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Here's the pay channel (HBO/Showtime) ratings for the year.

1. Julio Cesar Chavez Jr.-Marco Antonio Rubio, Feb. 4, HBO, 1.9 million
2. Bernard Hopkins-Chad Dawson, April 28, HBO, 1.6 million
3. Chavez Jr.-Andy Lee, June 16, HBO, 1.4 million
4. Adrien Broner-Vicente Escobedo, July 21, HBO, 1.4 million
5. Miguel Cotto-Austin Trout, Dec. 1, Showtime, 1.4 million
6. Nonito Donaire-Jorge Arce, Dec. 15, HBO, 1.3 million
7. Andre Ward-Chad Dawson, Sept. 8, HBO, 1.3 million
8. Floyd Mayweather-Cotto PPV replay, May 12, HBO, 1.3 million
9. Manny Pacquiao-Juan Manuel Marquez PPV replay, Dec. 15, HBO, 1.3 million
10. Danny Garcia-Amir Khan, July 14, HBO, 1.3 million
11. Erik Morales-Garcia I, March 24, HBO, 1.2 million
12. Robert Guerrero-Andre Berto, Nov. 24, HBO, 1.1 million
13. Marcos Maidana-Devon Alexander, Feb. 25, HBO, 1.1 million
14. Broner-Antonio Demarco, Nov. 17, HBO, 1.1 million
15. Sergio Martinez-Matthew Macklin, March 17, HBO, 1.1 million
16. Canelo Alvarez-Josesito Lopez, Sept. 15, Showtime, 1.0 million

Source - Boxing on cable in 2012: Lots of fights, lots of viewers and lots of love for Julio Cesar Chavez Jr. | Boxing Experts Blog - Yahoo! Sports

And fools say Chavez Jr doesn't deserve the purses he gets. Dumb muthafukkas. Numbers don't lie.

That just proves that people will watch any piece of shit on TV nowadays.
I like to call it the "car wreck" syndrome.

Bullshit. Put a Puerto Rican fighter (not named Cotto) on PPV. And I bet you it won't sell shit. Not even his momma would buy it. And her not being able to afford it won't be the reason either

well all of Calderon's title reign was on Top Rank PPV, Trinidad had no probs selling PPV's, aaaand either way Chavez/Rubio wasn't PPV

I wasn't aware Calderon and Trinidad were still fighting. The list is for 2012. So we're obviously talking about current active fighters. Dumb ass

And I said PPV to make it easier. But we can go non-PPV. What Puerto Rican fighter can you put to headline HBO's World Championship Boxing series (not BAD) and will bring in the ratings Chavez be bringing in? None. Cotto is the only one who with some help can maybe get to sight distance. But that's about it.

Danny Garcia already headlined 2 fights on HBO and one on Showtime this year alone, and after his huge win over Khan no doubt he'll be headlining more, JMM holds 4 wins over Pacquiao yet his last fight on HBO without the likes of Pacquiao was in 2010 against Katsidis and you remember the #'s for that fight right?

Chavez gets ratings due to his famous daddy, hell the only Mexican fighter on the list that draws crowds solely on popularity made by himself is Canelo and he's still at #16

And each time Garcia was the B fighter. The Judah fight will be his first one as the A fighter. Canelo pulling 1 million for a fight on the same night as Chavez-Martinez is damn fucking impressive. And who gives a fuck who Chavez dad is? Wilfredo Vazquez Jr has a famous daddy. Yet nobody gives a fuck about him