Comments Thread For: ESPN: Stiverne-Arreola Bout Was Ratings Success

[BIGPOPPAPUMP]

ESPN’s live telecast of the Saturday, May 10, World Boxing Council (WBC) World Heavyweight Championship fight between Bermane “B. Ware” Stiverne (24-1-1, 21 KOs) and Chris “The Nightmare” Arreola (36-4, 31 KOs) delivered a 0.8 overnight rating according to Nielsen, making it the highest-rated fight on any ESPN network since 2003 (Monte Barrett vs. Eric Kirkland delivered a 1.3 overnight rating on October 3, 2003, on ESPN2). Stiverne defeated Arreola by TKO in the sixth round, making him the first boxer of Haitian descent to win a Heavyweight title.

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[SnakeVen0m]

Fans got a great fight. We all win.

[SkillspayBills]

As long as they are satisfied and can do it again I will be a happy man. It was on prime time Saturday night at 8. Plus it was a great fight.

[.:: JSFD26 ::.]

Someone break this down into number of viewers or something.

Wth is the 4.1 referring to?


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[JDD1]

People in the US are tired of watching WLad's terrible fights against guys who have very little chance of beating him. Stiverne/Aerrola did better, Adamek/Cunnigham did better on NBC sports than wlad did on epix. All the NBCsports HWT fights did better than wlad on epix.

What more do people need to see in order to be convinced?

[Larry the boss]

That is a damn shame, Klit fight came on a week before and was a failure. why is this?

[Robbie Barrett]

People in the US are tired of watching WLad's terrible fights against guys who have very little chance of beating him. Stiverne/Aerrola did better, Adamek/Cunnigham did better on NBC sports than wlad did on epix. All the NBCsports HWT fights did better than wlad on epix.

What more do people need to see in order to be convinced?

Wlad-Leapai was a disaster for ESPN. They got 500k viewers. When 1.5 million is what they usually get for that time slot.

[onechance87]

So how many people watched the fight?Over a million?

[-MAKAVELLI-]

excellent news...it's good to see so many casuals treated to a great scrap

[Jocknerd94]

That is a damn shame, Klit fight came on a week before and was a failure. why is this?

One because The Klit fight got even less advertising then this fight. Two because Klit and his opponent were not american or part of any well represented American Group. Three , the most important reason, the fight was a horrible match up and a no doubt blow out. This weeks fight was a for sure good match up.