Davis-Nunez Peaked At 594,000 Viewers on Showtime

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Gervonta Davis drew the largest viewing audience of his developing career Saturday night.

According to data Nielsen Media Research released Tuesday, Showtime’s broadcast of Davis’ second-round technical knockout of Ricardo Nunez was watched by 594,000 viewers at its peak. Their brief bout drew an average audience of 553,000.

Those figures represented a significant spike in viewership from Davis’ previous performance on Showtime. That fight – a first-round knockout of Hugo Ruiz on February 9 – produced a peak audience of 486,000 and an average audience of 429,000.

Only Deontay Wilder’s spectacular first-round knockout of Dominic Breazeale drew more viewers for a Showtime fight in 2019.
A combined peak audience of 990,000 watched Wilder-Breazeale live via Showtime’s linear channel and its streaming service. Wilder-Breazeale averaged 886,000 live viewers combined through TV and streaming.

Five of Davis’ past six fights have been broadcast live by Showtime. The other of those six bouts – an eighth-round knockout of Francisco Fonseca – was part of Showtime Pay-Per-View’s Floyd Mayweather-Conor McGregor broadcast in August 2017.

This was just the second time, though, that Davis (22-0, 21 KOs) headlined a “Showtime Championship Boxing” broadcast. Davis’ victory over Ruiz marked his debut in a Showtime main event.

Davis’ defeat of Nunez also performed well on Showtime’s social media platforms. Clips of his TKO win drew nearly five million views through those platforms by Sunday night.
Prior to the fight, “The Rise,” a three-segment series produced for Showtime’s social media platforms, produced more than 3.5 million views.

Davis-Nunez also attracted a capacity crowd of 14,686 to Royal Farms Arena in Baltimore. Davis fought in his hometown for the first time in six years.

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Bear in mind these figures don’t include digital figures like the app stream etc.

Figures are improving. But still way off.

If they want to boost his popularity they need to have him on FOX, but then I guess Floyd wants him on Showtime.

Hardly any shows on Showtime now. PBC are putting most of their shows on FOX or FS1.

[margaret thatcher]

Wow half a million viewers, he definitely is the big ass draw his team say he is, big enough that hes above fighting loma and should be on ppv