Comments Thread For: Miguel Cotto-Yuri Foreman Generates 3.9 Rating For HBO

[shogunn]

Boxing is dead

its about time you posted

[check hook]

Cotto has shown multiple times to be a great attraction

wtf are you talking about *****....SSM is a bigger drawcard than Cotto

[Vito Corleone]

Cotto was also the draw in the Pacquiao fight. There's no question that Cotto is a much bigger draw than Mosley.

[Iceta Lives]

I only watched it because I'm a boxing fan. Shoulda boycotted it though. Cotto needs to be off the network if he doesn't fight a better fighter than Foreman in his next fight.

[check hook]

Cotto was also the draw in the Pacquiao fight. There's no question that Cotto is a much bigger draw than Mosley.

i think Pac is a bigger draw than Cotto...and not very far behid Floyd.....but i laugh when Pac fans cry about SSM being a bigger draw than Cotto...........this is just another piece of evidence that suggests otherwise.........don't even get me started.......

[FirePunch]

Lets see 1.9 million viewers more than likely 5 to 20 people per tv set . So this equates to about ummm safe side minimal 20 million people watched this fight

[check hook]

I only watched it because I'm a boxing fan. Shoulda boycotted it though. Cotto needs to be off the network if he doesn't fight a better fighter than Foreman in his next fight.

i think that's being a bit unfair to Foreman..........

[check hook]

Lets see 1.9 million viewers more than likely 5 to 20 people per tv set . So this equates to about ummm safe side minimal 20 million people watched this fight

you can say with confidence alot of fighters fans would have fight parties where 3, 4, 5.....10 people are watching the same TV set........boxing is on the way up........

[Beater_of_ass]

Lets see 1.9 million viewers more than likely 5 to 20 people per tv set . So this equates to about ummm safe side minimal 20 million people watched this fight

I doubt it was upwards of 20 people at a house, for a non PPV fight, but this is still a great point. The Cotto haters skip the 3.9 rating and just see 1.9 million HOMES and simply think thats the amount of people that saw it. Using that logic May/Mosley and May/JMM got less viewers than a Cotto fight on HBO as those ratings would read 1 and 1.25 million homes purchased the event. Obviously more people watched the May fight because there were more people watching it elsewhere, but I would say 3-5 people average for the Cotto fight means about 6-10 million people watched, sounds about right. I think you'd need a PPV to up that average to abbout 5-10 but still, Cotto IS a draw. This also isn't counting casino's (as I live in vegas) bars and other places that would host this fight.

[Zarco]

Good numbers for boxing. What did it do on the live show with out the replay? JMM-Diaz did 1.6 million viwers on the live show alone with out the added event spark from a world famous stadium.