Comments Thread For: Pacquiao-Horn - Highest Rated Boxing Telecast on Cable Since '06

[GMAN SUPREME]

Man..if Pacquiao actually finished Horn....the hype train would've started moving... now the talk is.. he's aging but still won the fight. Oh well.

the talk is now about the horrible decision lol boxing shooting its self in the foot once again.

[BWC]

No surprise. ESPN is literally on every bar, restuarant, & business TV in the USA. ESPN understandably is a far better outlet for sports over cbs/nbc/bounce etc.

Yeah but this still didn't do Thurman-Garcia numbers.

Great numbers though, no question..

[p4ptbe]

Thurman vs porter and thurman vs danny were wayyy better numbers

[p4ptbe]

blame jeff horn. If it was thurman, garcia, spence or even crawford, i bet those numbers are doubled. I thought this fight would do thurman-garcia #'s so i'm a bit surprised. But given horn's lack of namepower, i bet the matchups will be better going forward.

espn promoted this fight like a superbowl of boxing1 they promoted it daily for a week with their own ticker for the fight! If thurman vs danny got this kind of promo they would have done 7 million easy!

[p4ptbe]

that's the pull a superstar like manny can bring on the table.

Amazing!

still cant beat thurman vs porter or thurman vs danny numbers!

[IMDAZED]

espn promoted this fight like a superbowl of boxing1 they promoted it daily for a week with their own ticker for the fight! If thurman vs danny got this kind of promo they would have done 7 million easy!

Thurman has done over 3 million before (aside from the Garcia fight). I think you'll see 7 million when he and Spence square off.

You would expect Pacquiao to do better but that start time and opponent didn't help. We'll see how the rest of the shows go.

[soul_survivor]

pac still one of the biggest draws ever, to think he did those numbers against a nobody

imagine what pac v khan could have been, oh well

[Manic Shot]

Broner vs Manny will do real numbers on ESPN.

[HarvardBlue]

So a lot of people tuned to see an old Manny Pacquiao get jobbed in Australia. Not a good night for boxing but atleast people were interested in the sport again.

[HAMMER77777]

I like how they put The Card during Waking Hours here, and in Australia. That was fair for everyone, so good on them for that. Evening Time here, Day Time there. I was afraid This would have been in The Middle of The Night here, like with the Australian Open tennis that I Some Times have to stay up til 3 AM to start Watching!