Comments Thread For: Golovkin-Wade Registers As Most-Watched Cable TV Fight of 2016

[Æthelstan]

Steve "lil" Kim caught with her pants down... again.

you are wrong

Steve Kim was correct

1.325M is correct. It appears that Showbuzz Daily does not report segments that last less than 10 minutes and I confused the post fight segment with the actual fight.

Sports TV ratings is reporting 1.325M. I apologize for the misinformation. Great rating for Golovkin.

http://sportstvratings.com/clippers-...-23-2016/4855/

[Herr Schmeling]

So Herr Schmeling is full of ****; good to know

No, you're just ****** and can't do the math. Average ticket price was above 200 $, so it's no rocket science.

[Bardock]

Thank you for big drama show GGG (OG)

You're thankful as a fan for that fight?

[ShoulderRoll]

Didn't Spence vs Algieri peak at 1.482 million viewers?

[BrometheusBob.]

You're thankful as a fan for that fight?

GGG-Dwayne Wade for fight of the year

[Bardock]

GGG-Dwayne Wade for fight of the year

LOL *Snoop Frog on Thanksgiving* "I'm thankful for Golovkin knocking out Wade"

[TudorMiron]

That's what he chooses to fight on, I don't see the problem there. Only reason it's a hot topic atm is because of the WBC belt.

But, as you know, titles don't matter when it comes to cash cows.

Really? 154 is what he chooses? When was last time when this disgrace to Mexican boxing was fighting at 154lb? We all know that this scared kid is fighting small guys in his own 155lb weight class.

[BrometheusBob.]

Didn't Spence vs Algieri peak at 1.482 million viewers?

Yes, but on NBC. 1.482 not huge for network TV. Still, this means there were a fair number of eyeballs on Spence blowing out an experienced B level fighter, so that should mean good things for Spence going forward.

[HeroBando]

Didn't Spence vs Algieri peak at 1.482 million viewers?

Yes, on NBC, which is a disaster

[Scipio2009]

The ticket prices for Ward-barrera were : $300, $150, $100, $50 and $25

The ticket prices for Golovkin-Wade were: $400, $300, $200, $100, $60 and $30

Considering they are practically similar ticket prices and Golovkin is destroying Ward in attendance, in California btw which is beyond embarrassing, lets you know who is who.

Plus these current ratings pretty much confirm that.

-Ward-Barrera was only staged in the lower bowl of Oracle Arena; the $25 ticket never actually went on sale for the fight
-SoCal and NorCal are clearly different boxing markets
-K2 originally only planned on staging Golovkin-Wade in the 12k seat setup that they had for Golovkin-Wade; the extra 4500 tickets sold were likely all $30 tickets.

Attendance is one thing and I don't have the numbers to confirm my thoughts, but I'm fairly certain that Golovkin-Wade didn't sell $1m in tickets and I doubt that Golovkin-Wade did more than $800k at the live gate.

Saul Alvarez was able to put ~40k people into a baseball stadium, selling $15 tickets, for a live gate of ~$3.5m for Alvarez-Kirkland; Mayweather-Berto had ~13,500 in attendance, but did $10m at the gate.

If Mayweather and Alvarez were to sit and negotiate a fight, I think it'd be fair to assume that all parties would look at the gate numbers and not the number of bodies in the building.