Boxing's 2011 TV Ratings: Numbers and Analysis for HBO, Showtime, ESPN and Pay-Per-View

ESPN Friday Night Fights
Date Main Event Viewers
1/7 Ruslan Provodnikov vs Mauricio Herrera 545,000
1/14 Peter Manfredo Jr vs Daniel Edouard 788,000
1/28 Chris Arreola vs Joey Abell 734,000
2/4 Sergio Mora vs Brian Vera 611,000
2/11 Antonin Decarie vs Shamone Alvarez 475,000
2/18 Fernando Guerrero vs Derrick Findley 603,000
3/4 Ismayl Sillakh vs Yordanis Despaigne 596,000
3/18 Brad Solomon vs Demetrius Hopkins 522,000
3/25 Erislandy Lara vs Carlos Molina 421,000
4/22 Breidis Prescott vs Bayan Jargal 706,000
5/13 Kendall Holt vs Julio Diaz 347,000
7/8 Jesus Gonzales vs Francisco Sierra 549,000
7/15 Pawel Wolak vs Delvin Rodriguez 525,000
7/22 Anthony Dirrell vs Kevin Engel 545,000

HBO World Championship Boxing & Boxing After Dark
1/29 Timothy Bradley vs Devon Alexander 1,345,000
2/19 Fernando Montiel vs Nonito Donaire 1,020,000
3/5 Saul Alvarez vs Matthew Hatton 1,381,000
4/16 Andre Berto vs Victor Ortiz 1,542,000
5/21 Jean Pascal vs Bernard Hopkins II 1,837,000
6/4 Sebastian Zbik vs Julio Cesar Chavez Jr 1,497,000
6/18 Saul Alvarez vs Ryan Rhodes 1,550,000
7/2 Wladimir Klitschko vs David Haye (Same-Day Replay) 1,242,000

Showtime Championship Boxing
Date Main Event Viewers
2/26 Miguel Acosta vs Brandon Rios 709,000
5/14 Andre Ward vs Arthur Abraham 610,000

Full Article here:
http://www.badlefthook.com/2011/8/18/2370050/boxing-tv-ratings-nielsen-2011-hbo-showtime-espn-friday-night-fights

Are these good ?

Ali wrote:

Are these good ?

ESPN's for sure

Quote :

Loughrey says that
overall, the ratings are up for their cards in 2011, "It’s funny because
you can have great fights and the fight itself doesn’t rate from an
overall standpoint. Like early on in the year, we had the [Peter]
Manfredo [Jr.]-[Daniel] Edouard fight, which did a great rating for us,
which is a .55. [Chris] Arreola did that .55 area." As for the fight
that perhaps caused the most buzz for this series, the epic battle
between Delvin Rodriguez and Pawel Wolak on July 15th (which
ended in a draw and was replayed on ESPN’s family of networks the next
week), Loughrey added, "Rodriguez-Wolak did a .45 but the good news is
for boxing and for us, from a company standpoint, is we’re up
approximately ten percent this year for ratings on ESPN. And to me,
what’s most significant, the 18-to-34 demo is up 19 percent and
18-to-49, up 22 percent."

They spend like 60k a show

Compared to HBO with their $30 million something budget

Showtime's #s are also real good. I think Rios vs Antillon did a bit better than the Acosta fight, 750k or so