Plant-Truax Peaked At 2,019,000 Viewers

[Ruthless-RKO]

Plant-Truax Peaked At 2,019,000 Viewers; Most-Watched FOX Fight In 13 Months

Viewers were interested in watching Caleb Plant fight Saturday night, even though he was a huge favorite over challenger Caleb Truax.

According to Nielsen Media Research numbers released Tuesday, an average of 1,887,000 viewers watched Plant convincingly out-box Truax in the main event of FOX’s tripleheader from Los Angeles. A peak audience of 2,019,000 tuned in toward the end of Plant’s dominant, 12-round win at Shrine Auditorium & Expo Hall.

The viewership of Plant-Truax was the highest for a “FOX PBC Fight Night” telecast since December 2019. The main event that night – Jermell Charlo’s 11th-round knockout of Tony Harrison in their WBC 154-pound championship rematch – drew a peak audience of 2,233,000 and an average audience of 2,223,000.

Plant-Truax was the most-watched boxing match televised by FOX during the pandemic as well.

FOX’s entire three-bout broadcast attracted an average viewership of 1,608,000. That also marked the network’s highest average audience since it brought boxing back to its airwaves August 8, following a five-month hiatus due to COVID-19.

Plant’s previous appearance on FOX – a 10th-round stoppage of another mandatory challenger, Germany’s Vincent Feigenbutz (32-3, 28 KOs) – attracted a peak audience of 1,809,000 last February 15 from Bridgestone Arena in Nashville. That entire three-fight show drew an average audience of 1,528,000.

Three preliminary fights FOX televised earlier Saturday night drew an average viewership of 871,000 and a peak viewership of 1,221,000.

That thee-bout show was considered a separate telecast, though it immediately preceded the “FOX PBC Fight Night” tripleheader on the same network. PBC prelims usually air on FS1, FOX’s all-sports cable channel, on nights when FOX broadcasts boxing.

[Post 4 Post]

Surprisingly impressive numbers.
Plant has looked excellent recently

[Onetimeonly]

I watched, there was nothing on. No UFC, football is over. One of the worst cards I've ever seen. Good numbers in that respect. I only watched 4 rounds of the me.

[margaret thatcher]

plant should stop fighhting crap

title defeses against mike lee, vinny butz, truax

come on bruh, don't make me call you caleb pansy

[margaret thatcher]

wow, big numbers, caleb truax is obviously a big draw

[bobcatbox]

Does this stoke the flames of a Canelo-Plant PPV? Free agent Canelo has little incentive to fight this one anywhere else if Plant can draw those kinds of eyes.

[Lackeos]

Man, people watched that fight? There must really be nothing to do right now.

[Ruthless-RKO]

Man, people watched that fight? There must really be nothing to do right now.

I don’t think there was anything else on to be honest.

It’s good for Plant. He was made to look good. Good matchmaking from PBC.

[cormack]

was it free ?

I wouldnt have paid diddly for that .

[Ruthless-RKO]

was it free ?

I wouldnt have paid diddly for that .

On FOX, so yh

[bobcatbox]

Man, people watched that fight? There must really be nothing to do right now.

I don’t think there was anything else on to be honest.

It’s good for Plant. He was made to look good. Good matchmaking from PBC.

No UFC card. No other boxing card.
Free on FOX, a widely distributed channel.
Well-promoted and advertised via FOX.

All adds up to viewers.

Plant could wind up with a big fan base. Some guys just kind of do.

[Jeff_lacy_ko]

The card was terrible to bad 2mm people watched garbage

[gregregegg]

Free event, No UFC, no football, no other boxing, coming out of a slow time for boxing. Any event would of done well in that slot, Plant-truax proved this because it was a pretty average/bad card. Good for building plants profile though, beat up someone average in-front of 2 million pairs of eyeballs with commentators implying he is a decent opponent.

[bobcatbox]

The card was terrible to bad 2mm people watched garbage

Yes, this is a problem. Boxing needs to pick its spots. Last weekend was wide open for a good to decent card for people to watch. Could’ve had millions watching good boxing. And somehow PBC blew it with this.

[Ron C]

Man, people watched that fight? There must really be nothing to do right now.

I don’t think there was anything else on to be honest.

It’s good for Plant. He was made to look good. Good matchmaking from PBC.

No UFC card. No other boxing card.
Free on FOX, a widely distributed channel.
Well-promoted and advertised via FOX.

All adds up to viewers.

Plant could wind up with a big fan base. Some guys just kind of do.

This. Fox really reallyyyyyy does a good job promoting Caleb Plant. I remember before the Jose Uzcategui fight they practically covered his whole life story

[Ruthless-RKO]

I don’t think there was anything else on to be honest.

It’s good for Plant. He was made to look good. Good matchmaking from PBC.

No UFC card. No other boxing card.
Free on FOX, a widely distributed channel.
Well-promoted and advertised via FOX.

All adds up to viewers.

Plant could wind up with a big fan base. Some guys just kind of do.

This. Fox really reallyyyyyy does a good job promoting Caleb Plant. I remember before the Jose Uzcategui fight they practically covered his whole life story

The Uzcategui fight was on FS1 and did 986,000 Viewers. Decent for that channel.

The Mike Lee fight peaked 1.41 million viewers. This was a lead-in to the Pac-Thurman FOX PPV.

The fight with Feigenbutz peaked at 1.809 million viewers.

Numbers are looking good for Plant. Been marketed well.. How many of the same 2 million that watched the Truax fight, will tune into another Plant fight?

[JxhDel.]

You are forgetting he has quite the backstory and also him being a white boy. A large piece of the public can appreciate him as an "Eminem" kind of figure

[Evander]

Man, people watched that fight? There must really be nothing to do right now.

There you go that's it in a nutshell.

[mickey1975]

wow, big numbers, caleb truax is obviously a big draw

Nearly on a par with Channel 5 in a much, much smaller country.