Comments Thread For: CBS "Final Four" Segment, With Wilder, Averages 13.77M Viewers

[pillowfists98]

Wilder fans are hilarious. Celebrating viewing numbers for a ****ing interview during a basketball game lol. Meanwhile Joshua vs Miller is selling more tickets than Wilder Breazeale even at 3x the cost.

[SchoolTheseCats]

That thing sold 350k man. I like Spence but that ain't big-time numbers and that was with 2 of the biggest stars in the sport fighting.

I think Mikey was the bigger star going in to the fight. Most people agree with me. I think he had more of a fan base.

Sold over 400k and for both guys first ppv that’s a lot, you saying Garcia is the bigger star but his viewership numbers are lower than Spence.... Even if we use your 350k number just look at numbers for Pac-Man,Mayweather,Cotto first ppv and see how much people bought there’s..... You doing a lot of backflipping and can’t answer how you came to conclusion that people who bought fight did so because of Garcia

[YOU WILL LOSE]

i guarantee it was the lowest watched segment of the telecast.!!

[mrlopez]

Wilder fans are hilarious. Celebrating viewing numbers for a ****ing interview during a basketball game lol. Meanwhile Joshua vs Miller is selling more tickets than Wilder Breazeale even at 3x the cost.

Not just any basketball game either lol Viewers would've turned in regardless of the bumpkin speaking...its the final four ffs

[Boxing_1013]

Sold over 400k and for both guys first ppv that’s a lot, you saying Garcia is the bigger star but his viewership numbers are lower than Spence.... Even if we use your 350k number just look at numbers for Pac-Man,Mayweather,Cotto first ppv and see how much people bought there’s..... You doing a lot of backflipping and can’t answer how you came to conclusion that people who bought fight did so because of Garcia

http://www.espn.com/boxing/story/_/i...60000-ppv-buys

Whatever you have to tell yourself man.

I literally just answered you lol. If you think Spence is on the road to Mayweather or Pac numbers, hey man God bless, we will see.

In the mean time, work on your grammar dawg if you are trying to claim intellectual superiority and insult someone's intelligence on here.

[Boxing_1013]

Wilder fans are hilarious. Celebrating viewing numbers for a ****ing interview during a basketball game lol. Meanwhile Joshua vs Miller is selling more tickets than Wilder Breazeale even at 3x the cost.

Lol I mean I think it is some good potential exposure for Wilder but your comment made me laugh too. But then again I'm not really a Wilder fan

[jmrf4435]

It's the type of ratings that any boxing executive would kill for-and the type of exposure that helps at least partially justifies Deontay Wilder's choosing autonomy over money. The unbeaten heavyweight titlist was prominently featured in CBS' "NCAA Final Four Basketball-Bridge" segment in between Saturday's pair of tournament semifinals games. The show averaged 13.77 million viewers according to Nielsen Media Research, making it the second most-watched primetime telecast for the week of April 1-7, trailing only Texas Tech's win over Michigan State.
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lol-This is the mot misleading title ever.

'WHO THE FCK IS THAT" was probably most people reaction then "turn the damn game back on".

[TexasCowBoy]

I think all of that is good exposure and will help. But I think if either Spence or Wilder was going to be a big star, then by this point they would have much more traction by now.

I brought up Spence because quite a few people on here were saying that the Mikey fight made him a PPV guy, like him and Porter would be PPV. I don't know if that fight would do 30k on PPV.

Like I said all of that exposure is good and that is an impressive number for Wilder, but I think anyone saying Wilder or Spence is on track to be a PPV guy, I mean I don't see it.

The cost of buying a PPV vs pirating it online is just killing a lot of guys' chances of becoming a big PPV guy. These streaming services could really help all these guys make money. Wilder passing on that offer from DAZN, if he is thinking he will be a PPV guy, I think that is a very risky and foolish tract/path to take. He's 33 he doesn't have much time left to make his money.

I think the main PPV buyers now are bars/restaurants, those are the places that really take the numbers high. Besides Joshua I don't see who Wilder can possibly fight to really make big money, and that is because Joshua is the number 1 or 2 star in the sport.

The only black PPV boxing star was Floyd and he made it because 90% of the people were tuning in to see him lose. These guys thinking they are going to follow Floyd's path and make even close to his money are off if they are trying to go PPV. I think they are going to cost themselves a lot of money compared to what somewhere like DAZN is offering.

Great Comment....mayweather (mediocre skills with carefully selected opponents, lost twice, Once to Oscar and Once to Castillo) was a marketing ploy that worked out beautifully , PBC has tried to duplicate the same scheme but people are already hip to this scheme....the Boxing fans wanna see quality fights but PBC keeps on putting these mismatches and with the We Be Corrupt facilitating these mismatches Us fans are left to pick and I have picked DAZN.....ESPN also because I like the way Lomachenko fights and I believe Loma is the best fighter in the game

[IMDAZED]

No one in basketball tuned in for Wilder.

That's kinda the point.

[DaNeutral.]

Well there is no need to down play this. It is good exposure for Wilder and thats alot of people tuning in to watch the game. My question is why were they not promoting Wilder like this 10-15 fights ago? He has a very experienced management team around him so whats took so long? Its as if they purposely kept him in the background for most of his career and only now he is reaching his mid 30.s with over 40 fights are they showing him off like some young up and coming star.

Thats what doesnt make sense to me. People call him management incompetent but we know they are far from it, they have not made mistakes with Wilders career they meant to hold him back but i just dont know why.