Pacquiao-Horn a massive ratings hit, even with the often-elusive younger crowd

[MrRolltide91]

Pacquiao on cable TV, obviously gonna get good ratings. The real question is, will people watch when Crawford and Lomachenko fight on ESPN, if they get similar numbers, then that's impressive, Pacquiao getting good numbers on ESPN is not impressive.

True......

[bigjavi973]

This is great for the sport, man. Who knows, maybe in a few years all the big fights will be on major networks that are in most homes...and if the ratings continue to shine, could we even one day see the death of the PPV platform?

now all we need is for floyd to do this with the pbc series and fight live on tv....

he imo would easily crush these ratings

[Mitchell Kane]

Pacquiao on cable TV, obviously gonna get good ratings. The real question is, will people watch when Crawford and Lomachenko fight on ESPN, if they get similar numbers, then that's impressive, Pacquiao getting good numbers on ESPN is not impressive.

There's almost no chance they get similar numbers.

The question is, how much less will the numbers be? Half of Pacquiao-Horn?

And if they're significantly lower, does how much does ESPN pull back from their promotion of these cards?

I think it's already been said that some of these cards will move to Friday once football season starts....so the ESPN hype machine figures to diminish a bit once that happens.

[IMDAZED]

Did not read the rest of your post.

Where did you get your info that it peaked during the main event?

Like I said, the peak number can literally mean anything. 2m people could flipped to the channel at the same time and saw what was going on for 5 seconds and flipped away.

Ok. So believe that.

[Ruthless One]

It was a free/non-PPV broadcast so that helped.

[.:: JSFD26 ::.]

Ok. So believe that.

Thought so.

[IMDAZED]

Thought so.

Thought what? That I'm here to change your mind? If you want to believe 3m people flicked it to the exact same channel at the same time for 5 seconds and then those 3m turned to another channel, that's your prerogative.

[bchap05]

That was my experience too. While watching the fight with two casual fans, they kept yelling at the TV for the ref to do something about Horn's cheating. When the scores were announced the both laughed and said WTF, "no wonder boxing isn't schit anymore, people don't want to watch fixed fights"

EXACT WORDS TOO. Even casuals know a fix when they see it

The casuals I know that watched it text me great fight!!! Pac should have won but awesome fight. Casuals love blood and action and it was filled with both

[Bravado]

Dude. It didn't even have a freaking platform literally 2 weeks before the fight. With a 38 year old Pacquiao fighting a complete no name. And it was the highest rated boxing fight on cable of the decade. And in 11 years. It was a success.

Yet i don't get why its some sort of profound fight.

I wasn't sure when Pac was fighting and its like hes gonna fight in the morning? Seriously?

A no name bum and a faded Pac was able to pull in massive numbers, similar to a PPV UFC card with loaded fights on it??????

How can Boxing be dead?

[Combat Talk Radio]

Young people I've never seen mention boxing were posting about it on facebook. Top Rank is onto something here.

Yeah - that Jeff "The Hornet" Horn is a draw.