The USOC lists the most viewed sports on their website. Boxing is #7!
Olympic Sports Power Ratings
Most-viewed Olympic sport pages from April 9-15, 2007
By Charlie Snyder // usolympicteam.com // April 16, 2007
The Olympic Sports Power Ratings list the most-viewed Olympic sports pages on usolympicteam.com, which means the sports pages with the most page views for the week. Sports pages on usolympicteam.com include every single press release from each sport; plus, news and features from the biggest and best media outlets in the nation; Associated Press; and original features from usolympicteam.com staffers.
Past Power Ratings Chart-Toppers
Sport ... Number of times on the usolympicteam.com viewership mountaintop
Basketball ... 2
Bobsled ... 1
Curling ... 2
Figure Skating ... 13
Gymnastics ... 22
Ice Hockey ... 3
Snowboarding ... 2
Soccer ... 1
Softball ... 2
Swimming ... 12
Track & Field ... 5
Wrestling ... 4
Team Handball ... 1
The Olympic Sports Power Ratings, which debuted in Nov. 2005, are updated each Monday! To view our complete list of Olympic sports, go to our Olympic sports index.
1. wrestling
2. swimming
3. gymnastics
4. track & field
5. modern pentathlon
6. team handball
7. boxing
8. figure skating
9. basketball
10. ice hockey
11. soccer
12. shooting
13. volleyball
14. softball
15. judo
16. weightlifting
17. triathlon
18. taekwondo
19. water polo
20. equestrian
21. bobsled
21. baseball
22. skiing
23. karate
24. rowing
Olympic Sports Power Ratings
Mel - it just goes to show that there are a lot of boxing fans out there just starving for information. Local press in many areas does a very poor job of covering amateur boxing and fans have to look at national coverage for any info. Here in Michigan, the newspapers do a decent job of covering the Golden Gloves and other news about major national and international tournaments. Boxers and fans in certain other states aren't so lucky.
We get rare, if any, coverage in the biggest LBC in the country. We have a local paper in Orange County following Luis Ramos and that's about it. None of the Media Department's press releases get any space. Our Golden Gloves doesn't even get any coverage - too many sports in So. Calif. and not much interest in amateur boxing. I remember the old days when the L.A. Times had Earl Gutsky who covered amateur boxing - around 20 years ago. He's long gone and so is the interest. Steve Springer is the current boxing reporter and he cares more for scandals than he does promoting the sport.
