What's up with the PBC?

[Shadoww702]

Who knows, but Arreola and Ruiz on ppv is not a good look at all. We're almost through the 1st quarter, hopefully they announce their lineup soon.

Could be they've been busy with ESPN planning Wilder-Fury 3.

I can't even believe anyone would put that hot mess on TV let alone PPV???

Ruiz just took a big sht in the ring and took everyone's money.

The guy he's fighting isn't really good and is old as ***!!!

[FLY TY]

I can't even believe anyone would put that hot mess on TV let alone PPV???

Ruiz just took a big sht in the ring and took everyone's money.

The guy he's fighting isn't really good and is old as ***!!!

Agreed. We just saw Arreola on free TV (literally) being pounded on by Kownacki for 12 rounds. What I heard, and what may be the case, is that PBC is testing Ruiz's drawing power for possible bigger fights down the road. Still doesn't make sense for this to be a ppv, imo. Who really expects anything different from what Kownacki did to Arreola? Ppvs should be reserved for elite fights.

[techliam]

I thought PBC was about killing the PPV model ?
What happened with that anyway... kinda silently dropped the hyperbole

[KTFOKING]

Agreed. We just saw Arreola on free TV (literally) being pounded on by Kownacki for 12 rounds. What I heard, and what may be the case, is that PBC is testing Ruiz's drawing power for possible bigger fights down the road. Still doesn't make sense for this to be a ppv, imo. Who really expects anything different from what Kownacki did to Arreola? Ppvs should be reserved for elite fights.

Arreola actually gave a solid account for himself that fight. Showed Kownacki, while being exciting is clearly not close to being a top tier HW.

The fight itself would be fine as a FOX main event. Ruiz coming off a long lay off going against an opponent that will make it exciting. No problem with the fight itself, but putting it on PPV is just ******. The undercard will have some exciting fights but not like any of them are title fights or top level fights. This would be a perfect Saturday afternoon/night card on FOX.

As for the OP, we still have no dates/official opponents for the following fighters:

GRJ
Hurd
JRock
Lubin
Charlo Brothers
Spence
Ugas
Tank
Wilder
Thurman
Porter
DSG
Roman (Rumored in early May)
Nery (Rumored May 15)
Fulton
LSC
Kownacki

There's plenty more as well. I don't know why not schedule has been released yet. TR is starting to release or put together the final touches for their schedule up until July. I know Spence/Ugas and Tank/Barrios PPVs are a lock, but still no official date or venues. PBC needs to start to put some sort of schedule out soon.

[_Rexy_]

Agreed. We just saw Arreola on free TV (literally) being pounded on by Kownacki for 12 rounds. What I heard, and what may be the case, is that PBC is testing Ruiz's drawing power for possible bigger fights down the road. Still doesn't make sense for this to be a ppv, imo. Who really expects anything different from what Kownacki did to Arreola? Ppvs should be reserved for elite fights.

Cable is a better way to test someones drawing power. Caleb Plant did like 1.5m on his fox cards, makes it look like he could be a PPV guy. No idea why you'd put someones first fight as a PPV to test their drawing ability. This reeks of Crawford/Postol (which was a great card, fun fight, lower price, and nobody bought it)

That said, Arreola didn't get pounded on for 12 rounds, that was a really fun fight that made me hope Chris would keep getting fights. This is another fun fight, just not a PPV one IMO.

[Eff Pandas]

I feel like PBC has always had some gaps in their schedule where lil to nothing is happening &/or lil to nothing is being announced. Thats what always feeds into those "PBC is about to go outta business" threads that have popped up since PBC has been around.

I don't really see that happening. PBC is more of a management company than a promoter anyway. A management company is always going to be making money via its clients or at least til they start losing clients that'll be the case. And last I heard no one who's making bank is leaving PBC.

[Mammoth]

I feel like PBC has always had some gaps in their schedule where lil to nothing is happening &/or lil to nothing is being announced. Thats what always feeds into those "PBC is about to go outta business" threads that have popped up since PBC has been around.

I don't really see that happening. PBC is more of a management company than a promoter anyway. A management company is always going to be making money via its clients or at least til they start losing clients that'll be the case. And last I heard no one who's making bank is leaving PBC.

Good point. It's usually after people start complaining that they release a big schedule of interesting fights, too.

[DaNeutral.]

Lets be honest. The PBC are holding back on as many of their star earners as they can until it is confirmed that arenas and other venues are all back up to full capacity. Its as simple as that.

Right now it is still uncertain times, another wave and another shut down can happen. The PBC just been delaying until its looking good.

If Fury had been happy to wait for Wilder then the 3rd fight would STILL NOT of happened yet.

[KingGilgamesh]

Cults dont usually have a long life span. Inhouse fights where you don't have to financially compete against rival promoters will eventually run out of match ups and ppl don't want to see rematches of one sided fights.

Master Al is going to have to start dealing with Matchroom and Top Rank fighters more which means competing with or conceding financially to thiet promoters and their finances
Basically he is going to have to start risking his champions against threats that he doesn't control.

As for Ruiz v Arreola as a PPV, well who knows what they are thinking there. That's just pure madness or pure greed. Personally I think Ruiz thinks he is deserving of the kind of money he got from the Joshua fights. Why Master Al wouldn't just tell him that is a ridiculous thought process and get on with it is beyond me.

You mean like the last three major heavyweight fights pretty much all involving PBC fighters???

Huh?

[RJJ-94-02=GOAT]

I'm not trying to get those "Al Haymon is the cancer of boxing" or the clearly racist types going but obviously something is going on. Not many dates, crappy main events and a lame ass $50 PPV. Something seems off to me...

It’s very strange, it’s almost like they’ve shelved their bigger stars for the first part of the year. I’m hoping they release a schedule soon with Spence, Tank, Charlo’s etc back in action.