Comments Thread For: Lomachenko-Linares Had Peak Viewership of 1,749,000 on ESPN

[120]

I agree as long as its at 140 at the lowest. Pacquiao/Crawford would be a sad destruction of an old great

Loma should stay away from 140 at least until late 2019. He needs to develop his body.
Mikey can go up there near 160 on fight night and hurt him.
But, given his track he most likely WILL challenge him at 140 which will be insane.

[MrShakeAndBake]

Those are some really good numbers! Make the rematch happen!

https://instagram.com/p/Bi2TgoLBVpB/

[Randall Cunning]

Loma should stay away from 140 at least until late 2019. He needs to develop his body.
Mikey can go up there near 160 on fight night and hurt him.
But, given his track he most likely WILL challenge him at 140 which will be insane.

I don't think its unreasonable to give Pacquiao a catchweight, hes a shell of his old self. Pacquiao at 135 is ******

[daggum]

mikey did 689k on showtime. loma needs to come to pbc/showtime to fight him. get some of that big money that is secretly thrown around in rumor mills

[Metho_4u]

Yeah no, gets him no where. Needs to keep taking heads to become bigger. Then maybe down the line.

I just think Linares gets stopped earlier, but he also stopped him. Linares put in a good showing, got KO'd and beaten up in the process
.The guy admitted to secretly training for him for a year, so if that's the best he can do, that's great, but it obviously wasn't enough.

[deanrw]

mikey did 689k on showtime. loma needs to come to pbc/showtime to fight him. get some of that big money that is secretly thrown around in rumor mills

Ok that made me LOL

[chimichanga2]

Mikey-Loma 2 Mill+ easy on ESPN.

[pepzz]

GGG #s it was 1.3m it says in this article lol...

Lol. I'm an idiot.

Thanks

[Boxing Logic]

Certainly the great matchup and increasing publicity around Lomachenko was the main factor in these numbers, but I think the start time probably had a lot to do with it as well. Something they should look at in the future, especially with ESPN. HBO/Showtime I get starting later, but this stuff should be in prime-time on the regular networks

I doubt it. Linares has more fans in the UK than the US, and there was a period of time where he only fought on TV in the UK fairly recently. Loma-Rigo did better numbers at a later start time. I think Loma's numbers suffered this time because he was going head to head with a UFC PPV.

[Boxing Logic]

I agree as long as its at 140 at the lowest. Pacquiao/Crawford would be a sad destruction of an old great

Pac says he can make 135 easy. The fight will be at 135. Pacquiao will be a lot better at 135 I think, vs guys his own size or much smaller like Loma. 147 was always a mistake for Pac, at least once he lost his prime stamina to keep outworking bigger men and wearing them down with 1,000 punches since he couldnt hurt them with single shots. But now he cant throw lots of punches anymore and he still cant hurt them badly enough with one punch, at least not enough to stop them, so 147 is now all wrong for him.

Pac-Loma should happen at 135, or at the highest a catchweight of 137 or 138. 137 or 138 Pacquiao can DEFINITELY make easily. 140 is just too high for Loma.