Comments Thread For: Golovkin-Martirosyan Cable's Most-Watched Boxing Match in 2018

[Bronx23]

Dontae boxing nation is going to pop a blood vessel when he sees this.

dont forget boxingego lol

[turnedup]

Damn, didn't expect that kind of numbers. Kudos to Golovkin I guess, first fight of his in years I watched on Youtube hours later because I chose to go out.

[xhiddenx87]

1.1 on showtime is like 1.8 on hbo lol..

Lol so now 1.2=1.8 SMH

[asgarth]

There is a correlation between viewership and opposition. In this specific case the question was whether or not a better opponent would get more views. Quite possibly. However there were factors in this case that are out of the ordinary. May 5th is a typical ppv date. HBO was offered to cable subscribers for free this weekend. So if Trip were fighting say Charlo, under the same conditions as this past weekend, I'd definitely say that viewership would go up.

didnt know about hbo being offered for free this weekend. Yeah that should be a contributing factor.

[Bronx23]

I understand what you're trying to say lol but please tell me the last boxing match on premium cable to clear 2 million views? That's not really a thing

lol youre right dude i'll own that, that was a stretch

[bigdunny1]

So GGG is basically the same draw he was years ago and hasn't increased his popularity one bit after fighting Canelo. drew 1.2M viewers last weekend but his last sat night reg HBO fight against Wade drew 1.325 million viewers. It's clear if you give away free tickets or ask fans NOT to pay he can do good tv ratings and get fans to show up. But the moment you ask fans to fork over money to buy PPV to watch him or pay high end ticket prices he flops. Low attendance even with them handing out free tickets and taking food stamps. Even loeffler knows this which is why the fight was first moved OFF PPV and then later moved out of vegas because they feared MGM would of been half empty. Turns out even in smaller cheaper venue Stubhub was 1/3 empty. Take note GGG fans he should stay fighting on HBO he's not built for Vegas or PPV.

[whoseyourdaddy]

Am I the only person not surprised by this? Lol

It was Cinco De Mayo and it was free boxing to watch for the first time in forever. Anything lower than 1 million would've been a disaster lol

shhhh don't bring facts here, it tends to confuse the midget minded GGG fans.

[BennyBlanco]

do you want to give me the weather reports too ?

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My apologies to trying to help you understand how TV viewership is analyzed and compared. I see that you have little interest in actual facts.

[Ake-Dawg]

dont forget boxingego lol

To be honest, most folks have a problem with GGG fans and how they act, but not so much GGG. Then those same fans try and project that a person is a GGG hater rather than acknowledge they are more of a fan of GGG than they are of boxing or facts.

For instance, I want GGG to make as much money as he possibly can as a fighter. So when he shuns fights against Dervy, Andrade, BJS, etc to protect the Alvarez rematch and money, I'm disappointed but I understand. What I get upset about, is his fans trying to justify it as something other than a business decision by criticizing other fighters, misrepresenting facts, or regurgitating the dumb **** Sanchez says.

[whoseyourdaddy]

GGG has had 3 PPV fights in the states.

The lowest buy-rate was 150,000.

Nothing you ever say turns out to be true.

I clearly remember various boxing sites, saying it could it being between 97k to 150 so i don't see how is he lying? the truth persist 97K is the number to beat as lowest of the low, but don't feel bad Ward-Kovalev did around 130 first and close to 200K second time around.