Boxing viewing figures (not PPV)

[Chambers2]

I can only show figures when they are listed, they have to be in the top 10 for the channel they were shown on. Date – Event – Figures – Where it stands in top 10 for that Channel - Promoter



13/02 Big Fight Live (Cleverly, Mitchell, Degale etc.) – 222,000 (SS1 #6) allegedly

13/02 FNF Replay (Daws-Cook) Saturday 29,000 (SS2 #9) Matchroom

26/02 Prizefighter (Light Middles) – 147,000 (SS1 #6) Matchroom

09/04 Big Fight Live (Sprott-Harrison) – 274,000 (SS1 #8 ) Matchroom

12/04 Haye-Ruiz replay – 55,000 (SS2 #4) Hayemaker

30/04 Prizefighter (Cruiserweights) – 152,000 (SS2 #4) Matchroom

02/05 Mosley-Mayweather Replay – 99,000 (SS2 #7) Golden Boy

15/05 Mitchell-Katsidis – 272,000 (SS1 #8 ) allegedly

16/05 Khan-Mallignagi Replay (second replay one earlier on ITV1) – 349,000 (ITV4 #2) Golden Boy

04/06 Hall-Napa - 90,000 (SS2 #5) Matchroom

11/06 McCloskey-Lauri - 112,000 (SS2 #1) Matchroom

25/06 Fury-McDermott II - 118,000 (SS2 #2) Frank Maloney

31/06 Prizefighter (Super Middleweights) - 112,000 (SS1 #7) Matchroom

02/07 McDonnell-Bracco - 66,000 (SS2 #3) Frank Maloney

09/07 Laws-Williams - 59,000 (SS2 #6) Matchroom

16/07 Hatton-Nuzhenko - 166,000 (SS1 #4) Hatton Promotions

23/07 Hall-Power - 89,000 (SS2 #7) Frank Maloney



04/09 Roman Martinez-Ricky Burns - 141,000 (SS1 #6) Replay 44,000 (SS2 #10) allegedly

11/09 Wladimir Klitschko-Samuel Peter & Steve Molitor-Jason Booth - 202,000 (SS1 #6) Frank Maloney

24/09 Tony Bellew-Bob Ajisafe - 161,000 (SS1 #9) allegedly

02/10 Levan Kirakosyan-Stephen Foster - 139,000 (SS1 #10) Hatton Promotions



After seeing the Khan figures I also decided to check out how Boxing did on ITV with Fat Mick from last year here are the figures

04/10/09 Thaxton-Melero 295,000 (ITV4 #5)

08/11/09 Williams-Sosnowski 260,000 (ITV4 #10)

17/01/09 Murray-McAllister 405,000 (ITV4 #2)

28/02/09 Thaxton-Mezaache 369,000 (ITV4 #7)

11/04/09 Watson-O’Donnell 260,000 (ITV4 #10)

23/05/09 Barker-McDermott 204,000 (ITV4 #10)

13/06/09 Murray-Lawton 231,000 (ITV 4 #10)

18/07/09 McIntosh-Cleverly 406,000 (ITV4 #7)

05/09/09 O’Donnell-Glover 330,000 (ITV4 #10)

03/10/09 Murray-Thaxton 212,000 (ITV4 #5)

28/11/09 Barker-Butler 299,000 (ITV #5)



The sad reality is that Boxing doesn’t do such great numbers I’m afraid. On ITV4 Boxing was regularly outdone by AUF WIEDERSEHEN, PET. And on Sky, Boxing gets outdone by Darts although it has to be taken into account that it is shown on a Thursday at a much more favourable time. Anyway I’m going to continue looking through figures and I will add them on as I find them.

　

Figures during FW's tenure on ITV

10/12/2005 Harrison-Williams 6.1million (ITV1 #21)

28/01/2006 Jennings-Mutley 270,000 (ITV4 #1)

18/02/2006 Arthur-Burns 243,000 (ITV4 #3)

25/02/2006 Skelton-Williams 193,000 (ITV4 #7)

11/03/2006 Pryce-Duran 210,000 (ITV4 #6)

29/04/2006 Arthur-Guliakevich 257,000 (ITV4 #3)

13/05/2006 Mitchell-Kirkorov 211,000 (ITV4 #8 )

01/06/2006 Hobson-Keeton 140,000 (ITV4 #9)

08/09/2006 Hobson-Pavlokovic 181,000 (ITV4 #7)

18/02/2007 Sprott-Harrison 493,000 (ITV4 #1)

10/03/2007 Matthews-Simpson 223,00 (ITV4 #5)

14/07/2007 Khan-Limmond 3.5 million (ITV1 #26)

21/07/2007 Maccarinelli-Braithwaite 333,000 (ITV4 #5)

08/12/2007 Khan-Earl 4.14 million (ITV1 #22)

02/02/2008 Khan-St Clair 4.15 million (ITV1 #29)

05/04/2008 Khan-Kristjansen 4.37 million (ITV1 #21)

21/06/2008 Khan-Gomez 3.98 million (ITV #18 )



Setanta

08/03/2008 Haye-Maccarinelli 136,000 (Setanta #1)

22/03/2008 Rees-Kotelnik 37,000 (Setanta #5)

14/06/2008 Brook-Jones 5,000 (Setanta #7)

15/11/2008 Haye-Barrett 172,000 (Setanta #2)

28/03/2008 Dodson-Quigley 21,000 (Setanta 2 #1)

19/04/2008 Calzaghe-Hopkins 243,000 (Setanta #4)

25/04/2008 Lindsay-Appleby 42,000 (Setanta #5)

26/07/2008 Cotto-Margarito 14,000 (Setanta #9)

21/02/2009 Cotto-Jennings 12,000 (Setanta 2 #2)

13/06/2009 Cotto-Clottey 10,000 (Setanta 2 #6)

Shamelessly copied off another forum

[forcefraser]

Just shows how much the public know about boxing: Cotto v Magarito gets 14,000 and was a modern day classic, whilst Khan v Kritiansen gets nearly 4 million.

terrestrial TV makes all the difference

[bigjack]

Just shows how much the public know about boxing: Cotto v Magarito gets 14,000 and was a modern day classic, whilst Khan v Kritiansen gets nearly 4 million.

terrestrial TV makes all the difference

I think it is due to the fact that when most of the boxing coverage that was on itv and bbc ended and moved to sky,the general public didn't recognise the boxers anymore.When i first got into boxing about 1981 i could talk about boxing to my mates and they knew most of the big names,but as the years went on and sky tv arrived i noticed that the fighters i was watching were basically unknown outside of the real hardcore fans,only last week i mentioned froch to a group of lads and half of them didn't know who i was on about. :(

[forcefraser]

Just shows how much the public know about boxing: Cotto v Magarito gets 14,000 and was a modern day classic, whilst Khan v Kritiansen gets nearly 4 million.

terrestrial TV makes all the difference

I think it is due to the fact that when most of the boxing coverage that was on itv and bbc ended and moved to sky,the general public didn't recognise the boxers anymore.When i first got into boxing about 1981 i could talk about boxing to my mates and they knew most of the big names,but as the years went on and sky tv arrived i noticed that the fighters i was watching were basically unknown outside of the real hardcore fans,only last week i mentioned froch to a group of lads and half of them didn't know who i was on about. :(

Very true. I had a group of mates round for the Magnificent Seven and most of them had never heared of any of the fighters. I`d been looking forward to it for weeks, but they didn`t give two shats to be honest.

[wrimc]

ESB isnt all that bad then hey

This is one of my favourite threads on ESB tbh there are some interesting points to note from the figures Audley draws more, Matt Hatton draws a few more purely because of his name prizefighter did used to do 30% more but that is now diminishing Khan draws massive numbers still.