Lomachenko is another overpaid HBO boxer does not even crack 900k on HBO!

[BM dnobagaV]

Larry, it wasn't a good fight.

I was practically ringside... It wasn't a good fight until the last round.
The undercard was great though.

Walters did legitimately nothing in the fight besides one head shot and a body shot.

[BM dnobagaV]

Honestly, they did a pizz pour job with the whole event. The damned thing didn't start until around eleven o'clock in my neck of the woods and the crowd was very uninspired, probably from drowsiness over waiting so long. I can definitely see more people watching an afternoon fight.

Yeah, I thought it would end at maybe 7:30.. Ended closer to 10. Four hour drive from Vegas to LA, ended up getting home at 2.

[AD86]

It was never going to do big numbers. That's why I said back in May or June, during the first time they tried to negotiate with Walters, that you can't pay both of them $1M each. People were outraged by the split and were demanding it should be split evenly and both fighters should make 850K each or 1M each and there just isn't that kind of money in this type of weight class with these two fighters. Walters last fight with Sosa did around 300K viewers on HBO and Lomachenko's last fight with Roman Martinez avg. 585K viewers. On the bright side you could say that 715K or w/e this fight got, is an improvement. But these low numbers are what you should expect from these two fighters.

Not a bad improvement and as hes only had 8 fights most casual fans still won't know who he is, which will explain the talk from Arum about a possible Pac fight. I would imagine his viewing figures will start to rise fairly quickly now as more people start to listen to the hype.

[HanzGruber]

It was a damn good fight Loma put on a show

Man that fight ***in ****** lol. I was pissed I stayed up for it with ***in pneumonia

[Motorcity Cobra]

Boxing will get better if the network budgets increase.

Ratings like this will not convince HBO execs to increase the boxing budget.

That's why this rating is concerning as a boxing fan.

But the ratings were good before they cut the budget. The ratings are because of the lower budget

[Pigeons]

Pretty pathetic that it did less than the lead-in when the lead-in was a week-old replay.

[Humean]

Once again the American public prove to be a discerning lot....

[HeroBando]

But the ratings were good before they cut the budget. The ratings are because of the lower budget

Showtime is spending more than ever and their ratings are far worse than HBO's. Their best rating of the year is like 500k?

[Motorcity Cobra]

Showtime is spending more than ever and their ratings are far worse than HBO's. Their best rating of the year is like 500k?

Because Showtime damn near took a year off when PBC was formed and the lost the two biggest stars in boxing, Floyd and Canelo. Now they have to rebuild. Look at Showtime ratings in 2014.

[Kagami Taiga]

It was a damn good fight Loma put on a show

That was not a fight for casuals to watch. It was a great performance by Loma. I agree. But it was a one sided quit job.