Comments Thread For: Stevenson-Valdez Averaged 1,353,000 Viewers On ESPN; Audience Peaked At 1,440,000

[BIGPOPPAPUMP]

Another dominant performance from Shakur Stevenson drew higher viewership than the previous Stevenson fight ESPN televised. Nielsen Media Research revealed Tuesday that an average of 1,353,000 viewers watched Stevenson's 12-round, unanimous-decision victory over Oscar Valdez in their 130-pound title unification fight Saturday night at MGM Grand Garden Arena in
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[paulf]

Crazy to think that those were good numbers on a premium network like HBO a decade ago.

RIP HBO Championship Boxing

[The Big Dunn]

Yeah Bob. Go from this to Conceicao instead of Gutierrez in a unification fight.

[BZBEE]

85% of the viewers were the Mexicans.

[Corelone]

And Shakur brags about hearing crickets.

[sicko]

For Boxing, anytime you're able to break even 500K Views in this ERA that is a WIN but also a Indication of how far the Popularity of this sport has fallen with Mainstream America sadly

So yeah these Numbers are Good!

[CharlieStewart]

Let’s see Stevenson numbers without a Hispanic dance partner

[Oldskoolg]

I see the race baiters wasted no time in the comments. Jokers, aces, one eye faces…..and the race card

[killakali]

Crazy to think that those were good numbers on a premium network like HBO a decade ago.

RIP HBO Championship Boxing

Exactly. Most Showtime fights aren’t even breaking 200,000 views nowadays. Come to think about it they don’t even post the numbers anymore

[KTFOKING]

Shakur is turning into a big draw. Looks at his recent fights as they have all surpassed the million mark. Remember, these numbers are not including the streaming numbers. Valdez obviously helped as well but this is like three or four consecutive cards that Shakur headlined that has done good numbers.

Good stuff!