Comments Thread For: Crawford-Indongo Fight Averaged 965,000 Viewers on ESPN

[GhostofDempsey]

The Pac fight was a month ago. Anybody with an ounce of common sense knows I'm talking about the Crawford card. You're the only one confused. I'm not dumbing things down just for you. Get smarter

Idiot, your post included Crawfords fights going back 7 fights. Stop the cherry-picking and excuses.

[mrpain81]

If the whole event averaged 1m that's really good.

If the main event peaks at 1m it's meh for ESPN.

[brettWall]

Not bad for ESPN ratings if you look at their average regardless of the event or show. They rarely get 500K.

We don't have details of the deal between ESPN and Arum. Seems clear that fighters and promoters get their paychecks regardless of the ratings.

http://deadspin.com/espns-ratings-ar...atte-722030528

[Dodger07]

the crawford-indongo fight itself will be just north of 1mil then, 1.2 most likely.

Was expecting a higher figure tbh.

[bigdunny1]

Better then the Lomachenko ratings but these are lackluster. For comparison Danny Garcia vs Paulie drew 1.073M and Leo Santa Cruz vs Mares drew 1.217M viewers on ESPN. The Pacquaio numbers were great but it's been a huge drop off for their cards since. 965K for Crawford and Lomenchenko 728K those are comparable to their HBO ratings. When you fight on ESPN not premium cable you expect to have higher ratings then HBO.

[bigdunny1]

Not bad for ESPN ratings if you look at their average regardless of the event or show. They rarely get 500K.

We don't have details of the deal between ESPN and Arum. Seems clear that fighters and promoters get their paychecks regardless of the ratings.

http://deadspin.com/espns-ratings-ar...atte-722030528

You can't compare avg shows you need to compare what ESPN does for their live sporting events during prime time. For example the very next day ESPN sunday night baseball drew 1.776M viewers for 2 teams that if the playoffs started today wouldn't be in Cardinals vs Pirates. The ratings do matter right now ESPN is NOT paying for these fights but if you expect them to pay later on you need ratings. It's time buy similar to what PBC had with ESPN Top Rank and their investors are paying the fighters.

[sicko]

Good Numbers for a boxing event! I don't know why some fans want to compare boxing ratings to other sports ratings when boxing at least here in American is not that popular with Casual fans and that 18-34 Demographic! 1 Million or close to it is a Success for any boxing even regardless of the Network!

The Pac fight was a month ago. Anybody with an ounce of common sense knows I'm talking about the Crawford card. You're the only one confused. I'm not dumbing things down just for you. Get smarter

[Robbie Barrett]

I was expecting way more. Danny Garcia did better numbers on ESPN.

This is for the entire card. The numbers that matter are for the main event, which are usually much higher.

[bigdunny1]

more comparison the week prior ESPN sat night aired Little League baseball playoffs. 7pm game drew 949K viewers. The 9pm game drew 926K viewers.

[bigdunny1]

Good Numbers for a boxing event! I don't know why some fans want to compare boxing ratings to other sports ratings when boxing at least here in American is not that popular with Casual fans and that 18-34 Demographic! 1 Million or close to it is a Success for any boxing even regardless of the Network!

These ratings are virtually the same as both guys got on HBO looks like the same hardcore boxing audience tuned in to ESPN not much else. But huge drop off from Pacqiao fight that drew 2.8m viewers on ESPN. Also ESPN ran so much promo's all day long for Crawford. You couldn't watch sportscenter without seeing it. If ESPN can get the same ratings for Little League World Series games that they don't even promote or have to pay much money for why are they going to spend millions for Top Rank fights when the time buy is over? Same problem PBC had 1m on HBO or Showtime would be GREAT numbers but on other networks they expect higher then that especially if you want them to spend millions on a TV deal