Comments Thread For: PBC on ESPN Averages 799K Viewers, Peaks at 1.1 Million

[Mitchell Kane]

The July 11 debut of Premier Boxing Champions (PBC) on ESPN didn***8217;t jump out to the start that event handlers had hoped, drawing an average of 799,000 viewers over the course of a busy sports evening.

Topping the show, Keith Thurman survived a rough 5th round ending to force Luis Collazo to quit on his stool prior to the start of round eight. The bout peaked at 1.1 million viewers.

Opening the card, Willie Nelson rallied from a deficit on the cards to score an upset 9th round knockout of previously unbeaten Tony Harrison in their junior middleweight clash.
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[SalimShady1212]

Is that good for ESPN? Khan did 1.2 million on Spike TV on a Friday.

[HanzGruber]

Is that good for ESPN? Khan did 1.2 million on Spike TV on a Friday.

That was the peak. So the peak for this is prob around a million also

[-PBP-]

Is that good for ESPN? Khan did 1.2 million on Spike TV on a Friday.

Stiverne/Arreola did 0.7 (940,000)

[AddiX]

People don't tune into boxing because of who promotes it, they tune in for stars.

Haymon hasn't built any stars, which is why PBC will fail.

It's really as simple as that. This event was marketed pretty well too, it wasn't like people didn't know this was going on.

[bigjavi973]

That was the peak. So the peak for this is prob around a million also

Some #PBCconESPN NUMBAHS Peaked at 1.1 million viewers. Average viewers up 110% from FNF

— Michael Woods (@Woodsy1069) July 14, 2015

[sicko]

In the US it is clear even by the UFC Prelim Ratings that Boxing has fallen behind so many sports so they have work to do as far as building that fanbase back up. I will be honest and I'm a huge boxing fan but during the Tony Harrison vs Willie Nelson fight and during some of the Thurman vs Collazo fight I was switching back and forth to the UFC

[joseph5620]

People don't tune into boxing because of who promotes it, they tune in for stars.

Haymon hasn't built any stars, which is why PBC will fail.

It's really as simple as that. This event was marketed pretty well too, it wasn't like people didn't know this was going on.

It did well. I guess you missed that part of it.

[sicko]

Some #PBCconESPN NUMBAHS Peaked at 1.1 million viewers. Average viewers up 110% from FNF

— Michael Woods (@Woodsy1069) July 14, 2015

Still hit a good peak number despite the strong competition that night so that is great

[-Hyperion-]

Some #PBCconESPN NUMBAHS Peaked at 1.1 million viewers. Average viewers up 110% from FNF

— Michael Woods (@Woodsy1069) July 14, 2015

FNF was on ESPN2.....numbers seem low for the main channel.