Horrible boxing card does "okay" ratings on CBS

[mathed]

Throw Rios, Santa Cruz, and Angulo on a card and I bet the ratings would be tremendous. Boxing would be back in the limelight..the fights all have to be slugfests though, that's what the public likes, they could care less for a boxing chess match.

[croz]

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.

those are cable networks. A main event on Showtime that does 300k would do bigger numbers than this card did on CBS. If a prelim fight for a ****ty Khan fight can do two million just think what the Khan fight can do.

[PureBoxingCEO]

Thats good numbers to get back on track in National TV, now lets keep the support this saturday on NBC. I will tune in

[croz]

Thats good numbers to get back on track in National TV, now lets keep the support this saturday on NBC. I will tune in

you know the fact this pulled 90% of the basketball audience indicates boxing fans didn't bother coming out to support it at all.

[bojangles1987]

you know the fact this pulled 90% of the basketball audience indicates boxing fans didn't bother coming out to support it at all.

It also might indicate that boxing fans are also college basketball fans. Not a crazy concept.

[The Big Dunn]

How can any one who likes boxing complain when a card including a fighters debut and a super bantamweight title fight got more than 1 million viewers on a saturday afternoon in December?

[croz]

Looks like we could be talking 2.25 million, almost idential to what the UFC on FOX 3 managed in a Primetime slot. Boxing on the other hand was on at 1 o clock.


This is what Dave Meltzer said about UFC on Fox 3:

http://www.f4wonline.com/more/more-top-stories/118-daily-updates/25490-ufc-on-fox-ratings?utm_source=twitterfeed&utm_medium=twitter

The fast national numbers are in for last night's show and it totalled 2.25 million viewers. It should be noted that this is a number that measured what was on from 8-10 p.m. on all the FOX stations, which means on the West Coast, it measured whatever the station aired in that slot. Some stations aired a replay of the fights and many aired other programming.

But no matter how you slice it, the number was very bad. That number would work out to a rating in the 1.2 or 1.3 range, horrible for first-run network programming. With the West Coast, the number could rise. The first show rose about 19% but the second show didn't rise at all from the original number, so we're looking at a final number probably between a 1.2 and 1.6.

So basically it amounts to a boxing prelim show on CBS at 1 o clock beating a main event UFC show on FOX at primetime.