Comments Thread For: Porter-Berto Bout Drew Average of 468,000 Viewers on Showtime

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An average of 468,000 viewers watched Showtime's broadcast of the Shawn Porter-Andre Berto welterweight fight Saturday night from Brooklyn. The average viewership was lower than the two previous main events Showtime televised in prime time this year, according to figures released by Nielsen Media Research.
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[New England]

awful ratings, but boxing ratings look like they're going down across the board.


fight was a bit messy in spots but i thoguht it was terrifically exciting. both guys worked extremely hard. berto was fighitng for his life in spots. headbutts weren't good for the spirit of the competition, but they certainly added to the drama.

[GMAN SUPREME]

those are terrible ratings.

[Beercules]

Great ratings

[Butch.McRae]

**** ratings...no disclaimers this time. The NBA hurt, but 700k would've been reasonable under those circumstances

[BrometheusBob.]

Yikes

[Boxing Logic]

****ty product = ****ty ratings, especially over time. Just look at Showtime's boxing ratings before Haymon started controlling their programming compared to now, and it's gone downhill so badly. I know Haymon has some fans who feel differently, but the overall boxing audience in the US has spoken, and the facts don't lie. Boxing fans do not like Al Haymon's product. In fact, they dislike it so much that about 30% of the boxing fans from 5 or 10 years ago have simply stopped tuning it. 30%! That's a lot in only 5 or 10 years.

[JASON SHAW]

This fight would have done wayy better on spike or even espn.. Oh well. The fight was ugly anyway....

[JASON SHAW]

****ty product = ****ty ratings, especially over time. Just look at showtime's boxing ratings before haymon started controlling their programming compared to now, and it's gone downhill so badly. I know haymon has some fans who feel differently, but the overall boxing audience in the us has spoken, and the facts don't lie. Boxing fans do not like al haymon's product. In fact, they dislike it so much that about 30% of the boxing fans from 5 or 10 years ago have simply stopped tuning it. 30%! That's a lot in only 5 or 10 years.

you are such a liar like golden girl ****tions its not even surprising anymore... The last 2 years the most watched fights in boxing in decades have been promoted by al haymon and pbc you lying maggot.... Without al haymon and pbc millions of people would not be watching great fights on primetime free tv you ****** liar.... Now get back to washing oscarinas culo before he gets another dui

[JASON SHAW]

boxingscene SO BOXINGSCENE WONT RELEASE THE GOLDEN BOY ON ESPN 2 RATINGS EVERY WEEK? BUT PBC AND SHOWTIME RATINGS THEY NEVER FORGET TO RELEASE? HOW IS THIS POSSIBLE?? I NEVER SEE ARTICLES ABOUT GOLDEN BOY ESPN2 RATINGS????? WHO IS THE EDITOR OF THIS CORRUPT SITE?