Comments Thread For: Spence-Brook Peaked at 337K Viewers; Averaged 291K on Showtime

[OSCARINA]

this was a uk fight for a uk audience. Showtime just picked it up because it was a solid fight. All they spent was the $ to fly their crew over.

they promoted this fight a little bit but spence and brook are not known to many fans outside the hardcare fan base.... Spence needs to beat some american names to gain some more casual american fans... I doubt porter or berto would fight spence so it will be hard for him to build his name until he fights thurman...

[uniquehump]

Yeah, it came on too early for me. Me and my girl was out and about the entire day, so I watched it the next morning. It was hard not viewing my text messages and automatic news feeds on my phone for the whole day because I didn't want to know who won before seeing the fight for myself. It was a beautiful day too in Detroit, MI too. Too nice of a day to be watching a fight. Fights should come on at night, but I understand the different time zones makes it difficult sometimes.

[Boxing Logic]

Peterson? Hell no! Could barely beat Felix Diaz! Couldn't even beat Khan in reality despite being on PEDs! Unless he's back on PEDs, what's the point, and even then he still hasn't proven he can beat anyone legitimately! Matthysse knocked him out! Would Matthysse-Spence be competitive? No! So why the fook would Spence-Peterson?

Either Mikey Garcia, Terence Crawford, Keith Thurman, Shawn Porter, Danny Garcia, Manny Pacquiao, Floyd Mayweather, or any of the 154 champs would be good fights. That's like 10 different options they have, but they want to bring up Lamont ****ing Peterson? Are you ****ing kidding me? Even Amir Khan would be better than that.

DEAR STEVEN ESPINOZA, AS A SHOWTIME SUBSCRIBER, I DO NOT WANT TO SEE PETERSON VS TOP GUYS SINCE HE'S PROVEN HE CAN'T LEGITIMATELY BEAT ANY OF THEM EVEN WHEN HE'S ON SYNTHETIC TESTOSTERONE. PLEASE DO NOT MAKE THAT FIGHT. THERE ARE PLENTY OF GOOD OPTIONS, PETERSON IS NOT ONE OF THEM.

[Jsmooth9876]

I don't give a fk about ratings but my question is how long does showtime keep putting up big money for boxing when their numbers are horrific. Not just for this show but a lot,of their Saturday night shows do 300-600 k ratings which are not good at all.

They should just put all the big fights on CBS at this point if they want ad revenue and viewers tuning in.

[AL_Camino]

Yeah, it came on too early for me. Me and my girl was out and about the entire day, so I watched it the next morning. It was hard not viewing my text messages and automatic news feeds on my phone for the whole day because I didn't want to know who won before seeing the fight for myself. It was a beautiful day too in Detroit, MI too. Too nice of a day to be watching a fight. Fights should come on at night, but I understand the different time zones makes it difficult sometimes.

Yea I'm the same when it comes to avoiding feds and text. I warn frI ends not to spoil it by accident. I always **** up somehow though lol

[OSCARINA]

i like the spence peterson match up

peterson is a known doper i hope they make him do vada

[uniquehump]

I don't give a fk about ratings but my question is how long does showtime keep putting up big money for boxing when their numbers are horrific. Not just for this show but a lot,of their Saturday night shows do 300-600 k ratings which are not good at all.

They should just put all the big fights on CBS at this point if they want ad revenue and viewers tuning in.

From what I'm reading, this wasn't really a Showtime fight. It was PPV fight in England and they did the majority of the promotion and Showtime just picked it up. I don't know and don't really care, but that's just what some people are posting.

To be honest, people just wasn't watching a fight at 5pm on Memorial Day Weekend. I rode past the park and it was thousands celebrating at the park and when I got on the highway, it was a traffic jam on I-75 going up north in Michigan for the long Holiday weekend. Good thing I was going South on I-75. lol. I had to watch this fight the next day because me and my girl was enjoying the day. There was a lot going on that day. That would be like putting Canelo vs. Chavez Jr. on at 5pm. During that weekend there was all kinds of stuff going on during the day. Not many people going to miss the Cinco De Mayo parades for a fight, regardless of race and ethnicity. These are the kinds of fights that people love to watch after a day of partying, eating and drinking and want to end it with a night of watching boxing, eating and drinking.

[Jsmooth9876]

From what I'm reading, this wasn't really a Showtime fight. It was PPV fight in England and they did the majority of the promotion and Showtime just picked it up. I don't know and don't really care, but that's just what some people are posting.

To be honest, people just wasn't watching a fight at 5pm on Memorial Day Weekend. I rode past the park and it was thousands celebrating at the park and when I got on the highway, it was a traffic jam on I-75 going up north in Michigan for the long Holiday weekend. Good thing I was going South on I-75. lol. I had to watch this fight the next day because me and my girl was enjoying the day. There was a lot going on that day. That would be like putting Canelo vs. Chavez Jr. on at 5pm. During that weekend there was all kinds of stuff going on during the day. Not many people going to miss the Cinco De Mayo parades for a fight, regardless of race and ethnicity. These are the kinds of fights that people love to watch after a day of partying, eating and drinking and want to end it with a night of watching boxing, eating and drinking.

I didn't watch it live either, I was at a wedding all night. Just sayin though, show times numbers have been pretty bad. I just hope they stay committed to boxing and don't go down the road HBO has gone.

[j.razor]

Not to great for such great match up between two top Welters,Joshua did a whole of a lot better,still we can't forget what hour it was broadcasted in the states,but Joshua and Klitschko did much better around the same hour

You right, being in the states they should of also count & add the replay they had that evening.

[kiaba360]

All of Spence's fights need to be on free TV.