Comments Thread For: Golovkin a Hit in The Ring, But Moves Backwards In Ratings

[bojangles1987]

Dan Rafael @danrafaelespn 2m
Per Nielsen, #GolovkinGeale averaged 984k viewers (less than 3 rds though) on HBO for live airing. 1.048M peak. 8th most viewed fight of '14

Well, now I'll wait, I guess. That's still not great, but much better.

[Nay_Sayer]

Also means Team GGG can drop the "makes no financial sense" BS about a Ward fight.

To be completely honesty, it *doesn't* make financial sense to fight Ward with respect to Golovkin's marketability. Sure, a Ward Golovkin fight will sell well. However, the fight would be so one sided and the beating Ward would lay on Golovkin so severe that Triple Duck's ability to earn in future fights would be negatively impacted. In short, it makes more sense financially for Golovkin to continue beating up on TOMATO CANs for as long as HBO is willing to finance the Triple Duck side-show. Getting beat down and KTFO by Andre Ward puts a serious damper on that...

[deanrw]

Summer ratings from 2013.

Mikey Garcia-Juan Manuel Lopez: 1.3 million
HBO, June 15

Bud Crawford-Alejandro Sanabria: 1.1 million
HBO, June 15

Gennady Golovkin-Matthew Macklin: 1.1 million
HBO, June 29

Chad Dawson-Adonis Stevenson: 1.0 million
HBO, June 8

July and August are generally poor ratings months. Those are the vacation months for many. As i said in another post after that though. It is still poor even taking summer into account. It had little more than half as many viewers from his last one

[DoktorSleepless]

Summer ratings from 2012

Chavez Jr.-Andy Lee, June 16, HBO, 1.4 million
Adrien Broner-Vicente Escobedo, July 21, HBO, 1.4 million
Danny Garcia-Amir Khan, July 14, HBO, 1.3 million

[Godsfly]

Fighting subpar fighters over the last several years isn't going to boost your ratings. GGG bet opponent thus far is Curtis Stevens whose and undersized MW. That simple will not due for the fans even if you're high on GGG. Promotional wars a side they have to find a way for GGG to actually fight somebody whose world class caliber.

i thought geale was decent.......but maybe his fight with barker had people saying this guy has absolutely no hope (he looked horrible in that fight) people are looking at this & are saying "i no longer care about the ko because the division is just so weak" hints his ratings dropping. hbo has done everything in their power to boost him and promote him to the fans but people will naturally stop caring if they don't get golovkin A good opponent. now he will be fighting sam solimon? thats even worse..............people are fed up. they want groves, froch, ward, bika. anyone thats challenging. he's ready. no one wants to see sam solimon...........

[The Big Dunn]

This is very true, but from what I read the cheap tickets sold great and the dumbass priced $500 - $1000 didn't. Maybe in that sense it wasn't great, but no one in their right mind pays $500 for any ticket to any event. Especially if it isn't PPV or notable fight.

which I think is the main point-GGG is not at a point where he can sell out an arena as the main attraction. Also, maybe his fanbase doesn't want to or can't afford to pay arena prices outside of the cheap seats.

I watched and will continue to watch. That said, GGG is not the Undertaker and this isn't WWE. His "streak" is not something fans are going to continue pay to see unless a 1 or 2 of the KO's comes against far better fighters.

[bojangles1987]

Now post ggg and wards last 5 fights

Golovkin/Stevens averaged 1.4 million.

Golovkin/Macklin averaged 1.1 million.

Golovkin/Rosado did 800k.

Those are his only 3 relevant fights on HBO.

Couldn't find any ratings for Ward's fights with Rodriguez or Froch.

Ward/Dawson did 1.3 million.

[DoktorSleepless]

Summer ratings for 2011

June 4, 2011: (Julio Cesar Chavez Jr. vs. Sebastian Zbik) averaged 1.5 million viewers (P2+) watching Live + Same Day.

June 18, 2011: (Saul Alvarez vs. Ryan Rhodes) averaged 1.6 million viewers (P2+) watching Live + Same Day.

June 25, 2011: (Devon Alexander vs. Lucas Matthysse) averaged 952,000 viewers (P2+) watching Live + Same Day.

July 2, 2011: (Wladimir Klitschko vs. David Haye) averaged 1.2 million viewers (P2+) watching Live + Same Day.

July 9, 2011: (Paul Williams vs. Erislandy Lara) averaged 1.1 million viewers (P2+ ) watching Live + Same Day.

July 23, 2011: (Amir Khan vs. Zab Judah) averaged 1.4 million viewers (P2+) watching Live + Same Day.

[bojangles1987]

Summer ratings from 2012

Chavez Jr.-Andy Lee, June 16, HBO, 1.4 million
Adrien Broner-Vicente Escobedo, July 21, HBO, 1.4 million
Danny Garcia-Amir Khan, July 14, HBO, 1.3 million

Ratings seem to be down for almost everyone this year. Especially looking at what the same fighters were drawing in previous years.

[The Big Dunn]

To be completely honesty, it *doesn't* make financial sense to fight Ward with respect to Golovkin's marketability. Sure, a Ward Golovkin fight will sell well. However, the fight would be so one sided and the beating Ward would lay on Golovkin so severe that Triple Duck's ability to earn in future fights would be negatively impacted. In short, it makes more sense financially for Golovkin to continue beating up on TOMATO CANs for as long as HBO is willing to finance the Triple Duck side-show. Getting beat down and KTFO by Andre Ward puts a serious damper on that...

I completely understand what Team GGG was saying given where the sport is. I was just taken aback by a them saying it when they are not in position (from a financial standpoint) to act like that.

If GGG and his team are going to act like that, why get surprised if/when cotto/canelo/Floyd/many/Sergio/jcc jr all say that to him?