Less than 700K viewers for Lemiuex - Stevens on HBO?

[BucaRican]

Well besides the poor promotion. UFC had a Card on free tv.

[Jerzdevil21]

700K viewers for a fight with nothing on the line between two fighters who lost to GGG, not too shabby actually. Considering HBO isn't free. Had it been on network television I'm not sure it does much better since neither of them are household names or have established a fanbase of their own.

[Mequetrefe]

Thats respectable considering the werent big names and the stinker that happened before the main event.

[snoopymiller]

700K viewers for a fight with nothing on the line between two fighters who lost to GGG, not too shabby actually. Considering HBO isn't free. Had it been on network television I'm not sure it does much better since neither of them are household names or have established a fanbase of their own.

Rumor is LESS than 700K lol.

That means it could be 300K viewers.

In any case, it's obvious this fight would have done MASSIVELY better on NBC or FOX.

[DoktorSleepless]

It got 606k viewers.

http://www.showbuzzdaily.com/articles/showbuzzdailys-top-150-saturday-cable-originals-network-finals-3-11-2017.html

[boxinggod101]

This fight was a PPV in Canada... Stevens has no following and most Lemieux fans had to pay to see the fight

[Derranged]

People just hatin on slick Frenchmen..

[Jerzdevil21]

Rumor is LESS than 700K lol.

That means it could be 300K viewers.

In any case, it's obvious this fight would have done MASSIVELY better on NBC or FOX.

Honestly, who really cares? They wouldn't have gotten paid any more money to fight on PBC, not at their level. Thurman and Garcia were two of the top welters and they only got $2M each. That should have been a big PPV event had they been managed properly by Haymon. Big fail and the fight was a flop.

[-Kev-]

It was an ESPN fight at best. A top 10 guy vs a non top 10 guy with some minor titles on the line. That's the type of fight PBC would get ragged on for putting on CBS for free.

Lemiuex vs Stevens are the types of fights HBO WCB will put on. Decent-good will be grouped together and put on PPV. I remember when decent/good matches were on WCB, and only some good/great one's were on PPV.

[Jsmooth9876]

Imagine if it had been on FOX or NBC?

The fight itself cost less than $600k to make. Easily affordable by PBC and would have gotten over 2 million viewers easily.

Not at 11pm it wouldn't have. That was way too fking late to start a card.