Salty or Truth? Stevenson/Fofara does 672k views

Thread timeline. ------------------------------------ 672k viewers reported: https://img.4plebs.org/boards/pol/image/1391/42/1391427097857.gif 800k peak reported: http://gifrific.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/04/Shocked-Fan-After-Undertaker-Loss-to-Brock-Lesnar.gif Does not fit agenda: http://img.pandawhale.com/26532-Red-Bull-felix-baumgartner-Aba-OV0M.gif Those are both still significant drops, AVG or Peak. That's a shame because the probably left halfway through before things got interesting

Thats why I deleted my post. You must have this sh*t on auto refresh or something cause I deleted it quick too. Hahaha Lmao. I noticed that too. Nah it was just perfect timing, haha

How do you duck some one when his best win was Gabriel Campillo at the time? GGG ducked Ward. Same network, was willing to go up to Ward's weight class to fight some one else, called every one out. That's a duck. Man come on. I don't even know why you're bringing up Golovkin. You have no argument here. Stevenson clearly ducked Kovalev. And Showtime/Schafer ducked... Or if you wanna call it "rejected" Kovalev for Hopkins Obviously they know sometning you don't. Sergey Kovalev is a bad, bad man

Meh, it was the NBA playoffs. Ratings don't matter doe, I watched it so theres 1!11 Boxing will always being going up against other sports in some fashion.

You got a source for that or you just pulled it out your ass? If it doesn't matter why is it consistently given in press releases by both HBO and SHO? Why is it always quoted on websites that report ratings? They must have missed the memo from JSFD26 that it doesn't count and doesn't say much. Why are you getting so defensive? So, would you rather have a fight that peaked at 800k for one round or a fight that avg'ed 700k-750k the entire fight? Im not saying thats what happened with Stevenson-Fonfara but it could very well be the case.

The peaked number doesnt say much. It just means at any given time during the fight there was 800k people watching. The average is the number that actually counts. Thats the number that was consistantly watching. You got a source for that or you just pulled it out your ass? If it doesn't matter why is it consistently given in press releases by both HBO and SHO? Why is it always quoted on websites that report ratings? They must have missed the memo from JSFD26 that it doesn't count and doesn't say much.

Thread timeline. ------------------------------------ 672k viewers reported: https://img.4plebs.org/boards/pol/image/1391/42/1391427097857.gif 800k peak reported: http://gifrific.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/04/Shocked-Fan-After-Undertaker-Loss-to-Brock-Lesnar.gif Does not fit agenda: http://img.pandawhale.com/26532-Red-Bull-felix-baumgartner-Aba-OV0M.gif The peaked number doesnt say much. It just means at any given time during the fight there was 800k people watching. The average is the number that actually counts. Thats the number that was consistantly watching.

Did his share? Stevenson ran away from a career high pay day and another title to fight Fonfara on showtime lol. I was just Talking about the Hopkins-Kovalev duck by Showtime/Schaefer Thats why I deleted my post. You must have this sh*t on auto refresh or something cause I deleted it quick too. Hahaha

Thread timeline. ------------------------------------ 672k viewers reported: https://img.4plebs.org/boards/pol/image/1391/42/1391427097857.gif 800k peak reported: http://gifrific.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/04/Shocked-Fan-After-Undertaker-Loss-to-Brock-Lesnar.gif Does not fit agenda: http://img.pandawhale.com/26532-Red-Bull-felix-baumgartner-Aba-OV0M.gif

Okay I'm sorry. Schafer rejected it because he wasn't a big enough name (before proceeding to approve KRo Murat who has never fought in the US. Meanwhile Kovalev fought 3 times on national American tv that year) Showtime rejected it because of schedule, budget, lack of depth in the division, etc (before approving Murat) Just face it- Showtime and Schaefer ducked Kovalev lol How do you duck some one when his best win was Gabriel Campillo at the time? GGG ducked Ward. Same network, was willing to go up to Ward's weight class to fight some one else, called every one out. That's a duck.

Errr Stevenson did his share in the duckage too. Did his share? Stevenson ran away from a career high pay day and another title to fight Fonfara on showtime lol. I was just Talking about the Hopkins-Kovalev duck by Showtime/Schaefer

Okay I'm sorry. Schafer rejected it because he wasn't a big enough name (before proceeding to approve KRo Murat who has never fought in the US. Meanwhile Kovalev fought 3 times on national American tv that year) Showtime rejected it because of schedule, budget, lack of depth in the division, etc (before approving Murat) Just face it- Showtime and Schaefer ducked Kovalev lol Errr Stevenson did his share in the duckage too.

He said it too Many factors - schedule, budget, lack of depth in the division, etc. "@MarkEOrtega: WHY @shosports isn***39;t interested in Kovalev for B-Hop"— Stephen Espinoza (@StephenEspinoza) June 20, 2013 You said... Okay I'm sorry. Schafer rejected it because he wasn't a big enough name (before proceeding to approve KRo Murat who has never fought in the US. Meanwhile Kovalev fought 3 times on national American tv that year) Showtime rejected it because of schedule, budget, lack of depth in the division, etc (before approving Murat) Just face it- Showtime and Schaefer ducked Kovalev lol

Ehem........ Schafer said he's not a big enough name. Showtime said that ^^^ You said... remember when Schafer and Showtime rejected Hopkin-Kovalev because he wasn't a big enough name?

ESPN had Arreola vs Stiverne go against 2 NBA Game 7s, and UFC, and still did better than showtimes recent fight, ESPN isn't even known for big fights, havent done one in forever. Espinoza making some bs excuses. Gluck with those excuses to your boss homie. Unreliable source, but probably true: As of August 2013, approximately 97,736,000 American households (85.58% of households with television) receive ESPN. Wikipedia 85% of Americans get ESPN, that is a humongous number. 28 million subscribers for Showtime, it's not a fair comparison.

Huge discrepancy. That's why I don't take any SHO number seriously. Schaefer was found to be lying in the Guerrero/Mayweather. I don't even believe the grossly exaggerated 2 M in the Canelo/Mayweather. Lol the numbers aren't from Showtime, smart ass.

I already posted that exact link. Where does it say that Showtime didn't want Kovalev because he is not a big enough name? I see Schaefer said it, Showtime didn't give a reason. He said it too Many factors - schedule, budget, lack of depth in the division, etc. "@MarkEOrtega: WHY @shosports isn***39;t interested in Kovalev for B-Hop"— Stephen Espinoza (@StephenEspinoza) June 20, 2013 Ehem........ Schafer said he's not a big enough name. Showtime said that ^^^

Showtime didn't want Hopkins/Kovalev, out of Hopkins' mouth. http://espn.go.com/blog/dan-rafael/post/_/id/4399/hopkins-would-face-kovalev-but I already posted that exact link. So while Hopkins is in, if that is the direction Kovalev pursues, it gets a little complicated because HBO won’t do business with Golden Boy, his promoter. Though Showtime was ready to televise Hopkins against then-mandatory Karo Murat on July 13 -- before Murat dropped out because of an inability to get a visa -- the network, from what Hopkins said, is not interested in putting him on against Kovalev. Go figure, because Hopkins-Kovalev is a much, much more interesting fight than Hopkins-Murat ever was. Where does it say that Showtime didn't want Kovalev because he is not a big enough name? I see Schaefer said it, Showtime didn't give a reason.

Huge discrepancy. That's why I don't take any SHO number seriously. Schaefer was found to be lying in the Guerrero/Mayweather. I don't even believe the grossly exaggerated 2 M in the Canelo/Mayweather. 672k is the average, 800k is the peak.

Per Nielsen: #StevensonFonfara on @SHOsports had 672,000 viewers during main event. Please compare to 1,006,000 for #StevensonFonfara peaked at 800k viewers. #boxing— Dan Rafael (@danrafaelespn) May 28, 2014 ">#KovalevAgnew on @HBO.— Main Events (@Main_Events) May 28, 2014 STEVENSON VS. FONFARA: delivered 672,000 viewers for the live first-time airing on SHO. according to the Neilsens #boxing— Steve Kim (@stevemaxboxing) May 28, 2014 Huge discrepancy. That's why I don't take any SHO number seriously. Schaefer was found to be lying in the Guerrero/Mayweather. I don't even believe the grossly exaggerated 2 M in the Canelo/Mayweather.