ESPN 10/13 Terence Crawford vs Jose Benavidez (WBO Welterweight Championship)

[David_TheMan]

Crawford-Benavidez Does Big Ratings For ESPN

By ESPN

Last night’s Top Rank on ESPN (10:25 p.m. ET to 12:36 a.m. ET) scored three major victories. The overall event delivered a 1.6 metered market rating according to Nielsen, making it the highest-rated boxing telecast in 2018 across all broadcast and cable networks. The main event, featuring Terence Crawford (34-0, 25 KOs) vs. Jose Benavidez, Jr. (27-1, 18 KOs), averaged a 1.8 metered market, making it making it the year’s highest-rated Top Rank bout and main event on ESPN. It was an electric, full house at the CHI Health Center in Omaha, as hometown favorite Terence “Bud” Crawford, defeated Benavidez Jr. by 12th-round TKO to defend his WBO welterweight world title.

The featured co-main event, a battle between Shakur Stevenson (9-0, 5 KOs) vs Viorel Simion (21-3,9 KOs), also delivered big for ESPN, scoring a 1.3 metered market rating, making it the year’s second highest-rated Top Rank on ESPN event. Stevenson, a 2016 U.S. Olympic silver medalist, knocked Simion down three times en route to a first-round TKO in the scheduled 10-round co-feature.

Top Things to Know

Last night’s entire Top Rank on ESPN telecast averaged a 1.6 metered market rating, making it the highest-rated boxing telecast in 2018 across all broadcast and cable networks and the highest-rated Top Rank on ESPN telecast, behind Pacquiao vs Horn in July 2017

The Crawford vs Benavidez, Jr. main event averaged a 1.8 metered market rating, making it the highest-rated Top Rank bout and main event in 2018. The fight averaged 80% higher rating than the Crawford-Indongo fight in August 2017 (1.0 metered market rating)

Stevenson vs Simion co-main averaged a 1.3 metered market rating, making it the second highest-rated Top Rank fight in 2018, besting Lomachenko vs Linares (1.0 metered market rating, May 2018) which was this year’s highest-rated Top Rank fight until last night

Last night’s event is ESPN’s second highest-rated Top Rank telecast since ESPN acquired the rights in 2017.

Top Local Markets
Rank Market Metered Market Rating
1 Birmingham 11.9
2 Norfolk 5.5
3 New Orleans 4.5
4 Memphis 3.6
5 Kansas City 3.3

Basically black cities watch boxing still and got this high ratings.
Watch Arum still ignore this and focus on small euros like Loma or hispanics.

 

[Bleed The Freak]

Crawford-Benavidez Does Big Ratings For ESPN

By ESPN

Last night’s Top Rank on ESPN (10:25 p.m. ET to 12:36 a.m. ET) scored three major victories. The overall event delivered a 1.6 metered market rating according to Nielsen, making it the highest-rated boxing telecast in 2018 across all broadcast and cable networks. The main event, featuring Terence Crawford (34-0, 25 KOs) vs. Jose Benavidez, Jr. (27-1, 18 KOs), averaged a 1.8 metered market, making it making it the year’s highest-rated Top Rank bout and main event on ESPN. It was an electric, full house at the CHI Health Center in Omaha, as hometown favorite Terence “Bud” Crawford, defeated Benavidez Jr. by 12th-round TKO to defend his WBO welterweight world title.

The featured co-main event, a battle between Shakur Stevenson (9-0, 5 KOs) vs Viorel Simion (21-3,9 KOs), also delivered big for ESPN, scoring a 1.3 metered market rating, making it the year’s second highest-rated Top Rank on ESPN event. Stevenson, a 2016 U.S. Olympic silver medalist, knocked Simion down three times en route to a first-round TKO in the scheduled 10-round co-feature.

Top Things to Know

Last night’s entire Top Rank on ESPN telecast averaged a 1.6 metered market rating, making it the highest-rated boxing telecast in 2018 across all broadcast and cable networks and the highest-rated Top Rank on ESPN telecast, behind Pacquiao vs Horn in July 2017

The Crawford vs Benavidez, Jr. main event averaged a 1.8 metered market rating, making it the highest-rated Top Rank bout and main event in 2018. The fight averaged 80% higher rating than the Crawford-Indongo fight in August 2017 (1.0 metered market rating)

Stevenson vs Simion co-main averaged a 1.3 metered market rating, making it the second highest-rated Top Rank fight in 2018, besting Lomachenko vs Linares (1.0 metered market rating, May 2018) which was this year’s highest-rated Top Rank fight until last night

Last night’s event is ESPN’s second highest-rated Top Rank telecast since ESPN acquired the rights in 2017.

Top Local Markets
Rank Market Metered Market Rating
1 Birmingham 11.9
2 Norfolk 5.5
3 New Orleans 4.5
4 Memphis 3.6
5 Kansas City 3.3

That's what makes Crawford's promotion so weird to me.

His fights sneak up on you but then he does ratings like this.

 

[R=G]

People wanted to see it..its a grudge match.

 

[prince_peoples]

Disagree completely he is just as good as a boxer if he wasn't he wouldn't have easily neutralized Garcia and Porter the way he did.
Crawford is a beautiful switch hitting boxer, but Thurman is just as good albeit without the switching ability.
thurman can get down and bang and is stronger than Crawford and bigger so to claim Crawford is better makes no sense to me.

They are very closely skilled but Crawford is smaller. Advantage Keith "One Time" thurman

Danny is a good fighter, but he isn’t a great fighter

He doesn’t always show up to fight.

 

[David_TheMan]

Danny is a good fighter, but he isn’t a great fighter

He doesn’t always show up to fight.

Danny and Porter were handled so easily by Thurman, Thurman answered all questions.

 

[prince_peoples]

Danny and Porter were handled so easily by Thurman, Thurman answered all questions.

Easily?

He won those fights but they were not one sided dominations.

Crawford is by far the most talented fighter of the 3 imo, I don’t even see how that’s up for debate

The only reason he might have problems at ww is due to the size.

 

[reservoirdogs]

Danny is a good fighter, but he isn’t a great fighter

He doesn’t always show up to fight.

How many in millions is a 1.8 metered marker

Didn’t mean to quote this one sorry

@Rashaddw question is to your post

 

[David_TheMan]

Easily?

He won those fights but they were not one sided dominations.

Crawford is by far the most talented fighter of the 3 imo, I don’t even see how that’s up for debate

The only reason he might have problems at ww is due to the size.

Yes easily.
those were all one sided boxing lessons from thurman.

Crawford has the most heralded professional accomplishments, but I wouldn't say he is the most talented at all. Not skills wise.

Yeah he is undersized at WW and it is going to be an issue as he steps up in comp.

 

[patscorpio]

Danny and Porter were handled so easily by Thurman, Thurman answered all questions.

thurman handled danny fairly easily...but i was there for thurman-porter..thurman was fighting for his life under the pressure porter put on him

 

[David_TheMan]

thurman handled danny fairly easily...but i was there for thurman-porter..thurman was fighting for his life under the pressure porter put on him

to me the porter fight was more he exerted effort but he wasn't in danger, he just turned thurman and tied him up when he got inside and boxed him.
Porter was doing his usual wrestling shyt, but it wasn't effective at all. IMHO

 

[Bleed The Freak]

How many in millions is a 1.8 metered marker

Didn’t mean to quote this one sorry

@Rashaddw question is to your post

I'm the worst person to ask how to read these ratings lol.

But if he's outperforming all other WW's and he's moved all the way up from 135 while doing it...not sure why people are dissing his performance.

At no time was he in trouble.

I still don't understand why Thurman keeps getting brought up. nikka has been MIA for 20 months and clearly ain't hungry. Talented and I like dude a lot but come on....

 

[thaKEAF]

Crawford-Benavidez Does Big Ratings For ESPN

By ESPN

Last night’s Top Rank on ESPN (10:25 p.m. ET to 12:36 a.m. ET) scored three major victories. The overall event delivered a 1.6 metered market rating according to Nielsen, making it the highest-rated boxing telecast in 2018 across all broadcast and cable networks. The main event, featuring Terence Crawford (34-0, 25 KOs) vs. Jose Benavidez, Jr. (27-1, 18 KOs), averaged a 1.8 metered market, making it making it the year’s highest-rated Top Rank bout and main event on ESPN. It was an electric, full house at the CHI Health Center in Omaha, as hometown favorite Terence “Bud” Crawford, defeated Benavidez Jr. by 12th-round TKO to defend his WBO welterweight world title.

The featured co-main event, a battle between Shakur Stevenson (9-0, 5 KOs) vs Viorel Simion (21-3,9 KOs), also delivered big for ESPN, scoring a 1.3 metered market rating, making it the year’s second highest-rated Top Rank on ESPN event. Stevenson, a 2016 U.S. Olympic silver medalist, knocked Simion down three times en route to a first-round TKO in the scheduled 10-round co-feature.

Top Things to Know

Last night’s entire Top Rank on ESPN telecast averaged a 1.6 metered market rating, making it the highest-rated boxing telecast in 2018 across all broadcast and cable networks and the highest-rated Top Rank on ESPN telecast, behind Pacquiao vs Horn in July 2017

The Crawford vs Benavidez, Jr. main event averaged a 1.8 metered market rating, making it the highest-rated Top Rank bout and main event in 2018. The fight averaged 80% higher rating than the Crawford-Indongo fight in August 2017 (1.0 metered market rating)

Stevenson vs Simion co-main averaged a 1.3 metered market rating, making it the second highest-rated Top Rank fight in 2018, besting Lomachenko vs Linares (1.0 metered market rating, May 2018) which was this year’s highest-rated Top Rank fight until last night

Last night’s event is ESPN’s second highest-rated Top Rank telecast since ESPN acquired the rights in 2017.

Top Local Markets
Rank Market Metered Market Rating
1 Birmingham 11.9
2 Norfolk 5.5
3 New Orleans 4.5
4 Memphis 3.6
5 Kansas City 3.3

M-Town we outchea

Me and my girl were both @ that KO

 

[R=G]

 

[LinusCaldwell]

It was a good fight

 

[desjardins]

Fight did big ratings on ESPN, might be a couple days before we get exact numbers.
Watching MNF right now and Crawford is at the game. They keep showing him and hyping up his fight.
The game is on .....ESPN
They might be trying build this dude into a superstar brehs. Imagine if Crawford gets a ppv before the showtime WWs