Comments Thread For: Porter-Broner Draws Nearly 2.4 Million Viewers On NBC

[HeroBando]

The early PBC shows while not great ratings were higher then the ratings the shows are getting now. The reason is clear. PBC was something new and they went on a media blitz spending 10s of millions on promotion. So casual fans tuned in to see what it was about. And they were no impressed and that's why they have not come back and each show the ratings have dropped. This is a very bad sign for PBC. Look at the over inflated purses these guys are getting to fight on PBC. plus they have to pay the networks for the time slot. They had little to no Comercial advertisers when they started and with TV ratings going down what advertiser would be dumb enough to invest now? I just don't see how this is going to work long term each show PBC is losing millions of dollars.

i think one factor was Floyd vs Pac. Pbc was clearly timed to lead into this, and ride on the huge exposure, and hopefully popularity bump, that came with it. Unfortunately that turned away a lot of first time viewers.

[Rocky Rode]

Yeah, arguably the best young US player since Tiger in the running for another Major along with Jason Day battling vertigo to get into a tie for the lead. Why would any sport fan tune in to see that?

I tell ya, you anti-PBC folks are on some other next level isht.

I don't watch golf but isn't the US open one of the major golf events of the year?

While I'm not a huge fan of the way PBC handles their fighters(match making wise, not money.) I want them to succeed badly to open the door for regular prime time boxing on free channels.

[Build That Wall]

Horrible fight, great numbers

Broner is the draw like it or not

It's true.

Broner is also a bigger draw than Khan.

[Build That Wall]

Also PBC struggled selling tickets and filling the arena in vegas. Question is why the hell was this fight in vegas. Both fighters are from Ohio and you have NBA finals going on on Cleveland. Why not book the arena the Cavs play in for this fight. Piggy back on some of the Cavs momentum and pub. No doubts Cleveland would of shown up and filled that arena for two Ohio local kids. No reason to put this in Vegas where the crowd was empty and quiet most of the night.

It would be in cincy because Broner is the A-Side. However they should make it in Columbus Ohio. Have 2 of Ohio's best duke it out in the capital of the state.

[MRCHOKEaMF]

Better question is why are you seemingly happy about this? Don't you suppose to be happy if the sport does well?

"Boxing fan"

THEY arent "Boxing" fans, THEY just follow a certain person (#48) and he lost badly, so they are mad and want boxing to sink because the person they liked, turned out not to be very good at boxing or not up to the level they believed he was. It was just good marketing and a good promoter. So they blame everyone else except themselves for believing the BS him and his promoter tried to use, to make some money

[AddiX]

In America selling boxing is not EASY! The sport In General has fallen SO FAR in American that it is going to be hard to get it back up. Casuals only Care about Mayweather and Pacquiao and since they fought, now boxing goes back down a bit and will have to work its way back up

it really isn't, which is why I don't expect PBC to make it. I'm not rooting against it by any means.

But people really don't realize the damage years of greedy promoters has done to the sport.

People forget, the reason networks stopped showing boxing in the first place is the networks said to hell with these scumbags.

And once promoters got there hands on hbo and sho $, they basically stopped doing anything. They stopped promoting the way it should be done. They got spoiled and got lazy.

[Barcham]

Better question is why are you seemingly happy about this? Don't you suppose to be happy if the sport does well?

"Boxing fan"

I want to see the sport do well but I think that Haymon will do more damage to it than anything else and because of that I hope PBC fails sooner rather than later. His artificially inflated purses if allowed to continue by PBC investors, will only damage the sport in the long run and prevent any other entity from trying again once PBC folds as fighters will be expecting these ridiculous purses. And I do not see any possible way that PBC will survive past their current investment funds.

In my opinion, Haymon is nothing but a con artist interested in padding his own bank account as much as he can, while he can, and cares nothing about the health of boxing. The sooner he is done, the better.

[HeroBando]

THEY arent "Boxing" fans, THEY just follow a certain person (#48) and he lost badly, so they are mad and want boxing to sink because the person they liked, turned out not to be very good at boxing or nhot up to the level they believed he was. It was just good marketing and a good promoter. So they blame everyone else except themselves for believing the BS him and his promoter tried to use, to make some money

#1 Pbc hater is not even a Pac fan. Dont be frustrated, enjoy Pbc while it lasts. Once in a while they put on good fights, its worth a gamble

[Build That Wall]

Everyone is talking about the drop off from their 1 big rating, that was the anomaly. The ratings have been like 1.0 for the most part, that's what they were averaging. If anything, it's showing boxing has actually seen more a boost from May/Pac than we think. Since then Canelo, Cotto, GGG and now this fight have all seen really big numbers. If I'm not mistaken, is this the first primetime NBC card since the May/Pac fight? The rest have been mid-day, but I'm not really worried about the drop-off.

The XFL (not NFL) had a huge number and never went up again, this started big, dropped off quickly but I think PBC has shown it might be gaining some traction. 2.4 isn't a great rating but this was a non-title fight, essentially I look at it like a regular season game if you will, for the NBA. This got a regular NBA game rating between some good but not great teams. Memphis vs Portland probably wouldn't even get a 2.4 to be honest it was the same matchup really. I can assure you if they put Cotto/Canelo on PBC it would get at least a 5 rating if Thurman/Guerrero got 4.2. It'd blow it out of the water to be honest at least double it in all reality.

Did you just compare PBC with the XFL. The XFL was an embarrassment to the sport of football.

[Barcham]

THEY arent "Boxing" fans, THEY just follow a certain person (#48) and he lost badly, so they are mad and want boxing to sink because the person they liked, turned out not to be very good at boxing or not up to the level they believed he was. It was just good marketing and a good promoter. So they blame everyone else except themselves for believing the BS him and his promoter tried to use, to make some money

Sorry Flomo but I'm not now and never have been a Pactard. I think that both Mayweather and Pacman have done more to damage the sport in recent years than any other factor. The sooner both of them are retired and gone from the sport, the better off it will be.