Yuri Foreman vs Miguel Cotto gets good ratings

The first fight at Yankee Stadium in more than three decades generated the highest rating of the year for HBO, which broadcast the ballpark doubleheader.

The main event that saw Miguel Cotto defeat Yuri Foreman for the junior middleweight title, along with Vanes Martirosyan’s victory over Joe Greene on the undercard, generated a 3.9 rating for the premium cable network.

That equates to about 1.9 million viewers between the live telecast Saturday night and the replay Sunday morning.

The rating measures the percentage of all homes with televisions tuned into a program.

It was the first night of boxing at Yankee Stadium since September 1976, when Muhammad Ali defeated Ken Norton at the old ballpark that has since been torn down.

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Yet another HBO fight featuring a latin star delivers the ratings.

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Yet another HBO fight featuring a latin star delivers the ratings.

Before Saturday Khan's fight was the highest of the year.

Yep

Yankee Stadium put it over the top

Cotto is a star, coming off the Pac PPV where he was whooped put up a great performance as usual, and an under card fight

A # of things leading to a great night of boxing

VERY impressive ratings for that card. Thats an eye opener for sure.

It was all 'ricans, not that many jews in attendance. Arum knows the hispanics are boxing crazy.

It was a well designed card. You had Yankee Stadium. You had a name in Cotto. He was in a matchup that had freaks and boxing writers split on who would win. And for the freaks, we had 2 young prospects trying to make the big time on the undercard (Vanes and too nice Joe Greene). If only the first fight had been decent.

Only one problem I have with HBO. You never get more than 2 fights unless it is a pay per view. I'd love for HBO to put on a 3rd fight.