Calzaghe-Hopkins HBO rating

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  1. Mitchell Kane

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    According to Dan Rafael, it did about a 3.9.
     
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    Is that good or bad?
     
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    That's pretty good for a pay channel. WWE gets around a 3.0 and it's on basic cable.
     
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    not bad, but not great either. Fight should've been in Wales to make some profit.
     
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    fck calslappy. and fck hopkins. he tried to make it racial - new school brothers won't buy that shit.
     
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    shitty rating. quite shitty for what the investment must have been.
     
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    Didn´t HBO recently score their lowest WCB rating ever with the Cotto/Margarito card. HBO needs to understand it made boxing a niche sport, and now his audience is smarter and they can identify garbage match-ups and mismatches. And they have driven the fighters purses up so far, that they cannot sign great fights for reasonable prices, so it all ends up on PPV. Okay this doesn´t explain the poor rating for Kessler vs. Calzaghe, but if you ignore european boxing, most of the time, that isn´t much of a surprise either.
     
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    margarito cintron was a garbage matchup?
     
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    No, but Cotto/Gomez certainly was one out of the Roy Jones textbook and served as the official main event. Plus for some Margarito/Cintron might have been a foregone conclusion. :dunno:
     
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    It was up against a better Showtime card.
     
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    It did lower than Klitschko-Austin?

    I thought that was the record low for WCB (at 2.5).
     
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    1.7 I Heard.
     
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    That is bad.

    It did receive a ton of negative press, and rightly so, but still a little surprising it did that bad.
     
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    Looks like Ellerbe was right.
     
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    3.9 is awesome for a Boxing show on HBO; it's not Tito-Whitaker which did some like 14 million homes or something with Oscar-Ike replay on the show but it's not bad at all.
     
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    Two quotes from Steve Kim:

    "'...sources say that the telecast did right around a 4.0 and may have peaked during the actual fight into the 5's."

    "....the ratings for Calzahge-Hopkins are the highest they've [HBO] procured in a year or so."
     
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    Just saw these numbers (viewers) for some HBO shows this year:

    Wladimir Klitschko vs. Sultan Ibragimov: 1.8 million

    Joe Calzaghe vs. Bernard Hopkins: 1.89 million

    Oscar De la Hoya vs. Steve Forbes: 2.1 million
     
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