Ward on BET gets 325K viewers

[Fetta]

'Big Mama's House 2' is on next Saturday. I bet that gets more viewers.

They made a part 2!!!!!

[ИATAS]

Also, I think this means Leimeux vs N'dam didn't even make the top 100.

Golden Boy dropped the ball big time for this fight. It was on what channel, Fox Sports 2? Most people don't even know they have that channel if they do. A good fight like that certainly deserved to be on a bigger network with actual promotion behind it.

[bigjavi973]

stop being obtuse. as has been explained repeatedly in this thread and others like it, the fight won't happen because it's not profitable yet. i'm not in the business of making excuses - i'd be happy to see the fight tomorrow - i'm merely trying to explain the actual material reasons that the fight can't take place right now

k2 and golovkin already agreed to face ward once, so you can drop the talk about them being afraid. ward still hasn't refuted golovkin's accusation that he declined the fight, so we can assume that it was true, which means that by your logic andre ward is the one who's scared

Look I dont really care what excuses ya fans make. No fucking way will I respect someone who is a "killer" and is always complaining that its hard to get fights, to start using that high risk/low reward scenario bullshit. Fuck that. He hasn't done shit in boxing yet to even be suggested of such a stance.

And I don't even blame GGG. I blame his dumbass trainer sanchez who did the same exact shit with another one of his fighters. They were begging, begging and talking all that shit that no one wants to fight their guy blah blah blah 56 wins with 50 kos blah blah blah... and then his fighter got KTFO

[The Gambler1981]

Golden Boy dropped the ball big time for this fight. It was on what channel, Fox Sports 2? Most people don't even know they have that channel if they do. A good fight like that certainly deserved to be on a bigger network with actual promotion behind it.

Will never get why HBO didn't want that fight, or that it couldn't be shuffled a week or two in either direction to find a date that worked for HBO.


It was like a classic BAD sort of fight and it is not like they have't featured Lemieux.

[bigjavi973]

yes. Posters like Barcham and Meetzche understand the profitability argument, but will not discuss it outside of GGG winning and HBO making money.

Loss of investment is also related to profitability, they just choose not to discuss that.

Word. They are on some titiri, retarted levels when it comes to that.

[Eastcoast]

Essentially, these #'s show that even hardcore fans didn't care all that much. I honestly thought that it would do better, since Ward has done good #'s on HBO. What were the #'s for Lemieux/N'Dam? I doubt they were any better.

“Roc Nations Sports” 323K on BET Saturday night from 10p-midnight. “Golden Boy on FOX” 163K on FS2 from 10p-12:22a https://t.co/ZvKR1pMMg7

— Sports TV Ratings (@SportsTVRatings) June 23, 2015

GB dropped the ball not securing any tv until 2 weeks before the fight and then being stuck with FS2, which many people don't have. Also hearing the ticket sales weren't as good as I initially heard - only about 5,000 and Canadian ppv might not have been so hot either.

[deanrw]

The Lemieux fight had to do worse. From the looks of everyone trying to find a link, I did some Math, Hard Math, Einstein Level Complicated Math and came to the conclusion that FoxSportsNet 2 is only available in 11 homes.

[Barcham]

This right here. Its possible. Does HBO have confidence?

No, they have no confidence at all that anyone will tune in for a Ward fight. Not to mention that Golovkin has repeatedly stated that HE WILL NOT MOVE UP FOR ANYTHING OTHER THAN A PPV FIGHT. People seem to be very willing to ignore the fact that Golovkin must fight in a higher division which is not to his advantage. How about if the fight is on regular HBO that Ward comes down to 160 instead? That seems fair to me. It's a good trade off.

[The Big Dunn]

you yourself agreed that golovkin was the a-side. he's not going to accept paul smith money for the privilege of fighting ward. being the b-side, maybe ward should lower his price tag (but we all know he won't do that)

ok, he can do that as well. the point is rather than all the BS, why not be honest and admit this isn't a PPV level fight.

It's an HBO fight. Maybe if HBO hadn't used all its platforms to downplay the fight, it might have a better chance to be profitable and excite fans more.

Did you ever consider that?

[JJRod]

The numbers mean that out of a possible 90 million viewers, only 325 thousand decided to bother tuning in.

I understand that part. But what I don't know was what were Roc Nations goals for this fight? Did they expect to do about 325K? Were they aiming at 500K, or 700K? Or was 325K about what they expected?

Again numbers are meaningless unless we understand what the goals for it were. I'm sure Roc Nation wasn't expecting 10 million viewers