Comments Thread For: Carl Frampton-Leo Santa Cruz Had Ratings Peak of 549,000

[kiaba360]

Of course it would do better numbers on HBO. HBO has 8-9 million more subscribers than Showtime. It's not even a fair comparison.

This logic doesn't stop fans from comparing PBC to HBO. I don't think people understand that PBC is supposed to be bigger and better than HBO. The only thing HBO has over PBC is star power.

[HeroBando]

Of course it would do better numbers on HBO. HBO has 8-9 million more subscribers than Showtime. It's not even a fair comparison.

I mean prorated by the number of subscribers. So instead of doing 1.3x more, they're doing 2x or better

[Bronx2245]

Not good numbers! A lot of people missed an AWESOME fight! Where's the Crawford vs. Postol numbers? Did I miss that report?

[DoktorSleepless]

Uh ok. Whatever platform he's on he's doing Fnf numbers. Hey you know Lemieux vs Rosado did much better than Lara vs A side PWill on Hbo, and 2x Lara's second best?

Lara vs Williams did 1.1million, more than the Rosado fight. Lara fight's against Trout, Vanes 1, and Angulo all went up againt another boxing card on the respective competing network. His other recent fights have done Friday night fight numbers exactly because he's been fighting on Friday and in one case Wednesday. And like you said, numbers would have been much higher if he fought on HBO, but I guess he'll have to settle for being the second highest ratings draw on Showtime this year.

[HeroBando]

Lara vs Williams did 1.1million, more than the Rosado fight. Lara fight's against Trout, Vanes 1, and Angulo all went up againt another boxing card on the respective competing network. His other recent fights have done Friday night fight numbers exactly because he's been fighting on Friday and in one case Wednesday. And like you said, numbers would have been much higher if he fought on HBO, but I guess he'll have to settle for being the second highest ratings draw on Showtime this year.

http://www.badlefthook.com/2011/8/18/2370050/boxing-tv-ratings-nielsen-2011-hbo-showtime-espn-friday-night-fights

On July 9, HBO had a double-header with Paul Williams vs Erislandy Lara in the main event. At 10:16 there were 644,000 viewers; at 10:25 there were 789,000 viewers; and at 10:52 there were 940,000 viewers. That rounds out to an average of 791,000 viewers for the night. There's a reason besides the robbery of Lara that you never heard much more about that show from HBO.

http://www.boxingscene.com/lemieux-rosado-hbo-tripleheader-hit-with-viewers--85119

The bout marked the stateside debut for Lemieux, which registered well with the home audience as an average of 908,000 viewers tuned in for the main event.
The fight–which also marked Lemieux’s first appearance on HBO—peaked at more than 1.16 million viewers.

Not to mention all the ratings were higher in 2011, and PWill was bringing all the viewers.

[boxinghead530]

Thats pretty bad, but what do you expect its Showtime.

Showtime is just not that great of a channel when trying to pull in viewers. Its boxing which most of the time is very basic, their channel has no good programming.

[DoktorSleepless]

http://www.badlefthook.com/2011/8/18...y-night-fights

http://www.boxingscene.com/lemieux-rosado-hbo-tripleheader-hit-with-viewers--85119

Not to mention all the ratings were higher in 2011, and PWill was bringing all the viewers.

http://www.maxboxing.com/news/max-bo...-greenburg-era

After being provided the numbers from Nielsen...


July 9, 2011: “HBO Boxing After Dark” (Paul Williams vs. Erislandy Lara) averaged 1.1 million viewers (P2+ ) watching Live + Same Day

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Your Leimux number was also live + same day. That's the "average" number you always hear in stories. You're not comparing apples to apple.

[HeroBando]

http://www.maxboxing.com/news/max-bo...-greenburg-era
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Your Leimux number was also live + same day. That's also the "avenge" number you always hear in stories. You're not comparing apples to apple.

Great find man, bookmarked. Can always rely on you for first class research. So you've proven Pwill can beat Lemieux even with as Lara as B side, and offered a lot of excuses why Lara's A side numbers are so poor

[Vasyl’s dad]

Nobody cares but you nerds. Viewership has never changed the sport of boxing. I've seen all of the excuses as to why it matters, but really, it doesn't.