Magdaleno vs Yenifel Vicente - the telecast peaked at 392,000 viewers, average 311,000 viewers
Stevenson vs Caraballo - the telecast peaked at 609,000 viewers, average at 397,000 viewer
https://www.boxingscene.com/magdaleno-vicente-espn-telecast-peaked-392k-viewers-averaged-311k--149472
I would say not bad after-all, this is just the first fight telecast live in this pandemic, just imagine if these are top tier fighters, I'm sure it can go as high as 1 million viewers on average.
Yeah, not bad at all. Just curious if Top Rank did profit on those fights or it's just a gimme by Bob Arum to the followers of the sweet science.
For top tier fighters, IMO they will wait until audience could watch to generate more revenue from the gate.
Arum is good at hiding his numbers , he may say publicly that he didn't profit in those fights, but if you are not aware of, Arum is a practicing tax lawyer. Before becoming a boxing promoter, he served at the Justice Department under Kennedy's administration, and he is the one who prosecuted the allegedly tax evasion case of Roy Cohn, a boxing promoter, who made tons of money from the Sonny Liston and Floyd Patterson. And that open his eyes about boxing promotions.