Broner-Rees had 1.4 million viewers

Broner-Rees had very little in terms of promotion. I'm sure every Klit fight in Germany gets the 24/7 treatment. Not saying with promotion it would have done Klit type of numbers but you catch my drift.

 

Misleading. It was all the Sjekloca fans tuning in.

 

Exactly Rees was an unknown to the American public his first fight in the USA was against Broner. With solid promotion and a more well known opponent he would do much better numbers.

 

Huh? Just because you have an HBO subscription doesn't mean that you're going to watch everything that comes on. Take me for example. These days, I only subscribe to HBO for boxing. You couldn't pay me to watch most of the other **** that comes on the network.

 

Of course. And the Klitschkos are not a fair comparison to Broner anyway. Mayweather is a fairer comparison as both are regarded as celebrities in their region. But we can't really compare the viewing figures as Floyd fights on PPV and Germany doesn't have PPV.

What's interesting is when Hatton fought Mayweather the fight sold 920,000 PPV in America to a potential audience of £28 million, whereas it sold 1.2 million in Britain to a potential audience of 10 million.

 

Again, you're talking out of your ass. Not even the Super Bowl gets 100% viewership. The NFL playoffs averaged about 40 million viewers in the US this year.

However, I do agree that boxing is not a popular sport to watch on television in the US. That has to do with the fact all of the relevant fights have been hidden away on cable, premium cable or PPV for the last thirty years. The promoters have destroyed the sport's mainstream popularity in the US. People are trained only to pay attention to one or two big PPV draws.

 

I am the same as i only have HBO and SHO for boxing, but if you look at the amount of people subscribed to HBO(not only for boxing) 1.4 mil is nothing, especially when they had that Beyonce special leading it, which probably tuned a lot of heads in.

 

Exactly, which is the same with any TV audience anywhere - boxing is only going to appeal to a certain percentage of them. The size of that percentage is an indicator of the sport's popularity.

 

Yeah, but that's still not a fair comparison. As you mentioned before, UK fighters get more exposure on broadcast television.

You keep conflating what good numbers in the US are for boxing, which is what this thread is about, with what good numbers for boxing are in other countries. Any American here will concede that boxing is not a popular sport in the US.

BTW how much did the Hatton/Mayweather PPV cost in the UK?

 

Again, what am I talking out of my ass about? I was simply saying that out of a potential audience of 300 million 3-4 tuned in to watch that fight.

Where did I say anything about 100% viewership? That would be ridiculous.

My point that in caparison to other parts of the world, there is not a very big audience for boxing on TV. You seem to completely agree with me.

 

This is a more logical comparision (PBF/Manny v Kbros), even that is not very good . . . you should compare the bros to Tyson/Holyfield. Broner is only an up and comer, to draw 1.4 mill is fantastic. I think Canelo and Broner and starting to take the mantle of the biggest box office draws . . . if they keep winning that is

 

And I'll readily concede that it's not a popular sport in the US. That doesn't change the fact that Broner's ratings on HBO were good in the context of the standard for boxing broadcasts in the US. How many people watch Tyson Fury or the Klitchkos on TV in Europe really isn't relevant to this discussion.

 

Pretty sure most people just tuned in to watch Rees.

Seriously, boxing in America is ****ed up. it seems they make more money when less people watch.