Teofimo Lopez’s second junior welterweight struggle drew barely greater viewership on ESPN than his 140-pound debut 4 months in the past.
Nielsen Media Analysis revealed information Tuesday that indicated a mean of 951,000 viewers watched Lopez defeat Sandor Martin by cut up choice in a 10-round most important occasion Saturday evening at Madison Sq. Backyard in New York. ESPN’s peak viewers for the Lopez-Martin match was 972,000.
Lopez’s earlier struggle on ESPN, a seventh-round stoppage of Pedro Campa on August 13, was watched by a mean viewers of 890,000 and drew a peak viewers of 913,000.
ESPN’s complete four-bout broadcast Saturday evening, which lasted 3 hours and eight minutes, attracted a mean of 840,000 viewers. Nielsen’s numbers embody solely people who watched on ESPN’s linear channel, not people who considered any of the 4 fights on ESPN Deportes or through ESPN+, the community’s streaming service.
Nielsen doesn’t monitor viewership for ESPN+. ESPN doesn’t launch viewership figures for ESPN+, both.
The Brooklyn-born Lopez (18-1, 13 KOs) out-pointed Spain’s Martin (40-3, 13 KOs) on two scorecards in what seemed to be a really aggressive struggle.
Quebec-based decide Pasquale Procopio unusually scored eight of the ten rounds for Lopez, who gained 97-92 on his scorecard. California’s Max De Luca scored seven rounds for Lopez (96-93), who was knocked down early within the second spherical.
Italy’s Guido Cavalleri scored their struggle 95-94 for Martin, who claimed he was “robbed” and questioned why referee Ricky Gonzalez didn’t rating a second knockdown for him early within the seventh spherical.
The bout earlier than Lopez’s slim win, hard-hitting heavyweight Jared Anderson’s second-round stoppage of Jerry Forrest, drew a mean of 825,000 viewers. Anderson (13-0, 13 KOs), of Toledo, Ohio, grew to become the primary opponent to defeat Forrest inside the gap since Gerald Washington knocked out Forrest (26-6-2, 20 KOs), of Newport Information, Virginia, within the second spherical of their August 2013 bout in Indio, California.
A mean of 821,000 viewers watched the bout ESPN aired previous to Anderson’s victory, Xander Zayas’ eight-round unanimous factors win in opposition to Alexis Salazar. Puerto Rico’s Zayas (15-0, 10 KOs), a 20-year-old junior middleweight contender, beat Salazar (24-5, 9 KOs), of Norwalk, California, comfortably on all three scorecards (80-72, 79-73 and 79-73).
The opener of ESPN’s telecast, unbeaten light-weight Keyshawn Davis’ eight-round shutout of Juan Carlos Burgos, attracted a mean of 745,000 viewers. Davis (7-0, 5 KOs), a 2021 Olympic silver medalist from Norfolk, Virginia, beat Burgos (35-7-3, 21 KOs), a three-time world championship challenger from Tijuana, by the identical rating, 80-72, in accordance with every of the three judges.
Keith Idec is a senior author/columnist for BoxingScene.com. He might be reached on Twitter @Idecboxing.
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