Bivol-Pascal, HBO’s Last WCB Main Event, Peaked At 537K Viewers
Posted: 28 Nov 2018, 18:39
The last “World Championship Boxing” broadcast of HBO’s 45-year run in boxing drew lower ratings Saturday night than its previous such telecast.
Nielsen Media Research ratings released Wednesday indicated that HBO’s main event, Dmitry Bivol’s victory over Jean Pascal, attracted a peak audience of 537,000 viewers. An average audience of 467,000 watch the Bivol-Pascal telecast from Atlantic City, New Jersey.
The ratings for Saturday’s main event were slightly worse than HBO’s previous “World Championship Boxing” broadcast. Viewership of this show was reflective, too, of how boxing fans felt about what was considered a relatively easy fight for Bivol, the WBA light heavyweight champion.
The opener of HBO’s doubleheader Saturday night drew a peak audience of 440,000 and an average viewership of 405,000.
In that bout, undefeated super bantamweight prospect Murodjon Akhmadaliev beat Isaac Zarate by ninth-round technical knockout.
HBO’s prior “World Championship Boxing” main event, Daniel Jacobs-Sergey Derevyanchenko, drew low ratings in comparison to most of HBO’s comparable boxing offerings. Jacobs-Derevyanchenko was a competitive, entertaining fight – a 12-rounder Jacobs won by unanimous decision to capture the then-vacant IBF middleweight title – yet it drew a peak audience of only 553,000 and an average of 500,000 viewers.
Nielsen Media Research ratings released Wednesday indicated that HBO’s main event, Dmitry Bivol’s victory over Jean Pascal, attracted a peak audience of 537,000 viewers. An average audience of 467,000 watch the Bivol-Pascal telecast from Atlantic City, New Jersey.
The ratings for Saturday’s main event were slightly worse than HBO’s previous “World Championship Boxing” broadcast. Viewership of this show was reflective, too, of how boxing fans felt about what was considered a relatively easy fight for Bivol, the WBA light heavyweight champion.
The opener of HBO’s doubleheader Saturday night drew a peak audience of 440,000 and an average viewership of 405,000.
In that bout, undefeated super bantamweight prospect Murodjon Akhmadaliev beat Isaac Zarate by ninth-round technical knockout.
HBO’s prior “World Championship Boxing” main event, Daniel Jacobs-Sergey Derevyanchenko, drew low ratings in comparison to most of HBO’s comparable boxing offerings. Jacobs-Derevyanchenko was a competitive, entertaining fight – a 12-rounder Jacobs won by unanimous decision to capture the then-vacant IBF middleweight title – yet it drew a peak audience of only 553,000 and an average of 500,000 viewers.