Television Ratings for ESPN Friday Night Fights and HBO's Alexander-Kotelnik

[mrpain81]

Television Ratings for ESPN Friday Night Fights and HBO's Alexander-Kotelnik


by John Chavez

Aug 12, 2010



Ratings are a fairly good measuring stick as to the popularity of a television program.

While the Nielsen Media company doesn't provide an exact number as to the amount of live viewers tuning into a broadcast, they give a solid rough estimate of the overall figure.

This week The Boxing Truth releases some additional figures to the usual ratings numbers for the most recent ESPN Friday Night Fights and HBO's Boxing After Dark featuring a double-header between Devon Alexander-Andriy Kotelnik and Tarvoris Cloud-Glenn Johnson. We were able to snatch the ratings for shows prior to the Friday Night Fight show as well as the ratings for the show following the boxing broadcast.

Here are the Nielsen Media television ratings for boxing's most recent programming:

8-6-2010 - ESPN2 - Tennis Men (US Open) - 153,000 live viewers

8-6-2010 - ESPN2 - Friday Night Fights - Breidis Prescott-Harrison Cuello - 523,000 live viewers

8-6-2010 - ESPN2 - Tennis Women (US Open) - 233,000 live viewers

8-7-2010 - HBO - Boxing After Dark - Devon Alexander-Andriy Kotelnik - 1.057 million live viewers


The figures from ESPN2 are significant being that there is an obvious ****e in live viewers when the fisticuffs fly incomparison to that of tennis. It shows that boxing obviously has a significant following on the leading sports network incomparison to tennis but we'll be getting compiling more ratings from other programming on the various networks to get a better idea of how boxing fares compared to the rest.

As for the Alexander-Kotelnik bout drawing 1.057 million live viewers... that is a good deal higher than the 897,000 live viewers that tuned into the Timothy Bradley-Carlos Abregu bout several weeks back on HBO.

I have the slightest inkling that the fact that Alexander drew 9,000 people in a major metropolitan area such as St. Louis helped garner that elevated television viewership. If you have close to 10,000 people posting on their social networks or even offline that they're attending a boxing event, it translates to much more potential awareness for a boxing contest rather than sticking the event in some non-descript casino.

So there you have it... Alexander drew more live viewers on HBO, more live viewers in attendance, and yet Timothy Bradley considers himself the star... go figure. That is The Boxing Truth... no lie.


PS. If I was HBO, I'd tell Alfredo Angulo that the most he'll get to fight on the premium network from now on is $250,000 no matter the opponent. He needs to be made an example of RIGHT NOW. Turning down a $750,000 payday while having LOST to Kermit Cintron and not even having 20 professional bouts is asinine. Even worse is HBO even OFFERING 750k to the overrated brick-headed idiot. Somebody, anybody, please fire the idiot that offered that amount of money to a guy who can't draw flies to ****.

http://theboxingtruth.com/article.php?id=1876

Looks like Alexander is the draw and he's the one pushing to fight Bradley, BTW Alexander already did a bigger number on B.A.D then Berto has done in 3 B.A.D's headlining.

Alexander also did better then Dawson did on World Championship Boxing in his first two appearances.

[βetamax]

The tennis match ran long, probably about 10 minutes into the FNF timeslot. I wonder if this accounted for?

[Mayweather41-0]

Cool thanks a lot for the info man. Is that good ratings for the Alexander fight?

[mrpain81]

It's the highest rated B.A.D of the year when it comes to live viewers. It's a very good number for the new kid on the block, since Kotelnik an unknown and Cloud is also unknown it's safe to say Alexander carried the card.

Before you say Glen Johnson might have been the draw, well his fight against Dawson did 774,000 live. The lowest live ratings in the history of WCB.

[youngswish23]

Those are pretty impressive numbers for Devon. He keeps winning hes going to make alot of money. Don King promoting the show was a good look for him too. Alot of people dont like Don King but you have to respect him. He know how to put on big fights. Lets see what he does with Mayweathers career next.

[Heru]

FNF doubling, tripling, quadrupling up 1 of the 4 top tennis tournaments in the World and 1 0f the 2 top tennis tourney's in the US tells for both sexes is the **** that makes me think there's a conspiracy against Boxing. They give tennis more airtime than boxing on everything. Even when you go to espn.com they have tennis over boxing in their little drop down menu.

All you need is good ability and Al Haymon as your advisor/manager and you will have all the dates possible on HBO...

How else would Berto get all the dates he's had on the network?

I mean investing in Floyd eventually paid off, but Floyd has exceptional ability and a controversial personality that translated into PPV buys. Berto has the speed, but falls short everywhere else.

HBO is run by idiots and they don't care if they can get more **** for their buck. They just like to make bad decisions.

[starkiller]

Tennis is a boring sport to watch, the people who watch that probably just left espn on by accident. Some of the ratings on tennis probably had to do with boxing fans waiting for boxing to come on. That cruddy sport delays boxing by 10-20 mins sometimes. Tennis is like golf, its fun to play but not fun to watch at all.

[Mayweather41-0]

Yo at mrpain 81 how do you find these ratings I have tried researching and I never really come across anything only the amount of ppv buys an event has. Thanks

[mrpain81]

I think Al Haymon has naked pictures of Ross Greenburg and a male escort, I don't see any other way he can get away with the bull**** he gets away with.

None of his fighters fight each other, they all get dates and a lot of time against weak opponents. No doubt about it that HBO are like the US government when it comes to spending, they piss their money away on dog **** instead of paying the guys by how many asses they can get in the seats and what type of ratings they get.

[mrpain81]

John Chavez get's the ratings from a hook up he has at nielsen, he's the only boxing scribe that puts them out on a consistent basis. You might sometimes find ratings put out by HBO or a Promoter but that's usually a press release they send out when the show did good like Cotto vs. Foreman.

http://www.theboxingtruth.com/

That's the site where Chavez posts the ratings.

Also twitter.

http://twitter.com/boxingtruth