Comments Thread For: Berchelt-Vargas Rematch Peaked At 1,099,000 Viewers

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The Miguel Berchelt-Francisco Vargas rematch drew a peak audience of over one million Saturday night. Nielsen Media Research revealed that ESPN's broadcast of Berchelt's technical-knockout victory over Vargas peaked at 1,099,000 viewers. Berchelt basically battered a faded Vargas until Vargas' trainer, Joel Diaz, instructed referee Jay Nady to stop their scheduled 12-round, 130-pound title fight following the fifth round.
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[Oldskoolg]

Good numbers well done

[ShoulderRoll]

Can we see how the ratings for ESPN's broadcast compared to other cable programs on at the same time?

Like they always do when comparing PBC fights to other major network shows?

[bigdunny1]

Can we see how the ratings for ESPN's broadcast compared to other cable programs on at the same time?

Like they always do when comparing PBC fights to other major network shows?

They finished 7th compared to all 100+ cable channels for the entire day and 3rd best for their specific time slot. Where as FOX finished dead last for their time and dead last for any program on Network TV. I don't think either numbers for ESPN or FOX are great. I would say ESPN is just ok while FOX are below avg. For Network TV you should be doing 2M avg viewers not 1.4M. And for Cable TV these fights should be doing 1M viewers NOT 740K. HBO did these type of numbers last year and ESPN is in much more homes and not a additional subscription cost on top of basic cable.

[bigdunny1]

What's funny is NASCAR on FOX's smaller cable channel FS1 drew drastically higher ratings then PBC did on FOX the bigger network with more viewers available to watch.

NASCAR starting at 7:35PM did 2.177M viewers on FS1
PBC starting at 8PM did 1.385M viewers on FOX

That should NOT happen where your cable channel sister station beats out your main Network station on prime time with both airing live sports no less.

[Worick]

They finished 7th compared to all 100+ cable channels for the entire day and 3rd best for their specific time slot. Where as FOX finished dead last for their time and dead last for any program on Network TV. I don't think either numbers for ESPN or FOX are great. I would say ESPN is just ok while FOX are below avg. For Network TV you should be doing 2M avg viewers not 1.4M. And for Cable TV these fights should be doing 1M viewers NOT 740K. HBO did these type of numbers last year and ESPN is in much more homes and not a additional subscription cost on top of basic cable.

Lmao shut him up pretty quick

[Worick]

Those seem like pretty good numbers. At the bar i was at people kept asking about the danm ufc fight

[Bob Haymon]

Good numbers based on what? Everyone was just saying how bad the PBC numbers supposedly were.

ESPN is in 75% as many homes as Fox, but their show did half as many viewers as the PBC show.

How can the PBC numbers be bad, but the ESPN numbers be good, if the ESPN show did half as many viewers?

The networks don't give a damn how many old people watch your show. Top Rank overperformed in most key demographics which is why it was ranked 7th on cable. PBC on the other hand underperformed in most key demographics and was barely in the top 10 for primetime on broadcast. It was out of the top 10 once you include late night(SNL) and daytime sports.

In the adults 18-49 category which is the most important category PBC only had 16% more viewers. The Berchelt-Vargas card also had a 5% higher rating in that category than PBC's previous card, Garcia-Granados. Berchelt doing better ratings than a potential PPV headliner is embarassing for PBC.

[Detroit29]

So this went head to head with PBC and lost by 1 million viewers? And nobody can say that Hurd and Williams are house hold names and they did 2 million homes. But but but PBC tho..will be dead in 2 years tho...tho..tho..tho...THO!!! #HAYMON #PBC

[Worick]

So this went head to head with PBC and lost by 1 million viewers? And nobody can say that Hurd and Williams are house hold names and they did 2 million homes. But but but PBC tho..will be dead in 2 years tho...tho..tho..tho...THO!!! #HAYMON #PBC

Do you have tourette's?