Rumor is Stevenson only brought in 1.37M average

[Tay Roc]

al haymon doe

[aldo5408]

People are rooting against the PBC because of the bad year Al Haymon gave everyone in 2014 with all those Showtime mismatches. Now Al Haymon has his own platform and can make things right and we are getting Bika vs Stephenson. The fans are not ****** and ratings will speak. It is nice to see Al Haymon's wallet is being affected instead of HBO's and Showtime's and we will see how he will react since he is looking to eventually get a major network to buy his product. I am not rooting against the PBC, I am hoping that these low ratings will lead to more competitive fights being made in the future. There is no reason Leo Santa Cruz should be making 750,000 dollars to fight nobodies and we will see how his fighters start to react when the money is not there and the level of competition is demanded to rise. I also do not like how the PBC is more about their brand than the fighter. This is why guys like GGG and Kovalev bring in ratings and sell tickets while a guy like Stepehnson doesn't. When guys like GGG and Kovalev fight, people are turning in to see the fighter because their promoter has worked to make the fighter a brand. Everyone wants to see these guys knock someone out and hear what they what they will say in the post fight interview. It gets you excited when Kovalev calls out Stephenson or GGG calls out Cotto. The PBC has been all about branding their promotional company and that has taken away from the fighters personality. When commentators can not mention Kovalev during a Stephenson fight or Adrien Broner can not spit his nonsense in a post fight interview how are we supposed to get excited about seeing these guys in the future? I love a lot of fighters on the PBC and I love the idea of getting people back into boxing. I really do want it to do well cause I love the amount of boxing I have been getting lately. I think the card on 4/11 is going to be a step in the right direction but I think people need to see boxing for what it really is. What is a Danny Garcia fight with out Angel Garcia being Angel Garcia? Unfortunately I do not think the casuals will get to see any of that.

kov doesnt sell tickets at all he sold like 1000 something vs caporrallo in AC even less vs ismail

[Barcham]

Everybody needs to shut up and let PBC build momentum. You don't develop a brand overnight. I'm having a great time watching the elites fight on basic cable.

What brand? PBC is like buying a box of generic cereal at the grocery store. It may fill you up but it leaves a funny taste in your mouth and the packaging is dull and bland. This is PBC in a nutshell. No style, no glitz, no nothing. It's like a gangsta rapper with no gold chains and no tattoos singing Taylor Swift songs.

And what elites are you talking about? Beterviev? Campillo? Bika? I wouldn't even give Stevenson elite status yet because he has run away from the best instead of fighting him.

[aldo5408]

What brand? PBC is like buying a box of generic cereal at the grocery store. It may fill you up but it leaves a funny taste in your mouth and the packaging is dull and bland. This is PBC in a nutshell. No style, no glitz, no nothing. It's like a gangsta rapper with no gold chains and no tattoos singing Taylor Swift songs.

And what elites are you talking about? Beterviev? Campillo? Bika? I wouldn't even give Stevenson elite status yet because he has run away from the best instead of fighting him.

Stevenson is elite he is the lineal champ playboy

[Barcham]

Stevenson will be elite when he fights Kovalev and puts in a good showing. Until then, he is a duck and ducks cannot be considered elite.

[Boxingwizard]

Let's be honest here it wasn't a good fight, it wasn't a fight that you wanted to be excited about.

Baika was tailor-made to lose, as if the fight was pre-written.

[elpinchejuan]

Kovalev is drawing more and more of a fan base with every fight while Stephenson's is losing fans. You can not deny Kovalev's last two fights and yeah you can argue it was Bhop and Pascal who drew the crowds but you know Kovalev walked out of those fights a star. Some of you can defend Stephenson and say he is elite but those numbers do not lie. Fans are not ******. Haymon is killing his fighters careers by trying to build his own brand. People loved Danny Garcia post Matthysse. People loved Peter Quillin when he was coming up, and Mexican fans almost never turn their backs on one of their fighters but look at the hate Leo Santa Cruz has been getting lately. Go to any comments section on a Santa Cruz, Garcia or Quillin tweet or instagram pic and 98 percent of those comments will be negative. That is what happens when you try to build a brand instead of a fighter. Right now the money is good and the fans opinion does not matter thanks to the investors who have put their money into PBC but eventually the PBC is going to need to be a product that the fans are willing to pay for and it really isn't looking good.

[Cinci Champ]

garcia peterson will be a good test of how they are doing as far as ratings go

[Sweet Jones]

What brand? PBC is like buying a box of generic cereal at the grocery store. It may fill you up but it leaves a funny taste in your mouth and the packaging is dull and bland. This is PBC in a nutshell. No style, no glitz, no nothing. It's like a gangsta rapper with no gold chains and no tattoos singing Taylor Swift songs.

And what elites are you talking about? Beterviev? Campillo? Bika? I wouldn't even give Stevenson elite status yet because he has run away from the best instead of fighting him.

You just described your Canada's own Drake to a tee.

[Foreign Soil]

Lol.. pitiful and predictable. People still thinking this thing is gonna be greater than the UFC.