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

[Chollo Vista]

1.089 million confirmed.

Why would Jake skew the numbers like that?

That's a few hundred thousand difference

[BrometheusBob.]

This is not about GGG this is about HBO, but those numbers are not good considering the Beyonce before the fight on top of HBO being Free for the Weekend, I expected MORE but it did less than his Monroe fight WTF?

This tells me that Boxing couldn't keep the Casual Audience from the Beyonce Stuff which is not good FOR THE SPORT IN GENERAL not just GGG and HBO

I would like to know what was the Ratings for the Beyonce stuff before that would be interesting to know

LMFAO at "Highest Rated Boxing Event Of 2016 ON HBO" talk about REACHING WTF?

How many of y'all even read the article??? It says the 1.325m average figure does NOT include non-subscribers who took advantage of the free weekend, and even that number is the most watched boxing event of 2016. Also the 1.325m figure is for the main event only if I understand it correctly.

[bigdunny1]

Not sure why you need two accounts

If you think I'm the same person as The Big Dunn you are an idiot. We lock horns a ton around here.

[Robbie Barrett]

Why would Jake skew the numbers like that?

That's a few hundred thousand difference

I don't know, maybe his source was wrong. I can't find any source other than steve kim reporting 1.3 million viewers.

[sicko]

Boxing Scene is in bag for Golovkin. They combined the numbers for his Murray fight.

It iss not really about GGG though, not sure why GGG Fans feel the need to defend him when it is not about him. IMO it is more so about the Sport of Boxing and how fans are happy with getting 1 Million when back in the day when HBO was in Less Homes Lennox Lewis, Holyfield, Prince Naseem, these guys use to draw MILLIONS not 1 Million+

Boxing in General no struggles to pull in 1 Million consistently and somehow fans think this is good and it makes their fighter a "A-Side Fighter"

[bigdunny1]

Golovkin vs Wade did 1.08. Boxing Scene is lying.

Yeah I just saw another source and the numbers don't add up. If it really did 1.08 then that's a pretty big dip from the 1.3mil he did his last HBO live fight (Monroe). Not terrible for HBO but not great for the GGG hype machine. Not sure why boxingscene are lying about the numbers thou SMH

[-Kev-]

Gennady "Golden Boy" Golovkin putting up those viewership numbers and selling those tickets.

[Eastcoast]

So it did those numbers going up against UFC ppv and NBA playoffs? Usually that's an excuse for why Showtime numbers are so poor. I'd love to see what the HBO free-views were, this show could've got anywhere from 2mill or more. Compare that to Spence/Algeri at 1.38k on NBC.

[bojangles1987]

Off topic but you hear what Game of Thrones did? That was the main purpose of the free HBO weekend.

I'm going to guess 9 million.

EDIT: Looked it up. I was close.

[Kagami Taiga]

Wait, where did these numbers come from if they are unconfirmed???