Comments Thread For: Lomachenko vs. Rigondeaux Generates Big Rating For ESPN

[chrisJS]

Another blow for the race rooters that were wrong on this.

[THEFRESHBRAWLER]

Stop with the metrics lol and just tell us how many dàmn viewers watched

[THEFRESHBRAWLER]

Another blow for the race rooters that were wrong on this.

First person to bring up race.

[jmrf4435]

PBC tried it but got so much hate. Arum is basically doing the same thing with support. At least the 2 might come together in the future for the sport to make big fights.

pbc had subpar fights, and inconsistent

[Divine Hammer]

You need more than one network lol and ESPN is not free smh

it is more free than HBO or showtime. truth. and why more networks????? just keep it on espn. production value is incredible. and fighters still getting very good paydays and incredible exposure. win win win win win win win win.

[boxingitis]

Lomachenko the new King of Boxing.
Now the challengers will start poping up. Roman already mention Lomachenko in his post fight interview. Once ur then King they will want to dethrone u.

[rickJen]

I'm not surprised. Fight was very intriguing on paper.
Don't know why PBC/SHO choose to pit their top fighters against nobodies.
Even second-tier fighters draw huge crowds.
It doesn't have to include names like Cotto, Canelo, etc.
Andrade vs Lara or Lara vs Charlo last October not only would have garnered the same ratings.

[North Star]

It was a great card. I liked what I saw from Chris Diaz. Looks like we got another Puerto Rican fighter to keep an eye on. He looked sharp and had power in both hands.

Lomachenko was just spectacular! Crazy to see him make another elite fighter quit like that. He's from another planet!

[Boxing42]

Another blow for the race rooters that were wrong on this.

Well it was a win for white race rooters and you know it

[Butch.McRae]

I'm not surprised. Fight was very intriguing on paper.
Don't know why PBC/SHO choose to pit their top fighters against nobodies.
Even second-tier fighters draw huge crowds.
It doesn't have to include names like Cotto, Canelo, etc.
Andrade vs Lara or Lara vs Charlo last October not only would have garnered the same ratings.

Because the cards on Showtime don't have the same distribution. The audience of potential viwers is much smaller.

The only time it had views above 1 million was during the Mayweather "free" trials where you could just watch fights by turning to the channel . After that the numbers went right back to 700k b/c the majority of cable subs arent with Showtime. HBO's drop in views is due to ****ty cards recently.

PBC network cards blew these ESPN numbers away, but again that was due to distribution so it's obvious why that happened.

There are 5 tiers of T.V. in the US.
1. Network -CBS, ABC, NBC, FOX (universal availability)

2. Cable - ESPN, FS1, Spike (high availibilty, but FS1 and Spike aren't in all markets/packages)

3. Premium Cable - HBO, Showtime (low availability, but HBO has so many subs that it's close to basic cable in distribution)

4. PPV (pay to play TV)

5. Streaming (still emerging, and there's lots of if piracy here)

Comparing ratings across these tiers isn't really helpful.