Comments Thread For: Wilder's KO Of Breazeale Peaked At 990K Viewers For Showtime

[Sid-Knee]

When he fights Fury, Joshua, and maybe Ortiz. The gain is the growth and the money they will make off of broadcasting those three fights. Showtime lost money on every fight on the Mayweather deal but Cotto and Pac. When asked, they said the Pac fight paid for the entire deal alone. Its called investment, just like DAZN has been doing throwing big money around. Coukd the investment not pan out for Showtime or DAZN...sure, but you have to pay to play.

Well Wilder is f3cked. Fury won't be fighting off ESPN. And Hearn has said he'd fight on another platform only if Showtime can offer more than DAZN are willing to pay.

Looks like Espinosa is going to be getting his P45 soon enough with the money he's needlessly paying Wilder for absolutely no gains.

This is going to be a bumpy ride for him.

[markther]

I would need to study these numbers a little longer based on all the comparable data out there to offer a valuable opinion. So instead I will go back to masturbating...

[Sid-Knee]

Two first names? Must be a UK cupcake just like Joshua and Coke King Fury!

Don’t worry your heroes will share the same fate as Breazeale when the fight the fans want starts to consume the casuals interest!

What, like last time when Fury at 50% beat your hype job and made him look stupid? Then had him making ridiculous excuses that had us all laughing at the fool.

Don't worry, our "Hero's" will do the job that Wilder and Finkle themselves know they will. But when they're ready of course. People have to be patient remember. They still have some ducking to do to make sure their quacks are finely tuned.

[Chrismart]

[Jsmooth9876]

To compete with the western conference finals. An elimination game at that, Which a lot of mid casuals would choose over boxing especially a game like that with Golden state. I think those numbers are a lot better than they seem. Yet premium channels views that are the second highest are still not appreciated by casuals that act like they are hardcores boxing fans on bs smh

The warriors were up 3-0. Let's not act like it was a game 7.
Showtime has been slipping for over s year across the board. Wilder did like 1.2 last year and 790k this year and most their other cards are lucky to do 500-600k.

The people who were gonna watch the fight, tuned in, the ones who were watching the game, weren't that interested in the fight or they would have been watching.

[Ake-Dawg]

Well Wilder is f3cked. Fury won't be fighting off ESPN. And Hearn has said he'd fight on another platform only if Showtime can offer more than DAZN are willing to pay.

Looks like Espinosa is going to be getting his P45 soon enough with the money he's needlessly paying Wilder for absolutely no gains.

This is going to be a bumpy ride for him.

Time will tell. I tend to think they will be ok.

[Ake-Dawg]

The warriors were up 3-0. Let's not act like it was a game 7.
Showtime has been slipping for over s year across the board. Wilder did like 1.2 last year and 790k this year and most their other cards are lucky to do 500-600k.

The people who were gonna watch the fight, tuned in, the ones who were watching the game, weren't that interested in the fight or they would have been watching.

Kinda an oversimplification of the mind of a sports fan. Particularly given the closeness of each WCF game and the odds of Wilder winning.

[andocom]

I'm surprised by these numbers, his exposure must have grown after the Fury fight surely. The fact he has done 400k less than a year ago has to be very worrying for showtime especially when they are paying him $8M more than stiverne 2.

You can bring up google searches & youtube views etc all you want, thats not paying showtime if it doesn't convert into showtime viewers or buying tickets.

Hopefully this will increase pressure for an AJ or Fury fight.

[Detroit29]

This is good considering the Warriors Blazers game attracted so much attention. I was flipping back and forth between the fight and the game. Right after Wilder koed Breeze, i went right back to the game.

[DaNeutral.]

Fight would've easily gone over a million if the fight lasted longer. But these idiots don't understand that.

Only in boxing can Wilder get more viewers than Canelo for around the same price but it's considered a failure.

Shoulda woulda coulda. So Americans only buy their tickets last minute and wait until later in a fight to actually start watching it? A Deontay Wilder fight? Were they just looking to pick up on the later rounds? 11 or 12 maybe?