Klitschko/Briggs score 13,92mil. viewers

Just a lil info on how popular Boxing is here.

The fight did a 13,92mil. average viewers.
That's 57% of all TV watching germans during that time

lol and Ppl say boxings dead?
Good for the ppl of Germany I hope to be visting my homeland some time in the near future again.

What are ultimate fightin' numbers in Germany?

CanadianAssault wrote:lol and Ppl say boxings dead?
Good for the ppl of Germany I hope to be visting my homeland some time in the near future again.

Only Redneck 12 year olds on Shertard say that.

Wow. War boxing!

KOQ24 wrote:Just a lil info on how popular Boxing is here.

The fight did a 13,92mil. average viewers.
That's 57% of all TV watching germans during that time

that's why MMA gets such bad publicity in Deutschland.. boxing is still no1 and wants to stay that way!

Kid Gavilan wrote:What are ultimate fightin' numbers in Germany?

UFC was running on Sport1 which is considerably smaller,less viewed channel than RTL (Home of the Klits).
Oliver Copp was claiming that they were getting triple digit viewers (100-200k range).
He is basically ZUFFA representative in Germany, so take the numbers with a grain of salt.

At least the numbers were enought to keep showing UFC events, so they had at least +60k viewers.
And then came the ban from TV.
Better for Hardcore Fans (now we're getting live streams instead of delayed broadcasts), not good to get a better Fan base

Most Americans don't realize just how popular boxing is world wide, just like they don't realize many of the best fighters in MMA are not in the UFC. Boxing is just as popular as soccer/football in many parts of the world. That is why the money boxers make will always be more than MMA fighters overall. I still love boxing and as do many of my older family members. MMA comes first for me, but I will always have a love for the great sport of boxing. Still following boxing and watching it when I can.

True MMA FAN wrote:Most Americans don't realize just how popular boxing is world wide, just like they don't realize many of the best fighters in MMA are not in the UFC. Boxing is just as popular as soccer/football in many parts of the world. That is why the money boxers make will always be more than MMA fighters overall. I still love boxing and as do many of my older family members. MMA comes first for me, but I will always have a love for the great sport of boxing. Still following boxing and watching it when I can.

Cha-ching

Especially here in England. MMA is still seen and even marketed as "cagefighting"... and seeing as Cage Rage died, there is no super-org i.e. an org with ranked talent, that can put on great events and convince the public AND marketers otherwise.

Whereas boxing was reintroduced to the world from these shores. Go figure

Boxing will always be Big in europe cuz they know whats up.
in the US? I have no idea if it will ever be like the golden age of boxing when we had liston chuvalo ali Joe Foremen Norton ect.

maybe when the US makes more champs, but so far the biggest champ they got is Andre Ward.

CanadianAssault wrote:Boxing will always be Big in europe cuz they know whats up.
in the US? I have no idea if it will ever be like the golden age of boxing when we had liston chuvalo ali Joe Foremen Norton ect.

maybe when the US makes more champs, but so far the biggest champ they got is Andre Ward.

boxing still big the US man.. they just need a heavyweight contender to get the general public's notice.