Comments Thread For: Success Of Pacquiao-Horn Proves Boxing Is Still King

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By Corey Erdman - It's been said that boxing is the sport all others aspire to be. There are certainly elements of boxing that other sports are happy to not deal with, none moreso than the puzzling endings and controversy that judging can produce, as seen on Saturday in Brisbane. But the bout between Manny Pacquiao and Jeff Horn again displayed boxing's unique ability to create one-off events that can permeate the mainstream audience...
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[slimPickings]

For me every other sport is a distant second AFTER boxing. Pro or amateur.

I just wish the sport was not soooo full of controversies. More often than not what you see is not what you get.
The higher the stakes the greater the potential for controversies.

Go to an opponent's back yard with a belt on the line, you literally have to knock them out to get a draw!!!

As a kid i used to be able to reel off all of the champs in each division with out batting an eye. Try that today.
By the time you get to the end, the belts would have changed hands multiple times!!

Its still my go to "sport" notwithstanding its many man made ills.

[Boxing Logic]

What is a "2.4 overnight." Is it so hard to just tell us how many people watched the fight on ESPN?

[hectari]

What is a "2.4 overnight." Is it so hard to just tell us how many people watched the fight on ESPN?

I think a 2.4 rating is pretty impressive for a Saturday boxing match with only 3 days of promotion on a single network.

The Pacuiao Horn fight got the equivalent to some of the NBA playoff games on ESPN with a 2.4 peak rating.

Imagine how much ratings the rematch would do and what if they promoted it on ABC and shown it there instead?

Dancing with the stars gets a 2.0 rating and it gets around 11 million viewers on average on ABC

I still have no clue how many people is a 2.4 rating

I do know the stream got close to 400k viewers which is a lot for a last minute stream for a boxing fight

[Robbie Barrett]

What is a "2.4 overnight." Is it so hard to just tell us how many people watched the fight on ESPN?

The most commonly cited Nielsen results are reported in two measurements: ratings points and share, usually reported as: "ratings points/share". As of 2013, there were an estimated 115.6*million television households in the United States, up 1.2% from the previous year because of the inclusion of televisions that receive content over the Internet. A single national ratings point represents 1% of the total number, or 1,156,000 households for the 2013–14 season.[3] Nielsen re-estimates the number of television-equipped households each August for the upcoming television season.

Share is the percentage of television sets in use that are tuned to the program. For example, Nielsen may report a show as receiving a 9.2/15 during its broadcast; this would mean that out of all television-equipped households, 9.2% were tuned in to that program, and out of all television-equipped households with a television currently in use, 15% were tuned in to that program

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nielsen_ratings#Measuring_ratings

So the fight did around 2.77 million homes.

[Thraxox]

The most commonly cited Nielsen results are reported in two measurements: ratings points and share, usually reported as: "ratings points/share". As of 2013, there were an estimated 115.6*million television households in the United States, up 1.2% from the previous year because of the inclusion of televisions that receive content over the Internet. A single national ratings point represents 1% of the total number, or 1,156,000 households for the 2013–14 season.[3] Nielsen re-estimates the number of television-equipped households each August for the upcoming television season.

Share is the percentage of television sets in use that are tuned to the program. For example, Nielsen may report a show as receiving a 9.2/15 during its broadcast; this would mean that out of all television-equipped households, 9.2% were tuned in to that program, and out of all television-equipped households with a television currently in use, 15% were tuned in to that program

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nielsen_ratings#Measuring_ratings

So the fight did around 2.77 million homes.

Whats the difference between "Views" and "Homes" in relation to TV network? If that;s the number thats quite disappointing.

[Robbie Barrett]

Whats the difference between "Views" and "Homes" in relation to TV network? If that;s the number thats quite disappointing.

Usually more than 1 person lives in a home so I guess they just x by the average people per household which is 2.53.

2.77 x 2.53 = 7 million viewers.

[Thraxox]

Usually more than 1 person lives in a home so I guess they just x by the average people per household which is 2.53.

2.77 x 2.53 = 7 million viewers.

Thanks for the info.

[Elroy The Great]

boxing used to be free back in the day.

[Slimjoe]

Boxing is actually doing well around the planet. It is a normal phenomenon in Europe, Asia and Africa to have sold out arena during fights.The only place I saw the decline in boxing is the United States but it's slowly returning back to its yesteryear glory days.