Comments Thread For: Wilder Homecoming Draws 678,000 Viewers For SHO

[bigdunny1]

Agree! If anything boxing doesn't come on ENOUGH compared to other sports!

The problem isn't too much boxing it's that it's hard to keep track of what channel and what time boxing is coming on. PBC comes on sat sometimes friday, Fox 1 comes on thursday, TruTV come on Friday, now BET on friday, Showtime Friday or Sat. Then for PBC you got like 5 different channels and the fights coming on anytime of the day. One card it's Noon, another it's 3pm another it's 8pm. It's difficult for Hardcore fans to keep track of all these different days and times. It's flat out impossible for new casual fans of the sport to keep track.

[Ray-boom]

I dropped Showtime they don't show much boxing anymore, and what they did show is now on PBC for free.

[mikinoki]

Anytime HBO and Showtime go head-to-head, the results are rarely favorable. Such was the case for the latest installment of Showtime Championship Boxing, which was topped by Deontay Wilder's 9th round knockout of fringe but game contender Eric Molina this past Saturday at Bartow Arena in Birmingham, Alabama.

The bout—Wilder's first in his home state since 2012, and the first ever heavyweight title fight to ever take place in Alabama—did big business at the box office, drawing a sold-out crowd of 9,347 at the University of Alabama Birmingham (UAB) campus, less than an hour from Wilder's hometown in Tuscaloosa.

It didn't quite resonate as much with the TV audience, drawing an average of 678,000 viewers over the course of the evening. [Click Here To Read More]

People were to busy watching the real heavyweight title fight...