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

[THEFRESHBRAWLER]

No. It's funny how angry it makes them. Funny how it makes them angry wouldn't be as quantitative.

Fair enough. The whole showtime vs hbo war can be attributed to the gbp vs toprank war. Personally I like it the whole hbo vs showtime beef, it brings another level of excitement and trash talk to boxing lol. How fun would it be if we couldn’t trash talk each other?

[paulf]

What a sad state boxing is in in 2018 that 1.3m is the most watched fight almost halfway through the year.

How times done changed...

[THEFRESHBRAWLER]

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

His team is more experienced and more successful than Hearn

[HeadShots]

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.

do you want to give me the weather reports too ?



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[Butch.McRae]

What a sad state boxing is in in 2018 that 1.3m is the most watched fight almost halfway through the year.

How times done changed...

This is actually the most important comment made in this thread. Too bad the network TV model didn't work.

[asgarth]

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.

that wasn't even the point. the point was IF golovkin faces someone much better and more dangerous than martirosyan on regular hbo, would he get an increase in viewership or not.

correlation between viewership and opposition level? yes or no?

[HeadShots]

not just opposition level but promotion time.


3 months of promotion will reel in casuals.

[Cinci Champ]

awesome they were able to salvage it. its first time a legit star has fought on none ppv and hbo instead showtime which has so many more subs on one of fhe big holidays. its been mayweather or canelo controlling it on ppv for years and years. shame he couldnt fight someone else but at least they were able give the boxing public something. lets hope ggg next fight is against jacobs saunders or canelo

[Jsmooth9876]

People don't generally subscribe to HBO or Showtime for boxing. They sign up for the original content and movies.

Boxing is a perk. It's not driving decisions for subs to the general population. HBO has the most popular show in the history of premium cable. There's no comparison there.

This is largely true I'd imagine. I would keep HBO if boxing went away but would cancel Showtime in a heartbeat. HBO brings good shows and documentaries to their channel

[Breno G]

For such a gross mismatch that's a great number. That will obviously upset a large number on this forum who hate to see the sport succeed unless it's their mancrush.

this is one of the best comments I've seen here in a long time