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Wilder-Ortiz Showtime's Highest-Rated Fight Since Wilder-Stiverne
By Keith Idec

Not since Deontay Wilder won the WBC heavyweight title from Bermane Stiverne have as many viewers watched a boxing match on Showtime as they did Saturday night.

According to ratings released Tuesday by Nielsen Media Research, Wilder’s compelling comeback victory over Luis Ortiz drew a peak audience of 1.2 million viewers and averaged 1.1 viewers. That was Showtime’s largest viewership since Wilder’s unanimous-decision defeat of Stiverne attracted a peak audience of 1.34 million viewers and an average viewership of 1.24 million in January 2015.

Wilder’s previous fight on Showtime – a three-knockdown, first-round destruction of Stiverne in their rematch November 4 – drew lower ratings than their first fight (peak: 887,000 viewers; average: 824,000).

Before Wilder-Ortiz, Showtime’s highest-rated fight since the first Wilder-Stiverne bout was Mikey Garcia-Adrien Broner. Garcia’s 12-round, unanimous-decision win against Broner peaked at 937,000 viewers and averaged 881,000 on July 29.

Those that tuned in to see how Wilder would respond to the toughest test of his nine-year pro career were rewarded with some dramatic moments following a slow start to Wilder-Ortiz at Barclays Center in Brooklyn. The 6-feet-7 Wilder dropped Ortiz in the fifth round, but the resilient Cuban contender came back to hurt Wilder late in the seventh round.

Ortiz drilled Wilder with several power punches during the final 43 seconds of the seventh round, but Wilder was able to hold and move his way to the end of that three-minute period. Questions about Wilder’s chin were answered during that shaky sequence, from which he bounced back to hurt Ortiz with a right hand near the end of the ninth round.

Wilder (40-0, 39 KOs) then knocked down Ortiz (28-1, 24 KOs, 2 NC) twice more in the 10th round. Referee David Fields stopped the fight at 2:05 of the 10th, once Ortiz went down to his gloves and knees from Wilder’s crushing right uppercut.

The Wilder-Ortiz main event might’ve drawn even higher ratings had it not overlapped with HBO’s doubleheader Saturday night.

Wilder-Ortiz began at 10:44 p.m. ET, when HBO’s co-featured fight, Dmitry Bivol-Sullivan Barrera, was between the seventh and eighth rounds. Kyrgyzstan’s Bivol (13-0, 11 KOs) knocked out Cuba’s Barrera (21-2, 14 KOs) in the 12th round to retain his WBA light heavyweight title in The Theater at Madison Square Garden.

HBO’s main event, Sergey Kovalev-Igor Mikhalkin, began at 11:25 p.m. ET, about two minutes after the Wilder-Ortiz fight ended. Kovalev (32-2-1, 28 KOs) stopped Mikhalkin (21-2, 9 KOs), a former amateur teammate in Russia, in the seventh round to defend his WBO light heavyweight title.

The peak viewership for Kovalev-Mikhalkin was 674,000 and it drew an average audience of 599,000. Ratings were slightly lower for Bivol-Barrera (peak: 570,000; average: 512,000).

The co-feature of Showtime’s doubleheader Saturday night, Jose Uzcategai-Andre Dirrell, peaked at 807,000 viewers. An average audience of 673,000 watched that fight.

Venezuela’s Uzcategai (27-2, 23 KOs) battered and bloodied Dirrell (26-3, 16 KOs) before the Flint, Michigan, native’s trainer, Virgil Hunter, and cut man, Jacob “Stitch” Duran, told referee Ricky Gonzalez to stop their one-sided fight following the eighth round. Uzcategui won the IBF interim super middleweight title from Dirrell in their rematch.

The start of the Uzcategui-Dirrell battle was delayed roughly 20 minutes because the New York State Athletic Commission had to examine the discolored urine sample Uzacategai submitted before the fight to make sure it wasn’t caused by blood. Once a doctor determined Uzcategai’s urine was discolored due to vitamins he was taking, the fight was cleared to start.
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It’s nice to see Showtime finally rewarded with a good rating for putting on a great fight.. Showtime has had other cards that were better cards top to bottom.. then Wilder/Ortiz but they didn’t get good ratings for whatever reason.. Hopefully this start of good trend in the ratings for them...
 
https://www.boxingscene.com/kell-brook-i-destroy-errol-spence-rematch--126018

Kell Brook: I Would DESTROY Errol Spence in a Rematch!

Kell Brook (37-2, 26 KOs) believes that he would batter Errol Spence (23-0, 20 KOs) if they ever had a rematch at the junior middleweight limit of 154-pounds.

Brook made his junior middleweight debut last weekend in Sheffield, and demolished Sergey Rabchenko in two rounds.

Prior to that, Brook was stopped in back to back fights with Spence at welterweight and Gennady Golovkin at middleweight.

Against Spence, which took place last May in Sheffield, Brook was stopped in the eleventh round after suffering a fractured orbital bone.

Following Brook's win over Rabchenko, Spence took to social media and said he was willing to fight him in a rematch at 154.

Brook believes that he was beating Spence before the eye injury took place.

Spence will return to the ring on June 16th in Dallas, Texas against an opponent to be announced. Brook is expected back in the summer on a date to be revealed in the coming weeks.

"Errol Spence, after I won on Saturday, got straight on Twitter and he was mentioning me. He should be in his own train lane," Brook exclusively told Sky Sports.

"But he's jumped across, because he knew I was handling him, I was beating him. The tank was not very good, the eye wasn't very good, but now I'm Terminator, he can't hurt me, and I've got a serious engine. I've got plenty in the tank now."

"He can leave his world title, without losing it, and come up to 154lbs or a catchweight. I will beat Errol Spence Jr. At this new weight, I will destroy him. He should be looking forward but he's looking behind because he's not happy with how he got the world title. I was beating him, then I couldn't see. The new weight is a big difference. In the summertime, I will fight him at Bramall Lane. Let's do it again. It will be revenge, it won't be a repeat."
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Lipinets made a good account of himself he'll be a tough out for many

Mikey was mikey sharp composed and crushing he was more straight up and down tonight didnt show the entire bag
 
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