Comments Thread For: Canelo-GGG Replay Peaks at 840K Viewers, Averages 726K on HBO

[Diego Rodriguez]

Why expect more for a replay when there is live college football on TV? Canelo-Chavez replay was in May when there is NOTHING on TV (sorry, but hoops and baseball carry small audiences until the playoffs begin)

This is a good point.

[elcashanilla]

Solid numbers for Linares as a headliner

[angkag]

Nah, it's just a of GGG fans over estimating his fan base. He's little more than an internet sensation at this point. His online popularity doesn't extend to the real word.

You mean the real world outside Quebec ? Is that the real world, or is that just fantasy ? A landslide of popularity, no escape from reality. Open your eyes, look up to the skies and see.

[Lou Cipher]

Sounds low.

[Butch.McRae]

Isn't this a low replay figure for a fight like this? I thought replays of this magnitude usually grab 900k - 1.5 million views.

Maybe people were annoyed by the aftermath?

[Scipio2009]

What can we bet on the not even 1MM? You are thinking it did less than Chavez-Canelo, think that is highly unlikely.

In the world of internet wagers, who knows. All I've been saying is that peripheral indicators are showing that the fight was nowhere near as big as folks seem to think. The general sports world didn't follow up the fight, my usual sports bar spot wasn't packed in anywhere near as deep as even the Canelo-ChavezJr fight (secondhand info from my brother, as I was flying in from Minneapolis), and now, after the seeming scoring controversy, the boxing audience didn't tune in to catch the fight on regular HBO.

I wasn't online during the run-up for Oscar-Floyd, but there's an energy that comes behind the really blockbuster fights (in recent history Oscar-Floyd, Floyd-Canelo, Floyd-Pacquiao, Floyd-McGregor, Pacquiao-Marquez 4) that doesn't seem to be there for Canelo-Golovkin.

Cotto-Canelo, Canelo-ChavezJr, and Canelo-Golovkin seem to all have about the same feel (I'd argue that Cotto-Canelo felt the biggest of the three, but whatever). Two weeks on, hopefully HBO puts forward a range that they want to put their necks on the line for.

[Scipio2009]

Rick Glaser has said slightly over 1mil, so its over that

We'll see what HBO has to say about that, eventually hopefully.

[Scipio2009]

Why expect more for a replay when there is live college football on TV? Canelo-Chavez replay was in May when there is NOTHING on TV (sorry, but hoops and baseball carry small audiences until the playoffs begin)

... The NBA was already just about done with their conference semifinals, so what the **** are you talking about?

Beyond that, what live game was the Canelo-Golovkin replay even competing against? lol.

[JuniorTorres720]

Yea.. speaking of "not much to talk about", there was literally no worthwhile buildup for this fight. Hardly any drama, which in contrast the drama for Mayweather McGreggor was huge, as they're both bigmouths..

Yup it was an extremely slow build and mostly centered on fight week. Besides the HBO specials I didn't see much build to this fight which I feel deserved it.

[Diego Rodriguez]

In the world of internet wagers, who knows. All I've been saying is that peripheral indicators are showing that the fight was nowhere near as big as folks seem to think. The general sports world didn't follow up the fight, my usual sports bar spot wasn't packed in anywhere near as deep as even the Canelo-ChavezJr fight (secondhand info from my brother, as I was flying in from Minneapolis), and now, after the seeming scoring controversy, the boxing audience didn't tune in to catch the fight on regular HBO.

I wasn't online during the run-up for Oscar-Floyd, but there's an energy that comes behind the really blockbuster fights (in recent history Oscar-Floyd, Floyd-Canelo, Floyd-Pacquiao, Floyd-McGregor, Pacquiao-Marquez 4) that doesn't seem to be there for Canelo-Golovkin.

Cotto-Canelo, Canelo-ChavezJr, and Canelo-Golovkin seem to all have about the same feel (I'd argue that Cotto-Canelo felt the biggest of the three, but whatever). Two weeks on, hopefully HBO puts forward a range that they want to put their necks on the line for.

Time will tell. I think I'll be more surprised if they hit 1MM vs. 2MM. I think 1.4MM-1.6MM feels about right.