Comments Thread For: ESPN's Top Rank Double Averaged 1.48M Viewers Saturday Night

[aboutfkntime]

That's a pretty crazy number for a card featuring Ramirez and Beterbiev. Good for Top Rank. Hope it continues.

can't stand Top Rank

but yea, great for boxing

[T-1000]

Can anyone explain how they cover the purses with such a low viewership? Joshua did 2.3 million in Germany against Takam and it was considered as so so. Abraham did 5-6 million at his peak and got paid 1 mio USD per fight. At the end of his career he did hardly 3 million and was basically dropped from free tv. I wonder how 1.2 million is considered a good number for a country four times as big as Germany.

[landotter]

This is good news for all boxing fans. The sport needs these kind of numbers.

So, if you add in the 700,000 watching Boxing on HBO, that is close to 2.2 million pairs of eyeballs watching Boxing on that Saturday night.

Again.... Great for the sport

[Scipio2009]

This guy Ramirez is probably a bigger star than any fighter under Al Haymon..
If you can sell 14,000 seats in that farmland Fresno then that says alot about your drawing power... 😂😂

Ramirez is still selling $150 ringside seats in his third trip to the building; the UFC is coming to the same building next month, with the cageside seats going for 3 times that (Admittedly, the UFC Fight Night card scales Savemart Center to 10,000 seats; also like they still have about 3000 tickets to sell with 3 weeks to go).

Context is key before you start running at the mouth

[Pigeons]

Ramirez is still selling $150 ringside seats in his third trip to the building; the UFC is coming to the same building next month, with the cageside seats going for 3 times that (Admittedly, the UFC Fight Night card scales Savemart Center to 10,000 seats; also like they still have about 3000 tickets to sell with 3 weeks to go).

Context is key before you start running at the mouth

Scipio's jealous.

[Scipio2009]

Can anyone explain how they cover the purses with such a low viewership? Joshua did 2.3 million in Germany against Takam and it was considered as so so. Abraham did 5-6 million at his peak and got paid 1 mio USD per fight. At the end of his career he did hardly 3 million and was basically dropped from free tv. I wonder how 1.2 million is considered a good number for a country four times as big as Germany.

First of all, we don't know what the payout to the fighters were for either of the boxing cards this weekend (Fresno Bee is saying that Ramirez, the draw for the show, earned $50k on the fight); the fighters on either show could've been fighting for whatever.

Secondly, the TV payout for most of these shows come down to what the broadcaster is willing to pay versus what the broadcaster is expecting to see the audience look like for their money (as the broadcaster covers their costs based generally on commercials and advertisers looking to reach the audience tuning in).

Regardless of the spin by Arum butt buddy Steve Kim, ESPN is in the homes that it's in, and they are likely comparing the Top Rank number to what else they could've paid for to put in that time slot.

If ESPN is paying Top And third of what they use to pay for content to put in that spot, and the audience is still tuning in, you've got a win for ESPN and they'd likely be happy. If the audience doesn't tune in, ESPN has a calculus to make.

[BigStomps]

Ramirez is still selling $150 ringside seats in his third trip to the building; the UFC is coming to the same building next month, with the cageside seats going for 3 times that (Admittedly, the UFC Fight Night card scales Savemart Center to 10,000 seats; also like they still have about 3000 tickets to sell with 3 weeks to go).

Context is key before you start running at the mouth

You ****** mother****er! You must not know when someone is being sarcastic.
Plus what does the UFC have anything to do with what I said?? Are you really that ****ing ******??
Now get off my **** b itch before I slap the shet out of you again fa ggot!

[Scipio2009]

Scipio's jealous.

Why would I be jealous?

[Scipio2009]

You ****** mother****er! You must not know when someone is being sarcastic.
Plus what does the UFC have anything to do with what I said?? Are you really that ****ing ******??
Now get off my **** b itch before I slap the shet out of you again fa ggot!

A tin ear for ****ty satire I guess; oh well. The UFC simply sets the mark for what you should expect for an event-level ticket. If Ramirez was really a star, he'd be able to sell ringside seats at $300 and still pack in his building ($300/$150/$75/$50 would actually make sense).

[T-1000]

First of all, we don't know what the payout to the fighters were for either of the boxing cards this weekend (Fresno Bee is saying that Ramirez, the draw for the show, earned $50k on the fight); the fighters on either show could've been fighting for whatever.

Secondly, the TV payout for most of these shows come down to what the broadcaster is willing to pay versus what the broadcaster is expecting to see the audience look like for their money (as the broadcaster covers their costs based generally on commercials and advertisers looking to reach the audience tuning in).

Regardless of the spin by Arum butt buddy Steve Kim, ESPN is in the homes that it's in, and they are likely comparing the Top Rank number to what else they could've paid for to put in that time slot.

If ESPN is paying Top And third of what they use to pay for content to put in that spot, and the audience is still tuning in, you've got a win for ESPN and they'd likely be happy. If the audience doesn't tune in, ESPN has a calculus to make.

That is clear of course, however, TR recently paid a ****load of money to Crawford and will soon pay a ****load of money to Loma. I simply cannot imagine these numbers justify these purses.