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White Plains, NY/Philadelphia, PA -- Demetrius Andrade, two-time and undefeated world champion, showed that he has the drawing power to go along with his unquestioned ring talent as his bout with undefeated Alantez Fox outdrew both the main event and opening bouts in the ratings last Saturday night by over 90,000 viewers on HBO Boxing After Dark®.

The Andrade - Fox bout peeked at 685,000 viewers. That number outdrew the main event, the WBA World Super Featherweight title bout between Jezreel Corrales & Alberto Machado. That is an impressive number considering the sports viewing competition was incredibly strong. That competition was headlined by Game 7 of the American League Championship Series (New York Yankees - Houston Astros) as well as two high-profile college football games featuring Penn State and Michigan as well as Notre Dame and USC.

Those games were all still going on when Andrade and Fox walked to the ring but were well over by the time the main event started.

"To have Demetrius pull in that viewership going against The Yankees, Penn State, Notre Dame, Michigan and USC just shows the interest in an American boxer who can be considered one of the best out there. Those above mentioned teams are most iconic programs and teams in American sports," said Artie Pelullo, President of Banner Promotions.

Joe DeGuardia, President of Star Boxing said, "I am very pleased with the ratings. It is an anomaly when the co-feature bout does a higher rating than the main event. Additionally, considering that Demetrius' fight competed with significant live sports competition, including game 7 of a fantastic Yankees-Astros series and major college football games, it shows fans are interested in a talented American boxer with US Olympic pedigree."


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That is not an impressive number by any stretch of the imagination.

The article was written by Banner Promotions, who promotes Demetrius Andrade, so they are obviously biased and simply trying to put a positive spin on things in order to help keep his name in the media spotlight.

The viewership figures are far from impressive.

Murata vs N'Dam II got close to 20 times more whilst up against an election and typhoon...

Andrade and Fox had people losing interest to watching anymore boxing. The last fight being little guys and Corrales not making weight didn't help either.

Yeh, the title makes it sound as though it's a really big thing..

The actual figure isn't that good... it's average..

Also, he was up against Corrales.. Andrade, not a big name, is definately bigger than Corrales..

Ruthless-RKO wrote:Yeh, the title makes it sound as though it's a really big thing..

The actual figure isn't that good... it's average..

Also, he was up against Corrales.. Andrade, not a big name, is definately bigger than Corrales..

Title wasn't on the line, as Corrales didn't make weight.

I'm not impressed by those numbers viewing a "free" event... Free meaning you don't have to subscribe to premium channels to see it.. I forget what all is premium because I just subscribe to the most inclusive package and forget it.. But if DA drew 3 or 4 million viewers at peak viewing that would be great.

Kalan wrote:I'm not impressed by those numbers viewing a "free" event... Free meaning you don't have to subscribe to premium channels to see it.. I forget what all is premium because I just subscribe to the most inclusive package and forget it.. But if DA drew 3 or 4 million viewers at peak viewing that would be great.

It was on HBO, big shot, not free. And nothing gets 4 million anymore. Joshua will probably do about 250,000 tomorrow.

boxing_rocks wrote:

Ruthless-RKO wrote:Yeh, the title makes it sound as though it's a really big thing..

The actual figure isn't that good... it's average..

Also, he was up against Corrales.. Andrade, not a big name, is definately bigger than Corrales..

Title wasn't on the line, as Corrales didn't make weight.

I didn't mean title as in world title.. i meant as in headline.. when you hear he 'outdrew the main event'

It probably ran people off from sticking around for the Main Event. It was a pretty dull fight.

Boxing Prospect wrote:Murata vs N'Dam II got close to 20 times more whilst up against an election and typhoon...

Are you sure?

20 x 685,000=13.7 MILLION!!

Unless you're including Japanese TV that figure sounds high...

thinks he means japanese tv? there is tv outside america too

andrade fight sucked btw

jamamb wrote:thinks he means japanese tv? there is tv outside america too

andrade fight sucked btw

I'm pretty sure he does mean Japanese TV. He follows Japanese boxing closely!! Unless it was a typo on his part, 13.7 MILLION is an impressive number of viewers in ANY country!!

Best Coast wrote:

Boxing Prospect wrote:Murata vs N'Dam II got close to 20 times more whilst up against an election and typhoon...

Are you sure?

20 x 685,000=13.7 MILLION!!

Unless you're including Japanese TV that figure sounds high...

I'm including only Japanese figures.