The most successful of those was the TBS televised card which featured Hisashi Amagasa (28-5-2, 19) fighting against Guillermo Rigondeaux and Kazuto Ioka (16-1, 10) fighting against Jean Piero Perez. This card got an amazing 9.0% of the audience, which we've been told was around 11 million, not the widely reported 30 million. For 30 millions the channel would have had to have had around around 24% on the viewing population.
All the other shows at the end of the year did pretty well too apparently-
http://www.asianboxing.info/asian-news/end-of-year-boxing-a-huge-ratings-success-in-japan
Rigo is gonna really set up the Japan Pipeline. A lot of people will start paying attention to him, And just by watching the other fights on the cards too, people will see how great the Japanese fighters really are. Japan currently has some out of this world talent.
A lot of people don't know this but December 31st boxing cards always do great in Japan. It's like our May 5th.
Which is why they already want Rigondeaux on this year's Dec 31st card again. He found a really good market and should keep fighting there since its good money, fair judging and people will appreciate him in Japan. He should do that until guys like LSC grow a pair.
I agree, Japan is the best thing that could happen to rigo right now. They say that they want him back in June and again in December. I say he makes japan his new home. He also talked about how appreciated he felt by the Japanese public when he fought there.