Ward-Rodriguez on HBO peaks at 1.2 mil viewers

[WilkinsOlajuwon]

The fascination with ratings numbers has jumped the shark.

More poop leftover from the moronic Manny v Floyd war.

[-MAKAVELLI-]

This was mentioned this in another thread:



With that being said, those are very poor numbers. He did less than Golovkin. That's very sad. Ward must feel humiliated.

still, that's 1.2mil people that wont ever watch boxing again

[-MAKAVELLI-]

The fascination with ratings numbers has jumped the shark.

More poop leftover from the moronic Manny v Floyd war.

i hope Kobe comes back from his achilles injury the way Dominique did

[mrlopez]

not surprising at all... at all

surprising to me that it did over a millie

This was mentioned this in another thread:
With that being said, those are very poor numbers. He did less than Golovkin. That's very sad. Ward must feel humiliated.

he still drew over a millie which is good right? i was hoping it wouldve done 800k or less. ward is over paid and boring to watch

Yeah there wasn't really any intrigue going into this one. Ward would be favored in most matchups but this time around there wasn't any buzz around Rodriguez pulling off the upset. The weigh-in fiasco pretty much quieted any notion that Edwin was going to win the fight

Rodriguez was WAY overpaid for the fight but I thought it was pretty clear that HBO was desperate just to get Ward back in the ring again with a somewhat credible opponent.

hbo should do to ward what they did to the k bros. dont show him unless its vs a BIG name, not some nobody. i turned the fight off after the 1st and rewatched the gatti ward doc. i'll take blood n guts over "slick" or definisve minded or hugging fighters any day, hell, all day!

[WilkinsOlajuwon]

i hope Kobe comes back from his achilles injury the way Dominique did

30 and 7 is no joke at 33 years old.

[Daddy T]

His style has nothing to do with Ratings, if you match him up against someone people THINK can defeat him the ratings will be Solid

It was a lot going on that night to be honest, I was watching USC vs Stanford College Football probably more so than that fight because I just never thought Edwin had a chance and that game was close and came down to the Wire

UFC was on as well which did have a more ENTERTAINING MAINEVENT in which people was actually talking about on twitter and was Trending more so than the Ward fight

Nevermind don't even know why I replied after seeing who started this Thread, the biggest B!TCH on this forum

You can't really believe that? Mike Tyson had an exciting style and he could be fighting a bum nobody ever herd of and who stood ZERO chance of even going a round and he would still draw massive numbers. If Ward had an exciting style he would do better numbers end of. Obv opponents etc help so I get what u are saying there but opponents/layoffs etc are only a part of the picture. His style, which makes for far from riveting tv is the other.

[Cuban Linx]

K2 Promotions is doing a much better job promoting GGG than Ward's team is promoting him. Ward's team has not done a good job, and they have probably cost him millions over the last few years.

But I think it's just that GGG is much more intriguing. He has a certain charisma about him that gravitates people towards him more than Ward.

Here's a guy who is from Kazakhstan, doesn't speak English well, smiles all the time, looks rather unassuming like a choir boy, and then he enters the ring and just knocks his opponents out in devastating fashion. We haven't seen someone like GGG. He's a phenomenon in the sport.

With Ward, he has elite skills, schools his opponents but he's not as charismatic. There's nothing interesting about Ward, he's just a great boxer. Outside of the ring he's a no nonsense guy and people don't gravitate to that. That's just who he is. It also doesn't help that he hadn't fought for 14 months, and while he was away GGG's team took advantage of that.

In the end there is an audience for both, I think Ward will be fine.

[Cobra_]

Must kill him to know that he will never outdraw Froch.

[MrRolltide91]

Ward will be fine

[way2strong]

Must kill him to know that he will never outdraw Froch.

must kill froch knowing he will never be able to beat a great american fighter like Ward