Although Eubank is respected now after the Thompson and Calzaghe etc fights, in the 80s a lot of people tuned in hoping to see him get beat.
From around that time: McGuigan-Laporte/ McGuigan-Taylor on BBC and Honeyghan-Bumphus/ Hatcher/ Blocker on ITV. They were all pretty big fights at the time.
hang on, is there a difference between the numbers here though? sounds like the 27 million number could be people who watched, wheres the 1.3million for hatton is PPV buys? and more than 1 set of eyes may have watched each PPV buy.
I would think a good 6-7 million people at least watched hatton Mayweather, I watched with it 5 mates and a lot of beers and i know a lot of people did the same. It was a very big fight of the kind that kids are allowed to stay up late to watch even birds at work watched it who would never normally watch a boxing match
This shows the benefits of fighters fighting on Terrestrial TV and why Eubank was one of the most famous faces in Britain and nobody knows who Carl Froch is
Dunno about a domestic game, but only England in a world cup semi final or final could draw more than Eubank v Benn 2