Jacobs-Sulecki Peaked at 874K Viewers on HBO (plus PBC & ESPN numbers)

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Ratings revealed Tuesday by Nielsen Media Research indicated Jacobs-Sulecki drew a peak audience of 874,000 for HBO. Their entertaining 12-round middleweight match maintained an average of 811,000 viewers.

That’s a notable increase in ratings from Jacobs’ last HBO bout. That fight – a 12-round, unanimous-decision defeat of Luis Arias – attracted a peak audience of 765,000 and an average audience of 706,000 on November 11.

The opener of HBO’s “World Championship Boxing” doubleheader Saturday night, Jarrell Miller-Johann Duhaupas, drew a peak viewership of 834,000 and averaged 706,000 viewers.

Miller’s previous appearance on HBO – a ninth-round stoppage of Poland’s Mariusz Wach on the Jacobs-Arias undercard November 11 – was watched by a peak audience of 739,000 and an average audience of 673,000.
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The ratings for FOX’s boxing tripleheader Saturday night were notably lower than those from the network’s previous boxing offering on free TV.

Premier Boxing Champions’ three-fight FOX broadcast Saturday night – headlined by Josesito Lopez’s 10-round, unanimous-decision win against previously unbeaten welterweight prospect Miguel Cruz – was watched by an average of 839,000 viewers, according to ratings released Tuesday by Nielsen Media Research. The average audience for FOX’s telecast February 17, which featured a 12-round draw between former welterweight champions Devon Alexander and Victor Ortiz, was 1,136,000. Viewership for the Alexander-Ortiz bout peaked at 1,530,000.

Some of FOX’s show overlapped with HBO’s “World Championship Boxing” doubleheader Saturday night, which began at 10 p.m. ET. FOX’s card began airing at 8:36 p.m. ET
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Earlier Saturday night, an ESPN tripleheader drew an average audience of 701,000.
Promoter Top Rank’s show on ESPN featured an action-packed, 122-pound title bout Isaac Dogboe won by 11th-round knockout over Jessie Magdaleno to win the WBO super bantamweight championship.

The average rating for Saturday’s show was significantly higher than the average viewership for Top Rank’s last ESPN broadcast in prime time. That March 17 card in The Theater at Madison Square Garden, which featured Jose Ramirez’s points win against Amir Imam in a WBC 140-pound title bout, was watched by an average audience of 488,000.

ESPN’s basic-cable broadcast Saturday night began at 7 p.m. ET, about 90 minutes earlier than the beginning of FOX’s show and three hours before HBO’s doubleheader started.
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