Unified middleweight titleholder Gennady Golovkin’s rousing fifth-round knockout of Kell Brook, whose corner threw in the towel, on Saturday at sold-out O2 Arena in London,
averaged 843,000 viewers for the live late afternoon HBO broadcast, according to Nielsen Media Research. The fight peaked at 907,000 viewers. The late-night replay averaged another 593,000 viewers for a total of 1.436 million. The figure for the live airing is similar to HBO’s coverage of Golovkin’s last European fight, a February 2015 knockout of Martin Murray in Monte Carlo. It averaged 862,000 viewers (peak of 938,000) but was not competing against college football.
HBO’s Saturday-night main event between pound-for-pound king and flyweight champion Roman “Chocolatito” Gonzalez, headlining his first HBO card, and Carlos Cuadras at The Forum in Inglewood, California, averaged 833,000 viewers, peaking at 951,000. Gonzalez won a decision to claim a junior bantamweight world title, his fourth belt in as many divisions. The opening bout of the telecast, junior middleweight Yoshihiro Kamegai’s eighth-round knockout of Jesus Soto Karass in a rematch, which was an all-out slugfest, averaged 667,000 viewers and peaked at 767,000.
averaged 843,000 viewers for the live late afternoon HBO broadcast, according to Nielsen Media Research. The fight peaked at 907,000 viewers. The late-night replay averaged another 593,000 viewers for a total of 1.436 million. The figure for the live airing is similar to HBO’s coverage of Golovkin’s last European fight, a February 2015 knockout of Martin Murray in Monte Carlo. It averaged 862,000 viewers (peak of 938,000) but was not competing against college football.
HBO’s Saturday-night main event between pound-for-pound king and flyweight champion Roman “Chocolatito” Gonzalez, headlining his first HBO card, and Carlos Cuadras at The Forum in Inglewood, California, averaged 833,000 viewers, peaking at 951,000. Gonzalez won a decision to claim a junior bantamweight world title, his fourth belt in as many divisions. The opening bout of the telecast, junior middleweight Yoshihiro Kamegai’s eighth-round knockout of Jesus Soto Karass in a rematch, which was an all-out slugfest, averaged 667,000 viewers and peaked at 767,000.
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