Golden Boy’s Garcia-Velez Doubleheader Averaged 281K Viewers

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Ryan Garcia has roughly 857,000 followers on Instagram and 61,000 Twitter followers.

His fight Friday night, the biggest test of Garcia’s fast-developing career, also drew an announced crowd of 6,625 to StubHub Center in Carson, California. Garcia still has some work to do in terms of becoming a television draw, though.

The Golden Boy Promotions doubleheader that featured the 19-year-old Garcia’s unanimous-decision victory over Jayson Velez was watched by an average audience of 281,000, according to ratings released Tuesday by Nielsen Media Research. The Garcia-Velez card was televised live by ESPN2, beginning at 10:30 p.m. ET/7:30 p.m. PT on Friday night.

The Garcia-Velez doubleheader produced slightly lower ratings than Golden Boy’s previous live broadcast on ESPN2.

That telecast, which featured former super featherweight champ Francisco Vargas’ stoppage of Rod Salka on April 12, attracted an averaged audience of 296,000. The Vargas-Salka card began airing at 10 p.m. ET/7 p.m. PT on a Thursday night.

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For a 19 year old, the viewers are decent and he sold 6k tickets at the StubHub! That's impressive.

[SenorPipino]

He looks pretty solid considering he's still a teenager.
He handled the experienced Velez pretty convincingly.

In interviews Garcia comes across as legitimately cocky and immature, however.

He better keep his attitude in check or he'll eventually fall victim to the same malady that once infected the young, immature Pancho Bojado.