Saturday evening’s spectacular exhibiting in a unanimous determination win by Teofimo Lopez additionally scored with boxing followers on ESPN and their platforms.Tuesday afternoon Showbuzz every day had the newest Nielsen tv viewers numbers for ESPN’s linear TV protection and the Lopez WBO junior welterweight title win over Josh Taylor averaged practically 950,000 viewers late Saturday. The viewers Peaked within the ultimate half hour of Lopez’s victory at 980,000
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As a reference level, that viewers was the very best of any Prime Rank ESPN most important occasion struggle thus far this yr topping the earlier excessive from their April eighth broadcast of Shakur Stevenson-Shuichiro Yoshino that had a mean viewers of 827,000 for Stevenson’s KO victory that evening.
Now to maintain issues in perspective, the Prime Rank most important occasion present broadcast for 2 hours on “the worldwide chief in sports activities” (ESPN) was crushed decisively on cable TV by recreation 4 of the Stanley Cup Last between Las Vegas and Florida broadcast by Turner’s TNT cable.
The Golden Knights 3-2 victory over the Panthers was watched on common by 1.8 million individuals Saturday evening. And naturally, U.S. community tv continues to be king, together with Fox Sports activities’ protection of the working of the Belmont Stakes horse race. That had over 3.5 million viewers on common late Saturday afternoon and the horse race broadcast led into Saturday evening’s baseball protection on Fox of the New York Yankees and the Boston Purple Sox.
The baseball on Fox tallied 2.5 million on common in viewers.
Meantime, Lopez took care of enterprise in spectacular vogue on the MSG Hulu Theater controlling the again half of the struggle towards the lineal champion Taylor from Scotland. It makes Teofimo a two division world champ and extra marketable for a possible PPV showdown later this yr with the likes of undisputed light-weight champ Devin Haney.
Finallly, the viewers numbers are related, as ESPN will proceed to televise a number of extra struggle playing cards this yr over their linear community. And, it ought to be identified that with the ESPN Deportes viewers and likewise, ESPN+ streaming numbers (that they don’t reveal) the Lopez-Taylor struggle had much more viewers than simply what was reported from ESPN.
