Ward on BET gets 325K viewers

[Fetta]

A channel i didnt even know still existed, hasnt fought in 19 months, fighting a tune up type guy, against Broner/Porter, against GBP led NDam/Lemiux, and still did 325K. I say thats not to shabby

[Larry the boss]

Why are you bringing Froch into this? What does he have to do with it? I'm Canadian! I'm not a Froch fan. You are an idiot, though!



But it was the only channel that would show the Ward fight, even with a time buy. That says a lot about his marketability.



The point is to show that there is no market for Ward. I do not have BET in my package but if it was a fight I wanted to see, I would have switched one of my channels I infrequently watch for BET for a month. If it had been a better fight, I certainly would have considered it.

People claim that there is nothing stopping a Ward - GGG fight. Well there is the proof they need... there is no money in it. Ward does not attract viewers. No one cares about him. He is certainly not an A side draw.

Lets just cut to the chase man,you are using this to say GGG should not fight Ward right???

[T18Z]

That's not what's going on here, this is a Golovkin fan who has nightmares about Ward fighting him, and spends a ridiculous amount of time trying to play Andre Ward off as irrelevant and terrible and someone who should retire.

I'm almost convinced at this point it's a Golovkin hater trying to make Golovkin fans look bad.

He's actually a good poster. IMO he's throwing support to the claim that Golovkin and Ward isn't financially viable because Ward appears to overvalue himself and what he brings in regards to fan viewership.

You're ignoring the point he was trying to make and sadly coming across as a bit of a "hater" in your post.

[Larry the boss]

People claim that there is nothing stopping a Ward - GGG fight. Well there is the proof they need... there is no money in it. Ward does not attract viewers. No one cares about him. He is certainly not an A side draw.

How much money was in Willie Monroe man?? come on with the not enough money stuff

[i'm a fun haver]

Women's FIFA and NCAA baseball did better

[MRBOOMER]

You are making a lot of excuses, BET had its highest ratings last year

http://www.thewrap.com/chris-rock-bet-awards-7-9-million-viewers/

The problem aint BET, the problem is Andre Ward and his marketability. They had a lot of celeb endorsements and radio interviews in the lead up to this fight

Ward was on The View and Sway in the Morning, etc.

BLACK ENTERTAINMENT TELIVSION
BLACK AWARD SHOW WITH THE MOST FAMOUS PEOPLE IN AFRICAN AMERICAN CULTURE ITS THE ****ING GARAMMYS AND OSCARS FOR BLACK PEOPLE. Of course it's gonna pull those numbers on something like that. Everything else gets **** numbers mmh I wonder why...

[Larry the boss]

He's actually a good poster. IMO he's throwing support to the claim that Golovkin and Ward isn't financially viable because Ward appears to overvalue himself and what he brings in regards to fan viewership.

You're ignoring the point he was trying to make and sadly coming across as a bit of a "hater" in your post.

So Cotto should not fight GGG then right since he has never fought on ppv or any world champions?

[Crazylegs77]

I don't think anyone other than Andre expected much more than that.


http://espn.go.com/boxing/story/_/id...9-month-layoff

So he got 0.004 % of a potential 90 million viewers.

2 million for that sounds like a great investment. Roc Nation knows what they doin.

[King Jaffe Joffer]

Quite frankly, I'm shocked it did that many. I didn't think it could crack 25k

[The Big Dunn]

Fans that claim to want to see the best fight the best shouldn't care how poor the ratings are for this fight.

We know Ward is one of the 2 or 3 best fighters in the world. We know GGG said he would fight anyone from 154-168. We know Cotto and Canelo are not going to fight GGG this year.

A sides make fights happen so why doesn't GGG, the A side, just go to HBO and ask them to make the Ward fight happen?