Hatton-Lazcano Recieved 281,000 Viewers in the States

[The_Italian]

Think of it this way...

They only did 100,000 less than Cotto/Gomez...

Which was on HBO during a regular slot...

This was during the afternoon in a different country and barely promoted...

The numbers are impressive...

im definately inclined to agree with this statement.

I think its very good numbers considering the obvious:

A) hatton headlined the card and isnt an american fighter or a fighter who has consistantly appeared on american tv throughout his career.

B) both Paulie and Ricky were having tune-up fights

C) it came on free tv on channel not widely known for having big names or good cards

D) it came on at 12:30PM westcoast time and 3:30PM east coast time (which isnt a popular slot for boxing in america)

E) The card recieved little to no promotion in the U.S.


I think it did VERY well considering all those things...if it were promoted better i think it could have beat out cotto v. gomez.

I REALLY HOPE the free networks (even just VS and ESPN) have bigger cards (like that one) in the future...it can really take a bite out of this PPV nonsense and HOPEFULLY even if boxing can't 100% return to free tv a great deal of good fights can still be seen for free...and i think it helped the casual fan well (even though it didnt provide knockouts) the fights werent one sided as many predicted.

[Scott9945]

Cotto-Gomez had 1.1 million viewers.



The article pegs the broadcast at around ~$150K for Versus.

Versus gets around 250K viewers for regular season NHL games; playoff games get more than double that.

Thanks for that info. If they didn't lose a lot of money it was worth is for Versus since it helped raise their profile.

[The Gambler1981]

Thanks for that info. If they didn't lose a lot of money it was worth is for Versus since it helped raise their profile.

Even if they lost money on it, if it raised their profile it could be worth it in the long run especially if they want to upgrade their boxing brand. Taking a loss to gain prestiege is not unheard of.

[SkillspayBills]

No promotion, in the afternoon, with only one fighter who is known in the U.S. Not bad at all.

[KESSLER]

That's not as bad as I thought it would be.

[ferocity]

I think those are fair numbers but not what they expected. I say fair because it still on cable and not free tv and as other mentioned the timing and advertisments weren't many.

[KING •]

First of all, those numbers are horrendous.

First of all, no.

Third of all, stop making excuses for those **** ratings.

Second of all, no.

Just quit the act buddy we know that you don't know boxing.

[Guest]

!! $in = Owned.

Why? Because more people paid to see Mayweather-Baldomir than watched Hatton fight for free?

[Gonzalez_Boxing]

Think of it this way...

They only did 100,000 less than Cotto/Gomez...

Which was on HBO during a regular slot...

This was during the afternoon in a different country and barely promoted...

The numbers are impressive...

You're wrong, it's not even close. A single national ratings point represents one percent of the total number, or 1,128,000 households for the 2006-07 season.

His last outing against Alfonso Gomez in Atlantic City did one of the lowest ratings ever (2.1) for an HBO World Championship Boxing telecast.

Cotto = 2,368,800

Hatton = 281,000

[Gonzalez_Boxing]

Those seem like decent numbers for a network like Versus, which is known mostly to hockey fans. Really it depends on how much they paid for the fight to know whether it was a good investment. Also I'd like to know their ratings for NHL games for comparison.

To repeat: There’s something very wrong with the economic model at HBO Sports when the network pays a $2,850,000 license fee for Hatton-Urango and Versus pays roughly five percent of that amount for a doubleheader pairing Hatton-Lazcano with Malignaggi-N’dou.

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