Comments Thread For: Donaire's HBO Rating More Than Doubled Khan's Return

[ANDROIDISM]

HBO’s boxing broadcast beat Showtime’s telecast Saturday night by a significant margin.

According to ratings released this week by Nielsen Media Research, HBO’s audience more than doubled Showtime’s audience. The HBO “World Championship Boxing” broadcast highlighted by Nonito Donaire’s three-round demolition of Mexico’s Jorge Arce drew slightly more than 1.3 million viewers, while the “Showtime Championship Boxing” telecast that featured Amir Khan’s 10th-round stoppage of Carlos Molina drew roughly 616,000 viewers.
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Lets keep one thing straight here.

These ratings have NOTHING to do with Donaire. Donaire is nowhere near a bigger draw than Khan. HBO's ratings were due to hispanics tuning in to see Arce fight who is a big draw for mexican fans because of his style and history. Also the replay of JMM vs Pacman played a big part in these numbers.

Khan > Donaire

[Bermuda]

[Fighting_Pride]

no surprise there, no sane person would have bought the khan-molino fight maybe except for some really close relatives of both fighters, for crying out loud, GBP had to give out free tickets just to force people to watch the fight. once donaire knocks out rigo and mares, he'll be the next ppv superstar

[xcaret IV]

Thanks to Arce... why the *** isnt anyone mentioning this? wow pathetic

[DeadLikeMe]

no surprise there, no sane person would have bought the khan-molino fight maybe except for some really close relatives of both fighters, for crying out loud, GBP had to give out free tickets just to force people to watch the fight. once donaire knocks out rigo and mares, he'll be the next ppv superstar

He'll never be a ppv superstar fighting below 147

Also lmao at trying to attribute the JMM-Pac replay as Donaire's numbers...he's not that popular tbh because he fights in meaningless divisions

[KING MEAT]

donaire might be the next PPV star.. hmmm...

[Prince_Pugilist]

I'm a Donaire fan but we all know Khan is the bigger draw, although good on Nonito for getting some exposure.

[Big Lou]

Pacquioa/Marquez replay made those ratings possible. Donaire/arce fight was a joke, everybody knows Arce's done.

[PRBOXINGCOTTO]

nobody wanted to see khan bum ass fight another bum at least donaire was coming to ko arce

[KnockUTheFukOut]

JMM vs Pacquiao 4 replay I am sure had a lot to do with those Ratings...taking nothing away from Donaire but lets be honest here

that being said Khan vs Molina was a **** CARD!