Junior welterweight champion Danny Garcia defeated former two-division titleholder Paulie Malignaggi in a ninth-round knockout victory Saturday at the Barclays Center in Brooklyn. The RC PBC team was onsite for production support of all the fights.
The second edition of ESPN’s Premier Boxing Champions coverage handed the channel with its largest boxing audience on ESPN since 1998. The card saw an average audience of 1,073,000 viewers for markups of 34% and 55% among P25-54 from the July 11 PBC on ESPN event. The telecast also peaked during the main event with nearly 1.5 million viewers according to Nielsen.