How would you grade the first PBC event on NBC?

[bigjavi973]

Of course fighters not involved with PBC are not going to be promoted on their platform. Come on, that's common sense.

So if a haymon fighter gets a world title, does he only defend it against another haymon fighter?

[Unseen]

They don't need to get Buffer and Lennon Jnr, but get someone good. I have seen a famous rapper or someone MC and it was bad. Get a qualified guy and make him be part of the establishment.

[MrTambourineMan]

A very generous D+.

[ThePunchingBag]

It went the way Haymon expected it to go.

All according to plan, with extra expenses made to ensure that it did.

C-

[bojangles1987]

C+

One horrible fight, one good fight, it evens out.

[bojangles1987]

B. Because it produced one of the best fights of the year in terms of how much people liked it all over the place. Fight is getting so much praise on social media.

My husband and I loved watching boxing again! #NBCBoxing

— Amanda Lord (@arl6200) March 8, 2015

What a fight! #NBCBoxing

— Jason (@jgbaybum) March 8, 2015

***8220;@NBCSports: ....who needs pay per view? #NBCBoxing #PBConNBC***8221; that was extremely exciting. very hype

— Matt Maniaci (@mfmaniaci) March 8, 2015

Wow! That was amazing! What a great fight! #NBCBoxing

— Gabo (@GaboCasperPR) March 8, 2015

Shouldn***39;t have to always pay to see good fights. Thanks #NBCBoxing

— Lord Keith (@bkj721) March 8, 2015

Well that was entertaining. #NBCBoxing

— Al_Bondegas (@Al_Bondegas) March 8, 2015

Prime time #NBCBoxing helped satisfy my sports sweet tooth in the absence of football! Cool.

— Kenny Hussein Spock (@KwikWarren) March 8, 2015

What an amazing fight! Huge fan off the ref too, let it happen all the way, all out! #ThurmanGuerrero

— SarahAnn (@dearsarahann82) March 8, 2015

and on and on and on.

That's the main thing, producing great fights. Not all this other dumb shit some of you are talking about that can easily be cleaned up.

That makes me happy. I hope the ratings were good. Like you and others have said, the production side can be cleaned up based on feedback, but the most important part is the fights.

[hayZ]

I really like the Quillin-Lee fight, no idea who is going to win but I hate the Garcia fight, Danny will win imo, not even in question for me.

Quillin and Danny SHOULD win their fights. Lee is a good fighter but not amazing, he's improved under Booth though who is an intelligent trainer. The Peterson v Garcia fight would have been good a few years ago but Peterson is off the testosterone now and he hasn't really done anything since he beat an old Holt two years ago and then got KO'd by Matthyse. He's fought two randoms since.

I didn't really find it great tbh, there were some aspect that were good such as Laila Ali talking to the corner and finding out how they were handling certain things, talking to Smoger about the headbutt and it did look professional enough.

I wasn't digging the commentary AT ALL, I just didn't see any potential of it getting better than or close to Showtime/HBO. Not enough passion in their voices and too many lulls in commentary. Showtime/HBO crews are WAY better. I was watching the Guerrero/Thurman fight and whilst it was a great fight, it would have seemed way more exciting with the HBO/Showtime team covering it. Marv doesn't seem to know much about the intricacies of Boxing, Ray Leonard obviously does but he hasn't got the voice/persona to make you go OMG that's why they need a third man or replace Marv at least imo.

The Entrances were so terrible and tacky. Listen take notes from Klitschko events in Europe if you want to see good entrances or just keep it simple.

I feel as though next time there needs to be more competitive matchups, look at what the UFC does with their UFC on FOX shows. They often put on better cards than the PPVs. Load it up with some good competitive fights with aggressive fighters who bring it...the casual can always get in to that sort of fight. I think it's very smart putting on Broner on this platform though, he's a character on the mic/in the ring and it brings more attention to him as a brand because he can bring in the numbers...he's that sort of character its just about being smart with his career and him not becoming a fat **** out of it.

Also, why are American fans just TERRIBLE? The Thurman/Guerrero fight would have had an arena on their feet the whole fight here in the UK but the U.S fans are quiet for the majority of the fight despite there being a lot of good action and then boo when there is a very short lull in the action.

Overall i'll give it a D+, it has some positives and somewhere to build from but the matchmaking, entrances and commentary really need to sort themselves out. I didn't catch the whole event since i'm in the UK and it's too late for us I just caught the fights but did they show any backstage footage? That would be great, meeting up with some prominent people backstage, speak about how the fighters are looking/feeling, their predictions etc...

[SalimShady1212]

It's great to hear all your thoughts but I watch a lot of boxing and it was average, but after sleeping in it Thurman-Guerrero was good but nothing special. I really didn't like the ring walks, announcers or the way dsn't even let Thurman show his belt. Not my cup of tea but as a boxing fan I'll continue to watch anyway.

[IMDAZED]

I don't know, I think Lee is very live against Quillin. He hits hard enough to stop Pete. And if he pulled that off you might be looking at a potential star in the making.

I think there's some stuff that needs to be cleaned up (the ring entrance music and commentating chiefly) but overall it was solid night for boxing. Marv Albert looks a little long in the tooth but he sounded really good whenever the action heated up in the ring. Laila Ali was pretty good considering her experience at this stage. Ray Leonard...ehhh. The graphics were real good and camera work was top notch. Plus, I loved all of the boxing commercials. Klitschko-Jennings, Mayweather-Pacquiao, Garcia-Peterson, etc. I don't know, if they can work out the kinks they might have something here.

[The Golden Boy]

I really enjoyed it, few points:

- Molina did nothing, nothing!
- Liked hearing Marv Albert and BJ Flores was great. SRL was ok, would be good if they could get someone like Tarver, always like him in that role.
- Laila Ali comes across as monotone and lacks charisma which is very surprising considering who her father is.
- Didn't like fighters coming out to generic walk out music, they should be able to choose their own songs.
- I'm cool with getting rid of the entourages but their trainers should walk out with the fighters.

Overall really enjoyed the event and looking forward to the card next Frida