The days of boxing being the #1 sport in America are long gone. 99% of Americans have never heard of Broner.
That's a solid number. This was a holiday weekend, so Saturday night viewership was probably down across the board, but there were no major sports broadcast against it. The NBA was on their All Star break, football is off season, and baseball hasn't started.
It's good numbers considering you have to pay for HBO here in the US. Not super great, but far from bad.
all star weekend is probably the most viewed event in the NBA until the playoffs come. The Christmas games may top it as well
But nothing was going on against the fight whereas a typical Saturday night might have a Lakers game going against it and take a lot of LA viewers, for example. I like Broner. The kid is a star in the making, but comparing ratings is trickier than most people think.
that is a good point actually. I should know, because right when the dunk contest went off, I turned on the fight :yep
:good During baseball I often have to do picture in picture. West Coast games start about the same time as the fights.
Adamek-Cunningham was on NBC, which just about anyone who has a tv has, and it did between 3-4 million I believe.
I find that hard to believe 1.4 Million viewers but hey it is what it is right? too bad they didnt have **** for an audience there....
Cant place too much value in those numbers since its based on a contractual subscription of casual viewers to HBO. They will not know his real worth until broner gets his first PPV. The fight didnt garner much profit at the gate too.
How am I talking out of my ass? I haven't said anything that disagrees with what you're saying. HBO has approx 28 million subscribers. The biggest fights on HBO average around 1-1.5 million viewers. I was simply showing how many people tune in to watch boxing compared to the number of potential viewers. Showtime has around 20 million subscribers and has a slightly lower average number of people who watch their boxing output compared to HBO. I fully understand that 1.5 million viewers for a fight on HBO is very good numbers. Very good indeed. My point was just that the viewing numbers in Europe, on a p4p basis (if you will), appear to be better when you look at how many people tune in to watch the top European fights. There are 27 million households with ITV in England. When Amir Khan was fighting on ITV he was attracting between 3-5 million people. Of these 27 million 1.5 regularly tune in to watch Tyson Fury fight, with more than 2 millon watching his fight against Fury. As I said, the Klitschkos get up to 14 million viewers for their fights. However, I did also acknowledge that this wasn't necessarily a fair comparison, as there is a difference between fighting on premium cable and on standard tv. Even though the audience sizes are comparable, premium cable excludes a large amount of people who would potentially watch boxing but cannot afford a subscription. Free to air TV reaches across the entire cross section of society.