Comments Thread For: Broner-Vargas Telecast Peaked at 869,000 Viewers on Showtime

[Sid-Knee]

YOU LAME *****S MAD RIGHT NOW. My boy deontay wilder runs showtime viewership # and it aint even close. Yall ****boys can keep that 12.5MILLION unless yall tryna up that bag/offer. If broner cant get more views then wilder, then you know wilder runs showtime boxing. WHERE MY BOMBSQUAD PEOPLE AT

And yet it doesn't translate into Wilder getting a proper payday. Haha.

Wilder is a peasant compared to Joshua.

[Motorcity Cobra]

They don't. They're called cable TV ratings.

[Sid-Knee]

"Only one fighter, WBC heavyweight champ Deontay Wilder, consistently draws better ratings for Showtime than Broner."

Where are those Joshua fanboys?

Haha, So what, Wilder is the most watched American. And, what does that change?

1 Million people watching from a country of over 325 Mill isn't something to be boasting about. Joshua gets 1 Mill to watch him as well, but on PPV. Big difference.

[Ake-Dawg]

Weird, I agree with you

Broner has crossed into a weird place fans are not viewing to root for him they are not even viewing hoping he will lose because let's face it he's lost so many times there isn't great mystery or doubt that he will likely lose when he fights anyone decent. Fans at this point are literally tuning in to watch the train wreck. We all know he's not going to win we are all just glued to see how he won't win, what crazy shyt he will do and say after he doesn't win lol The only mystery I guess left is will he get knocked out on route to not winning.

I'm not so certain about that. Dunny1 has painted Broner out to be this loser. Broner has 3 losses and they are all to top level guys. He's entertaining outside the ring and definitely can be entertaining inside. What more do you want from a prize fighter. I think people tune in to see if he's going to finally put it all together or if he's going to totally get blasted out due to a lapse in concentration (if you watch him fight, you know that's the more unlikely scenario).

[Shadoww702]

And womens polo and dwarf tossing

***!!! I've always wanted to toss a dwarf at a spinning velcro board!

[HanzGruber]

Showtime buys the fights, they don’t make ‘em.

But I hear you. I don’t really want the Broner-Vargas rematch either. Maybe Broner-Figueroa. Or get Thurman in the mix.

yea the rematch would prob have to be at 147 and ab doesnt belong there.

the fig fight would be good at 140 if hes not injured anymore

[Illmatic94]

Huh?? dude is 25-0 below 130 and 8-3-1 above 130. He may not have a "signature" win but that is just BS some NSB posters have come up with. He has a solid resume and has fought tough and brave in his losses.

He draws fans at the gate and on TV, that is why he makes the paydays he does.

He draws fans for non boxing related reasons. That's why he's Showtime's biggest attraction aside from Wilder. Broner making constant headlines on Worldstar has benefited his career more than anything he's done in the ring. He has a "solid" resume? don't know what that means cuz he loses to anybody that's considered a step above average. His fabricated beef with that rapper had a bigger impact on those ratings than Vargas being his opponent.

"Tough and brave" in his losses? disagree there too. He was a literal punching bag for Mikey. And Porter bullied him all over the ring like a stepchild. Tough and brave in losses would better describe Vargas who gave Pacquiao a tough scrap and almost knocked Bradley out. Broner was tough and brave vs Maidana though I give him that.

Worldstar and being a known name in the Hip Hop world has done more for him than any fight he's won in a ring. Broner is more known than Crawford and Spence combined. And it's not due to boxing.

This article explains it https://www.forbes.com/sites/brianma.../#735caa9a6014

[IMDAZED]

If I'm Showtime I don't make Broner vs Vargas rematch. I put Broner in 1 by 1 with every good fighter I have at and around 147. Start passing Broner around like a 2 dollar h0e let him lose 1 by 1 to Danny Garcia, Errol Spence, Keith Thurman ect. And hope Broners ratings rub off on these guys. Don't waste it on Vargas. they have to find a way to bottle this up and transfer it to an actual good fighter LMAO

Showtime buys the fights, they don’t make ‘em.

But I hear you. I don’t really want the Broner-Vargas rematch either. Maybe Broner-Figueroa. Or get Thurman in the mix.

[HURTFEELINGS]

Now is the time to take advantage of this situation, by putting him in there vs Thurman, for Thurmans comeback fight. It will draw great numbers or vs Khan. I think both beat him, and then you have the rematch vs Vargas.

[Butch.McRae]

what? Broner's resume is solid as it gets. He's fought good comp at the lower weights and tough guys as he moved up. Now we can argue if he didn't get some favorable scores from judges, but he fought good quality comp.

Fair enough lol I won't split hairs