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We had a good discussion about this card under that tweet. If you on the T hit us up breh.
Instantly went from Wilder hater to mild fan with this interview. Dude has personality, pause
and is easy to root for.All that cash shyt he talking about that boy AJ is 100% truth
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Hurd-Lara Drew Higher Ratings for Showtime Than Joshua-Parker
Hurd-Lara Drew Higher Ratings for Showtime Than Joshua-Parker
By Keith Idec
Jarrett Hurd and Erislandy Lara didn’t start fighting until 12:43 a.m. ET on Saturday night.
That didn’t stop them from producing higher ratings than the heavyweight title unification fight Showtime televised the previous Saturday. Nielsen Media Research ratings released Tuesday revealed viewership for Hurd-Lara, the main event of Showtime’s tripleheader from Las Vegas, peaked at 521,000.
The average audience for Hurd-Lara was 490,000. Unbeaten British superstar Anthony Joshua’s unanimous-decision win against Joseph Parker was watched by a peak audience of 379,000 and an average audience of 346,000 on March 31.
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That heavyweight championship unification match began at 5:51 p.m. ET, long before prime time. While airing that early in the United States created a ratings disadvantage for the Joshua-Parker bout, Hurd-Lara began unusually late for East Coast viewers.
A same-day replay of Joshua-Parker peaked at 483,000 viewers and averaged 430,000. Showtime’s same-day replay from Cardiff, Wales, began at 10 p.m. ET.
Joshua’s fights air via pay-per-view in the United Kingdom, where the undefeated knockout artist is incredibly popular. Sky Sports Box Office doesn’t release buy rates for those pay-per-view events, which typically cost £19.95.
Those that tuned in to watch Hurd-Lara on Showtime witnessed an extremely competitive contest Hurd won by split decision.
The bigger, stronger Hurd floored Lara with 37 seconds remaining in a 12-round fight that seemingly could’ve gone either way. The Cuban-born, Houston-based Lara was winning on all three scorecards entering the 12th round, but the left hook Hurd landed to drop Lara was the difference on two of the three scorecards.
Had Hurd not floored Lara in the 12th round, their 154-pound title unification fight would’ve resulted in a majority draw.
Instead, judges Glenn Feldman and Dave Moretti scored their fight for Hurd by the same score, 114-113. Judge Burt Clement credited Lara with a 114-113 win.
The 27-year-old Hurd (22-0, 15 KOs), of Accokeek, Maryland, retained his IBF junior middleweight title and won the WBA and IBO super welterweight championships from Lara (25-3-2, 14 KOs).
Hurd-Lara Drew Higher Ratings for Showtime Than Joshua-Parker
By Keith Idec
Jarrett Hurd and Erislandy Lara didn’t start fighting until 12:43 a.m. ET on Saturday night.
That didn’t stop them from producing higher ratings than the heavyweight title unification fight Showtime televised the previous Saturday. Nielsen Media Research ratings released Tuesday revealed viewership for Hurd-Lara, the main event of Showtime’s tripleheader from Las Vegas, peaked at 521,000.
The average audience for Hurd-Lara was 490,000. Unbeaten British superstar Anthony Joshua’s unanimous-decision win against Joseph Parker was watched by a peak audience of 379,000 and an average audience of 346,000 on March 31.
That heavyweight championship unification match began at 5:51 p.m. ET, long before prime time. While airing that early in the United States created a ratings disadvantage for the Joshua-Parker bout, Hurd-Lara began unusually late for East Coast viewers.
A same-day replay of Joshua-Parker peaked at 483,000 viewers and averaged 430,000. Showtime’s same-day replay from Cardiff, Wales, began at 10 p.m. ET.
Joshua’s fights air via pay-per-view in the United Kingdom, where the undefeated knockout artist is incredibly popular. Sky Sports Box Office doesn’t release buy rates for those pay-per-view events, which typically cost £19.95.
Those that tuned in to watch Hurd-Lara on Showtime witnessed an extremely competitive contest Hurd won by split decision.
The bigger, stronger Hurd floored Lara with 37 seconds remaining in a 12-round fight that seemingly could’ve gone either way. The Cuban-born, Houston-based Lara was winning on all three scorecards entering the 12th round, but the left hook Hurd landed to drop Lara was the difference on two of the three scorecards.
Had Hurd not floored Lara in the 12th round, their 154-pound title unification fight would’ve resulted in a majority draw.
Instead, judges Glenn Feldman and Dave Moretti scored their fight for Hurd by the same score, 114-113. Judge Burt Clement credited Lara with a 114-113 win.
The 27-year-old Hurd (22-0, 15 KOs), of Accokeek, Maryland, retained his IBF junior middleweight title and won the WBA and IBO super welterweight championships from Lara (25-3-2, 14 KOs).
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this is such an ugly mess...the winner of stevenson and jack just needs to give this man his deserved title shot
Eleider Alvarez Situation Holding Up Stevenson-Jack Promotion
By Keith Idec
Eleider Alvarez has taken a stand.
According to Stephane Lepine, Alvarez’s manager, the planned Adonis Stevenson-Badou Jack fight will take place May 19 only if Alvarez, the mandatory challenger for Stevenson’s WBC light heavyweight title, is properly compensated to step aside and allow it. Lepine told rds.ca, a Canadian sports website, that negotiations are ongoing and that he hopes that an agreement is reached as soon as possible.
“I do not want to talk about negotiations while they are still taking place,” Lepine told rds.ca. “It is not done. I would only hurt Eleider and the project. What I can tell you is that I know where I’m going with Eleider, that it’s been very well-protected and that, one way or another, we’re going to be the winner [in this situation].”
Yvon Michel, whose company promotes Stevenson and Alvarez, acknowledged to rds.ca that an agreement with Alvarez must be reached before he can begin promoting Stevenson-Jack. Tickets have not gone on sale for that May 19 card at Bell Centre in Montreal, which tentatively is scheduled for five weeks from Saturday night.
“I cannot really talk about it because I do not want to publicize the problems we have to solve,” Michel said. “What I can tell you is that we are working very hard to fix that. We are very confident to put an end to all this and launch the promotion quickly.”
Showtime has committed to televising an intriguing bout between Quebec’s Stevenson (29-1, 24 KOs) and Sweden’s Jack (22-1-2, 13 KOs), but Lepine seeks a binding assurance that the winner would defend the WBC 175-pound championship against Alvarez in his following fight. The Colombian-born, Quebec-based Alvarez has been Stevenson’s mandatory challenger since defeating South Africa’s Isaac Chilemba in November 2015, yet he has fought four times since then.
Alvarez reportedly has been paid step-aside fees for allowing Stevenson to make optional defenses of his title since Alvarez became his mandatory challenger. Stevenson has fought just twice during that time – when the powerful southpaw scored a fourth-round knockout of American Thomas Williams Jr. in July 2016 and when he stopped Poland’s Andrzej Fonfara in the second round of what was widely viewed as an unnecessary rematch 10 months ago.
The 34-year-old Alvarez (23-0, 11 KOs) hasn’t fought since defeating Quebec’s Jean Pascal by majority decision in their 12-rounder on the Stevenson-Fonfara undercard June 3 at Bell Centre.
“He is the mandatory challenger,” Lepine said of Alvarez. “The fight May 19 [between Stevenson and Jack] will take place only if we are satisfied with our negotiations. It’s always been that and I organized myself to keep it that way.”
Lepine revealed that he wants $1 million, presumably in combined compensation, for Alvarez’s next two fights, in addition to an assurance that Alvarez will face the Stevenson-Jack winner next. If they come to an agreement, Alvarez is expected to fight on the Stevenson-Jack undercard May 19.
Alvarez is ranked No. 1 among the WBC’s light heavyweight contenders. Ukraine’s Oleksandr Gvozdyk (15-0, 12 KOs) is ranked No. 2 by the WBC, won its interim light heavyweight title March 17 in New York and told BoxingScene.com last month that he expects to face the Stevenson-Jack winner next.
reservoirdogs
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nah, Eleider Alvarez can go kick rocks
He took step aside money like how many times already...? but now it's urgent to him to fight for the belt
that's also not fair to those fighters who are coming after him in the ranks, he holds up their career too not only his.
Also after the 1000th stalling of his title challenge they ordered him to fight a new eliminator with Gvozdyk which he turned down
So Alvarez can
for a time I felt sorry for him but it can't be that he is not responsible for this whole mess, he took all those step aside money and then withdrew when he should have fought the next in rankings and now he is in his feeling
He should be happy that they didn't drop his ass from those rankings years ago
Be a contender who is reluctant to actually fight for the title for years...
Dushane Hill
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ChocolateGiddyUp
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:shedead:
Honestly they should just cancel the shyt. fukk Canelo for this wild ass predicament. Bum ass had to take PEDs to compete
Amor fati
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His bum hunt ain't working, his cherry picking ass should have fought Andrade or his mandatory. fukk him.
