PBC on NBC ratings from Saturday

[Barcham]

Now people will go and **** all over the "rating" but forget that people generally come out of work ( the ones who watch boxing and work as well) in the afternoon

It was on a Saturday. Most people work Monday to Friday and are home relaxing on Saturday afternoon. The rating is what can be expected for a Saturday afternoon show. It will not get any better and hopefully will not drop lower.

What has to be understood is that a boxing show in that time slot will never make enough advertising dollars to pay for itself unless you are featuring amateur boxers who are unpaid.

[deanrw]

How could anyone expect big ratings for this one? Dirrell fell off the map years ago and has done little since, and nobody over here knew who Degale was.

Cannot blame Degale, as he has never been showcased over here. Dirrell you can blame, because he no longer has a name. Fighters need to be active. Sit on your a$$ long enough and people will not care.

[JJRod]

Without good rating, you are not going to get good fights on TV because the Networks won't pick them up.

This is true. But to be honest I along with most people here have no clue what that particular rating on this channel at that time means. Was it good for that time slot? Was it good for the channel? Was it lower than what Haymon was expecting? Did Haymon and team know that ratings would be low for the first year and pick up the 2nd?

Since we don't know what they've researched, what their ratings goal is or any of that its pointless for us to Argue about things we don't know.

I I'm sure Haymon and company know what they're doing and if not at least we get good fights on TV for free.

[sicko]

How could anyone expect big ratings for this one? Dirrell fell off the map years ago and has done little since, and nobody over here knew who Degale was.

Cannot blame Degale, as he has never been showcased over here. Dirrell you can blame, because he no longer has a name. Fighters need to be active. Sit on your a$$ long enough and people will not care.

Dirrell was never a big name or big draw either even before. Nobody knows Dirrell either. It wasn't a big name Card.

Won't be any excuses for Broner vs Porter ratings if that doesn't deliver!

[Barcham]

This is true. But to be honest I along with most people here have no clue what that particular rating on this channel at that time means. Was it good for that time slot? Was it good for the channel? Was it lower than what Haymon was expecting? Did Haymon and team know that ratings would be low for the first year and pick up the 2nd?

Since we don't know what they've researched, what their ratings goal is or any of that its pointless for us to Argue about things we don't know.

I I'm sure Haymon and company know what they're doing and if not at least we get good fights on TV for free.

To be able to charge the advertising rates to make PBC profitable, their ratings would have to improve from 5 to 10 times what they are currently at. That is a total impossibility. Their only way to survive once the investment money is gone will be to drastically cut their expenses. That means chopping the purses they are giving out from around $3.5 million + total to about $300 thousand total. And doing that would mean a drastic drop in the quality of fighter being showcased which would result in a drop in viewers.

My view is that once the investment money is gone, so will the PBC be.

[RSBonos]

More of the same.

You can see by the UFC trends that there is a cap to how many people will tune-in to a fight on network tv, unless a superstar headlines. Which is why this PBC brand building will not really go anywhere unless they bust out their big names in competitive fights with proper buildup.

I'm ok with fights being in the afternoon though, and casuals didn't 'need' to see fights like this.

[RSBonos]

My view is that once the investment money is gone, so will the PBC be.

It sounds like a Haymon money scheme lol. Take that investor money.

[PK3434]

It sounds like a Haymon money scheme lol. Take that investor money.

LOL maybe...if he is still getting management fees around 15% for each fighter, thats a lot of damn money.

[Barcham]

It sounds like a Haymon money scheme lol. Take that investor money.

Haymon is making out like a bandit. Don't forget that the majority of the fighters featured are contracted to Haymon and he takes between 15 and 30% of their purse. When you consider that he is not spending one cent of his own money on this venture, he continues to clean up as long as the investment money continues to flow. The bigger the purses for the fighters, the more Haymon cashes in. By the time the $475 million runs out, he will have padded his personal fortune to the tune of around $50-75 million.

And some people actually are ****** enough to think he is doing this for the love of the sport!

[big_james10]

**** numbers for a Good Fight! While afternoon boxing is OK and gives me something to watch, I prefer Primetime Boxing! Even the boxing fans are more USE to Primetime Boxing instead of After. Nobody is watching boxing together or having fight parties in the Afternoon. PBC experimenting a bit with Time Slots I Guess

Saturday afternoon boxing used to be common in the 1980s featuring fighters who were more FNF caliber fighters. I think Haymon is trying to reintroduce boxing to network television. It may take two years to do it, but I think he will be successful and we will start seeing boxing on a regular basis on Saturday afternoons as well as Saturday nights on network television.