Comments Thread For: Alvarez-Kirkland Most Viewed Cable Bout Since 2006

[Scipio2009]

Ah, in that case May/Pac may have given a strong lead in, but over a million more people tuned in for Canelo afterwards. Star power legit.

Alvarez's starpower is definitely legit (putting 40,000 into the Alamodome basically confirmed that for me; performing strong enough as the promotional B-side of Mayweather-Alvarez, helping in pushing that event past the old record cemented that).

Still, you move Alvarez-Kirkland back a week, or just pull the Mayweather-Pacquiao lead-in, and the audience for Alvarez-Kirkland pretty comfortably loses ~1m homes viewing the fight (crossover between the two audiences will cut that projection a bit, but there is definitely a more casual boxing audience that likely had no reason to tune in for the Alvarez fight had it not been for Mayweather-Pacquiao being on just before).

Is Alvarez's next fight going to be on PPV if not against Cotto? I doubt it.

[jas]

Lmao at the pathetic butthurt Floyd fans

Man, my opinion of them has worsened over the years

[Scipio2009]

If Cotto v Canelo is made for Sept, would Mayweather try and push them off the date with a match vs Kahn?

I honestly don't think Mayweather can make a match in Sept that can push Cotto v Canelo off their set date

Yes, because every PPV operator (Comcast/DirectTV/Dish/TWC/ATTUverse/etc) will see the 'swan song' fight for Floyd Mayweather Jr, the sport's current PPV superstar (even if it's Mayweather-Khan) and then see Cotto-Alvarez, another good fight between two of the top four PPV stars in the sport (distant #3 and #4 if we're honest) and make the logical decision ....

Take their 40% share off of the significantly larger PPV event in Mayweather-Khan (can basically plug in 3-4 other names here), and hopefully get Golden Boy/RNS/HBO to push Cotto-Alvarez back to November/December, so that they can get another 40% off of a solid PPV event (that likely ends up doing 70% of what the final Mayweather fight ends up doing)

[Scipio2009]

Holy **** haters have been demolished

1.18m is likely the average number for the Mayweather-Pacquiao re-air; 2.15m was the average for Alvarez-Kirkland.

The blurb offers no breakdown of the actual viewer trends; unless the belief is that folks tuned in and then left the channel as the fight went on, there's a distinct likelihood that more than 1.18m viewers were watching HBO before the Alvarez-Kirkland fight.

From whatever that number was Alvarez-Kirkland went from that point to about 2.3m viewers at their own peak (to end up averaging 2.15m).

would hold onto the tongue next time.

[.:: JSFD26 ::.]

Watch Canelo get all the credit while totally ignoring the fact that Mayweather-Pacquiao was on right before his fight. Lol

[Mitchell Kane]

Still, you move Alvarez-Kirkland back a week, or just pull the Mayweather-Pacquiao lead-in, and the audience for Alvarez-Kirkland pretty comfortably loses ~1m homes viewing the fight

So Canelo's first fight back on HBO is only going to do Kovalev-Pascal numbers without May-Pac replay?

What a joke.

[Scipio2009]

Nothing new there...

Showtime gets Deontay Wilder, American heavyweight and WBC Heavyweight Champion, on their airwaves within the next 6 -7 weeks. (Basically the American audience equivalent of the type of fighters that thrill the Mexican fight audience)

If that fight ends up doing near 2m viewers on it's own, I'd hope that you would remember to sing the praise of Deontay Wilder as well.

[THEFRESHBRAWLER]

Alvarez's starpower is definitely legit (putting 40,000 into the Alamodome basically confirmed that for me; performing strong enough as the promotional B-side of Mayweather-Alvarez, helping in pushing that event past the old record cemented that).

Still, you move Alvarez-Kirkland back a week, or just pull the Mayweather-Pacquiao lead-in, and the audience for Alvarez-Kirkland pretty comfortably loses ~1m homes viewing the fight (crossover between the two audiences will cut that projection a bit, but there is definitely a more casual boxing audience that likely had no reason to tune in for the Alvarez fight had it not been for Mayweather-Pacquiao being on just before).

Is Alvarez's next fight going to be on PPV if not against Cotto? I doubt it.

44,000 people in the Alamodome and couldn't even crack 3million from gate

[THEFRESHBRAWLER]

Lmao at the pathetic butthurt Floyd fans

Man, my opinion of them has worsened over the years

48-0 deal with it

[SlySlickSmooth]

HBO licking their chops for a Canelo vs Golvokin after Canelo whoops Cotto.