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

[ThePrince]

Very impressive considering they were up against a playoff game. More fights like this with interesting, championship caliber matchups on ESPN and less glorified $75 sparring matches n PPV please

[Car1o]

Nothing to do with state of heavyweight division, or anything really.

ESPN boxing ratings have absolutely nothing to do with match ups, the state of the heavyweight division, the state of boxing, the fact that the fight was for only 1 of the 4 belts, how the "American public" feels about heavyweight boxing, anything whatsoever really. That fact of the matter is, the average American knows absolutely nothing about boxing and either stumbled across the fight, or is one of the few rare actual fight fans in those ratings. That is all there is to it.

[King_]

ESPN boxing ratings have absolutely nothing to do with match ups, the state of the heavyweight division, the state of boxing, the fact that the fight was for only 1 of the 4 belts, how the "American public" feels about heavyweight boxing, anything whatsoever really. That fact of the matter is, the average American knows absolutely nothing about boxing and either stumbled across the fight, or is one of the few rare actual fight fans in those ratings. That is all there is to it.

Solid first post.

[.:: JSFD26 ::.]

1 point represents 1% of households with televisions. There are 115.6 million television households so 1 point equals 1,156,000 households. And 0.8 points would equal to 924,800 households.

Don't know how many viewers that is though.

Wouldn't 1 household = 1 viewer? I mean, I understand there might be more than 1 viewer in a household but it would still be considered 1 viewer right?

And thanks for the breakdown. Makes much better sense now.

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generally it's a percentage of all viewership on television at the time. they're national, so it's obviously got to compete with channels everybody can get.



i could be wrong. i didn't even read the article. when you hear "it did a 4.1," that's generally referring to the share of households.

Appreciate it. I didn't know that stuff.


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[bojangles1987]

Good, yes, great news.

[bojangles1987]

Wlad's fighting style, and the era he's fighting in, means he'll never get the respect that he fully deserves. That said, he has only himself to blame for turning off American fans. That disaster against Ibragimov at the Garden forever sealed his fate among the casuals.

And the Povetkin fight was part of a triple feature on HBO. So his chance to rehab that image completely failed when he fought one of the worst fights you'll ever see.

[AL_Camino]

I say put the Stiverne vs Wilder scrap on espn Saturday at 8pm. I bet it would do great ratings.

[Fr3$h]

It was on at a good time I think. Just as I was tuning in I saw 2 f4ggots kissing so I assume that was the NFL draft.

[Da Machine]

Just was checking out the ratings for 0.8. That's generally a top ten number for the day on cable ratings.

It's no tell on viewers but the lowest I have seen a 0.8 get is 1.3m on a Friday.

[Ravens Fan]

It was on at a good time I think. Just as I was tuning in I saw 2 f4ggots kissing so I assume that was the NFL draft.

Sounds like you got turned on. Don't they chop your penis off for that in the Islamic world?