Comments Thread For: Stevenson-Fonfara Creates Thrills, Struggles in Ratings

[titan m]

Im not sure if it affects their ratings or not but in eastern Canada the fight wasn't even on TV, usually Super Channel shows Showtime fights except when the fight is in Montreal, then they don't air it.

Usually they make the Canadian fights a PPV but I didn't see this one on TV at all.

[Hawkeye_616]

Haymon and Schaefer are ruining Golden Boy. Fans are getting wise to their farce and exhibition non-competitive fights. HBO has the most competitive fights this year. Stevenson is a ducker and screwed up by crying to Haymon.

[800lbGorilla]

Ha Ha....you think those ratings were bad, just wait to see the decline on that Guerrero telecast. Either the Ghosts poltergeist fan base is invisible or there truly aint no one who purchases tickets to see his tired carcASS. Can someone tell me how that is the Maine Event?

[285Kid]

I knew it the first fight was going to kill the ratings

[Check_hooks]

So not only is SHO losing 10's of millions but there viewers are going down as well

Expect major cuts to their boxing budget in the 2nd half of this year

[kildencolth14]

if kovalev was the one who moved to SHO nobody would have been disappointed because he is the best light heavyweight today

[ShoulderRoll]

There will always be a ratings disparity and HBO knows this. On average they have about 3 million more subscribers so there will always be more people watching on HBO

You are 100% right.

800,000 viewers is usually not bad for Showtime. The disappointment comes because some of their fights last year were drawing over 1 million for the first time......they haven't been able to build on that or even to sustain it so that is a bit of a let down

[gbonafide]

Every time I look at a 3 fight card on Showtime, every fight is a fight that as a fan, I never asked for, and every fight has a Haymon fighter on it. Fans want the fights THEY want, not the one that pay Haymon.
No HBO subscribers complained when GBP and haymon got the boot from HBO.

Exactly right. These are what Schaefer regularly refers to as stacked cards.

[gbonafide]

Im not sure if it affects their ratings or not but in eastern Canada the fight wasn't even on TV, usually Super Channel shows Showtime fights except when the fight is in Montreal, then they don't air it.
Usually they make the Canadian fights a PPV but I didn't see this one on TV at all.

Canada is not factored into the Nielsen ratings they're reporting here. Strictly US.

[Porter's Dad]

The Showtime-Haymon-GBP alliance seems so fragile right now. A model where you poach and then pay Adonis Stevenson $2m for a fight against no-name opponent and then get much inferior ratings than HBO is not sustainable.

Wasn't the point of wildly overpaying Floyd to close the gap against HBO? Floyd is now halfway through the contract and Showtime are still lagging - and overpaying everyone else to boot.

Something has to give. Espinoza is going to be in deep **** soon.