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Sorta some Weekend Afterthoughts, to start. Lamont Peterson's title eliminator win might've set him up for a money fight with the junior welterweight's cash cow, Amir Khan, or it might not've. In the short term, he reportedly made $10,000 fighting Victor Cayo, when he would've made $300,000 facing Khan straight up before turning it down over undesirable contract terms. But Khan is looking at a lot of other potential opponents for his next fight -- the winner of Erik Morales-Jorge Barrios, the winner of Breidis Prescott-Paul McCloskey -- and if Khan goes elsewhere, where is Peterson going to make up that $290,000 he lost? This'll be a centerpiece of the ol' alphabet gang column, so stay tuned for more on that. As for what's next for a couple guys on that Friday Night Fights undercard, both light heavyweights Yordanis Despaigne and Edison Miranda are eager for a rematch after an inconclusive ending to their fight, although last I checked both junior middleweights Pawel Wolak and Delvin Rodriguez said they were eager for a rematch after their inconclusive FNF ending, and both of them are going opposite ways nowadays. Meanwhile, junior welterweight Mike Alvarado got a win over the weekend in Denver, with less than 4,000 people in attendance -- enough for some people to call it a "good" crowd, which wouldn't compare so great with a lot of other cards, so maybe it's all relative. Other results? Click the link above...
Let's talk ratings for a second. I had a whole spiel on Twitter the other day about ratings for the junior welterweight Khan-Zab Judah fight, and I very well might've confused households with viewers with how HBO does ratings versus how other outlets handle ratings; I'm still sorting it out. But HBO said the show garnered 1.4 million viewers, which is in line with the conclusion I drew about what the rating translated to, so I got that part right, I do believe. Anyway, to expound: Judah, as a B-side with a well-known "name," probably helped get that rating, one of the bigger ratings on HBO in the past two and a half years. But it also put Khan in an elite club, alongside only Paul Williams, as someone with three headlining shows to his name that did more than 1 million viewers. Neither Williams nor Khan are ticketsellers; I find this interesting. It makes me think there are a lot of boxing fans who simply don't watch shows live, and who, from their homes, find Williams and Khan more compelling than your average fan who does attend live shows....
Let's talk ratings for a second. I had a whole spiel on Twitter the other day about ratings for the junior welterweight Khan-Zab Judah fight, and I very well might've confused households with viewers with how HBO does ratings versus how other outlets handle ratings; I'm still sorting it out. But HBO said the show garnered 1.4 million viewers, which is in line with the conclusion I drew about what the rating translated to, so I got that part right, I do believe. Anyway, to expound: Judah, as a B-side with a well-known "name," probably helped get that rating, one of the bigger ratings on HBO in the past two and a half years. But it also put Khan in an elite club, alongside only Paul Williams, as someone with three headlining shows to his name that did more than 1 million viewers. Neither Williams nor Khan are ticketsellers; I find this interesting. It makes me think there are a lot of boxing fans who simply don't watch shows live, and who, from their homes, find Williams and Khan more compelling than your average fan who does attend live shows....
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