Jermall Charlo vs. Juan Macias Montiel - June 19, 2021

[DrDuke]

Jermall threw career high punches

That's OK, he faced a living heavybag. It has probably become a tradition to fight nobodies to defend the MW championship.

[ironbeard]

Charlo soldout for the KO and it very nearly cost him. It came dangerously close to a Haney scenario. He severely gassed himself, underestimating the chin, heart and power of his opponent. He really does not like it to the body.

I think 2nd level tough guys are drooling at the opportunity to go after him, and Canelo is a lion with a Cheshire grin right now.

[Cent0089]

CompuBox Stats

This is weird, Montiel landed only 4 body punches ?

[Ruthless-RKO]

[margaret thatcher]

mall had to dig in those last rounds

[ironbeard]

It wasn’t like he was fighting a Linares level opponent.

[Ruthless-RKO]

Juan Macias Montiel after the incredible amount of punishment he took in making it to the final bell in a virtual shutout loss to Jermall Charlo: "If a Montiel cut off his balls, he would be a junior flyweight."

[Ruthless-RKO]

Charlo-Montiel Viewership Highest For Showtime Boxing Broadcast During Pandemic

More viewers watched Jermall Charlo’s tougher-than-expected victory over Juan Macias Montiel than any boxing match Showtime has televised during the COVID-19 pandemic.

A Nielsen Media Research report released Tuesday indicated that an average of 333,000 viewers tuned in for the 12-round main event Showtime televised from Toyota Center in Houston. A peak audience of 379,000 watched toward the end of Charlo’s unanimous-decision win against an awkward, courageous challenger who survived serious trouble in both the fifth and sixth rounds to finish their fight on his feet.

Showtime’s figures include only viewers that watched those fights live on Showtime’s linear channel. ViacomCBS, the parent company of Showtime and Boxing Scene, doesn’t release streaming numbers.

Before Saturday night, Showtime’s previous biggest audiences since it began broadcasting boxing August 1 following a 4½-month break caused by the coronavirus crisis were produced February 20. The premium cable network’s main event that night, Adrien Broner’s 12-round, unanimous-decision victory versus Jovanie Santiago, attracted a peak audience of 304,000 and an average audience of 288,000.

Part of the Broner-Santiago fight aired at the same time as ESPN’s main event February 20, Oscar Valdez’s upset of Miguel Berchelt in a WBC 130-pound title fight. Valdez’s 10th-round knockout of Berchelt was watched by an average of 895,000 viewers and drew a peak audience of 960,000.

Earlier Saturday night, an average audience of 259,000 watched Showtime’s co-feature between Mexican lightweights Isaac Cruz and Francisco Vargas.

Cruz (22-1-1, 15 KOs) battered and bloodied a game Vargas (27-3-2, 19 KOs), who lost their 10-rounder by scores of 100-89, 99-90 and 97-92. A peak audience of 274,000 watched the Cruz-Vargas fight.

Showtime’s 10-round opener Saturday night, which resulted in Angelo Leo’s majority-decision defeat of Aaron Alameda, averaged 141,000 viewers and was watched by a peak audience of 176,000. Albuquerque’s Leo (21-1, 9 KOs), a former WBO junior featherweight champion, defeated Mexico’s Alameda (25-2, 13 KOs) on two scorecards (98-92, 96-94, 95-95).