Klitschko - Chagaev did INCREDIBLE ratings

espn classic would be lucky to do 10% of those numbers

Son of a bish! that means 3/4 of those people will never watch a boxing event again!! hahahaha .

Son of a bish! that means 3/4 of those people will never watch a boxing event again!!

Lads I need a LINK to this please. Could I please have a source which confirms these rating that Kayjay is talking about. It was on fight news dot com. But a UK paper (the Guardian, maybe) posted similar figures yesterday as well.

11 million is a great figure for boxing though.

Lads I need a LINK to this please. Could I please have a source which confirms these rating that Kayjay is talking about. To be honest i always find viewing figures a guide, outside PPV they don't actually know how many people watch an event. I have read in lots of articles that Foreman Ali did over 1 Billion viewers but in truth they don't know. In the UK they have several thousand people with a box that picks up what they watch the TV company's multiply that and get there figure.

I wonder when the last time this many people watch a boxing match was. Keep in mind the 11 million were just in one country, and doesn't count SKY, ESPN, and the Russian broadcast. It couldn't be any PPV fight, so you might have to go back to the 80's. In the UK we got a lot of 10 million plus fights back in the days of Eubank Benn Watson and Bruno.

I wonder when the last time this many people watch a boxing match was. Keep in mind the 11 million were just in one country, and doesn't count SKY, ESPN, and the Russian broadcast. It couldn't be any PPV fight, so you might have to go back to the 80's.

I remember that the first Harrison vs Williams fight got just over 8 million viewers i remember that vividly because i thought at the time that's 8 million fans who will never watch boxing again lol.

''I'd wank over Wladimir!''

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Any1 know what skysports figures were? 10PM Saturday night. It would have done decent numbers.

Impressive. What did he do else where? I can't find any info on that. But ESPN Classic isn't likely to do a big market share.

That's not a very good comparison to be fair. The FA Cup final was on terrestrial television. One of the FA Cup semifinals (Everton-Man U) this year did very good ratings during penalties: 8 million homes and an 44% share

Impressive. What did he do else where?

The RTL coverage was viewed in 11 million homes for a 58+ % market share (reported by fightnews). To give a point of comparison, that's bigger than an FA Cup Final in Britain. I don't think this is especially good news for Wlad. He's handicapped by the fact that his challengers can only get a payday against him, and so never are motivated to build a resume against each other. That's not a very good comparison to be fair. The FA Cup final was on terrestrial television.