PBC on CBS viewership down from April 4th

[Blueduck]

I'm sure Haymon thinks long term, but everyones gotta admit it was a kick in the balls for boxing to have its huge prime time network debut be a total stinker boring Adrian Broner fight, and the biggest PPV event ever, be yet another boring 9-3 Mayweather affair.

I really believe a lot of people gave boxing a chance for the first time in years, but then moved on pretty quick. You just wonder how much it would have helped boxing if both events had been truly great, or even just exciting fights? Boxing putting it's worst foot forward in such high profile events, not good....

[sugarsmosley]

The #'s say otherwise.

What does this have to do with hating? I pointed out valid reasons why viewership is down and not where it should be. How about you read before you run in here like a Haymon esb solider defending anything that isn't pro Haymon?

sarcasm .......

[Hougigo]

cant belive kameda lost, they did try to make better fights though.

McDonnell/Kameda was decent.... the main was not.

I wonder what their next PBC on NBC is.... Garcia/Peterson surprised me numbers wise

[Tom Cruise]

McDonnell/Kameda was decent.... the main was not.

I wonder what their next PBC on NBC is.... Garcia/Peterson surprised me numbers wise

I thought it was good

Bit scrappy but both were landing and throwing.

[big_james10]

No Pac-May boost for PBC Boxing Saturday afternoon on CBS. It had a 0.9 overnight down from the 1.1 on April 4

— Sports TV Ratings (@SportsTVRatings) May 11, 2015

Canelo probably got a boost since they replayed the fight... and it was a bigger fight

That is actually a good number for a Saturday afternoon boxing match.

[Porter's Dad]

Yea, exactly. He would need the best fighters from TR and GB as well, he would need Canelo and Lemeuix, all the exciting hard hitters. And make them fight, every single event has two mouthwatering events.

But thats not possible. We got some good matchups already, but nothing enticing enough. When boxing was last on network TV, it was Lenoard, Duran, Hagler, and Hearns. Can Haymon bring that kinda excitement? Nope.

I know it was never going to happen but it would have been great if Haymon, Arum, GBP all came together to go to CBS. That's the only way this venture was going to work, because the shallowness of Haymon's talent pool becomes visible when he's pushing Santa Cruz and Quillin as possible stars. He had a big stable but it's not enough to carry the sport away from cable network.

To be fair, Haymon is putting on some very, very good fights. But he's hamstrung by his roster. Imagine if GGG, Canelo, Cotto, Lomachenko, Crawford, Kovalev, Bradley, Wlad were available too.