Contender 2 sponsor Everlast is “very pleased with the viewer ratings for this new season,” the company’s president said in a statement. Although the ratings for the first episode were down among total viewers, Everlast says the show “reached 20 million viewers nationwide across all airings on ESPN and ESPN2 just ten days since the …
The Contender 2
Moving from NBC to ESPN cost The Contender more than 5.5 million viewers. Last week’s debut was watched by 1.03 million people, compared to the 6.7 million that watched the first episode on NBC last spring. While some of that change could be blamed by the show’s move to cable, which has traditionally drawn fewer …
Mark Burnett’s boxing reality series returns tonight on its new network, ESPN. The Contender 2‘s two-hour premiere starts at 10 p.m. ET. The 16 welterweight fighters will be eliminated one at a time until two remain; they’ll fight live Sept. 26. Besides the elimination of host Sylvester Stallone, who’s working on Rocky, the show is …
Sylvester Stallone will not appear on-screen for The Contender 2, which debuts on ESPN in July. Stallone “was busy filming Rocky Balboa,” according to Entertainment Weekly. Thus, Sugar Ray Leonard is left to host awkwardly all by himself. The magazine also reports that, for the second season, “producers have stripped away the silly truck-pulling and …
ESPN has bumped The Contender 2‘s debut to July from April, when it was originally scheduled to debut. This Sunday, however, the network will present a special event entitled “East Coast Pride,” a fight between Peter Manfredo, Jr., and Scott Pemberton. The fight will air live from Providence, Manfredo’s home base, at 9:30 p.m. ET. …
The second season of The Contender, which will air on ESPN, is now looking for boxers who want to fight inside the confines of the reality series. Starting one week from Friday, the show will audition boxers in five cities; applications are also being accepted via mail. While the application asks for weight and fight …
As has been long rumored, ESPN has picked up The Contender for a second season. The cable network also has the option to air the show for two additional seasons. “Plans call for casting and production to begin immediately and for the series to air beginning April 2006 in primetime on ESPN,” according to a …