Wilder-Szpilka averages 500K viewers

[-PBP-]

Instead of marination, they should try more promotions.

Marination is a part of promotion. Every promoter is doing it right now. GGG/Canelo - marinating, Crawford/Postol - marinating, Lomachenko/Walters - marinating.

The losers could fight the losers and the winners could fight the winners. Hell if they're lucky some of those fights might be real good and people would demand/want a rematch. But if they are insisting on marinating it by putting them in against bums where the outcome is so clear there is no point of watching the fight then it just does more harm than help

Unfortunately boxing doesn't work that way. A loss is a HUGE set back to the fighter and the promoters investing in him. When you lose a fight, you hit rebuild mode and have to work your way back to the top.

Fans are not calling for these guys to fight someone elite EVERY fight out. Most fans understand marinating and are ok with a tough fight and then a stay busy fight then another tough fight. The problem with Haymon fighters is Khan has fought what 5 straight bums since Garcia almost 4 years ago. Thurman won a belt what 3 years ago? and still hasn't fought a single top ranked welterweight. And neither is because one guy is under one promoter and the other is not so you have boxing politics holding it back. All these guys under 1 camp and not fighting for years! That's not called marinating. That's called BS!

That's 100% Khan's fault. He held out in hopes of getting Floyd or Pac. Thurman fought Diego Chaves, Robert Guerrero and now Shawn Porter. That's respectable. The opposition of PBC fighters is no worse than your favorite fighters.

[Fetta]

Listen you boys/girls go ahead and think boxing is still very popular as it was back in the day. It is in a lul and there are no stars other than Canelo. NONE! Have said this before and with the rise of UFC/MMA it is going to struggle. So watch and be happy or wish for more of its downfall but im gonna watch.

[MrRolltide91]

The KO and Fury confrontation went viral.

2.9M views for the KO:
https://*************/watch?v=7xR6zKR0bTQ

1.2M views for the Fury confrontation:
https://*************/watch?v=JL7h72NigqE

Now that's pretty good

[BWC]

Sure they have a market. So does bull riding. I just don't see how either can affect boxing ratings. Those who were tuned in to WNBA more than likely weren't planning on watching the boxing match anyway!

I have an idea, let's post the ratings for the last 10 TR cards and stroke ourselves over Arum's impending bankruptcy!!!

[MrRolltide91]

I was just going to say, the Packers-Cardinals game was very close and competitive and went into overtime. Which I believe didn't end until like the 3rd or 4th round in the Wilder-Szpilka fight.

That played a huge factor in the numbers being so low.

Man aaron rodgers just thrown that hail mary right during the fight

[The Big Dunn]

Listen you boys/girls go ahead and think boxing is still very popular as it was back in the day. It is in a lul and there are no stars other than Canelo. NONE! Have said this before and with the rise of UFC/MMA it is going to struggle. So watch and be happy or wish for more of its downfall but im gonna watch.

THis is another area where Haymon and his associates dropped the ball.

Wilder should have been positioned to fill the void Floyd left. You should have paired him with Thurman and Santa Cruz. They really should have had a plan in place.

[North Star]

Man aaron rodgers just thrown that hail mary right during the fight

That was awesome! Too bad they took a dump and left Fitzgerald wide open twice in OT.

[Fetta]

Sure they have a market. So does bull riding. I just don't see how either can affect boxing ratings. Those who were tuned in to WNBA more than likely weren't planning on watching the boxing match anyway!

Championship game. Final game. The one where they put on schedule *if needed. Yeah it drew attention the moment it was announced. Sold ouy in 45 min

Reason i know friends watched cause they told me. It was blowing up twitter and facebook. If you watch other sports or Espn you knew of it

[LoadedWraps]

Showtime has fallen off a cliff.

DeGale-Bute averaged 269K.
Jacobs-Quillin averaged 386K.
Wilder-Szpilka averaged 500K.

These shows should be doing 1M minimum. It doesn't look like Mayweather or PBC has benefitted Showtime in the long term at all.

1 mil minimum? I am a hadcore boxing fan an I only watched two of those live, and I know for a fact none of those names are huge with casuals, maybe Bute locally in Canada...

I think your expectations for fringe contenders/paper champs are severely unrealistic.

[Deevel916]

I have an idea, let's post the ratings for the last 10 TR cards and stroke ourselves over Arum's impending bankruptcy!!!

Arums finances dont concern me nor do I care.

Speaking on bankruptcy, maybe you should be more concerned with Haymon blowing thru half of Wadell and Reed's half a billion dollar investment with zero results thus far.