By Dan Ambrose: Julio Cesar Chavez Jr’s fight last Saturday night against Marcos Reyes (33-3, 24 KOs) averaged only 663,000 viewers with a peak of 707,000 viewers on Showtime Championship Boxing from the Don Haskins Center in El Paso, Texas. The Chavez Jr-Reyes numbers were above Chavez Jr’s ratings for his last fight against Andrzej Fonfara last April. That fight averaged 618,000 viewers, according to Dan Rafael.
Chavez Jr. used to bring in huge ratings each time he fought, but they’ve really gone downhill after his back to back poor performances against Brian Vera in 2013 and 2014. Chavez Jr. averaged 1.39 million viewers for his fight against Vera in 2014.