Comments Thread For: SHO 6/21 Triple: Respectable Ratings For Incredible Action

[RSBonos]

I fully agree with this, and am the first to tell ppl to calm the eff down when they start with the "I thought boxing was dying?" sarcasm.

Boxing will never return to what it once was. I full believe its forever stuck as a niche sport. Those who get ****y towards main****** every time an event draws well fails to realize overall popularity continues to wane.

Showtime didn't necessarily bring in new fans to the sport last year, but rather "steal" the audience normally tuned in to HBO when they had most of the big names. That audience is now diminishing. Both networks are feeling it, on their flagship stations and in pay-per-view sales.

Showtime was doing record ratings last year so overall their numbers have never been huge and HBO is managing to do well despite a lack of star power. Although I think they might now include the pvr recording in their rating. More consistent numbers overall then a few years ago. This card had very little hype and the budget was a joke, but hey it delivered in action like you said.

[Mitchell Kane]

Adonis Stevenson vs Fonfara drew 800,000 viewers at it's peak. On Memorial Day weekend.

Those numbers don't look so bad now.

Another Haymon special.

Let's see how long this keeps up at SHO.

[NormC]

550K viewers= $1million dollars purse wowwwww while Kamegai earned just $75K..wow a joke..I think he'll get more fights on TV after that fight tho.

[deanrw]

I fully agree with this, and am the first to tell ppl to calm the eff down when they start with the "I thought boxing was dying?" sarcasm.

Boxing will never return to what it once was. I full believe its forever stuck as a niche sport. Those who get ****y towards main****** every time an event draws well fails to realize overall popularity continues to wane.

Showtime didn't necessarily bring in new fans to the sport last year, but rather "steal" the audience normally tuned in to HBO when they had most of the big names. That audience is now diminishing. Both networks are feeling it, on their flagship stations and in pay-per-view sales.

The next 2 or three years will be interesting, because the fighters themselves will keep expecting to get paid more than they are worth, Networks will not want to shell out as much, and the promoters stuck in contractual guarantees with fighters will keep looking to PPV as a way to recoup revenue. All that will do is help snuff out a flame barely left lit.

Fighters are going to have to start realizing the market is shrinking and their paydays will have to also to keep the sport, as a whole, alive on any network. For those who think that day is not possible, think again.

[oscar_angels091]

Attendance was 5,711, capacity for venue is around 8k

[Hougigo]

Id imagine that's pretty poor for a card well over $3 million.

Yea.....fighter purses were almost 3 million alone.....dang.

At least their next regular SHO show will do good... Danny Garcia brings the eyeballs

[_original_]

Seems like one big fail to me given how much they spent on it. The fights were pretty good so I can't complain on that aspect though. It's funny how the big winner of that card was Lomachenko who will now head back to HBO for his next fights.

[maguirre]

I'm sure a Guerrero vs Thurman would not have improved the numbers but jacked up the cost of the fight. And that's the danger for networks of overpaying fighters for fighting nobodies. Such fights (Thurman/Guerrero) may be attractive to hardcore fans, but not that much to casuals.

Showtime's expenses are going through the roof.

[AddiX]

ESPN Friday night fights gets better #s than this.

Showtime boxing doesn't know how to build stars, and it shows.

[AddiX]

This is what happened when haymon had pull at HBO. *****s like Dawson were banking 2 mill a fight for crap no one even tuned in to watch.

Now Showtime gets this mess. Haymon has to go.