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Crawford-Brook Bout Peaked At 2,078,000 Viewers On ESPN; Averaged 2,029,000

•Nov 17, 2020

Terence Crawford’s fourth-round technical knockout of Kell Brook was watched by more viewers Saturday night than his previous ESPN appearance. Nielsen Media Research viewership figures released Tuesday indicated ESPN’s Crawford-Brook main event attracted a peak audience of 2,078,000 from MGM Grand Conference Center in Las Vegas. An average of 2,029,000 viewers watched the Crawford-Brook bout, a WBO welterweight title fight that lasted only 13 minutes and 14 seconds.

BoxingScene.com's Television Pick of The Week - November 13

Cliff Rold

•Nov 13, 2020

Pick It: TBRB #3 Terence Crawford vs. Kell Brook (Saturday, ESPN, 10 PM EST) - One of the most talented fighters in the world, the 33-year old Crawford (36-0, 27 KO) has felt like he’s spinning his wheels the last few years. He’s won and then defended the WBO belt three times after lineal reigns at lightweight and Jr. welterweight.

Ortiz-Flores PBC on Fox Main Event Peaks At 1,312,000 Viewers

Jake Donovan

•Nov 10, 2020

The first win in nearly two years for Luis Ortiz has landed as the most watched Fox Sports boxing event since the pandemic. Miami’s Ortiz made quick work of fringe contender Alexander Flores, needing just 45 seconds to end the November 7 main event, which peaked at 1,312,000 viewers according to Nielsen Media Research. The rating serves as the best figure for any of the five Fox-prime main events since returning to airwaves in August.

BoxingScene.com's Television Pick of The Week - November 6

Cliff Rold

•Nov 6, 2020

Pick It: TBRB #3 Devin Haney vs. Yuriorkis Gamboa (Saturday, DAZN, 8 PM EST) - And now for a breather. After a hectic, exciting Saturday, and several overperforming main events in the last month, we get to do a bit of comparison shopping. WBC lightweight titlist Devin Haney (24-0, 15 KO), still only 21, sandwiches between career broadening wins for Temofimo Lopez and Gervonta Davis and an upcoming step up for Ryan Garcia.

BoxingScene.com's Television Pick of The Week - October 30

Cliff Rold

•Oct 30, 2020

Pick It: TBRB #9(135)/#2(130) Gervonta Davis vs. #1(126) Leo Santa Cruz (Saturday, Showtime PPV, 8 PM EST) - 25-year old Gervonta Davis (23-0, 22 KO) has mostly treaded water in the ring since a breakthrough win over Jose Pedraza in 2017, facing little in the way of the better challenges at Jr. lightweight or lightweight while being built into one of the more promising new draws in the sport.

Gervonta Davis-Leo Santa Cruz Lands on Channel 5 in UK

Random Hits

•Oct 29, 2020

Channel 5 has announced an agreement with SHOWTIME Sports and Premier Boxing Champions to broadcast World Championship Boxing live in the UK. Channel 5 will air the WBA Super Featherweight and WBA Lightweight world titles fight between three-time world champion Gervonta "Tank" Davis and four-division world champion Leo Santa Cruz. The boxers will square off for the world titles live from Texas, USA. The event will begin on Channel 5 on 1st November at 2am GMT Sunday morning, with the main event fighters anticipated to make the walk just before 4am GMT.

Tyson vs. Jones Lands Exclusive US, Canadian Digital PPV Rights With FITE; BT Sport in UK

Manouk Akopyan

•Oct 28, 2020

The exhibition match featuring Mike Tyson and Roy Jones Jr. has found its pay-per-view distributors around the world. FITE announced that it landed the exclusive U.S. and Canadian digital rights to carry the event on Nov. 28. The PPV can be purchased digitally for $49.99 via TysonOnTriller.com, FITE.TV or any of the FITE’s OTT platforms on mobile devices and smart TVs.

Greg Cohen Files Lawsuit Over New NBC Sports Boxing Series

Jake Donovan

•Oct 27, 2020

Greg Cohen has gone from the jailhouse straight to the courthouse. The longtime boxing figure has filed, on behalf of his Greg Cohen Promotions LLC (GCP) outfit, a $50 million lawsuit against all involved parties in Ring City USA— an upstart promoter-agnostic boxing series—with the Essex County branch of the Superior Court of New Jersey.

Macho: The Hector Camacho Story - To Premiere on Showtime, Dec. 4

Random Hits

•Oct 27, 2020

Showtime Sports Documentary Films today announced it will air MACHO: THE HECTOR CAMACHO STORY, an unflinching look at the remarkable life, storied career and unsolved murder of one of boxing’s greatest showmen. Premiering Friday, December 4 at 9 p.m. ET/PT on SHOWTIME, the documentary debuts just two weeks after the eighth anniversary of Camacho’s fatal shooting in Bayamon, Puerto Rico.

Arum: Lopez-Loma Rating Shows A Lot Of Sports Fans Out There Like Boxing

Keith Idec

•Oct 27, 2020

Bob Arum assumed between two and three million viewers would watch the Teofimo Lopez-Vasiliy Lomachenko fight live on ESPN. It still wasn’t until Nielsen’s numbers became available three days after Lopez upset Lomachenko on October 17 that Arum could breathe a sigh of relief. With viewership for boxing and other sports down during the COVID-19 pandemic, the 88-year-old promoter sensed how important viewership of that fight was for the foreseeable future of boxing on free and cable television.