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[Da Machine]

If this can't beat a million... i'd be surprised.

Wilbon will undoubtedly be on Monday morning saying boxing is dead.

Maybe tue since the ratings won't come out until then.

[DoktorSleepless]

If you're not part of the nielson's select sample with a meter box, you're not counted. Doesn't matter if you leave the TV on. There's only 23,000 households whose viewing habits are tracked and the ratings are extrapolated from them.

[Beercules]

I'll be watching. I posted it on Instagram too for all the "boxing fans"

Everyone here should be watching.

[Da Machine]

If you're not part of the nielson's select sample with a meter box, you're not counted. Doesn't matter if you leave the TV on. There's only 23,000 households whose viewing habits are tracked and the ratings are extrapolated from them.

How does this accurately report sports like boxing then? I mean widely popular tv shows, movies, and sports sure, but boxing which has a pretty direct audience.

How many Mexicans, Old white dudes and poor blacks have a ****ing Nielsen box?

[Hougigo]

If you're not part of the nielson's select sample with a meter box, you're not counted. Doesn't matter if you leave the TV on. There's only 23,000 households whose viewing habits are tracked and the ratings are extrapolated from them.

wompity womp womp... guess I'll dl it later

[DoktorSleepless]

How does this accurately report sports like boxing then? I mean widely popular tv shows, movies, and sports sure, but boxing which has a pretty direct audience.

How many Mexicans, Old white dudes and poor blacks have a ****ing Nielsen box?

Well, the box is not something you buy in a store. Presumably Nielson tries to gives those specific demographic an appropriate number of boxes relative to their share of the population. People get paid to have their viewing habits monitored. Doesn't matter if you're rich or poor.

[wiz1030]

I don't think the fight has been promoted well by the network or the promoters. The venue is at a university campus which is a bit of a signaling factor to the magnitude of the fight as well. It's the Heavyweight title fight, WBC belt on the line it should be BIG TIME

I've seen 2 commercials for this and they were youtube pre-roll's that were in Spanish. I think it's a lackluster effort on all sides to promote the event. It's cool that ESPN has a little willingness to get in on the big time boxing game but if they're going to base their future efforts on how this fight goes, it wont be good.

[-PBP-]

I can't find anything on FNF ratings other than it averaged 400K in 2012. I doubt last year was much better.

Tonight the fight will have to compete with the Miami Heat/Brooklyn Nets and the Mayweather/Maidana replay.

[SlySlickSmooth]

How does this accurately report sports like boxing then? I mean widely popular tv shows, movies, and sports sure, but boxing which has a pretty direct audience.

How many Mexicans, Old white dudes and poor blacks have a ****ing Nielsen box?

I'm not included, what if I had a Nielsen box? But seriously, idk anyone with a Nielsen.

[Da Machine]

See, no one cares about this fight.