Per the barb.co.uk official viewing figures here are the top ten viewed Sky fights for 2004. This is only for live domestic fights and excludes the Hatton/Williams/Klitschko/Tyson PPV's. I have also only listed the headline fight.
The last figure is where the programme ranked for the week compared to other sky sports 1 programmes:
1. Sat 10.15pm 12/6/04 Hatton Vs Vilches 350,000 views (1)
2. Sat 8pm 21/2/04 Calzaghe Vs Mkrtchian 350,000 views (3)
3. Fri 10pm 22/10/04 Calzaghe Vs Salem 320,000 views (5)
4. Fri 10pm 1/10/04 Hatton Vs Stewart 290,000 views (6)
5. Sat 8pm 3/4/04 Hatton Vs Pedersen 250,000 views (5)
6. Sat 8pm 24/4/04 Skelton Vs Sprott 250,000 views (7)
7. Sat 8pm 24/1/04 Sprott Vs Williams 210,000 views (4)
8. Sat 8pm 7/2/04 Skelton Vs Francis 200,000 views (6)
9. Sat 8pm 31/1/04 Richard Williams Vs Powers 180,000 views (10)
10. Sat 8pm 6/3/04 Harrison Vs Estrada 160,000 views (7)
Looking at the figures for other programmes I reckon only Football, Cricket & Rugby are more popular than boxing...this is probably the reason for no big match-ups.
Good on Skelton though, I didn't realise how popular he was...it proves there is good money to be made for a Audley Harrison fight.
Shocked about Scott Harrison but the Abelyan fight clashed with a big international rugby match.
