Comments Thread For: Cotto-Kamegai Peaked at 805K Viewers, Averaged 730K on HBO

[chepboxingking]

These are awesome # all things considered. This proves Cotto still is a big draw. Hope this leads to a big money fight in December, Last one before he retires. He deserves it.

[Deletrious]

That's a lot of people not paying to watch May-Mac. Could not be happier that Mayweather/Showtime's ego trip hurt themselves at least as much or more than the competition.

[bigdunny1]

The fight also sold out the Stubhub Center. Good showing.

Yup it was a sell out as well despite getting NO coverage from ESPN and alot of major outlets during fight week because of Mayweather/Mcgregor. Yet it sold out and drew strong ratings. It proves Cotto is still one of the biggest draws in boxing for active fighters other then Canelo and Pacquiao he might be the next biggest draw. Lomachenko had wall to wall coverage by ESPN and is on basic cable and still Cotto drew higher ratings with no coverage head to head with a huge PPV event and drew a sell out crowd. Hell he just outdid almost every Showtime boxing fight in 2017. Only one I can think that did better was Broner vs Garcia which drew over 800K viewers.

[True That]

Watched both as I had the Mayweather v. McGregor card on stream from Showtime and this on the TV. Once the fight was over, I just hooked up the HDMI cord for the main event.

Btw, Stub Hub was not sold out based on the crowd I saw on TV. Unless there were a few thousand or so no shows. There were definitely empty seats on the second level. Still had a solid crowd. Good event for sure.

By the time the main event started StubHub filled up.

Look up the reports of the crowd for the fight. They reported a sold out crowd.

It's only an 8,000 seat arena.

[vaborikua2014]

Damn thats a lot comparing it was head to head vs biggest boxing event of all time. I saw this on the tv while watching maymac on computer that btw i had a perfect hd stream

[Butch.McRae]

That's a lot of people not paying to watch May-Mac. Could not be happier that Mayweather/Showtime's ego trip hurt themselves at least as much or more than the competition.

I saw both, but not sure thats representative of any significant portion of the population.

[Easy$money]

Real fight fans watched both so what's the big deal?

[HarvardBlue]

Btw, Stub Hub was not sold out based on the crowd I saw on TV. Unless there were a few thousand or so no shows. There were definitely empty seats on the second level. Still had a solid crowd. Good event for sure.

I was saw portions of the fight also and thought the same thing. If it was sold out some people decided not to show up because there were a lot of empty seats.

[Motorcity Cobra]

Yup a lot of folks were saying that nobody would show up or watch. These are really great numbers for head to head with maybe the biggest PPV of alltime. For comparison I think only broner vs Garcia has done higher ratings on showtime for 2017. Lomacheko last fight on ESPN drew 728K just a few weeks ago and this out did that despite ESPN running adds and talking about it about all fight week. No ESPN coverage on fight week as all the coverage was on Floyd/Mcgregor and still they outdid Lomachenko vs Marriaga.

Here are the purses

[Motorcity Cobra]

The fight also sold out the Stubhub Center. Good showing.

Nobody was going to watch this tho. Nobody cared about this fight tho.

The ratings were going to be really bad and suck tho.

Lol, I predicted anywhere between 600k to 800k for this fight.

StubHub Center had a sold out crowd reported as well for this fight.

Yup it was a sell out as well despite getting NO coverage from ESPN and alot of major outlets during fight week because of Mayweather/Mcgregor. Yet it sold out and drew strong ratings. It proves Cotto is still one of the biggest draws in boxing for active fighters other then Canelo and Pacquiao he might be the next biggest draw. Lomachenko had wall to wall coverage by ESPN and is on basic cable and still Cotto drew higher ratings with no coverage head to head with a huge PPV event and drew a sell out crowd. Hell he just outdid almost every Showtime boxing fight in 2017. Only one I can think that did better was Broner vs Garcia which drew over 800K viewers.

By the time the main event started StubHub filled up.

Look up the reports of the crowd for the fight. They reported a sold out crowd.

It's only an 8,000 seat arena.

I saw both, but not sure thats representative of any significant portion of the population.

I was saw portions of the fight also and thought the same thing. If it was sold out some people decided not to show up because there were a lot of empty seats.

Tickets were $18. For $50 you could've worked Cotto or Kamegai corner