Bob Arum lying about Chinese viewing figures AGAIN.

[davidandrei]

Arum sure is a damn liar. Everyone in boxing is a damn liar. This is nothing new and people should not be surprised and outraged or whatever.

Arum lying about 300million or 48 million or whatever. Ok sure that is totally believable. He wasn't even close to the actuals (3mil/2mil).

Now with that said, the guy is trying to dip into the Chinese market, he is actually getting a few million to watch his fights, china economy just recently passed U.S. economy. I don't claim to know everything about the fight game and all the related business aspects, but surely somewhere in there is a little bit of a win for Arum. Lets not be totally downers please.

[Beater_of_ass]

No you are doing the spinning

The actual number of people who tuned in to watch at least one minute of the fight from the mainland turned out, according to CSM Media Research, to be well below 2 million,

That was during the Shiming fight.

Also where did I say Arum was right about the 48 million? I'm sure he's full of **** but the link clearly states it was during the Zou Shiming fight and that Arum was full of **** as to how over he is over there.

[Eastcoast]

Arum said viewers, he likely estimated 150 people watching per tv.

[meme_man]

Arum is a joke. What was the point of lying? The PPV still flopped like james harden.

[MrRolltide91]

Lmao..........

[Pigeons]

2 million in a country of over 1.4 billion. Boxing ain't shit to the Chinese.

[1bad65]

The Macau fights are clearly making Arum ****** rich.

China is awashed with $$$$$$$$$$$$$$$

Exactly. If Arum wants to lie, he'd be smart to UNDERSTATE the numbers. China's economy is exploding like nothing we've ever seen. The world's biggest IPO was a Chinese company, and they've only recently allowed capitalism there. The 2 biggest casino's in the world are in China, despite the fact they just started building them over there while we've had Vegas for over 50 years.

Arum is many things, but not a fool. He sees China for what it is. Right now Arum is The Guy who puts on the biggest fights in China. Why would he claim to be making even more than he really did, knowing that's only going to encourage other promoters to start competing for the Chinese market that he pretty much has all for himself?

[Kagami Taiga]

2 million in a country of over 1.4 billion. Boxing ain't shit to the Chinese.

They don't. Boxing is not popular in China.theres no way u get 40million+ watching it. That's not even realistic

[JoeKidd]

In Arum's defense, that's 2 million homes! 20 odd per household, and you got your number!

[Kagami Taiga]

In Arum's defense, that's 2 million homes! 20 odd per household, and you got your number!

There aren't 20 ppl per household in china. That's asinine.