Comments Thread For: Hearn Defends Previous Comments Predicting Demise of Showtime

[KTFOKING]

All depending on how far away they end up getting from making fights in the US imo.

If they get rid of GBP by year's end and focus more on the UK and global scene? Then it will be obvious they are transitioning away from the US. Hopefully they put on Prograis vs Mikey though, that's an awesome match up. Ortiz vs Mean Machine for August 14 please!

[Oldskoolg]

No, those numbers are not part of the Nielson ratings. SHO, FOX, ESPN etc have all those numbers but they are not released. I believe SHO only released them for the Wilder/Breazeale fight and FOX may have released them a few times. Aside from that, those numbers are hardly ever released to the public.

Ta! I thought it a bit wonky if there was not a way to track those numbers at all. So my Hulu numbers count. Kinda makes the Nielsen ratings obsolete ina way. I would venture to guess that the Nielsen ratings for FOX, ESPN, and Showtime are possibly twice as high as what they are on Nielsen

[Oldskoolg]

If they get rid of GBP by year's end and focus more on the UK and global scene? Then it will be obvious they are transitioning away from the US. Hopefully they put on Prograis vs Mikey though, that's an awesome match up. Ortiz vs Mean Machine for August 14 please!

If golden boy goes to triller 100% I don’t think that’s an especially good move on their part to be honest.

[KTFOKING]

Ta! I thought it a bit wonky if there was not a way to track those numbers at all. So my Hulu numbers count. Kinda makes the Nielsen ratings obsolete ina way. I would venture to guess that the Nielsen ratings for FOX, ESPN, and Showtime are possibly twice as high as what they are on Nielsen

I don't know about twice as much, but yeah Nielson ratings don't mean as much anymore. ESPN I bet has the most streaming with so many people subscribed to ESPN+. Would love to know the ballpark those Lomachenko/Nakatani numbers were in.

[sicko]

You was F^CKING Wrong Eddie! Admit it, move on and STFU sometimes!

Showtime not going anywhere and for a Network that is not committed to Boxing they've had the best Schedule and Cards so far this year so what does that say about the networks and APPs who are suppose to be more committed to Boxing while yeah Viacom/CBS/Showtime continues to invest into boxing because despite the Nielsen Ratings it is clearly Profitable to them somehow and they can afford to keep a sizable budget open for Boxing

[BoloShot]

Eddie can't admit fault for life nor money bless him. Showtime have a better schedule than he does, the fool thinks too highly of himself.

[PBR Streetgang]

I will have to disagree with Hearn on this. I don't sit here and grade the different providers after each card but my general impression is that Showtime has put out a consistently solid boxing product (between PBC and ShoBox) recently. That wasn't always the case but I think the quality of fights has improved a great deal since it when they were barely interested in boxing a few years back.

As far as viewership numbers they are so nebulous don't really seem to provide accurate viewership numbers. I don't put stock in Nielsen, I usually stream or DVR fights and watch them later and most of my friends with busy schedules so the same. Even with DAZN, I watch them after the fact or delayed.

[GBP4LIFE]

Who cares what this bozo talks about.. all these damn threads on this clown

[KTFOKING]

Who cares what this bozo talks about.. all these damn threads on this clown

Oh, this is what Boxingscene does. Expect another three or four threads off his interview lol.

The Spence interview was the worst. They were literally making threads WEEKS after the interview making it seem like it was a new quote or something.

So if you annoyed right now? I'm afraid I have some a bad news for you.........

[nino brown21]

Says the guy with the billion dollar war chest and now barely got a few hundred left . how about instead of overpaying everyone, you pay most people fairly now everyone's running g around like they're worth 10 mil plus and that's because of you !