PBC ratings on CBS

[Weebler I]

Throw a fighter on national tv that no one has ever heard of or seen, even the hardcores haven't seen much of Frampton, WTF do they expect was going to happen.

I've said this for awhile now, I don't think Haymon gives a crap if PBC succeeds, he gets his 15% each fight either way.

The fights he's putting on tv don't suggest someone trying to build tv ratings up, that's for damn sure.

I'm not sure he knows what a compelling match-up looks like given he has spent a long time finding the easiest route for his fighters, it has to go heavily against his natural instincts to put them in hard bouts.

Maybe things will change when Schaefer gets on board, which is supposed to happen in August.

[MDPopescu]

Sad cause both scraps were good, can't wait to see Frampton again.

Frampton just fought in an empty arena...

[Humean]

It was the first time Frampton has been seen on US tv and in the afternoon, Frampton's ratings might pick up, I mean surely he has the right ethnicity and style to be a ratings hit. Having fights in the correct locations would help though with the atmosphere, I mean these PBC shows have been mostly dead.

[The Big Dunn]

not understanding where certain fights need to be held is killing PBC.

Frampton is Irish. Maybe putting this fight in a city with a large Irish population would have been a good idea! Maybe near NYC, Boston or another northeastern city, not Texas.

Porter/Broner should've been in Ohio. Leats they got it right with Thurman.

[boxinghead530]

Because they aren't giving compelling matchups for the most part...

And Pbc schedule is all over the place, spikeTV, CBS, showtime, etc. Day, night, Saturdays, Fridays...
Casuals can't follow along with that...

They should have just bought all the airtime off espn and had fights every Friday night.. So people know week in/week out when pbc is going to be on..

Bellator and wwe use that same model and have grown a big following

I agree, I think Haymon is making a huge mistake in having his PBC Promotional series bounce for network to network. Its hard to follow and add to that the weak ass matchups. Forget it, its destine to fail. His matchups are starting to get really terrible. His Mares-Santa Cruz fight is nice but other than that its garbage matchup after garbage matchup. Plus the BJ flores-Shumenov fight? WTF is that. It will get to the point if it stays like this (numbers wise) that the networks wont let him do straight up time buys when they can probably put better programming on (numbers wise) instead.

The Floyd-berto fight wont even generate numbers that the Pacquaio-floyd fight did which was $100, IMO. For it to be a success it would have to blow away Pacquiao-Floyd (numbers wises) and I just don't see it happening. To expect great numbers from that fight is going to be tough. I know I wont be watching.

But PBC needs to step up its game. Stick to one network, one regualar time slot and only showcase tops fights huge matchups. Let people get familiar and use to having boxing on at the same time. Start a Saturday night boxing series where its top fighters fighting top fighters. Let the people get a regular schedule and time slot so they know boxing will be on at this time on this channel on a regular basis. Because this jumping for network to network and daytime to evening is not working.

[HeroBando]

Interesting that, after all of the typical hoopla that comes on here from the initial estimates, people's comments tend to mum up once the full numbers come out, and the viewership totals end up just in line with or exceeding what viewership would've been on HBO/Showtime. Things go even quieter when the telecast ends up leading/in top five of viewership by the 18-54 demo.

have fun

edit: the CBS afternoon cards, and most of the afternoon cards in general, have likely been on budgets that weren't all that skewed away from what is currently being paid by HBO.

Top 5 lol. How many non cable mainstream networks are there, 4? Who are you kidding, the numbers stink. Go make up some numbers, that seems to be your forte

[Humean]

not understanding where certain fights need to be held is killing PBC.

Frampton is Irish. Maybe putting this fight in a city with a large Irish population would have been a good idea! Maybe near NYC, Boston or another northeastern city, not Texas.

Porter/Broner should've been in Ohio. Leats they got it right with Thurman.

It is really was weird that Frampton's debut was in Texas and yet they placed Dirrell-DeGale in Boston. There must be some sort of explanation for these weird locations, probably financial in some way

[Beercules]

Because they aren't giving compelling matchups for the most part...

And Pbc schedule is all over the place, spikeTV, CBS, showtime, etc. Day, night, Saturdays, Fridays...
Casuals can't follow along with that...

They should have just bought all the airtime off espn and had fights every Friday night.. So people know week in/week out when pbc is going to be on..

Bellator and wwe use that same model and have grown a big following

Exactly, it is all over its hard to keep track.

[The Big Dunn]

It is really was weird that Frampton's debut was in Texas and yet they placed Dirrell-DeGale in Boston. There must be some sort of explanation for these weird locations, probably financial in some way

Yeah, what would have made sense is Frampton and deGale co main eventing a card in the Boston area.

[Barcham]

I read the boards constantly and did not even realize that the CBS card on Saturday was a daytime card. I didn't even think of watching it. In general, I don't really watch anything on the major networks so I don't even see any commercials for what is upcoming.