Top 10 UK viewing figures for Boxing

Discussion in 'British Boxing Forum' started by atberry, Apr 15, 2010.


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  1. Scotty321

    Scotty321 Boxing Junkie Full Member

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  2. achillesthegreat

    achillesthegreat FORTUNE FAVOURS THE BRAVE Full Member

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    Promoters are too scared to release their footage.

    How many fans don't watch a football game but keep up on the weeks games just because of MOTD.

    MMA releases their footage and someone like MMA Live pick it all up every week and run all their fights and discuss them. If there was a British boxing show everyweek ******, Hennessey etc would all be cocks and not give them the highlights to the degree they should. They don't release it would see the fans buy into the fighters more because they would know what they are buying. Instead you get some **** marketing by Sky so they buy Haye vs Harrison or Haye vs Wlad and then we've lost those fans, in addition to Sky pulling out from PPV. It's all a knock on effect.
     
    achillesthegreat, Aug 14, 2011
    achillesthegreat, Aug 14, 2011
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  3. TBooze

    TBooze Obsessed with Boxing Full Member

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    His most fun fight was LaPorte, his best performance probably was the title win.
     
    TBooze, Aug 15, 2011
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  4. TIGEREDGE

    TIGEREDGE Boxing Addict Full Member

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    Was the Ali V Frazier fight shown live or on closed circuit theatres? Imn sure it was the latter

    The 27million would of watched it the next night. still amazing
     
    TIGEREDGE, Aug 15, 2011
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  5. jack365

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    But we literally had 2 tv channels, 3 at most. Grannies would be doing their knitting with the telly on, many not giving a **** about the boxing.
     
    jack365, Aug 15, 2011
    jack365, Aug 15, 2011
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  6. Larryboys

    Larryboys Well-Known Member Full Member

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    Calzaghe vs Lacy was about 2 million but it was on in the middle of the night. Calzaghe wasn't a name outside of boxing fans then really and was expected to lose. Khan's figures I can't remember, I do remember from the return to ITV Audley vs Williams getting a high 8 million and them getting lower after that, still not bad though, Williams vs Skelton was supposed to have had 6 million viewers.
     
    Larryboys, Aug 15, 2011
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  7. Scottrf

    Scottrf Boxing Addict Full Member

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    Well, I imagine the 27m assumes everyone within the household was watching, but no friends/neighbours etc.

    Whereas the 1.3m will be 1.3m households.

    Like for like, it's probably 27m vs 5m.
     
    Scottrf, Aug 15, 2011
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  8. Scottrf

    Scottrf Boxing Addict Full Member

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    Last 10 years, you'd probably have 3 or 4 Khan fights, Froch-Pascal, and a couple of Harrison fights.
     
    Scottrf, Aug 15, 2011
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  9. TBooze

    TBooze Obsessed with Boxing Full Member

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    Although they all probably did well against what they were competing against, I doubt any of them got near the top 10, with the possible exception of Harrison's debut.

    The soap operas and (club) Football matches do not tend to get them numbers, let alone boxing fights.
     
    TBooze, Aug 15, 2011
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  10. Scottrf

    Scottrf Boxing Addict Full Member

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    I'm not saying they would beat the original list, I'm talking about a list of fights from the last 10 years.
     
    Scottrf, Aug 15, 2011
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  11. Rutzini

    Rutzini Bob n Weave Full Member

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    19.5 million watched the 1985 snooker final!! Says it all really.
     
    Rutzini, Aug 15, 2011
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  12. Rasch

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    Rasch, Aug 15, 2011
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  13. atberry

    atberry Boxing Junkie banned Full Member

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    I don't get it, either.

    And what about all Ali's other fights (I know Foreman was on at 4am?)... like Frazier II, Frazier III, Norton, Bugner, Brian London or whatever... maybe they weren't live? Or maybe they were on too late?

    (Bruno-Bugner wasn't live! It was almost live.)
     
    atberry, Aug 15, 2011
    atberry, Aug 15, 2011
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  14. Davro

    Davro u wnt sum i`ll give it ya Full Member

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    His most watched fights seem to have been Laporte, Cabrera and Steve Cruz, but his title win was against Eusebio Pedroza ??


    anyone in a position to rank these fights in terms of anticipation in the UK, and then on the quality of the fight...?
     
    Davro, Aug 16, 2011
    Davro, Aug 16, 2011
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  15. Swansea Osprey

    Swansea Osprey Active Member Full Member

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    How do they rate the viewing figures for Pubs/City Centre Bars/Casino's etc ?
     
    Swansea Osprey, Aug 16, 2011
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