Originally posted by davetheone
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To put things in perspective, the UFC ran a countdown show on Fox to preview their inaugural debut on broadcast TV. Fox did a much better job in promoting and it still did only 2 million viewers (and it had a NFL game lead-in!!)with a 0.9 rating in the 18-49 demo. Slightly better numbers but still crap for primetime broadcast TV. People are smart enough not to care about countdown shows. Pac v Shane preview show on CBS did the same numbers as Floyd. Put any lame countdown shows (especially for a PPV) and it will bomb (unless they are previewing THE Pac-Mayweather fight).
Like mentioned already, boxing promoters are cheap and lazy.
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