Golovkin-Martirosyan Cable's Most-Watched Boxing Match in 2018

[Ruthless-RKO]

Viewers weren’t afforded much time, but that didn’t stop more than 1.3 million of them from tuning in to watch Gennady Golovkin’s fight Saturday night.

Nielsen Media Research ratings released Tuesday showed a peak audience of 1,361,000 watched Golovkin’s second-round knockout of Vanes Martirosyan, which HBO televised from StubHub Center in Carson, California. The brief Golovkin-Martirosyan match was watched by an average of 1,249,000 viewers, despite that it began late on the East Coast (12:07 a.m. ET).

Those ratings made Golovkin-Martirosyan the most-watched boxing match on cable television in 2018. That distinction previously belonged to Deontay Wilder’s 10th-round knockout of Luis Ortiz, which Showtime televised March 3 from Barclays Center in Brooklyn (peak: 1,200,000; average: 1,100,000).

Golovkin (38-0-1, 34 KOs) fought live on HBO for the first time since he stopped England’s Kell Brook in the fifth round in September 2016 in London. His previous two fights – a narrow win over Daniel Jacobs in March 2017 and a controversial draw with Canelo Alvarez on September 16 – headlined HBO Pay-Per-View shows.

The Kazakh knockout artist’s victory over Brook attracted an average audience of 843,000, even though it aired live early in the evening on the East Coast (roughly 6 p.m. ET) and in the middle of the afternoon on the West Coast (approximately 3 p.m. PT) in the United States.

The opener of HBO’s doubleheader Saturday night, Cecilia Braekhus’ win against Kali Reis also attracted strong viewership (peak: 1,024,000; average: 904,000).

[boxing_rocks]

It also seems to be higher than any premium cable show in 2017.

[Ruthless-RKO]

It also seems to be higher than any premium cable show in 2017.

Golovkin usually does over 1 million for HBO, Crawford was their 2nd highest usually.

Kovalev usually produced good numbers, but the Ward rematch was PPV and Shabrankskkky was a poor fight.

With GGG, it doesn't matter who he fights, he will produce numbers..

Prior tho this, it was Wade, that averaged and peaked around 1.3 million too

Showtimes highest last year was Garcia-Broner which was around 900k.

[DA1]

Also impressive that it was a premium network event, whereas ESPN, FS1 and FOX events have done fewer numbers being on basic cable & free TV.

Time to head to Japan for that Murata fight. Hold the main event at 12pm JST Sunday (11pm ET/ 8pm PT, Saturday) and they've got themselves another hit.

Hold the Derevyanchenko fight in Germany before that (1am CET= 8pm ET/5pm PT). Its going to be bigger there than it is doing it in Vegas or New York. He fought half his career in Germany, but hasn't fought there in 6 years. GGG should go on a world tour. The ratings for TV will be big, he just needs to sell tickets by going to different countries where they know its their only shot at ever seeing him live and sell out. Outside of PPV, this is his best way too make mucho dinero. Greedy Tom Loeffler needs to get off Clenelo's nuts.

[boxing_rocks]

Fans also sweep GGG merchandise. He is one of very few boxers who have their own merchandise, and it sells great.

[jamamb]

he shattered ticket record? i assume they mustve been very expensive because stubhub was like half full but hed packed it out previously

[Ruthless-RKO]

he shattered ticket record? i assume they mustve been very expensive because stubhub was like half full but hed packed it out previously

It was between 7-8k on saturday. Tickets must have been expensive.

It was a record attendance of 9,323 vs. Rubio. But GGG is much bigger now than he was then.

[Evander]

Shame the fight wasn't that good, mind you GGG didn't have much to work with.
Most fighters who box in tough contests consistently deserve an easy one every now and then though.

[Enlightened-One]

The ratings for the Golovkin-Martirosyan fight are rather unimpressive, to the point that HBO may even consider them as being (behind closed doors) really fúckíng bad!

So it seems that the Golovkin-Martirosyan bout only achieved 13.55% more viewers than the Wilder-Ortiz fight, despite Showtime having a 30% fewer subscribers than HBO, coupled with the fact that the GGG event was the biggest fight televised during the sports’ traditionally most viewed days in America.

I could be wrong, but I’m pretty sure the late start meant that Golovkin’s bout also didn’t have much competition from other US sports programs at the time it was aired:

Let’s take a look at the sort of bouts that are traditionally aired as PPV’s on Mexican national holiday’s, which of course the Golovkin-Martirosyan bout wasn’t, since it wasn't deemed as being a big enough event:

• 2017 - Mexican Independence Day: Canelo vs. Golovkin
• 2017 - Cinco de Mayo: Canelo vs. Chavez Jr.
• 2016 - Mexican Independence Day: Canelo vs. Smith
• 2016 - Cinco de Mayo: Canelo vs. Khan
• 2015 - Mexican Independence Day: Mayweather Jr. vs. Berto
• 2015 - Cinco de Mayo: Mayweather Jr. vs. Pacquiao
• 2014 - Mexican Independence Day: Mayweather Jr. vs. Maidana
• 2014 - Cinco de Mayo: Mayweather Jr. vs. Maidana
• 2013 - Mexican Independence Day: Mayweather Jr. vs. Canelo
• 2013 - Cinco de Mayo: Mayweather Jr. vs. Guerrero
• 2012 - Mexican Independence Day: Chavez Jr. vs. Martinez
• 2012 - Cinco de Mayo: Mayweather Jr. vs. Cotto
• 2011 - Mexican Independence Day: Mayweather Jr. vs. Ortiz
• 2011 - Cinco de Mayo: Pacquiao vs. Mosley
• 2010 - Mexican Independence Day: Canelo vs. Baldomir
• 2010 - Cinco de Mayo: Mayweather Jr. vs. Mosley
• 2009 - Mexican Independence Day: Mayweather Jr. vs. Marquez
• 2009 - Cinco de Mayo: Pacquiao vs. Hatton
• 2008 - Mexican Independence Day: Marquez vs. Casamayor
• 2008 - Cinco de Mayo: De La Hoya vs. Forbes
• 2007 - Cinco de Mayo: De La Hoya vs. Mayweather Jr.
• 2006 - Mexican Independence Day: Barrera vs. Juarez
• 2006 - Cinco de Mayo: De La Hoya vs. Mayorga

This suggests that HBO or Showtime will do their upmost to televise their biggest fights during the Mexican national holiday's, due to their exceptionally strong belief that their ratings will be at their highest they can possibly be on those dates.

Therefore, is it really so surprising that the Golovkin-Martirosyan bout was one of the highest rated premium cable show since 2016, considering all the other boxing events televised during the Mexican national holidays were PPV's?

That being said, as I've already stated, the Golovkin-Martirosyan bout only achieved 13.55% more viewers than the Wilder-Ortiz bout, despite Showtime having 30% fewer subscribers, it didn't have to face any real competition from other sports programs, coupled with the fact that Golovkin’s bout was televised on boxing’s traditionally most viewed days in America, which means that the ratings aren’t as impressive as many people are claiming them to be!

It's important to note that GGG's bout against Dominic Wade in 2016, which wasn't televised during a Mexican national holiday, achieved 1,325,000 viewers and this is clearly more than the amount of people that watched his fight against Martirosyan.

In my mind, the Golovkin-Martirosyan ratings were pretty poor, despite the media's spin doctoring.

[jamamb]

it was also an awful joke of a fight with a very short promotion mate, and a totally unappealing intro fight, i dont see how its a poor number at all, esp with the general downward trend of boxing tv numbers in general.

it was about as revulsive a ggg card as possible but still did the best cable number in a few years plus i think a gate record for stubhub

but i agree you need to consider the date too, but even then i think the numbers are good

[Mexi-Box]

The ratings for the Golovkin-Martirosyan fight are rather unimpressive, to the point that HBO may even consider them as being (behind closed doors) really fúckíng bad!

So it seems that the Golovkin-Martirosyan bout only achieved 13.55% more viewers than the Wilder-Ortiz fight, despite Showtime having a 30% fewer subscribers than HBO, coupled with the fact that the GGG event was the biggest fight televised during the sports’ traditionally most viewed days in America.

I could be wrong, but I’m pretty sure the late start meant that Golovkin’s bout also didn’t have much competition from other US sports programs at the time it was aired:

Let’s take a look at the sort of bouts that are traditionally aired as PPV’s on Mexican national holiday’s, which of course the Golovkin-Martirosyan bout wasn’t, since it wasn't deemed as being a big enough event:

• 2017 - Mexican Independence Day: Canelo vs. Golovkin
• 2017 - Cinco de Mayo: Canelo vs. Chavez Jr.
• 2016 - Mexican Independence Day: Canelo vs. Smith
• 2016 - Cinco de Mayo: Canelo vs. Khan
• 2015 - Mexican Independence Day: Mayweather Jr. vs. Berto
• 2015 - Cinco de Mayo: Mayweather Jr. vs. Pacquiao
• 2014 - Mexican Independence Day: Mayweather Jr. vs. Maidana
• 2014 - Cinco de Mayo: Mayweather Jr. vs. Maidana
• 2013 - Mexican Independence Day: Mayweather Jr. vs. Canelo
• 2013 - Cinco de Mayo: Mayweather Jr. vs. Guerrero
• 2012 - Mexican Independence Day: Chavez Jr. vs. Martinez
• 2012 - Cinco de Mayo: Mayweather Jr. vs. Cotto
• 2011 - Mexican Independence Day: Mayweather Jr. vs. Ortiz
• 2011 - Cinco de Mayo: Pacquiao vs. Mosley
• 2010 - Mexican Independence Day: Canelo vs. Baldomir
• 2010 - Cinco de Mayo: Mayweather Jr. vs. Mosley
• 2009 - Mexican Independence Day: Mayweather Jr. vs. Marquez
• 2009 - Cinco de Mayo: Pacquiao vs. Hatton
• 2008 - Mexican Independence Day: Marquez vs. Casamayor
• 2008 - Cinco de Mayo: De La Hoya vs. Forbes
• 2007 - Cinco de Mayo: De La Hoya vs. Mayweather Jr.
• 2006 - Mexican Independence Day: Barrera vs. Juarez
• 2006 - Cinco de Mayo: De La Hoya vs. Mayorga

This suggests that HBO or Showtime will do their upmost to televise their biggest fights during the Mexican national holiday's, due to their exceptionally strong belief that their ratings will be at their highest they can possibly be on those dates.

Therefore, is it really so surprising that the Golovkin-Martirosyan bout was one of the highest rated premium cable show since 2016, considering all the other boxing events televised during the Mexican national holidays were PPV's?

That being said, as I've already stated, the Golovkin-Martirosyan bout only achieved 13.55% more viewers than the Wilder-Ortiz bout, despite Showtime having 30% fewer subscribers, it didn't have to face any real competition from other sports programs, coupled with the fact that Golovkin’s bout was televised on boxing’s traditionally most viewed days in America, which means that the ratings aren’t as impressive as many people are claiming them to be!

It's important to note that GGG's bout against Dominic Wade in 2016, which wasn't televised during a Mexican national holiday, achieved 1,325,000 viewers and this is clearly more than the amount of people that watched his fight against Martirosyan.

In my mind, the Golovkin-Martirosyan ratings were pretty poor, despite the media's spin doctoring.

Stop trolling.

[Enlightened-One]

The ratings for the Golovkin-Martirosyan fight are rather unimpressive, to the point that HBO may even consider them as being (behind closed doors) really fúckíng bad!

So it seems that the Golovkin-Martirosyan bout only achieved 13.55% more viewers than the Wilder-Ortiz fight, despite Showtime having a 30% fewer subscribers than HBO, coupled with the fact that the GGG event was the biggest fight televised during the sports’ traditionally most viewed days in America.

I could be wrong, but I’m pretty sure the late start meant that Golovkin’s bout also didn’t have much competition from other US sports programs at the time it was aired:

Let’s take a look at the sort of bouts that are traditionally aired as PPV’s on Mexican national holiday’s, which of course the Golovkin-Martirosyan bout wasn’t, since it wasn't deemed as being a big enough event:

• 2017 - Mexican Independence Day: Canelo vs. Golovkin
• 2017 - Cinco de Mayo: Canelo vs. Chavez Jr.
• 2016 - Mexican Independence Day: Canelo vs. Smith
• 2016 - Cinco de Mayo: Canelo vs. Khan
• 2015 - Mexican Independence Day: Mayweather Jr. vs. Berto
• 2015 - Cinco de Mayo: Mayweather Jr. vs. Pacquiao
• 2014 - Mexican Independence Day: Mayweather Jr. vs. Maidana
• 2014 - Cinco de Mayo: Mayweather Jr. vs. Maidana
• 2013 - Mexican Independence Day: Mayweather Jr. vs. Canelo
• 2013 - Cinco de Mayo: Mayweather Jr. vs. Guerrero
• 2012 - Mexican Independence Day: Chavez Jr. vs. Martinez
• 2012 - Cinco de Mayo: Mayweather Jr. vs. Cotto
• 2011 - Mexican Independence Day: Mayweather Jr. vs. Ortiz
• 2011 - Cinco de Mayo: Pacquiao vs. Mosley
• 2010 - Mexican Independence Day: Canelo vs. Baldomir
• 2010 - Cinco de Mayo: Mayweather Jr. vs. Mosley
• 2009 - Mexican Independence Day: Mayweather Jr. vs. Marquez
• 2009 - Cinco de Mayo: Pacquiao vs. Hatton
• 2008 - Mexican Independence Day: Marquez vs. Casamayor
• 2008 - Cinco de Mayo: De La Hoya vs. Forbes
• 2007 - Cinco de Mayo: De La Hoya vs. Mayweather Jr.
• 2006 - Mexican Independence Day: Barrera vs. Juarez
• 2006 - Cinco de Mayo: De La Hoya vs. Mayorga

This suggests that HBO or Showtime will do their upmost to televise their biggest fights during the Mexican national holiday's, due to their exceptionally strong belief that their ratings will be at their highest they can possibly be on those dates.

Therefore, is it really so surprising that the Golovkin-Martirosyan bout was one of the highest rated premium cable show since 2016, considering all the other boxing events televised during the Mexican national holidays were PPV's?

That being said, as I've already stated, the Golovkin-Martirosyan bout only achieved 13.55% more viewers than the Wilder-Ortiz bout, despite Showtime having 30% fewer subscribers, it didn't have to face any real competition from other sports programs, coupled with the fact that Golovkin’s bout was televised on boxing’s traditionally most viewed days in America, which means that the ratings aren’t as impressive as many people are claiming them to be!

It's important to note that GGG's bout against Dominic Wade in 2016, which wasn't televised during a Mexican national holiday, achieved 1,325,000 viewers and this is clearly more than the amount of people that watched his fight against Martirosyan.

In my mind, the Golovkin-Martirosyan ratings were pretty poor, despite the media's spin doctoring.

Stop trolling.

What is your definition of a "troll"? Do facts offend you?

[Mexi-Box]

The ratings for the Golovkin-Martirosyan fight are rather unimpressive, to the point that HBO may even consider them as being (behind closed doors) really fúckíng bad!

So it seems that the Golovkin-Martirosyan bout only achieved 13.55% more viewers than the Wilder-Ortiz fight, despite Showtime having a 30% fewer subscribers than HBO, coupled with the fact that the GGG event was the biggest fight televised during the sports’ traditionally most viewed days in America.

I could be wrong, but I’m pretty sure the late start meant that Golovkin’s bout also didn’t have much competition from other US sports programs at the time it was aired:

Let’s take a look at the sort of bouts that are traditionally aired as PPV’s on Mexican national holiday’s, which of course the Golovkin-Martirosyan bout wasn’t, since it wasn't deemed as being a big enough event:

• 2017 - Mexican Independence Day: Canelo vs. Golovkin
• 2017 - Cinco de Mayo: Canelo vs. Chavez Jr.
• 2016 - Mexican Independence Day: Canelo vs. Smith
• 2016 - Cinco de Mayo: Canelo vs. Khan
• 2015 - Mexican Independence Day: Mayweather Jr. vs. Berto
• 2015 - Cinco de Mayo: Mayweather Jr. vs. Pacquiao
• 2014 - Mexican Independence Day: Mayweather Jr. vs. Maidana
• 2014 - Cinco de Mayo: Mayweather Jr. vs. Maidana
• 2013 - Mexican Independence Day: Mayweather Jr. vs. Canelo
• 2013 - Cinco de Mayo: Mayweather Jr. vs. Guerrero
• 2012 - Mexican Independence Day: Chavez Jr. vs. Martinez
• 2012 - Cinco de Mayo: Mayweather Jr. vs. Cotto
• 2011 - Mexican Independence Day: Mayweather Jr. vs. Ortiz
• 2011 - Cinco de Mayo: Pacquiao vs. Mosley
• 2010 - Mexican Independence Day: Canelo vs. Baldomir
• 2010 - Cinco de Mayo: Mayweather Jr. vs. Mosley
• 2009 - Mexican Independence Day: Mayweather Jr. vs. Marquez
• 2009 - Cinco de Mayo: Pacquiao vs. Hatton
• 2008 - Mexican Independence Day: Marquez vs. Casamayor
• 2008 - Cinco de Mayo: De La Hoya vs. Forbes
• 2007 - Cinco de Mayo: De La Hoya vs. Mayweather Jr.
• 2006 - Mexican Independence Day: Barrera vs. Juarez
• 2006 - Cinco de Mayo: De La Hoya vs. Mayorga

This suggests that HBO or Showtime will do their upmost to televise their biggest fights during the Mexican national holiday's, due to their exceptionally strong belief that their ratings will be at their highest they can possibly be on those dates.

Therefore, is it really so surprising that the Golovkin-Martirosyan bout was one of the highest rated premium cable show since 2016, considering all the other boxing events televised during the Mexican national holidays were PPV's?

That being said, as I've already stated, the Golovkin-Martirosyan bout only achieved 13.55% more viewers than the Wilder-Ortiz bout, despite Showtime having 30% fewer subscribers, it didn't have to face any real competition from other sports programs, coupled with the fact that Golovkin’s bout was televised on boxing’s traditionally most viewed days in America, which means that the ratings aren’t as impressive as many people are claiming them to be!

It's important to note that GGG's bout against Dominic Wade in 2016, which wasn't televised during a Mexican national holiday, achieved 1,325,000 viewers and this is clearly more than the amount of people that watched his fight against Martirosyan.

In my mind, the Golovkin-Martirosyan ratings were pretty poor, despite the media's spin doctoring.

Stop trolling.

What is your definition of a "troll"? Do facts offend you?

You're just using numbers without giving any context to fit some agenda you have. In that list, you seriously just compared Mayweather/Pacquiao to use as leverage against Golovkin's numbers.

You aren't mentioning his opposition, you aren't mentioning that numbers have been falling across the board, and you aren't mentioning Martirosyan was a late-announcement with no time to advertise the fight.

Only a complete fool wouldn't be able to see your obvious, blatant bias.

[SAPFO]

Anybody know how many million he's pulling?


GGG should get his ass to the UK. Us UK fans would line his pockets no problem.

[DA1]

The ratings for the Golovkin-Martirosyan fight are rather unimpressive, to the point that HBO may even consider them as being (behind closed doors) really fúckíng bad!

So it seems that the Golovkin-Martirosyan bout only achieved 13.55% more viewers than the Wilder-Ortiz fight, despite Showtime having a 30% fewer subscribers than HBO, coupled with the fact that the GGG event was the biggest fight televised during the sports’ traditionally most viewed days in America.

I could be wrong, but I’m pretty sure the late start meant that Golovkin’s bout also didn’t have much competition from other US sports programs at the time it was aired:

Let’s take a look at the sort of bouts that are traditionally aired as PPV’s on Mexican national holiday’s, which of course the Golovkin-Martirosyan bout wasn’t, since it wasn't deemed as being a big enough event:

• 2017 - Mexican Independence Day: Canelo vs. Golovkin
• 2017 - Cinco de Mayo: Canelo vs. Chavez Jr.
• 2016 - Mexican Independence Day: Canelo vs. Smith
• 2016 - Cinco de Mayo: Canelo vs. Khan
• 2015 - Mexican Independence Day: Mayweather Jr. vs. Berto
• 2015 - Cinco de Mayo: Mayweather Jr. vs. Pacquiao
• 2014 - Mexican Independence Day: Mayweather Jr. vs. Maidana
• 2014 - Cinco de Mayo: Mayweather Jr. vs. Maidana
• 2013 - Mexican Independence Day: Mayweather Jr. vs. Canelo
• 2013 - Cinco de Mayo: Mayweather Jr. vs. Guerrero
• 2012 - Mexican Independence Day: Chavez Jr. vs. Martinez
• 2012 - Cinco de Mayo: Mayweather Jr. vs. Cotto
• 2011 - Mexican Independence Day: Mayweather Jr. vs. Ortiz
• 2011 - Cinco de Mayo: Pacquiao vs. Mosley
• 2010 - Mexican Independence Day: Canelo vs. Baldomir
• 2010 - Cinco de Mayo: Mayweather Jr. vs. Mosley
• 2009 - Mexican Independence Day: Mayweather Jr. vs. Marquez
• 2009 - Cinco de Mayo: Pacquiao vs. Hatton
• 2008 - Mexican Independence Day: Marquez vs. Casamayor
• 2008 - Cinco de Mayo: De La Hoya vs. Forbes
• 2007 - Cinco de Mayo: De La Hoya vs. Mayweather Jr.
• 2006 - Mexican Independence Day: Barrera vs. Juarez
• 2006 - Cinco de Mayo: De La Hoya vs. Mayorga

This suggests that HBO or Showtime will do their upmost to televise their biggest fights during the Mexican national holiday's, due to their exceptionally strong belief that their ratings will be at their highest they can possibly be on those dates.

Therefore, is it really so surprising that the Golovkin-Martirosyan bout was one of the highest rated premium cable show since 2016, considering all the other boxing events televised during the Mexican national holidays were PPV's?

That being said, as I've already stated, the Golovkin-Martirosyan bout only achieved 13.55% more viewers than the Wilder-Ortiz bout, despite Showtime having 30% fewer subscribers, it didn't have to face any real competition from other sports programs, coupled with the fact that Golovkin’s bout was televised on boxing’s traditionally most viewed days in America, which means that the ratings aren’t as impressive as many people are claiming them to be!

It's important to note that GGG's bout against Dominic Wade in 2016, which wasn't televised during a Mexican national holiday, achieved 1,325,000 viewers and this is clearly more than the amount of people that watched his fight against Martirosyan.

In my mind, the Golovkin-Martirosyan ratings were pretty poor, despite the media's spin doctoring.

I don't know what BS you're trying to spin. But HBO doesn't run advertisements so it matters not how much the numbers were compared to years ago. As long as they are impressive for NOW, its a win.

You also aren't showing us any ratings numbers from previous years, other than telling us it did more than Wilder-Ortiz but "not enough"... which is a pointless thing to bicker about. HBO does have more subs than SHO, but most of them don't watch boxing. SHO definitely has a higher percentage of boxing fans, since that's one of the incentives people subscribe to SHO for.

[Enlightened-One]

The ratings for the Golovkin-Martirosyan fight are rather unimpressive, to the point that HBO may even consider them as being (behind closed doors) really fúckíng bad!

So it seems that the Golovkin-Martirosyan bout only achieved 13.55% more viewers than the Wilder-Ortiz fight, despite Showtime having a 30% fewer subscribers than HBO, coupled with the fact that the GGG event was the biggest fight televised during the sports’ traditionally most viewed days in America.

I could be wrong, but I’m pretty sure the late start meant that Golovkin’s bout also didn’t have much competition from other US sports programs at the time it was aired:

Let’s take a look at the sort of bouts that are traditionally aired as PPV’s on Mexican national holiday’s, which of course the Golovkin-Martirosyan bout wasn’t, since it wasn't deemed as being a big enough event:

• 2017 - Mexican Independence Day: Canelo vs. Golovkin
• 2017 - Cinco de Mayo: Canelo vs. Chavez Jr.
• 2016 - Mexican Independence Day: Canelo vs. Smith
• 2016 - Cinco de Mayo: Canelo vs. Khan
• 2015 - Mexican Independence Day: Mayweather Jr. vs. Berto
• 2015 - Cinco de Mayo: Mayweather Jr. vs. Pacquiao
• 2014 - Mexican Independence Day: Mayweather Jr. vs. Maidana
• 2014 - Cinco de Mayo: Mayweather Jr. vs. Maidana
• 2013 - Mexican Independence Day: Mayweather Jr. vs. Canelo
• 2013 - Cinco de Mayo: Mayweather Jr. vs. Guerrero
• 2012 - Mexican Independence Day: Chavez Jr. vs. Martinez
• 2012 - Cinco de Mayo: Mayweather Jr. vs. Cotto
• 2011 - Mexican Independence Day: Mayweather Jr. vs. Ortiz
• 2011 - Cinco de Mayo: Pacquiao vs. Mosley
• 2010 - Mexican Independence Day: Canelo vs. Baldomir
• 2010 - Cinco de Mayo: Mayweather Jr. vs. Mosley
• 2009 - Mexican Independence Day: Mayweather Jr. vs. Marquez
• 2009 - Cinco de Mayo: Pacquiao vs. Hatton
• 2008 - Mexican Independence Day: Marquez vs. Casamayor
• 2008 - Cinco de Mayo: De La Hoya vs. Forbes
• 2007 - Cinco de Mayo: De La Hoya vs. Mayweather Jr.
• 2006 - Mexican Independence Day: Barrera vs. Juarez
• 2006 - Cinco de Mayo: De La Hoya vs. Mayorga

This suggests that HBO or Showtime will do their upmost to televise their biggest fights during the Mexican national holiday's, due to their exceptionally strong belief that their ratings will be at their highest they can possibly be on those dates.

Therefore, is it really so surprising that the Golovkin-Martirosyan bout was one of the highest rated premium cable show since 2016, considering all the other boxing events televised during the Mexican national holidays were PPV's?

That being said, as I've already stated, the Golovkin-Martirosyan bout only achieved 13.55% more viewers than the Wilder-Ortiz bout, despite Showtime having 30% fewer subscribers, it didn't have to face any real competition from other sports programs, coupled with the fact that Golovkin’s bout was televised on boxing’s traditionally most viewed days in America, which means that the ratings aren’t as impressive as many people are claiming them to be!

It's important to note that GGG's bout against Dominic Wade in 2016, which wasn't televised during a Mexican national holiday, achieved 1,325,000 viewers and this is clearly more than the amount of people that watched his fight against Martirosyan.

In my mind, the Golovkin-Martirosyan ratings were pretty poor, despite the media's spin doctoring.

I don't know what BS you're trying to spin. But HBO doesn't run advertisements so it matters not how much the numbers were compared to years ago. As long as they are impressive for NOW, its a win.

You also aren't showing us any ratings numbers from previous years, other than telling us it did more than Wilder-Ortiz but "not enough"... which is a pointless thing to bicker about. HBO does have more subs than SHO, but most of them don't watch boxing. SHO definitely has a higher percentage of boxing fans, since that's one of the incentives people subscribe to SHO for.

It's interesting that people are choosing to attack one or two points within my post (containing a dozen of them) without addressing the others, whilst also refraining from supplying their own evidence to support their own counter argument.

It's also intriguing to see people attempting to avoid challenging the numbers I supply.

I express my educated opinion, which I've researched and supported with evidence, but people seem convinced they can undermine my claims without doing the same.

[Enlightened-One]

Stop trolling.

What is your definition of a "troll"? Do facts offend you?

You're just using numbers without giving any context to fit some agenda you have. In that list, you seriously just compared Mayweather/Pacquiao to use as leverage against Golovkin's numbers.

You aren't mentioning his opposition, you aren't mentioning that numbers have been falling across the board, and you aren't mentioning Martirosyan was a late-announcement with no time to advertise the fight.

Only a complete fool wouldn't be able to see your obvious, blatant bias.

It's interesting that people are choosing to attack one or two points within my post (containing a dozen of them) without addressing the others, whilst also refraining from supplying their own evidence to support their own counter argument.

It's also intriguing to see people attempting to avoid challenging the numbers I supply.

I express my educated opinion, which I've researched and supported with evidence, but people seem convinced they can undermine my claims without doing the same.

You're basically saying I'm "wrong", but without substantiating your counter argument, yet you claim I'm a "troll", because I possessed the sheer audacity to research my claims?

[DA1]

It's interesting that people are choosing to attack one or two points within my post (containing a dozen of them) without addressing the others, whilst also refraining from supplying their own evidence to support their own counter argument.

It's also intriguing to see people attempting to avoid challenging the numbers I supply.

I express my educated opinion, which I've researched and supported with evidence, but people seem convinced they can undermine my claims without doing the same.

The only numbers you provided are GGG-Wade and Wilder-Ortiz.

[Ruthless-RKO]

It's interesting that people are choosing to attack one or two points within my post (containing a dozen of them) without addressing the others, whilst also refraining from supplying their own evidence to support their own counter argument.

It's also intriguing to see people attempting to avoid challenging the numbers I supply.

I express my educated opinion, which I've researched and supported with evidence, but people seem convinced they can undermine my claims without doing the same.

The only numbers you provided are GGG-Wade and Wilder-Ortiz.

Look at my TV Ratings thread. GGG had done better than Broner, Wilder, Jacobs, Spence amongst others.

[boxing_rocks]

I can't believe that people haven't learned to not waste their time arguing with the EO brick.

[Enlightened-One]

It's interesting that people are choosing to attack one or two points within my post (containing a dozen of them) without addressing the others, whilst also refraining from supplying their own evidence to support their own counter argument.

It's also intriguing to see people attempting to avoid challenging the numbers I supply.

I express my educated opinion, which I've researched and supported with evidence, but people seem convinced they can undermine my claims without doing the same.

The only numbers you provided are GGG-Wade and Wilder-Ortiz.

Are you really sure about that? I'll give you one more chance to revise this opinion, because if you maintain this stance, it'll prove that you have adult literacy issues.

[Enlightened-One]

I can't believe that people haven't learned to not waste their time arguing with the EO brick.

I quote facts. They cannot be tweaked simply because they don't adhere to your preferred perception of reality.

So I guess facts are a bit like "bricks", they can't be changed to pacify someone's butthurt feelings.

[DA1]

Are you really sure about that? I'll give you one more chance to revise this opinion, because if you maintain this stance, it'll prove that you have adult literacy issues.

Revise what opinion? That you're nitpicking and pretending to read HBO's minds when you're doing nothing of the sort?

How about bring a statement from HBO that they don't like the ratings or its not impressive. It very much is.

[Enlightened-One]

Are you really sure about that? I'll give you one more chance to revise this opinion, because if you maintain this stance, it'll prove that you have adult literacy issues.

Revise what opinion? That you're nitpicking and pretending to read HBO's minds when you're doing nothing of the sort?

How about bring a statement from HBO that they don't like the ratings or its not impressive. It very much is.

I am not pretending to be able to read minds.

I have performed extensive research and then formulated an opinion by drawing a conclusion that was based on the readily available evidence.

I have supported my stance by quoting multiple facts and no one has made any attempt to challenge each and every one of them in a single post.

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I am not pretending to be able to read minds.

I have performed extensive research and then formulated an opinion by drawing a conclusion that was based on the readily available evidence.

I think that there's reason for HBO's execs to believe (behind closed doors) that the ratings are unimpressive and may even be highly disappointed about the viewership figures of Golovkin's most recent bout.

I have supported my stance by quoting multiple facts and no one has made any attempt to challenge each and every one of them in a single post.

Instead, people are telling me I'm "wrong", without really explaining the reason why.

People are even accusing me of being a "troll", simply because I'm quoting facts that they don't like.

GGG is a great fighter and I understand the reason why people like him, but he can't walk on water and circumstances will occasionally go against him. The people who manages his career are not immune from receiving criticism.

The budget for that card was $1 million. Your opinions have now lost ALL credibility, if all that "research" and "formulation" brought you this conclusion that they're disappointed at the numbers.

$1 million production bringing in a 1.3 mill rating (on first broadcast alone), that too on a premium network, is crazy IMPRESSIVE.