Comments Thread For: Wilder Homecoming Draws 678,000 Viewers For SHO

[croz]

It's as if scheduling all the fights on at the same time and moving your fighter to a much smaller network was a bad idea or something.

[bigdunny1]

These are terrible numbers and further proof that Haymon destroyed the Showtime boxing brand. Last year's terrible mismatches including Garcia vs Salka combined with Showtime alienating other promoters and fighters just to keep Haymon happy is coming back to bite them in the butt. Haymon strong armed them to over bid and at times bid against themselves for crappy one sided fights all out of fear that Haymon would take his army of fighters away if they didn't pay. Well Haymon milked them for 2 years and still took all his fighters to PBC. Showtime ratings have plummeted since then. They have no fighters under contract. Haymon is giving them the scraps for fights he doesn't put on network tv. Besides Mayweather who has one more fight under a bloated contact showtime has nothing.

Meanwhile HBO saw Haymons BS years ago and cut ties with him immediately and have not missed a beat since PBC launched. Actually their ratings are higher then it's been in years. And have a working relationship with every promoter except Haymon. Showtime put all their eggs in Haymons basket and are now screwed. How Espinoza still has a job is beyond me. PBC put showtime out of business.

[AgainstTheRopes]

These are terrible numbers and further proof that Haymon destroyed the Showtime boxing brand. Last year's terrible mismatches including Garcia vs Salka combined with Showtime alienating other promoters and fighters just to keep Haymon happy is coming back to bite them in the butt. Haymon strong armed them to over bid and at times bid against themselves for crappy one sided fights all out of fear that Haymon would take his army of fighters away if they didn't pay. Well Haymon milked them for 2 years and still took all his fighters to PBC. Showtime ratings have plummeted since then. They have no fighters under contract. Haymon is giving them the scraps for fights he doesn't put on network tv. Besides Mayweather who has one more fight under a bloated contact showtime has nothing.

Meanwhile HBO saw Haymons BS years ago and cut ties with him immediately and have not missed a beat since PBC launched. Actually their ratings are higher then it's been in years. And have a working relationship with every promoter except Haymon. Showtime put all their eggs in Haymons basket and are now screwed. How Espinoza still has a job is beyond me. PBC put showtime out of business.

HBO fights have been crap for the most part. Mostly mismatches. They only have two other cards scheduled in the next couple months Bradley-Vargas and Kovalev-Mohammedi. Both are lousy

[sicko]

So if HBO and Showtime did not do an event at the same damn time, one of them probably would have gotten what? Probably 1.2 Million Views?

Wilder needs to be on PBC Network TV By The Way! Not sure if he has his own deal with Showtime or something but people would love to see a good Heavyweight Fight on Network TV

[AddiX]

There's just to much damn boxing on, and there's no off season.

If I missed any of the 3 shows last week, guess what, there's 3 more next week.

Market is over saturated and now it's on to many channels, average fans aren't trying to go out of there way to track who's fighting where.

[Fetta]

Crowd was lively, Molina put up better fight than expected, "Champ" wobbled, KO win....yeah i enjoyed the fight. Dont care if i was only one watching it

[gauchomalo]

There's no such thing as too much boxing on TV!

[Santa_]

No more homecoming fights. Wilder obviously didn't train properly for this one.

[MRBOOMER]

There's just to much damn boxing on, and there's no off season.

If I missed any of the 3 shows last week, guess what, there's 3 more next week.

Market is over saturated and now it's on to many channels, average fans aren't trying to go out of there way to track who's fighting where.

Are you really *****ing cause there's to much boxing on as opposed to 5 years ago where there was barely any boxing on. ?

[smoothsmg]

There's just to much damn boxing on, and there's no off season.

If I missed any of the 3 shows last week, guess what, there's 3 more next week.

Market is over saturated and now it's on to many channels, average fans aren't trying to go out of there way to track who's fighting where.

Boxing fans dont want boxing? Im loving all these free boxing every weekend.