Comments Thread For: Wilder-Washington Peaked at 1.86 Million Viewers; Averaged 1.76M

[The Big Dunn]

I think this is a good number for a Wilder at the top card.

IMO Wilder is not a boxer people love to watch. Despite being a champion he is raw, lacking skill, but has the one hitter quitter that always makes him able to change the dynamic of a fight at an instant. He was in with another unknown guy.

frankly, I enjoyed the 1st 2 fights much more than I did the Wilder fight. Lets hope Thurman/Garcia doubles this at a minimum.

[Butch.McRae]

These numbers are fine for Wilder...I've said it dozens of times on this forum. He doesn't have a base. US fans are very skeptical of heavyweights. Just look at his numbers in comparison to the other PBC main events on network tv. All of those other events are right in line with UFC on Fox numbers(since the launch of PBC), whereas Wilder's numbers are consistently lower.

[-DSG-]

It averaged 1.86 million and peaked at 2.57 mil.

[Andrij]

That's pretty ****ing good, I guess heavyweight championship bouts still have a meaning

In a country of 300+ Mio inhabitants thats very poor.Klitschko´s fights in 80 Mio Germany made 10-12 Mio viewers on free tv.

[Boxing Logic]

Yikes. Some HBO shows have done better than that. Terrible ratings for Fox. Wilder needs to fight someone good people are sick of his cherry picks. It's why I didn't watch.

[BoxingFan85]

That's pretty impressive numbers..

[NahMean]

America's own HW can crack 2 million views but Haye (A brit) got 3 million in the US.. Sad.


But these numbers are decent.

[Kigali]

America's own HW can crack 2 million views but Haye (A brit) got 3 million in the US.. Sad.

Save your sadness for when Wilder baptizes AJ's slow-motion ass.

[techliam]

1.76 million average for the UNDERCARD. we don't have the numbers for the actual main event yet because it didn't occur in the 8-10 window.

klitschko-fury did 1 million viewers btw. i expect wilder-washington to have done over 2 million. so i'm not sure why that's a bad thing for boxing to have so many new viewers checking out the sport.

Purely American context for your argument regarding Klitschko-Fury. The US wasn't the primary target audience. Keeping that in mind, 1.7 million viewers isn't that bad, for a fight in Germany which started much earlier for Americans. The overall viewers for Klitschko-Fury including German RTL viewers, and the 500k (PPV) British viewers would be far far higher.

Seems like comparing apples to oranges to me.

[Kigali]

I think this is a good number for a Wilder at the top card.

IMO Wilder is not a boxer people love to watch. Despite being a champion he is raw, lacking skill, but has the one hitter quitter that always makes him able to change the dynamic of a fight at an instant. He was in with another unknown guy.

frankly, I enjoyed the 1st 2 fights much more than I did the Wilder fight. Lets hope Thurman/Garcia doubles this at a minimum.

He's the most exciting fighter in the division by far.