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

[Bob Haymon]

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

Boxing's ratings are much higher where it matters to advertisers. In the 18-49 demographic TR Boxing got 0.31 compared to 0.22 for LLWS on previous Saturday. ESPN won't give them a UFC deal but they can certainly do HBOs budget.

[HarvardBlue]

Decent numbers. Terrence Crawford was the only name of note on the whole card. Stevenson, Gvozdyk, and Indongo are relatively unknown. If you watched the broadcast, and didn't know anything about any of the boxers, Crawford is the only one you would want to see again. The celebration at the end of the fight, along with bringing his children in the ring was good television.

[miked85]

Crawford not pleased, check his twitter, blames lack of promotion, shoutout to top rank and espn

[Sheldon312]

There's 55 million more viewers on ESPN than HBO. For you to get the same viewers on ESPN that you get on HBO is horrible plain and simple, no matter how you slice it.

I agree, Indongo is fairly unknown, but so is Felix Diaz and Crawford managed to get the same viewers when fighting him on HBO.

it comes down to the fact that boxing isnt popular in the states.

[Kigali]

Crawford just isn't a draw. They conveniently left out Pac's viewership numbers on ESPN, which would raise the overall Top Rank average considerably.

You're just a fool.

Crawford had the place jammed packed and did damn good numbers on ESPN.

[Sheldon312]

Crawford not pleased, check his twitter, blames lack of promotion, shoutout to top rank and espn

It has to do with Nationality and Race

[Sheldon312]

Crawford not pleased, check his twitter, blames lack of promotion, shoutout to top rank and espn

Compare his numbers to the Thurman vs Garcia and Porter. You tell me which company does a better job at marketing their fighters.

[Butch.McRae]

You're just a fool.

Crawford had the place jammed packed and did damn good numbers on ESPN.

No they weren't lol but he can be a draw for sure. Place was packed too. But those numbers weren't good

[Butch.McRae]

Compare his numbers to the Thurman vs Garcia and Porter. You tell me which company does a better job at marketing their fighters.

Lol it's funny how this is being ignored on the thread

[Butch.McRae]

Didn't Thurman v. Collazo peak at 1.1 million? Garcia v. Paulie was 1.5 million too...Mares v. Santa Cruz averaged 1.2 million

Seems like a boxing issue...

The sport needs more TMZ stars unfortunately