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

[Removed Now]

Wow I am shocked :0

[asgarth]

He's doing Deontay Wilder type numbers. But people say Wilder isn't known

You can do comparison, if two things are comparable.
The closest fight you get with similar circumstances like a lackluster late replacement opponent and garbage undercard is Wilders fight with Stiverne II.

Wilder was supposed to face Ortiz, but Stiverne replaced him due to Ortiz failing a drug test. No one wanted to see Wilder facing Stiverne again. So pretty similar, right?

That fight had an average viewership of 824,000 and peaked at 887,000 and that's the number you should compare GGGs latest number to.

You can only do your comparison with the Ortiz numbers, if you think there is no change in viewership when dudes are facing tougher and more dangerous opponents. But do you really think that if GGG faces Derevyanchenko, Charlo, Saunders or Jacobs on regular HBO, that he wont get an significant increase in viewerships?

1,3mio seems to be his ceiling against lame opponents. The last fight on regular HBO before the martirosyan fight was against Wade and he did similar numbers.

[Madison Boxing]

He's one of the biggest stars in boxing now

[Metho_4u]

the low purse was a guarantee due to risk of low viewership. I'm glad Martirosyan will see more money as well. that wasn't right. he got KTFO for 200K of which 70K will go to taxes. 50K will go to his trainer Count Dracula.

It's likely because many knew of the rematch, but casual fans don't pay enough attention to the fact the fight was off and likely figured, oh what the hell, and watched it because it was there.

[Squ□redCircle34]

GGG outdoing the US heavyweight champion of the world...for now!

Once Wilder knocks out Joshua, there won't be any competition!

But good for Golovkin, hope he fights Charlo or Jacobs nrxt!

[H-Tok]

But WILDER deserves a PAYDAY THO ....Team Wilder has 50mil to give to JOSHUA THO ffs

[BennyBlanco]

#1 boxing viewership on TV despite 0 promotion.

impressive.

Zero promotion?????

GGG and his replacement fight got more publicity over the last 2 months than any non-PPV fight in recent history.

[Ake-Dawg]

its nothing to do with cinco de mayo or lack of promotion or that the fight was put together last minute.

Ggg is a ratings machine. He’s done these types of numbers when off ppv. Look at wade Rubio etc ratings.

Lol Game of Thrones has nothing to do with it? Sure buddy. I subscribe to both as well. I'm also positive I know more about this stuff than you.

Original content is much more important than boxing to both networks. Which is reflected in their budgets.

Wasn't HBO considering scrapping boxing altogether within the past year or two? Also, if boxing was such a huge part of their subscription marketing, why did they let the entire Top Rank stable leave and now only have one hard scheduled event.

I'm not saying that GGG doesn't have followership. However, in considering the numbers from this weekend, we have to take into consideration 1) Many fans were already expecting a fight on May 5 involving GGG 2) HBO provided a free preview over this past weekend allowing anyone with cable to watch HBO programming.

[Ake-Dawg]

You can do comparison, if two things are comparable.
The closest fight you get with similar circumstances like a lackluster late replacement opponent and garbage undercard is Wilders fight with Stiverne II.

Wilder was supposed to face Ortiz, but Stiverne replaced him due to Ortiz failing a drug test. No one wanted to see Wilder facing Stiverne again. So pretty similar, right?

That fight had an average viewership of 824,000 and peaked at 887,000 and that's the number you should compare GGGs latest number to.

You can only do your comparison with the Ortiz numbers, if you think there is no change in viewership when dudes are facing tougher and more dangerous opponents. But do you really think that if GGG faces Derevyanchenko, Charlo, Saunders or Jacobs on regular HBO, that he wont get an significant increase in viewerships?

1,3mio seems to be his ceiling against lame opponents. The last fight on regular HBO before the martirosyan fight was against Wade and he did similar numbers.

I don't. Unless there is a HBO free preview that weekend like there was this past weekend. HBO will not pay for those fights. They will put it on ppv.

[BennyBlanco]

Floyd could announce a fight tomorrow and get a high view like GGG. However, if he had 3 months to promote the event, it wouldn't change the viewership?

are you mentally ill?

what are you arguing here? GGG did better numbers than Wilder with a full promotion against a better more known opponent. This is a fact.

Doesn't seem like you understand ratings and TV viewership.

HBO has 30% more subscribers than Showtime, so proportionally, a similarly-watched Golovkin fight should do at least 30% more viewership on HBO than Wilder on Showtime.

It's also worth noting that the Wilder fight went head-to-head against NBA (Celtics-Rockets), UFC 222 and HBO boxing (Kovalev), while the Golovkin fight had NO competition from NBA, boxing or MMA. BIG difference.