Comments Thread For: Mielnicki-DeLomba December 25 PBC on Fox Main Event Averaged 1,865,000 Viewers

[Ganondorf]

Everyone in the entire country was home and there was nothing else on.

I personally was tuning in to the second part of an NFL doubleheader on NFL Network as coverage for this card began, if I recall correctly.

[Oldskoolg]

This is why PBC will win in the end. Millions of people who normally wouldn't watch boxing end up seeing it on free FOX, become curious about the sport, and check out more fights.

Because of FOX, PBC was able to take a completely unknown fighter like Caleb Plant and turn him into a $10,000,000 fighter.

Because of FOX, PBC was able to take a completely unknown fighter like Errol Spence and turn him into a successful PPV attraction.

I know UK fanboys for some reason believe it somehow makes their country look better if they minimize the success of PBC, but the truth is that PBC gets exposure in front of the NFL audience which it then converts into new fight fans.

Racism or nationalism take
your pick….someone will do that because they want to see Hearn take over boxing in the USA based on his nationality and some because he is white and it’s about race….either way, it’s the “empire” mentality, something I detest about an aspect of ly
homeland and a cultural reality that should have died when the empire did 60 years ago.
in any event, good to see Americans tuning in to watch boxing especially PBC and Top Rank cards.

[DClefthook]

It doesnt prove anything about PBC. All it means is Fox should switch to a promoter that makes good matchups, and makes matchups with other promoters, to put actual good fights on Fox. You're right, Fox is the best platform. But currently, it's matched with the worst promoter, and the worst stable of boxers. Put the best boxers on Fox instead, and now maybe you can build something.

This is the most ILLOGICAL BOXING post I have seen in a while. There are 4 major promoters in America and I'll rank them and their platforms from worst to first for you son. The absolute worst is matchroom/DAZN. They literally only have a handful of American fighters signed. 3G seems run his own personal network on DAZN and chooses his own schedule. Andrade was promised the world and was given a bowl of shyte instead. They have failed Haney over and over again. They have completely fuqed up the MW division. They promised that if we subscribed then we would get Canelo v Andrade v Charlo v 3G v Mungia and we got absolutely none of those fights. And no, in America we don't care about Liam v Liam or Quigly vs Cheesecake in Tottenham. We were promised all the major MW fights and they failed to deliver. GBP is third and we don't know if they are with DAZN for the long run or if they're moving on. Losing Redhead dealt a big blow to them. They have only two very good young fighters but there are issues with both. Ryan is not dependable and all of Virgil's fights at WW are at PBC. So the jury is still out on them currently. Top rank and ESPN comes in second because they're the longest tenured promotional outfit and they will be here long after Arum is in the dust. The problem is their stable isn't as big as it was 20 years ago. They are going down the same HBO rabbit hole by trying to market foreign caucasian fighters over American fighters. The 3 fighters that get all the push on TR is Loma, Josh and Fury. They quickly found out that wasn't going to work so they shifted gears towards catering to an Hispanic audience and shunning the bla.....I mean "urban" one. That lost them Crawford and will probably lose them Shakur in the future as well. Hell they still even have a problem with bad business practice with the Hispanics, just ask Oscar, Mikey and Andy. So that leaves PBC as the champ champ. They have the two best platforms in FOX and Showtime. The fighters love their platform and are loyal as hell to Al. PBC has over 80% of he fighters in the US and they make the fights ON THEIR PLATFORM that needs to be made (save for LSC v GRJ). We just got a very successful undisputed fight at 168 on Showtime PPV. We're getting an undisputed fight at 154 in February. Just got a unified fight at 122. Will be getting a unified at 126 in 2022. Getting an undisputed at 147 this summer and could possibly be getting undisputed at 135 in 2022 if Kambo selects Tanktank. So I'm sorry for introducing facts and REAL LOGIC into the conversation but it had to be done!

[Oldskoolg]

Wow this was really great! LOL

It’s truly amazing that people
like your friend mention me when I don’t even know who he is, just someone I obviously ignored because I don’t see his posts, just your response. I swear there are some people with real personality disorders who are attracted to this website

[PBR Streetgang]

The fights weren't great, they were showcase fights....

..and there is nothing really wrong with that. It was boxing on Christmas and there wasn't any boxing competition. The only other sports on was some bowl game and a few NBA games. My family had the fight on in the background and it provided some of the men something to watch while they dozed off on the couch.

Any televised boxing is a good thing. I'm glad it got good numbers. Hopefully it kicks off a tradition of a Christmas boxing card every year.

[DClefthook]

Racism or nationalism take
your pick….someone will do that because they want to see Hearn take over boxing in the USA based on his nationality and some because he is white and it’s about race….either way, it’s the “empire” mentality, something I detest about an aspect of ly
homeland and a cultural reality that should have died when the empire did 60 years ago.
in any event, good to see Americans tuning in to watch boxing especially PBC and Top Rank cards.

I think in the UK it's more about 'the empire' than it is about race, but in the good ol' USA it's definitely all about race. These confederates hate to see a non confederate being successful at their expense. Goes against everything they were taught.

[PBR Streetgang]

I personally was tuning in to the second part of an NFL doubleheader on NFL Network as coverage for this card began, if I recall correctly.

Yeah, I forgot that there were NFL games on too. Not sure how many households have NFL Network however. I love football but adding that channel to my lineup isn't worth the price point.

[DClefthook]

Olds cool g should be in here shortly to say how great this is

This was his post. I actually get upset when they don't mention me for hating on Hearn the most, because I try really hard. I'm so jealous! hahahahahahaha

[sicko]

great exposure for Vito (even though he wasn't impressive IMO), Joey Spencer and Yoelvis Gomez

[Doughgirl5]

Point blank period that was a horrible fight card and the one this weekend full of hw's is going to equally as horrible....ijs! Im sure i can find something better to spend 40 bucks on for new years eve