SHOWTIME Boxing scores Record Ratings with Alvarez vs Lopez - Watch Replay
By Media Report on Doghouse Boxing (Sept 18, 2012) Doghouse Boxing
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KNOCKOUT KINGS SCORES RECORD RATINGS FOR SHOWTIME CHAMPIONSHIP BOXING
Saturday’s Headlining Bout—Canelo Alvarez and Josesito Lopez—
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Fight Of The Year Candidate Marcos Maidana vs. Jesus Soto Karass
Deliver Highest Ratings for SHOWTIME With Over One Million Viewers
Don’t Miss Tonight’s SHOWTIME EXTREME Replay, Tuesday, Sept. 18 At 10 p.m. ET/PT
Also Available Anytime at SHOWTIME ON DEMAND
NEW YORK (Sept. 18, 2012)–-In a
big night for boxing, Saturday night’s SHOWTIME CHAMPIONSHIP BOXING
telecast of “Knockout Kings” scored record ratings for its headlining
fight between Canelo Alvarez and Josesito Lopez with over one million
viewers. The blockbuster event, promoted by Golden Boy Promotions and
Canelo Promotions in association with Goossen Tutor Promotions and
Thompson Boxing Promotions, was held at the MGM Grand
Garden Arena in Las Vegas and featured an action-packed bout on the
undercard between welterweights Marcos Maidana and Jesus Soto Karass, which helped garner the second-highest rating for a boxing telecast on the premium network since 2007.
Canelo did not disappoint with a
dominating fifth-round technical knockout of Lopez in front of a
sold-out crowd celebrating Mexican Independence Day weekend. In what is
sure to be considered a Fight of the Year candidate, Maidana scored
a technical knockout over Soto Karass in the eighth round.
RATING STATISTICS:
· Saturday’s main
event bout between Canelo and Lopez attracted over one million viewers
(1.04 million) for the live telecast, surpassing the 2010 Jean Pascal
vs. Bernard
Hopkins event as the highest viewership for a bout on SHOWTIME since
the network began tracking bout viewership.
· Canelo vs. Lopez
drew the largest Hispanic audience for an individual bout on SHOWTIME
since 2009, outperforming Brandon Rios vs. Miguel Acosta from 2011.
· Saturday’s average
viewership ranked as the highest SHOWTIME boxing telecast of the year,
and the second-highest average viewership on the network since 2007.
“We’ve seen steady increases in
viewership for our marquee championship boxing events throughout the
year,” said Executive Vice President and General Manager for SHOWTIME
Sports Stephen Espinoza. “It makes perfect sense that the budding star
of Canelo Alvarez delivered our best performance thus far. We expect to
build on this success with future Canelo fights and, of course, on the
incredible lineup we have planned for SHOWTIME CHAMPIONSHIP BOXING this fall.”
Saturday’s fights will
replay tonight, Tuesday, Sept. 18 at 10 p.m. ET/PT on SHOWTIME EXTREME
and is available anytime at SHOWTIME On Demand through October 15.
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