(Photo Credit:Ed Mulholland/Golden Boy/Golden Boy via Getty Images) By Dan Ambrose: HBO hit a homerun with last Saturday’s match-up between junior middleweights Saul “Canelo” Alvarez (45-1-1, 32 KOs) and James Kirkland (32-2, 28 KOs) in their catch-weight at 155 pounds at the Minute Maid Park in Houston, Texas.
The Canelo-Kirkland fight brought in a peak of 2.296 million viewers with an average of 2.146 million, making it the No.1 fight on regular HBO since the 2006 bout between Bernard Hopkins and Antonio Tarver.