popularity of boxing

Aye, the days where men were men seems a long time ago.

 

The list of words and phrases that now (apparently) "may cause offence" is really quite something. Along these lines of thinking it's not at all strange that people view boxing as barbaric.

 

The Right to Be Offended has supplanted freedom of religion and the right to congregate in the US.

 

And that is the way it should be to a degree. But offence is not the issue as Stephen Fry points out:


http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=O-IX69mjpcA

The justification for boxing in a civilized world, was and is in part the 'general' lack of discrimination due to faith. It was the sport of the atheist, the sport of in the unoffended.

 

I'll check out the vid later but there is a distinction between justifiable offense and the sort of mental distortions of modern academia and the modern political scene. The concepts of scale an proportion are completely lost in thr pornography of whining. There is no end game but the exhaltation of weak egos. **** those people.

 

That is basically what the video is saying, indeed with the terms 'Whining' and '**** those people', you could be quoting from the video...

 

The absolute pinnacle will be reached when Wladimir Klitschko defends his crown against number one contender and legend Alex Leapai in the fight of this century.

Will you be able to tell your grandchildren that you watched the titanic struggle as it unfolded?

 

Just was able to check it out.

Yes, exactly!

 

What have I become? My sweetest friend.
Everyone I know ,goes away in the end.

 

Is Leapai really as bad as Firpo? Firpo is one of the worst filmed heavyweights I have ever seen. He does nothing right and he lacks any incredible physical gifts in comparison to even decent modern heavies.

 

Firpo had just beaten Weinert a clever boxer ,comebacking Jess Willard ,and held a win over Bill Brennan, that's a better resume than Leapai who has just Boytsov on his ledger ,and at 34 is unlikely to improve.

Remind me again,what were Boytsov's biggest wins? Would it be over 38years old trial horses Guinn ,and 39years old Wilson?

Boytsov is a manufactured , protected , over hyped journeyman level boxer , and he is the only name on Leapai's record!

 

Boxing was put on this earth solely because I exist. That should let you know how great boxing is

 

The whole division is **** right now.. And there's no getting around it. I know it sounds like the same old tired rhetoric that some of us have been ranting for the past 8-10 years, but I think now its truly become a reality. And making comparisons like " was it really as bad when Ali lost to Leon Spinks and fought Alfredo Evangelista?" won't help matters.. Sure there are better challengers than Alex Leapai, but does it really matter? Would you honestly stop what you're doing and park your arse in front of the TV to watch Wlad fight Pulev, Fury, or Adamek? Unless you're under the age of 27 or live in Chernobyl, one can't possibly consider this an exciting era of heavyweight boxing..

 

It still is as popular as it once was in America in other countries. I was looking up boxing ratings around the globe recently and tried to compile the data into one word document. Apparently Acelino Freitas' wedding did 55 million viewers in Brazil but I can't find the viewing figures for his fights there, which are reputed to be massive.

Phillipines

According to the Nielson ratings 13 of the top 50 televised shows in the Philippines since 1992 have been Pacquiao fights. Out of a population of 96.71 million here's the percent that watched the fights.

1 ABS-CBN Manny Pacquiao vs. Erik Morales 2005 83.5%
17 ABS-CBN Manny Pacquiao vs. Oscar Larios 2006 54.4%
20 RPN9 Manny Pacquiao vs. Marco Antonio Barrera 2003 52.9%
27 GMA-7 Manny Pacquiao vs. Miguel Cotto 2009 50.4%
28 GMA-7 Ricky Hatton vs. Manny Pacquiao 2009 49.8%
29 GMA-7 Manny Pacquiao vs. Marco Antonio Barrera II 2007 49.5%
29 ABS-CBN Manny Pacquiao vs. Erik Morales III 2006 49.5%
34 GMA-7 Manny Pacquiao vs. Juan Manuel Márquez II 2008 48.5%
38 GMA-7 Manny Pacquiao vs. David Diaz 2008 46.4%
38 GMA-7 Manny Pacquiao vs. Antonio Margarito 2010 46.4%
40 GMA-7 Oscar De La Hoya vs. Manny Pacquiao 2008 45.6%
44 ABS-CBN Manny Pacquiao vs Erik Morales II 2006 44.7%
47 GMA-7 Manny Pacquiao vs. Juan Manuel Marquez III 2011 43.7%
Manny Pacquiao vs. Juan Manuel Marquez IV - (GMA-7) - 37.8%[4] (2012)

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of...in_Mega_Manila

GMA-7 Manny Pacquiao vs. Joshua Clottey 41.3%
GMA-7 Manny Pacquiao vs. Juan Manuel Márquez IV 35.9%
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kantar_Media_Philippines#List_of_Highest_Rated_Show

6/10/12 GMA-7 Manny Pacquiao vs Timothy Bradley 34.5%
11/24/13 GMA-7 Manny Pacquiao vs Brandon Rios 43.4%
5/8/11 GMA-7 Manny Pacquiao vs Shane Mosley 30.9%

7/7/12 ABS-CBN Nonito Donaire Jr. vs. Jeffrey Mathebula 29.1%
4/13/13 ABS-CBN Nonito Donaire Jr. vs. Guillermo Rigondeaux 28.9%
10/13/12 ABS-CBN Nonito Donaire Jr. vs. Toshiaki Nishioka 28.8%
8/15/09 GMA-7 Nonito Donaire Jr. vs. Rafael Concepcion 27.6%
2/4/12 ABS-CBN Nonito Donaire Jr. vs. Wilfredo Vazquez 26.2%
2/13/10 ABS-CBN Nonito Donaire Jr. vs. Manuel Vargas 26.0%
2/19/11 ABS-CBN Nonito Donaire Jr. vs. Fernando Montiel 25.7%
10/22/11 ABS-CBN Nonito Donaire Jr. vs. Omar Andres Narvaez 25.4%
11/09/13 Nonito Donaire Jr. vs Vic Darchinyan 23.6%
12/15/12 ABS-CBN Nonito Donaire Jr. vs Jorge Arce 29.7%

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_o...program_conducted_by_Kantar_Media_Philippines
http://archive.is/XnD73

9/20/09 ABS-CBN Floyd Mayweather Jr vs Juan Manuel Marquez 32.6%

Japan

Top Japanese boxing 1960-2010 from top 15 sports programs
Boxing WCM Harada vs Jeophre May 31, 1966 Fuji TV 63.7% rating
Boxing WCM Harada vs Radkin Nov 30 1965 Fuji TV 60.4% rating
Boxing WCM Harada vs Caraballo July 4, 1967 Fuji TV 57% rating
Boxing WCM Harada vs Jeophre May 18, 1965 Fuji TV 54.9% rating
Boxing WCM Harada vs Medel Jan 3, 1967 Fuji TV 53.9% rating
Boxing WCM Harada vs Rodes Feb 27, 1968 Fuji TV 53.4% rating
http://books.google.com/books?id=WU...vision ratings" world champion boxing&f=false

8/10/11 Kazuto Ioka's vs Juan Hernandez TBS a 16.6 percent viewer rating.
12/4/12 Koki Kameda vs Hugo Ruiz 20% 10-13 million viewers

Yoko Gushiken vs Rios 43%
11/29/09 Koki Kameda vs Daisuke Naito 43.1% Tokyo Broadcasting System
Koki Kameda vs Juan Jose Landaeta 42%
01/27/80 Golden Dragon High-hyun vs Gushiken 41%
12/04/94 Joichiro Tatsuyoshi vs Yasuei Yakushiji 39%
02/11/90 Tyson vs Douglas 38%
Gushiken vs Vargas 38%
Flores vs Gushiken 36%
All Kameda bros card 33%
Barukasu vs Gushiken 32%
http://www.boxingforum24.com/showthread.php?t=451346

8/31/11 Koki Kameda vs David 16.7%
01/31/2011 Boxing Miura , Shimoda, Uchiyama Lee 7.6%
I0/11/11 Sho Ioka Ioka, Oredon Boxing 10.9%
08/10/11 a Sho fan Hernandez's first world title defense against Sho-Ioka Ioka a boxing 16.6%
12/07/11 World Title Match Takeshi Kamedao × Teparitto 14.7% 3 times that day 10.2%, 9.8%
11/06/11 Esquivel Yamanaka × × Bosukiero-Ao The REAL • World Championship Boxing Nippon Television 8.4
04/08/11 Ao Sen war Nishioka × Gonzalez & Hozumi Hasegawa World Championship Boxing 10.5%
11/06/11 Yamanaka x Ao Real World Championship Boxing 8.4%

2006 Koki Kameda vs Juan Landaeta 30+%
09/19/1991 Joichiro Tatsuyoshi vs Greg Richardson 15% and 30% against Victor Rabanales and Daneiel Zaragoza

Ukraine

10-11-12 Wlad Klitchko vs Marius Wach on Inter tv 50.7 share = 10.6 million viewers over 18.
08-09-12 Vitali Klitschko vs Manuel Charr did a 45.2 share.
02-18-12 Vitali Klitschko vs Dereck Chisora 14.54 million viewers and a 52.7% share.
03-03-12 Wladimir Klitschko vs Jean Marc Mormeck 9.28 million and a 32.8% share.
07-07-12 Wlad Klitschko vs Tony Thompson 8.63 million and 48.03% of viewers.
http://allboxing.ru/archives/2012-11-13_07_54.html

07-12-08 Wlad Klitschko vs Thompson: Ukraine 59.5% 7,100,000 viewers Inter channel, Germany 54.1%10 million people RTL channel.
http://www.boxnews.com.ua/en/interv...-Klitschko-a-big-hand-for-about-forty-minutes

Mexico

2011-03-05 Saul Alvarez vs Matthew Hatton 24 million mexican viewers
2013-09-14 Mayweather vs Alvarez 77 percent share, 22.1 million viewers on Televisa Channel 5
2013-04-20 Trout vs Alvarez 28 point rating and over 15 million viewers

2012-02-04 Julio Cesar Chavez Jr vs Marco Antonio Rubio 19 million viewers
2011-11-19 Chavez Jr vs Peter Manfredo Jr did 18 million viewers in Mexico
2011-11-12 Pacquioa vs Marquez III in Nov. 2011 did 33 or 37.1 million viewers in Mexico on Azteca 7
2010-11-13 Pacquiao vs Margarito 32.4 million viewers in Mexico

Argentina

09/15/12 Martinez vs Chavez Jr 13 million viewers. 25.5 rating at TyC and 14.1 rating at Direct TV
4/27/13 Channel Seven Martinez vs Martin Murray 24.7 rating

Russia

Wlad Klitschko vs Povetkin 8.7 million 33% share
Ruslan Provodnikov vs Mike Alvarado 1.6 million

Poland
10/24/2009 Tomasz Adamek vs Andrew Golota 8 million
Polstat Sport PPV Wlad Klitschko vs Alexander Povetkin 816,000

Ireland
3/21/2009 RTE Bernard Dunne vs Ricardo Cordoba 600,000 out of a nation of 6 million

Croatia
Vitali Klitschko vs. Charr had 500,000 viewers in Croatia and their total population is 4 million.

Australia
1/30/13 FoxSports.com.au (PPV) Daniel Geale vs Anthony Mundine 2 186,000 viewers. The superbowl that week was the number 2 show on air and only got 117K viewers.

New Zealand
12/11/00 David Tua vs Lennox Lewis 1,841,000 out of a population of 7 million. #4 most watched tv show all time.

 

These numbers for the UK were compiled by somebody else. I put a link to were I found them.

UK

UK record viewing figures in millions from The People newspaper
Ali v Frazier 1971 BBC 27.3
McGuigan v Cabrera 1986 BBC 18.3
McGuigan v Pedroza 1985 BBC 18.0
Eubank v Benn 1993 ITV 16.3
Malinga v Eubank 1992 ITV 13.3
Benn v McClellan 1995 ITV 13.1
Rocchigiani v Eubank 1994 ITV 12.3
Eubank v Close 1993 ITV 11.5
Eubank v Thornton 1992 ITV 10.3
Eubank v Holmes 1993 ITV 10.1,
Bruno v Marin 1995 ITV 10.1
http://www.cookstable.co.uk/boxing-news/boxing-on-tv/

Figures from Sky in 2010

I can only show figures when they are listed, they have to be in the top 10 for the channel they were shown on.
Date – Event – Figures – Where it stands in top 10 for that Channel - Promoter

13/02 Big Fight Live (Cleverly, Mitchell, Degale etc.) – 222,000 (SS1 #6) Frank ******
13/02 FNF Replay (Daws-Cook) Saturday 29,000 (SS2 #9) Matchroom
26/02 Prizefighter (Light Middles) – 147,000 (SS1 #6) Matchroom
09/04 Big Fight Live (Sprott-Harrison) – 274,000 (SS1 #8 ) Matchroom
12/04 Haye-Ruiz replay – 55,000 (SS2 #4) Hayemaker
30/04 Prizefighter (Cruiserweights) – 152,000 (SS2 #4) Matchroom
02/05 Mosley-Mayweather Replay – 99,000 (SS2 #7) Golden Boy
15/05 Mitchell-Katsidis – 272,000 (SS1 #8 ) Frank ******
16/05 Khan-Mallignagi Replay (second replay one earlier on ITV1) – 349,000 (ITV4 #2) Golden Boy
04/06 Hall-Napa - 90,000 (SS2 #5) Matchroom
11/06 McCloskey-Lauri - 112,000 (SS2 #1) Matchroom
25/06 Fury-McDermott II - 118,000 (SS2 #2) Frank Maloney
31/06 Prizefighter (Super Middleweights) - 112,000 (SS1 #7) Matchroom
02/07 McDonnell-Bracco - 66,000 (SS2 #3) Frank Maloney
09/07 Laws-Williams - 59,000 (SS2 #6) Matchroom
16/07 Hatton-Nuzhenko - 166,000 (SS1 #4) Hatton Promotions
23/07 Hall-Power - 89,000 (SS2 #7) Frank Maloney
04/09 Roman Martinez-Ricky Burns - 141,000 (SS1 #6) Replay 44,000 (SS2 #10) Frank ******
11/09 Wladimir Klitschko-Samuel Peter & Steve Molitor-Jason Booth - 202,000 (SS1 #6) Frank Maloney
24/09 Tony Bellew-Bob Ajisafe - 161,000 (SS1 #9) Frank ******
02/10 Levan Kirakosyan-Stephen Foster - 139,000 (SS1 #10) Hatton Promotions
23/10 Liam Walsh-Maxwell Awuku - 131,000 (SS1 # 8 ) Frank ******
24/10 Toshiaki Nishioka-Rendall Munroe Replay @ 18:30 - 44,000 (SS3 #6) Frank Maloney
20/11 Prizefighter (Super Featherweights) - 102,000 (SS1 #9) Matchroom

Figures from Sky in 2011

22/01/2011 Jamie McDonnell-Stephane Jamoye - 124,000 (SS1 #9) Frank Maloney
29/01/2011 Prizefighter - Light Heavyweights - 117,000 (SS1 #9) Matchroom
05/02/2011 Jason Booth-Jamie Arthur - Did not make Top 10 (10# SKY SPORTS NEWS AT SEVEN 92,000)
12/02/2011 Watson-Crolla - Did not make Top 10 (10# LIVE MILLENNIUM MAGIC SUPER LEAGUE 140,000)
19/02/2011 Gavin-Lomax - Did not make Top 10 (10# Gillette Soccer Special 134,000)
26/02/2011 Foster-Fegatilli - Did not make Top 10 (10# GILLETTE SOCCER SPECIAL 180,000)
05/03/2011 Gary Sykes-Carl Johanneson - Did not make Top 10 (10# LIVE SUPER LEAGUE 144,000)
12/03/2011 Ricky Burns-Joseph Laryea - Did not make Top 10 (10# LIVE SUPER LEAGUE 140,000)
19/03/2011 Liam Walsh-Jon Kays & Vitali Klitschko-Odliander Solis - 168,000 (SS1 #8 ) Frank ******/K2
23/03/2011 Prizefighter The Super Middleweights - Did not make Top 10 (10# Goals on Sunday 186,000)
26/03/2011 Denton Vassell-Bethuel Ushona - 56,000 (SS2 #7) Hatton Promotions
02/04/2011 John Murray-Karim El Ouazghari - Did not make Top 10 (10# LIVE SUPER LEAGUE 179,000)
09/04/2011 Stuart Hall-John Donnelly - 46,000 (SS3 #6) Frank Maloney
16/04/2011 Ringside - 61,000 (SS2 # 8 )
30/04/2011 Darren Barker-Domenico Spada - Did not make Top 10 (10# LIVE SUPER LEAGUE 155,000)
07/05/2011 International Prizefighters Heavyweights - 170,000 (SS1 #9)
08/05/2011 Manny Pacquiao-Shane Mosley Replay - 58,000 (SS2 #9)
13/05/2011 Sam Webb-Prince Arron - Did not make Top 10 (10# GOALS ON SUNDAY 168,000)
22/05/2011 Jean Pascal-Bernard Hopkins Delayed Coverage - 30,000 (SS4 # 8 ) Golden Boy/InterBox
28/05/2011 Jamie McDonnell-Nick Otieno - 83,000 (SS2 #9) Frank Maloney
04/06/2011 Gavin Rees-Andy Murray/Mikkel Kessler-Mehdi Bouadla/Carl Froch-Glen Johnson - 148,000 (SS1 #10) Matchroom
05/06/2011 Froch-Johnson replay - 57,000 (SS2 #9) and 41,000 (SS4 #5)
07/07/2011 Prizefighter The Welterweights - 111,000 (SS2 #4) Matchroom
11/06/2011 Price-Dallas - Did not make Top 10 (SS2 10# 87,000 LIVE UEFA EURO U21S-BELARUS V ICELAND)
11/06/2011 Price-Dallas replay - 38,000 (SS4 #6) Frank Maloney
18/06/2011 Murray-Blackwell - Did not make Top 10 (SS1 #10 - 152,000 LIVE ENG V SL TEST CRICKET)
19/06/2011 Alvarez-Rhodes - 50,000 (SS3 #6)
23/06/2011 Ringside - 48,000 (SS3 #4) Replay 20,000 (SS4 #7)
25/06/2011 Brook-N'Dou & Sturm-Macklin - 133,000 (SS2 #1) Matchroom
26/06/2011 Haye-Valuev - 30,000 (SS3 #9) & 18,000 (SS4 #9)
29/06/2011 Ringside - 52,000 (SS3 #4) 30/6/11 - 51,000 (SS2 #4) & 03/07/11 - 38,000 (SS2 #9)
01/07/2011 Ringside Klitschko-Haye Countdown - 107,000 (SS1 #9) & 16,000 (SS4 #9)
16/07/2011 Murray-Mitchell - 190,000 (SS1 #6) & 17/07/2011 Replay - 30,000 (SS4 #7)

05/09/2011 McDonnell-Hall - Did not make Top 10 - (SS1 #10 - 94,000 GOALS ON SUNDAY)
12/09/2011 McCloskey-Prescott & Klitschko-Adamek - 193,000 (SS2 #2)
15/09/2011 Prizefighter The Light Middleweights II - Did not make Top 10 (SS1 #10 - 89,000 GILLETTE SOCCER SPECIAL)
17/09/2011 Smith-Selby - Did not make Top 10 Live (SS1 #10 - 89,000 GILLETTE SOCCER SPECIAL) 19/09/2011 Replay - 27,000 (SS4 #10)
24/09/2011 Sykes-Buckland - 86,000 (SS2 #8 )
01/10/2011 Rees-Mathews - Did not make Top 10 Live (SS1 #10 - 115,000 THE SUNDAY SUPPLEMENT) 02/10/2011 Replays - 33,000 (SS3 #7) and 36,000 (SS4 #4)
08/10/2011 Brook-Jackiewicz - Did not make Top 10 (SS1 #10 - 147,000 LIVE WORLD GRAND PRIX DARTS)
12/10/2011 Prizefighter The Super Flyweights - 102,000 (SS1 #10)
22/10/2011 Booth-Quigg - Did not make Top 10 (SS1 10 # 88,000 LIVE EUROPEAN TOUR GOLF)
29/10/2011 Prizefighter The Featherweights - Did not make Top 10 Live (SS1 #10 - 144,000 LIVE FOUR NATIONS RUGBY LEAGUE) 30/10/2011 Replay - 37,000 (SS3 #8 )
12/11/2011 - Vassell-Colomban - 123,000 (SS2 #4)
02/12/2011 - Sturm-Murray - 141,000 (SS1 #8 )
03/12/2011 - Arron-Rose - 126,000 (SS1 #10)
11/12/2011 - Khan-Peterson - 237,000 (SS1 #5) Replay - 38,000 (SS3 #4)
18/12/2011 - Ward-Froch - 248,000 (SS1 #5) Replays - 44,000 (SS2 #10) 21,000 (SS4 #7)

Channel 5
23/07/2011 Chisora-Fury - 2,220,000 (Channel 5 #1)
17/09/2011 Fury-Firtha - 1,030,000 (Channel 5 #24)
12/11/2011 Fury-Pajkic - 1,736,000 (Channel 5 #6)

ITV with Fat Mick

04/10/09 Thaxton-Melero 295,000 (ITV4 #5)
08/11/09 Williams-Sosnowski 260,000 (ITV4 #10)
17/01/09 Murray-McAllister 405,000 (ITV4 #2)
28/02/09 Thaxton-Mezaache 369,000 (ITV4 #7)
11/04/09 Watson-O’Donnell 260,000 (ITV4 #10)
23/05/09 Barker-McDermott 204,000 (ITV4 #10)
13/06/09 Murray-Lawton 231,000 (ITV 4 #10)
18/07/09 McIntosh-Cleverly 406,000 (ITV4 #7)
05/09/09 O’Donnell-Glover 330,000 (ITV4 #10)
03/10/09 Murray-Thaxton 212,000 (ITV4 #5)
28/11/09 Barker-Butler 299,000 (ITV #5)

Figures during FW's tenure on ITV

10/12/2005 Harrison-Williams 6.1million (ITV1 #21)
28/01/2006 Jennings-Mutley 270,000 (ITV4 #1)
18/02/2006 Arthur-Burns 243,000 (ITV4 #3)
25/02/2006 Skelton-Williams 193,000 (ITV4 #7)
11/03/2006 Pryce-Duran 210,000 (ITV4 #6)
29/04/2006 Arthur-Guliakevich 257,000 (ITV4 #3)
13/05/2006 Mitchell-Kirkorov 211,000 (ITV4 #8 )
01/06/2006 Hobson-Keeton 140,000 (ITV4 #9)
08/09/2006 Hobson-Pavlokovic 181,000 (ITV4 #7)
18/02/2007 Sprott-Harrison 493,000 (ITV4 #1)
10/03/2007 Matthews-Simpson 223,00 (ITV4 #5)
14/07/2007 Khan-Limmond 3.5 million (ITV1 #26)
21/07/2007 Maccarinelli-Braithwaite 333,000 (ITV4 #5)
08/12/2007 Khan-Earl 4.14 million (ITV1 #22)
02/02/2008 Khan-St Clair 4.15 million (ITV1 #29)
05/04/2008 Khan-Kristjansen 4.37 million (ITV1 #21)
21/06/2008 Khan-Gomez 3.98 million (ITV #18 )
http://www.boxingforum24.com/showthread.php?t=231724