Ward-Brand averages 742K viewers on HBO

[Kigali]

Not great. Unfortunately these aren't terrible numbers in context with most boxers these days. Just breaking a million anymore is noteworthy. Ward, Golovkin, and Canelo are the only HBO guys that can consistently do so.

Something is wrong with you.

[bojangles1987]

Something is wrong with you.

Dude, I'm not going to respond to your crap or get dragged into it. Stop trying.

[MDPopescu]

Not great. Unfortunately these aren't terrible numbers in context with most boxers these days. Just breaking a million anymore is noteworthy. Ward, Golovkin, and Canelo are the only HBO guys that can consistently do so.

... tbh, Ward is about boxing pundits, not about casuals...

... and yes: the numbers are somehow OK -- given the context and the level of opposition.

[j0zef]

Ward usually breaks a mill , but yeah this was a real bad fight that a lot of people didn't tune in on purpose. Still decent.

[Larry the boss]

Ward is making America great again

[Eastcoast]

Ward's a premier fighter and should be doing much higher than that, but August is a bad time of year for boxing.

I don't think the general audience could tell any difference going in between Brand and Barrera or even Edwin Rodriguez.

[Madison Boxing]

Terrible numbers.....97k PPV buys...now that's terrible.

cant compare PPV to hbo. just would have thought more americans would want to tune in to watch their golden boy ward, especially as it was such a good match up according to you lot.

[-PBP-]

I wasn't one of the 742K. I have yet to watch Ward's million dollar workout.

[Boxfan83]

Thats not bad considering LSC vs Frampton was almost less than half of that.

[TheCell8]

Ward 742K, Kovalev got like 320K in his last bout... this is going to bomb horribly on PPV. If the fight sucks as well, it will probably hurt both fighters careers going forward.

I'm going to predict it does about 150K PPV Buys if they're very lucky. Maybe a bit higher depending on how much they decide to promote it. But obviously the whole "P4P no.1 vs. P4P no.2" angle isn't working.