Comments Thread For: Crawford-Benavidez ESPN Show Averaged 2.245 Million Viewers

[umop-ap!sdn]

...I guarantee they were happy with 2 million+ viewers.

I agree. Not sure why people are complaining about the numbers. Its Crawford were talking about, not Pacquiao. Bud is not near as big of a name as yet, Bob is still working on getting his name up. This number is actually really good for CRAWFORD considdering he only had 950K viewers just over a year ago in a unification fight against an undefeated Ndongo to become the Undisputed champ. I'm sure it will only climb from here.

[Jsmooth9876]

This should convince then to stop putting Crawford on the app.

If they dont put people on the app, what will we keep paying for?
That reminds me, I gotta cancel that s h I t lol.

[MisanthropicNY]

The numbers aren't bad. I wonder what Crawford's numbers would be if he actually fought a real opponent that someone had heard of before?

[Bronx23]

Still 6 mil people tuned in. Just like 2 mil tuned in to watch Canelo Kirkland after the May/Pac replay. JUst like people tune in to TR cards after a major college football game. no different

The problem is people trying to credit that 6 million to people tuning in to see Spence which was not the case at all

[Pigeons]

Spence-Bundu averaged 4.8M (6.34M peak). Its lead-in was the Olympic men's basketball gold medal game.

His next fight, Spence-Brook, averaged 291K (337K peak).

[doom_specialist]

Good for everyone all around. Still though, it'd be nice to see fighters more than 1-2 times a year.

[Adamsc151]

I don't mind the PPV price to be honest. While you are correct that it is way overpriced compared to what you guys pay, we also don't have all that many of them now that Mayweather/Pacman are pretty much done. We will have had two PPVs all year, while there are almost 10 PPVs in the UK, possibly more. Heck, you guys have like four or five in a two month period which is crazy. Usyk/Bellew, Whyte/Chisora, Frampton/Warrington and Wilder/Fury.

Boxing is going to be just fine stateside. The ESPN and FOX deals will help it out, especially if we get top level match ups.

Faie play mate, there are too many shows classed as PPV's over here. If i were to book em all it'd prob total more over a year than PPV's in the US, so I try to pick and choose. Made 2 bad choices in buying AJ vs Parker and not buying Whyte vs Parker this year - but thats the risk when you want to try avoid an overspend

[Ray*]

First, Crawford-Postol PPV was a massive flop - 50-60k buys. Arum actually came out and said that he lost money.

Second, just because a boxer's biggest fight to date was on PPV doesn't mean that every fight will be. Just because Wilder-Fury is PPV doesn't mean Wilder-Brezeale will be.

You are absolutely right.

[teamindividual]

You very jealous because they like real sport and not some fake football

jealous of someone who watched a hughie fury fight? Lol!

[Boksfan]

jealous of someone who watched a hughie fury fight? Lol!

Nobody watch that bum lol.