It was a good result for Thurman and, with those ratings, for boxing in general. As Showtime announced this week, the fight card on CBS averaged 3.71 million viewers and peaked with 5.1 million viewers, the largest audience for a primetime boxing card since 1998. All of which is to ask: When will primetime boxing return to CBS? “I haven’t had a conversation with them yet, because we’re still processing all this,” Showtime GM Stephen Espinoza told Forbes this week. In this case two plus two equaled more than four.”And now CBS knows what Espinoza knew.

Source: Forbes March 11, 2017 13:21 UTC