Comments Thread For: PBC on ESPN Card Draws in Ratings Average of 428K

[bigdunny1]

The problem is, causal fans and people who who are just home watching tv don't even know this was on. These PBC cards are like pop up shops.

Its ESPN people knew it was on, it got free pub all week and was highlighted on sportscenter before it aired. Casual fans just don't care for PBC. Too many cards with mismatches and fights that shouldn't even be headliners. Plus the main event stunk. A bad fight where the crowd are booing so even if fans tuned it they likely switched the channel after the first 2 or 3 rounds.

[bigdunny1]

The one decent fight PBC put on ESPN did well, Leo Santa Cruz in LA so you had a good crowd. All the other fights either bad mis matches and fighters that should never be headling. The next fight on ESPN has frigging Lara as the main event. That is another fight doomed to flop. same guy who got booed his last fight. A guy who they had to give away free tickets to get anyone to show up to a showcase fight. And they booed him. The fight got terrible tv ratings. And what does PBC do? Give him another headline fight lol

[jarodriguez]

Al Haymon is going to bankrupt Mayweather.

[Scipio2009]

We get it

Its ESPN people knew it was on, it got free pub all week and was highlighted on sportscenter before it aired. Casual fans just don't care for PBC. Too many cards with mismatches and fights that shouldn't even be headliners. Plus the main event stunk. A bad fight where the crowd are booing so even if fans tuned it they likely switched the channel after the first 2 or 3 rounds.

You think that Al Haymon is the devil an anything affiliated with Al Haymon is devilish, and you want Haymon to fail. cong**** to you.

While you sulk, as Haymon continues to move forward (3-5 core PBC sponsors, greater variety of commercials being sold across the programs, etc), fight fans (casual or otherwise) will continue to relish in the abundance of fights being aired on TV, as PBC continues to fine-tune their effort.

Tomorrow night, PBC will air Fonfara-Cleverly and Kono-Kameda on SpikeTV, a doubleheader that's better than basically any card that's being put on outside of the PBC orbit.

The show will likely draw 800k-1m viewers, fans will get another night of quality fights, and you'll continue to loath your existence the entire time. lol

[bigdunny1]

You think that Al Haymon is the devil an anything affiliated with Al Haymon is devilish, and you want Haymon to fail. cong**** to you.

While you sulk, as Haymon continues to move forward (3-5 core PBC sponsors, greater variety of commercials being sold across the programs, etc), fight fans (casual or otherwise) will continue to relish in the abundance of fights being aired on TV, as PBC continues to fine-tune their effort.

Tomorrow night, PBC will air Fonfara-Cleverly and Kono-Kameda on SpikeTV, a doubleheader that's better than basically any card that's being put on outside of the PBC orbit.

The show will likely draw 800k-1m viewers, fans will get another night of quality fights, and you'll continue to loath your existence the entire time. lol

800k-1mil viewers? Keep living in dreamland. The last PBC card on spike TV bombed with Stevenson who beat Fonfara and is a bigger named fighter. And he only drew 500k viewers. But Fonfara is going to basically double that? Based on what 2 PBC cards have bombed already this week first on ESPN and the other on Tuesday foxsports1. The trend for PBC cards is that they are getting worse not better in the ratings. NBC each card performing worse the previous. Spike have basically gone down each month since they debuted.

Foxsports1 just did 190k viewers. They took over for golden boy who were paid by fox and averaged 170k viewers. But operated on 1/10th budget. PBC instead pays fox and probably paid Austin trout more money alone for 1 mismatch fight then golden boy paid all their fighters and all their cards for one whole year on foxsports1. And despite all that money they spend they are only getting a measly 20k more viewers. Fans literally rather watch WNBA on ESPN2 rather then their fight that they paid millions and millions to be on ESPN.

PBC is losing millions every fight and more likely then not spike ratings will be what they have been which is bad and you will be on here like Fetta blaming the bad ratings on who knows maybe world series of poker, the world series of arm wrestling, hell maybe there is another WNBA game. It has to be that can't be fans just don't care about PBC at that's why the ratings suck.

[Teetotaler]

800k-1mil viewers? Keep living in dreamland. The last PBC card on spike TV bombed with Stevenson who beat Fonfara and is a bigger named fighter. And he only drew 500k viewers. But Fonfara is going to basically double that? Based on what 2 PBC cards have bombed already this week first on ESPN and the other on Tuesday foxsports1. The trend for PBC cards is that they are getting worse not better in the ratings. NBC each card performing worse the previous. Spike have basically gone down each month since they debuted.

Foxsports1 just did 190k viewers. They took over for golden boy who were paid by fox and averaged 170k viewers. But operated on 1/10th budget. PBC instead pays fox and probably paid Austin trout more money alone for 1 mismatch fight then golden boy paid all their fighters and all their cards for one whole year on foxsports1. And despite all that money they spend they are only getting a measly 20k more viewers. Fans literally rather watch WNBA on ESPN2 rather then their fight that they paid millions and millions to be on ESPN.

PBC is losing millions every fight and more likely then not spike ratings will be what they have been which is bad and you will be on here like Fetta blaming the bad ratings on who knows maybe world series of poker, the world series of arm wrestling, hell maybe there is another WNBA game. It has to be that can't be fans just don't care about PBC at that's why the ratings suck.

I agree with you on everything but I think fights do better on spike tv (thanks to ufc). Also fonfora is somewhat popular now since he beat the popular spoiled bum (Chavez) so he kinda has somewhat of a fanbase. But other than that your spot on

[daggum]

428k people fell asleep at the same exact time with their tv's on

[Scipio2009]

800k-1mil viewers? Keep living in dreamland. The last PBC card on spike TV bombed with Stevenson who beat Fonfara and is a bigger named fighter. And he only drew 500k viewers. But Fonfara is going to basically double that? Based on what 2 PBC cards have bombed already this week first on ESPN and the other on Tuesday foxsports1. The trend for PBC cards is that they are getting worse not better in the ratings. NBC each card performing worse the previous. Spike have basically gone down each month since they debuted.

Foxsports1 just did 190k viewers. They took over for golden boy who were paid by fox and averaged 170k viewers. But operated on 1/10th budget. PBC instead pays fox and probably paid Austin trout more money alone for 1 mismatch fight then golden boy paid all their fighters and all their cards for one whole year on foxsports1. And despite all that money they spend they are only getting a measly 20k more viewers. Fans literally rather watch WNBA on ESPN2 rather then their fight that they paid millions and millions to be on ESPN.

PBC is losing millions every fight and more likely then not spike ratings will be what they have been which is bad and you will be on here like Fetta blaming the bad ratings on who knows maybe world series of poker, the world series of arm wrestling, hell maybe there is another WNBA game. It has to be that can't be fans just don't care about PBC at that's why the ratings suck.

PBC on SpikeTV:

Berto-Lopez
Dirrell-Jack
Khan-Algieri
Lara-Rodriguez
Tarver-Cunningham
Stevenson-Karpency
Fonfara-Cleverly [scheduled]
Rodriguez-Seals [scheduled]

The TV ratings for the bulk of these shows, I'd imagine, are available online; if you want to sit and believe that all of the shows have drawn horrible ratings, that's on you. (No ballgame on tomorrow, in addition to no other real sporting event to compete for eyeballs with and SpikeTV already having a solid fight audience, are all facts that are obvious).

You can't say that "PBC is losing millions every fight" when you present nothing but your own words.

You have no idea what the payouts to the fighters actually are for these shows, you have no idea what Sky Sports is paying PBC to broadcast this show live in the UK (Sky Sports also paid to broadcast the Selby fight), you have no idea what the other international partners are paying to air these PBC cards (Polish TV is picking up Fonfara's fight), and you have no idea what type of money PBC is bringing in from actually selling their ad spots (Corona, 1800 Tequila, Applebees, and several other companies are already named sponsors in the PBC orbit, while the commercials have consistently featured products from corporations across the country).

I'll be tuning in, enjoying another night of fights thanks to the PBC.

May as well go and find some other sport for you to enjoy, rather than wasting your time with something that you clearly loath, lol. ****ty way to live a life, tbh

[Pigeons]

Spike have basically gone down each month since they debuted.

Not factual.

869K
569K: Down 300K
772K: Up 203K
446K: Down 326K
679K: Up 233K
581K: Down 98K

Fonfara-Cleverly should clear 700K.

[Zarco]

Hopefully boxing on weekdays increases its ratings and hopefully PBC keeps improving and succeeding because only a fool would hope boxing on free TV fails.