Comments Thread For: Ward's Return To HBO Averages 1.064 Million Viewers

[therealpugilist]

I understand how boxing works, but really I watch both fights and was not impressed.

Nobody cares too much who Ward faces unless Sergey next, he is just plain boring

watching a good fighter ko no names is boring to some...thats why GGG and SOG numbers are similar...apples and oranges....its obvious no one cares who GGG fights if its not a name....97k ppv is garbage numbers

they always do better numbers with better competition

[Cinci Champ]

not bad considering the basketball games and how active hes been. if he can just stay active he will be a star imo. you can tell his style is going to be more fan friendly at light heavyweight as well

[Slowhand]

What's up with you dudes needing to praise one man and in order to do so need to bash another one? Can't just give Ward props without acting like bit-ches do?

Very good question. It´s totally possible to have more than one good fighter to follow, sometimes even in the same division.. correct me if I´m wrong, I´m still learning.

[Larry the boss]

But considering Ward is american and GGG is kasachstan this are no good numbers for Ward. But im sure Ward vs. Kovalev makes mutch better numbers.

Not sure why nationality matters at all

[PittyPat]

Not a Ward fan myself, but I find it to be something very positive that a fighter with his style can still draw 1mil viewers. It's good for boxing, as a whole, when that amount of people tune in.

Whether you like an individual fighter or not, I would say be happy for anyone that gets non-PPV audiences watching; always a chance for new fans of the sport to be born.

[BillyBoxing]

and the exact same idiots just went from hating floyd/manny to ward/ggg...its hilarious

Don't act like you ain't part of them.

THIS would be hilarious.

[MDPopescu]

Not a Ward fan myself, but I find it to be something very positive that a fighter with his style can still draw 1mil viewers. It's good for boxing, as a whole, when that amount of people tune in.

Whether you like an individual fighter or not, I would say be happy for anyone that gets non-PPV audiences watching; always a chance for new fans of the sport to be born.

... me neither...
... but it's good to see that the U.S. fans support their top boxing fighters...

... and even if Ward fight Kovalev and loses, he will be the same highly (maybe the highest) skilled U.S. active boxer.

[kafkod]

The difference in what GGG avg's on HBO and what Ward just did is very minor. Yet the difference between what GGG avg's and Canelo's 2.2mil viewers last year against Kirkland is massive. The hypocrisy of you GGG fanboys is hilarious. GGG is a massive star compared to ward yet Canelo isn't compared to GGG? Face it GGG is closer to Ward then he is Canelo and all the numbers prove this.

So what? Is that what boxing is all about nowadays ... who gets the most viewers on US TV?

[PittyPat]

... me neither...
... but it's good to see that the U.S. fans support their top boxing fighters...

... and even if Ward fight Kovalev and loses, he will be the same highly (maybe the highest) skilled U.S. active boxer.

And don't get me wrong – I'd rather watch a Ward fight than 10 Santa Cruz fights where he throws 100 meaningless punches. I find the latter to be incredibly boring (hence why I skipped through most of Santa Cruz-Mares), but I guess that's what always pulls the most viewers. Ward-Barrera was a great display of pure boxing that isn't appreciated by all, yet it still pulled 1mil. Impressive.

With that said, I still find Ward to be an unlikeable dork whom I hope gets Krushed by Killa Kov.

[kafkod]

I understand how boxing works, but really I watch both fights and was not impressed.

Nobody cares too much who Ward faces unless Sergey next, he is just plain boring

But HBO need to know that Kovalev/Ward is going to sell on PPV, otherwise the fight's not happening.