Horrible boxing card does "okay" ratings on CBS

[croz]

http://www.usatoday.com/story/sports/2012/12/17/*****-nfl-nbc-peyton-manning-boxing-cbs-fox-nbc/1774825/

Boxing does OK. Boxing, on CBS for the first time in 15 years, drew a respectable 1.3 overnight Saturday -- and retained 90% of the audience from a Butler-Purdue basketball game that was its lead-in.

1.3 is about 2 million people. It was a horrible choice to put an unknown bantam weight on CBS but it still did okay ratings. Now golden boy put someone good up there and put boxing back up there with the top sports where it belongs.

edit: also these are just over night ratings meaning they could increase or decease since a lot of the west coast isn't including.

[ShoulderRoll]

I'm impressed that they kept 90% of the audience from the basketball. Maybe Golden Boy can put a bigger name fighter on CBS for next time.

Or at least Lucas Matthysse.

[El Angel]

I'm impressed that they kept 90% of the audience from the basketball. Maybe Golden Boy can put a bigger name fighter on CBS for next time.

Or at least Lucas Matthysse.

That's not a bad idea.

[onechance87]

should bring santa cruz back on cbs.Perhaps against an opponent with
a more familiar name.Lucas would bomb on cbs like he does on showtime.

[Simply Zyzz]

how is keeping 90% of that audience just okay?..... that's a success to me...

i saw the fight, pretty good fight

[croz]

how is keeping 90% of that audience just okay?..... that's a success to me...

i saw the fight, pretty good fight

it's still a middle of the road number for CBS

A real boxing card would have smashed that.

[snoopymiller]

Not sure why anybody would label this fight as horrible since it was a pretty good fight.

Nobody outside of the obvious are big names in boxing. I hope they keep showcasing Santa Cruz regularly on the CBS dates.

[croz]

Not sure why anybody would label this fight as horrible since it was a pretty good fight.

Nobody outside of the obvious are big names in boxing. I hope they keep showcasing Santa Cruz regularly on the CBS dates.

Because it was a lame ass debut for boxing. They needed to make a big splash. They didn't.

They didn't do bad. CBS probably paid about five figures for this card so they likely got their moneys worth.

[Russian Crushin]

Because it was a lame ass debut for boxing. They needed to make a big splash. They didn't.

They didn't do bad. CBS probably paid about five figures for this card so they likely got their moneys worth.

Jesus dude stop b1tching already

[snoopymiller]

I don't get what the guy wants.

Rios-Mathysse would probably draw the same exact rating as the Santa Cruz fight.

Rios-Alvarado did weak HBO ratings less then 900k. Mathysse's recent fights on Showtime did less than 300k.