15 million people watched boxing in Japan last week

[croz]

The Koki Kameda fight averaged an 11.8 rating point equalling around 15 million viewers while the undercard averaged a 7.4 rating point meaning around 9 million.

The main event was the 5th most watched sporting event of the week while the undercard was the 9th most watched sporting event of the week.

The only other sports in the top 10 were football and baseball. Football dominated the top ten with 7 places, boxing had 2, baseball had 1.

[NearHypnos]

Boxing is actually pretty big in japan. Right now they have some hot fighters too so no surprise there

[Hougigo]

They also have a ton of fights every week. They stack their cards too when it matters

[thesenuts]

How come they don't have any heavyweight fighters?

[Hougigo]

How come they don't have any heavyweight fighters?

Hard for some asian fighters to fill in that build... and when they do they do other sports like MMA or something.
The have a converted kickboxing champ Fujimoto

[itsafight]

Someone better call Angel Garcia.

[big_james10]

The Koki Kameda fight averaged an 11.8 rating point equalling around 15 million viewers while the undercard averaged a 7.4 rating point meaning around 9 million.

The main event was the 5th most watched sporting event of the week while the undercard was the 9th most watched sporting event of the week.The only other sports in the top 10 were football and baseball. Football dominated the top ten with 7 places, boxing had 2, baseball had 1.

It had an audience of 15 million and it was the fifth most watched event of the week? Damn! Did they have a superbowl, world series and world cup championship match in the same week that were watched by more than 15 million people?

[LoadedWraps]

Boxing is actually pretty big in japan. Right now they have some hot fighters too so no surprise there

Exactly. What's the point of this thread? More cluttering the NSB front page, can we have actual discussion threads on here? Way too much to ask, I suppose.

[NearHypnos]

Exactly. What's the point of this thread? More cluttering the NSB front page, can we have actual discussion threads on here? Way too much to ask, I suppose.

Yeah. Japan from what I recall is among the top world champion producing countries.


There's good money to be made out in japan and the reason we dont hear from them all down here is because they can mostly afford to stay home and bring in the comp. I suppose its surprising for people who dont follow the smallest of weight classes but they have a great tradition there and the atmosphere in some of their more famous venues is apparently amazing (cant speak from personal experience of course lol) .


It's personally towards the top of my list for one of the places I would most like to visit for an event.

[hayZ]

Great for Boxing. They have a history in being great supporters of combat sports. Check out the MMA boom back in 2002-2005 in PRIDEFC which only went a few due to the Yakuza in 2007.