It's a shame Hughie Fury has been overshadowed by this weekend's boxing...

They have great sports fans in general. And those fans have embraced boxing.

 

BTW is Wilder achieving that much views in the USA?

 

That's not really a lot to be honest. Eurovision at the same time got 7.9 mill viewers. That game show Pointless got 4 mill earlier that evening.

Looking at Channel 5'S ratings The TV show Paddington Station 24/7 which is about the train station 3 weeks before in the same time slot did 1.55 mill. So Hughie Fury has the same appeal as a show about the workings of a train station.

 

Good performance, but if we are honest there's still a long way to go in terms of power.

At the moment he simply doesn't have enough to keep Joshua or Wilder off I think.

 

Thats taking things out of context. Eurovision is an enormous event that gets a lot of promotion and has been around since the 50s.
And gameshows and other programming tend to have a different audience.
As a sporting event, the 1.5 was completely fine.

TV in general is more for the casual viewer, not the sports fan. (More casuals viewers than sports fans).

 

Bit less on SHO. But Wilder is the biggest ratings draw on SHO and SHO has a distinct boxing ceiling. (That ceiling is a bit above 1.3m i believe)

 

I live in a different country but i was surprised how many young people are into it.(got a bit of a reminder)
It absolutely had to have some sort of an impact.

 

Yeah, I was joking about in the RBR thread, but honestly that was a VERY decent, slick showing, albiet against a C-Level fighter like you said....

 

Sexton is D level. A points win over Cornish is not C worthy.

 

You crunched the data through a computer, lol? D or C, Fury dealt with him better than I thought, and better than it looked for the first three rounds...

 

Exactly that is the point of the whole thread - that Fury overachieved people's expectations. I am not a Fury fan and I don't like his passive style, but his last fight was good. If we can see more fights like this from him, it would be good. The only thing that I am afraid of is that Sexton is actually becoming really bad and gets blasted in his next 5 fights which will make Fury's KO nothing special.

 

I also predicted a boring points win. In my opinion every single heavyweight has enough power to score a KO.

 

Well David Haye against Mark De Mori did 3 mill viewers on the Dave freeview channel.

Not saying it was terrible ratings, they are pretty solid ratings for a boxing event, but it's not a huge number.