I have a question about Super bowl sundays

How come no fight promoter has capitalized off of this yet? Most big fights start around 1130 to midnight EST anyway. UfC main events start mostly past midnight. Kovalev/Canelo started past 2 am due to masvidsl vs Diaz. Why has no promoter scheduled for a fight with their top fighter against another top fighter to take place AFTER the Super Bowl on Sunday night. The game and presentation ends around 11. This can be a 2 fight card with 2 big fights on free tv to follow after the game. For those in attendance, they can watch the SB in the big screen before the fight as they did with the UFC main event before kovalev and Canelo entered the ring.

Comments (11)

The_Big_Dunn

What they need to do is use media week to hype big fights -have the fighters do press row. Maybe stage a fight Friday night since Saturday is the nfl honors.

5y ago

LarryX

football fans are not all boxing fans and vice versa

5y ago

_Rexy_

That was Mankind and the Rock street fight. Yup. They ruined it with the stupid sound effects lol

5y ago

anonymous20

TV fatigue. You just got done watching a 3 hour+ big sporting event do you really want to watch another?

5y ago

RJJ9402GOAT

That was Mankind and the Rock street fight. Yeah I remember watching that as a kid. Got to be over 20 years ago now thinking about it.

5y ago

sicko

Would Fail Miserably because Boxing is just not that popular

5y ago

Quercusalba

Yea that’s why you only have 2 fights it just 1 fight. Just a main event and jump right into it. I'll say this. It'd be good for the bookies! Plenty of degenerates who blew their money on ridiculous prop bets during the Super Bowl would try to recoup their losses on the fights.

5y ago

buddyr

Interesting to consider. I'd watch. If I have to come up with one reason this would not work, I will say that the post-SB fight card would stretch to late into a Sunday night. Monday is a workday for most after all. Yea that’s why you only have 2 fights it just 1 fight. Just a main event and jump right into it.

5y ago

buddyr

I remember the WWF did some empty stadium match during the Super Bowl one year, they scheduled it during the half time show so fans would switch over and watch that instead. Not sure if it did well or not. I assume what the network shows after the superbowl is gonna have a big price tag, and not sure any promoter wants to risk running a show at 11pm on a Sunday night. That was Mankind and the Rock street fight.

5y ago

_Rexy_

5y ago

Quercusalba

Interesting to consider. I'd watch. If I have to come up with one reason this would not work, I will say that the post-SB fight card would stretch too late into a Sunday night. Monday is a workday for most after all.

5y ago