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

[Deevel916]

Haymon needs his own boxing network. This network hopping makes it hard to establish consistent viewership. It gets confusing at times with what channel and at what time and what day these PBC cards are on.

[Weebler I]

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.

I don't think that's his primary plan though, imo he wants to sign everyone by consistently paying fighters millions. Other fighters see it, want to join Al.

It takes other promoters and channels out of the game, leaving Al in total control of boxing. He will have all the assets.

[The Big Dunn]

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

The key is up 110% from FNF. ESPN gave Haymon the spot hoping fights with bigger names would draw more ratings. This is a good start.

[Mitchell Kane]

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

Yeah, I don't get the usefulness of comparing the FNF numbers, because the PBC budget was well over 110% of the FNF budget.

Woods comes off as a publicist here.

[AddiX]

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

They needed to do closer to a 1.5 or so for this to be considered, doing well.

Even than it would still be another unprofitable event by PBC.

At least Haymon got his 15% though. All he seems to care About, why the **** would you put Collazo as a headline fighter if you really wanted the event to do well?

[SalimShady1212]

@nicoleduva: ESPN paid $500k for Arreola-Stiverne last year. 940,000 viewers. PBC paid just Thurman & Collazo $2 mil. 799,000 viewers.

@NashvilleBoxing: @steveucnlive @MrGAM3R49 @3bmboxing Old FNF budget was around $60k, Thurman's $1.5m purse alone was 25x that amount

From 3 milllion peak to 1 million, those numbers were very poor looking at what most Journalists are saying. Behind wimbledon, nascar and ufc.

[BIGPOPPAPUMP]

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

The July 11 debut of Premier Boxing Champions (PBC) on ESPN didn’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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[AddiX]

I don't think that's his primary plan though, imo he wants to sign everyone by consistently paying fighters millions. Other fighters see it, want to join Al.

It takes other promoters and channels out of the game, leaving Al in total control of boxing. He will have all the assets.

He's losing a future, he can't be realistically expected to hand this kind of money out for tv time and fighter fees forever.

Eventually this all ends.

He spent 2 mill on fighters for his last event.
Probably spend in millions for the tv time.
Also spent $ marketing this, and producing it.

It's a major financial loss, this is going to end quicker than people think, especially if the l ratings keep up.

[youbeight]

People do realize the PBC on ESPN series replaced FNF, if you wanna compare it to something, you'd obviously try to compare to what it REPLACED. just saying. The same will happen on PBC on FoxSports1.

[Luiz]

UFC set the blueprint and PBC is doing the opposite.