Comments Thread For: Netflix Reportedly Exploring Live Boxing Shows Featuring PBC, Jake Paul

[boxing IQ]

I think you should be the financial advisor & contract manager for Netflix or Amazon since you know what to warn them about, regarding PBC LOL! Armchair casuals are hilarious

Whoever ruined you got away with it. And there's nothing you're going to do about it, but remember. Every. Day.

[messi807]

Whoever ruined you got away with it. And there's nothing you're going to do about it, but remember. Every. Day.

You must be having a conversation with yourself, because I didn’t understand a word you said lol. PBC lives rent free in your head.. get some help with that

[OnePunch]

Al Haymon single-handedly sold Waddell & Reed on bankrolling the PBC.

Granted.... Waddell & Reed went bankrupt

He had help. Ryan Caldwell who worked at Waddell Reed as a fund manager is the one who brokered the deal. Then after is was signed he resigned (or was fired depending on who you ask) and then he went to work for Haymon.

You dont have to be Columbo to figure out what happened LOL

https://www.courthousenews.com/inves...t-into-boxing/

[OnePunch]

Amazon does boxing in Japan already. They have been doing ONE FC shows in the US that has MMA, Muay Thai & Grappling fights for over a year now. Whats the difference between that & doing boxing shows in the US?

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cost, for one. That other content is probably pennies on the dollar, comparatively. And the cross-promotional mess that boxing is, well it certainly isnt friendly to broadcasters. They couldnt even make a fight like Tank-Garcia without a split broadcast deal. I just dont see Netflix wanting to take on all the baggage that boxing brings......

[OnePunch]

Live sports bring advertisers, which Netflix has been working hard to get the past year.

advertising only works for boxing on 2nd tier content like ESPN Friday Night Fights, or Boxeo Telemundo, or platforms like that, where advertisers dont care who is fighting. For A-level content, it doesnt work like traditional sports that have a fixed run time. For a football game, they know exactly how many commercials they can sell. A main event boxing match might be over in 2 minutes. Advertisers wont pay premium ad spot pricing for an event that their spot may never even be seen.......

[paulf]

Zero chance this happens, as OnePunch said.

Chris Mannix quoted someone from Netflix on his podcast a few weeks ago as saying "We're not anti-Sports, we're just pro-profit. Live sports would have to make financial sense."

Time and time again, boxing has proven to NOT be that in the United States right now.

[paulf]

To succeed on American TV, a promoter would probably need to copy the UFC model - make your own league, with your own belts, and commit to putting on exciting, 50-50 matchup type fights. BKFC was a clown show when it started, but it followed this model and is now growing and succeeding.

Haymon thought about doing this when PBC was launched - even having belts made, but eventually walked it back.

Rather than have a bunch of promoters with exclusive TV deals that essentially makes them each their own league, but they all pretend they're not, someone need to pull the trigger and just start calling it what it is.

[boxingitis]

Facts

probox needs more love and support. They the most consistent supplier of quality boxing.

Plus Youtube is seen World Wide. If football can make money on free channels, I'm pretty sure boxing can make it in world wide platform.

[boxingitis]

Do they do Premium stuff on YT? I've been watching all kinds of Probox sh^t via their regular ass YT, not on the Premium part.

I'm sure they are YT partners & get a few bucks per 1k views, but that can't be enough to pay everyone cuz their view numbers aren't great.

Who's a sponsor? I've not noticed them hyping much, if anything, on their shows that ir.

Ik Garry Jonas, the guy behind Probox, has some weird relationship with that White Sands rehab place, or w/e it is, they do their fights in so I'm sure their cards probably don't have a lot of expenses besides paying the boxers & paying for the refs, judges, etc so that probably keeps the costs down.

Well if you have Youtube Premium you don't get comercials between rounds.

[maguirre]

Boxing needs to have 3 - 4 main cards in every event, not just one, which takes 90% of the allocated budget.