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Bad Left Hook Numbers: 2009 Fight Thread Comments

Just for kicks, I've been meaning to put this up. We had a really good year of live coverage here at Bad Left Hook in 2009, and it became our breakout feature, really. I like to think we provide the best live, round-by-round coverage you're going to find anywhere, partially because of the excellent live updating feature in the comments that our system offers, but you can surely disagree with that. I do know we provide by far the most live coverage.

This isn't really indicative of how good or even how big a fight might have been. Some shows are just lightning rods for a lot of discussion (March Badness, for instance, and heavyweight fights generally do well even though we might know they're going to stink), and some just aren't. I thought Mayweather-Marquez rather "underperformed" in our system, but it created significant media buzz and sold a million pay-per-views.

There's also the handicapping of how many fights are on a show. A PPV event will generally have four, while a fight as big as Margarito-Mosley was shown by its lonesome.

Pay-Per-View Events

Date Main Event/Show Comments
11-14 Miguel Cotto v. Manny Pacquiao 1302
05-02 Ricky Hatton v. Manny Pacquiao 1010
04-04 Lightweight Lightning 915
11-07 Nikolai Valuev v. David Haye 709
09-19 Floyd Mayweather Jr. v. Juan Manuel Marquez 579
02-21 Pavlik-Rubio / Cotto-Jennings 474
10-10 Juan Manuel Lopez v. Rogers Mtagwa 301
03-14 Amir Khan v. Marco Antonio Barrera 244
08-15 Nonito Donaire v. Rafael Concepcion 109
04-18 Nonito Donaire v. Raul Martinez 93
11-06 Zab Judah v. Ubaldo Hernandez 50

HBO World Championship Boxing / HBO Boxing After Dark

Date Main Event/Show Comments
11-28 Lucian Bute v. Librado Andrade II 752
09-26 Vitali Klitschko v. Cristobal Arreola 602
08-22 Juan Diaz v. Paulie Malignaggi 541
04-11 Paul Williams v. Winky Wright 528
12-05 Paul Williams v. Sergio Martinez 452
05-30 Andre Berto v. Juan Urango 379
02-28 Juan Manuel Marquez v. Juan Diaz 377
11-07 Chad Dawson v. Glen Johnson II 373
06-13 Miguel Cotto v. Joshua Clottey 359
01-24 Antonio Margarito v. Shane Mosley 328
02-14 Nate Campbell v. Ali Funeka 293
05-09 Chad Dawson v. Antonio Tarver II 241
12-12 Juan Diaz v. Paulie Malignaggi II 236
03-07 James Kirkland v. Joel Julio 160
01-17 Andre Berto v. Luis Collazo 159

Showtime Championship Boxing / Shobox

Date Main Event/Show Comments
10-17 Abraham-Taylor / Froch-Dirrell 911
07-11 Joseph Agbeko v. Vic Darchinyan 530
08-01 Timothy Bradley v. Nate Campbell 430
02-07 Vic Darchinyan v. Jorge Arce 331
10-02 Allan Green v. Tarvis Simms 330
04-24 Cory Spinks v. Deandre Latimore 312
02-27 Tomasz Adamek v. Johnathon Banks 310
11-21 Mikkel Kessler v. Andre Ward 302
09-12 Kessler-Perdomo / Ward-Pudwill 231
12-12 Timothy Bradley v. Lamont Peterson 174
10-31 Joseph Agbeko v. Yonnhy Perez 168
05-16 Andre Ward v. Edison Miranda 140
04-17 Yuriorkis Gamboa v. Jose Rojas 116
03-13 Lucian Bute v. Fulgencio Zuniga 77
10-23 Freddy Hernandez v. Damian Frias 57

Sky Sports / Sky Box Office

Date Main Event/Show Comments
12-12 Vitali Klitschko v. Kevin Johnson 603
07-18 Andriy Kotelnik v. Amir Khan 415
12-04 Prizefighter 9 167
12-05 Amir Khan v. Dmitriy Salita 139
11-06 Sexton-Rogan II / McCloskey-Rasilla 73
11-13 Lovemore N'dou v. Matthew Hatton 71
10-23 Jamie Moore v. Ryan Rhodes 63
11-20 Rendall Munroe v. Simone Maludrottu 44
11-27 Anthony Small v. Thomas McDonagh 30

ESPN2 / ESPN Classic

Date Main Event/Show Comments
08-28 Urango-Bailey / Woods-Cloud 561
02-20 Prescott-Toledo / Gamboa-Estrada 270
06-20 Wladimir Klitschko v. Ruslan Chagaev 249
11-04 Jason Litzau v. Johnnie Edwards 207
01-30 Herman Ngoudjo v. Juan Urango 164
07-31 Julio Diaz v. Victor Cayo 122
03-27 Samuel Peter v. Eddie Chambers 120
06-10 Matt Godfrey v. Shawn Hawk 108
01-09 Yuriorkis Gamboa v. Roger Gonzalez 106
07-17 Breidis Prescott v. Miguel Vazquez 105
05-08 Craig McEwan v. Brian Vera 101

Versus

Date Main Event/Show Comments
06-19 Adrian Diaconu v. Jean Pascal 318
12-02 Hopkins-Ornelas / Green-Jones 303

Split Event Threads

Date Main Event/Show Comments
03-21 Klitschko-Gomez / March Badness 1188
04-25 Froch-Taylor / Lopez-Penalosa 472
02-06 Henry-Mack / Ward-Buchanan 454
06-27 Abraham-Oral / Ortiz-Maidana 237

Other (Germany, Mexico, Japan, Panama, Ireland, etc.)

Date Main Event/Show Comments
09-15 Jorge Arce v. Simphiwe Nongqayi 612
10-24 Tomasz Adamek v. Andrew Golota 385
11-21 Giacobbe Fragomeni v. Zsolt Erdei 263
09-26 Bernard Dunne v. Poonsawat Kratingdaenggym 155
11-29 Daisuke Naito v. Koki Kameda 118
11-27 Luis Concepcion v. Roberto Leyva 95
11-28 Darren Barker v. Danny Butler 95
09-25 Jean Pascal v. Silvio Branco 77
11-27 Delvin Rodriguez v. Rafal Jackiewicz 68
12-05 Marco Huck v. Ola Afolabi 46

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