valuev borefest and stayed alert...

But I watched Dawson, Johnson..

And fell right to sleep! lol

[El Jesus]

i dont think dawson should be faulted for having faced guys consecutively who have iron chins, he dominated them and basically put them out of the lightheavyweight picture for good. at this point, i dont know why HBO overpays for these fights, in my opinion dawson did really well, but it literally almost put me to sleep because johnson never came on.

[mrpain81]

yeah...Dawson still has some haters amongst boxing writers, I see.

But to their credit... I watched the entire Zab Judah undercard, and the Zab Judah mismatch without batting an eye... I watched The Haye-Valuev borefest and stayed alert...

But I watched Dawson, Johnson..

And fell right to sleep! lol

It's not about being a hater, Dawson is getting more then 2 million a fight I think, HBO paid 3.2 million for Dawson/Tarver 2 and that fight didn't crack 1 million live viewers. If they paid the same for this fight it's just bad business, either HBO will offer Dawson less money or let him go back to Showtime that isn't going to be paying him anywhere that amount.

[Iceta]

So Dawson-Johnson 2 was the lowest rated boxing program on WCB huh? So that means it dipped lower than Cotto-Gomez? I think it's a ***** thing to do to talk about PPV #s constantly, but TV ratings is important because that affects the network budgets.

[Check]

Wow, only 3/4ths of a million watched the Dawson fight. I remember HBO freaking out that only like 1 and a quarter million watched the Calzaghe/Kessler fight(at the time that was the lowest HBO WCB). I'm not surprised no one was interested but for it to be the lowest of all time it's pretty puzzling. HBO really needs to reconsider who they are matching up with its young guns and putting them into compelling fights, no old guys. SHO is doing a great job with young fighters and making interesting matchups.

[mrpain81]

So Dawson-Johnson 2 was the lowest rated boxing program on WCB huh? So that means it dipped lower than Cotto-Gomez? I think it's a ***** thing to do to talk about PPV #s constantly, but TV ratings is important because that affects the network budgets.

The ****ed up part is that the second lowest WCB rating ever is Dawson/Tarver 2.

5/9/2009 - HBO - Chad Dawson vs. Antonio Tarver II - averaged 960,000 live viewers

Cotto-Gomez did:

4/12/2008 Miguel Cotto vs. Alfonso Gomez - 1.113 Million Total Viewers

[El Angel]

Especially after how Klitschko-Arreola did, this is dissapointing.

[Iceta]

I don't even know why HBO picked up Chad Dawson. Paul Williams did way better ratings than that with Winky Wright I think even though it didn't do good at the gate. Wonder if that has anything to do with Arreola being on the undercards. And then you would think that having Angulo on his undercards would make Mexican boxing fans tune in. Dawson must be the most boring fighter in history. Lol.