Comments Thread For: Crawford-Lundy HBO Headliner Averages 982,000 Viewers

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Terence Crawford's one-sided 5th round stoppage of Hank Lundy made for an emphatic debut appearance at a sold-out Madison Square Garden Theatre in New York City. However, the perceived mismatch not only played out as expected on paper, but also suffering slightly in the ratings department on a busy sports night.
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[R_Walken]

The writer made a lot of exuses for the #s

Bottom line is they suck even for HBo standards

[NEETzsche]

The writer made a lot of exuses for the #s

Bottom line is they suck even for HBo standards

they're only slightly below average, and there was a competing showtime card. plus crawford isn't a big TV draw and his opponent was uninspiring

the number is fine

now, showtime on the other hand...

[.!WAR MIKEY!.]

not bad giving the amount of cards that were going on.

[R_Walken]

they're only slightly below average, and there was a competing showtime card. plus crawford isn't a big TV draw and his opponent was uninspiring

the number is fine

now, showtime on the other hand...

For HBO standards this isn't a good number spin it and make excuses all you want

[Eastcoast]

So next weekend they'll have competing shows once again, except this time they'll both be going up against a massive UFC ppv.

[Cinci Champ]

ouch the ratings for both were terrible. i expected showtime to do bad numbers they have not had enough good fights for boxing fans to keep the network but i expected crawford lundy to do better then they did.

boxing is in a dangerous place right now and these networks and promoters are not making competitive enough fights to keep up the interest of the casual fan.

[Cinci Champ]

one things for sure tho showtime is going to have to pony up and start making fights again or their numbers are going to keep diminishing cause aint no one paying 10 or 15 a month for showtime when they are hardly making any fights.

make of it what u will but with showtime struggling and most big fights going to pbc and hbo cutting their budget its looking more and more like fights are going to slowly come to regular tv.

very weird things going on in boxing right now

[Teetotaler]

Not bad numbers at all. Competed against a popular Santa Cruz fight and a basketball game with pretty much the most popular guy in the nba right now (Curry)

[NEETzsche]

Not bad numbers at all. Competed against a popular Santa Cruz fight and a basketball game with pretty much the most popular guy in the nba right now (Curry)

yeah, i don't see how this is "terrible" at all. it's only like 100k off target