Marketing and Hype For PBC on NBC???

I hope they were smart enough to comp the hell out of this and let people in early. The Mares fight opening in front of an empty Vegas crowd will look bad.

golf because of Tiger Woods and swimming because of the Olympics etc. In reality boxing should be able to draw close to most sports outside of the NFL, also TV ratings have drastically changed in the last decade, everything is down except for football. I'm hoping for a respectable 4 million. Who knows. The demo will be important too.

I have been seeing commercials for it on other networks the last few days. I've been pitching it to my friends..........I want my cut from Hymen, $1,500 or I'll see you in court.

According to the last Gallup poll, boxing is the #11 spectator sport in America. The 10 sports in front of boxing (not in order) are football, basketball, baseball, hockey, soccer, car racing, college football, college basketball, golf, and swimming. Yes, swimming. Tennis is #12 after boxing. Golf ????? :lame: Wow, how the mighty have fallen .......

Being shelved on premium networks and ppv for over two decades has really hurt its casual fan base. The hardcores are still there, but thats really it unless Pac and May are fighting. The only sport that rea;;y draws big numbers consistently is the NFL. Then you may get some big numbers for the bigger events in other sports. Like NBC has said. They want boxing to be a big event on Saturday. Let's hope it turns into that. Boxing a niche sport everywhere but latin America lil homey.

According to the last Gallup poll, boxing is the #11 spectator sport in America. The 10 sports in front of boxing (not in order) are football, basketball, baseball, hockey, soccer, car racing, college football, college basketball, golf, and swimming. Yes, swimming. Tennis is #12 after boxing. Green K, that's good info Damn, that's a real shame. Even here in the UK, there's been a decline. Upwards of 15m watched Benn-McClellan/Benn-Eubank and 6m+ for Khan's early fights. Yet the Frampton fight did less than 2m and GGG-Murray did about 700k. It does seem to be a coverage issue. Fighters needs to be built up and exposed on free TV channels early in their careers rather than get thrown onto it and expect big figures.

seen a few commercials on various high volume cable channels. i wonder if ESPN will report on these fights. Main page ESPN isnt having much to do with it. Usually they will have a little preview video or article on the front page slider for big events. Not this, at leas tnot yet. Kinda disappointing that Haymon didnt work something out for that. Having ESPN on bored showing previews and replays is a big deal in making the sport identifiable and legitimate.

Over here no-one is talking about it, haven't seen anything on t.v. and I heard one radio ad the other day driving home. That's about it.

seen a few commercials on various high volume cable channels. i wonder if ESPN will report on these fights.

Honestly I haven't seen a fight advertised for this much in years, and that's including big PPV Floyd/Manny fights

My bother who knows nothing more than May,PAC,Cotto and possible Canelo just text me today and asked if I was watching it. Him and a few of his friends who I'm assuming are also casuals are going to check it out at a bar tonight.. Even saw a few FB posts from people who normally do talk boxing. So I'd say yea the word is out there... Thats awesome. Good to hear. Sherdog has been walloped with ads for this fight. I know some of them might check it out just as interested fight fans.

My bother who knows nothing more than May,PAC,Cotto and possible Canelo just text me today and asked if I was watching it. Him and a few of his friends who I'm assuming are also casuals are going to check it out at a bar tonight.. Even saw a few FB posts from people who normally do talk boxing. So I'd say yea the word is out there...

Idk about hype but def promoting it alot

Is boxing really that unpopular in the states? I would expect more than 3m for a 300m+ population. Khan's last fight on free TV did 6.5m Being shelved on premium networks and ppv for over two decades has really hurt its casual fan base. The hardcores are still there, but thats really it unless Pac and May are fighting. The only sport that rea;;y draws big numbers consistently is the NFL. Then you may get some big numbers for the bigger events in other sports. Like NBC has said. They want boxing to be a big event on Saturday. Let's hope it turns into that.

Is boxing really that unpopular in the states? I would expect more than 3m for a 300m+ population. Khan's last fight on free TV did 6.5m

Massive promotion on NBC, NBC Sports Network, and local radio. I also have to say I see the PBC advertisement banner on websites all over the internet. As a measure of thumb, NHL on NBC in the same timeslot did 1.4M last week. The 3 weeks before that in the same timeslot Dateline NBC Special Investigation aired and it did between 4-5M each time. My guess, they need to see 3M to be satisfied. They'd be ecstatic if they saw 5M, but I think that's a mighty longshot. Damn, NHL is really in a sad state right now. I think 3 million would be a hit. UFC on Fox never hits 3m anymore and they are considered succesfull. Then again they hit big on the 18-49 demo usually. But still, not even 3m viewers. Boxing can do that, I hope.... Broner being on the card should help. He's got a lot of attention for his bull**** antics. I remember people who dont talk boxing ever mentioning his semi racist rant post fight.

They have been promoting the **** out of it on the radio! I can only speak from my neck of the woods and they have been promoting the **** out of it over here. Social media on my facebook and youtube as well Good to hear. I really want this to do respectable numbers for boxings sake.

I can only speak from my neck of the woods and they have been promoting the **** out of it over here. Social media on my facebook and youtube as well

How has it been from your point of view? I never watch tv anymore and don't ever watch NBC, so have you seen any commercials. How about marketing in general or hype online or in person? From casuals? They have been promoting the **** out of it on the radio!