Crawford vs Benavidez Averages 2.245 Million Viewers

[KTFOKING]

Massive ratings win for @budcrawford402 and @trboxing, with Saturday's ESPN telecast as a whole averaging 2.245 million viewers. Second only to Horn-Pac for largest in series' young history, and far and away the most watched boxing event of 2018 on any platform. #boxing

— Jake Donován (@JakeNDaBox) October 16, 2018

Massive ratings for the card on Saturday. It definitely helped it was being led in by the Alabama game, but this is one of the advantages of fighting on ESPN. You will get these types of lead ins occasionally. ESPN ratings for the Top Rank series haven't been all that good, but the top guys continue to produce. Crawford/Lomachenko and obviously Pacman have done big ratings.

Good stuff.

[uppercut510]

good stuff but im sure some will find some way to speak negative of it

[mrpain81]

Good news.

The more boxing on network/basic cable will grow the sport.

[Redd Foxx]

I hope boxing on free TV can continue to make progress.

[Rip Chudd]

Darn good numbers. Wonder what it peaked at