Comments Thread For: Kovalev-Mohammedi Cracks One Million Viewer Mark

[CANELOLUJAH]

he draws 1 million views on premium cable not too shabby

[crazed_z06]

PBC stay taking Ls.

Also Kovalev has built a brand so people will recognize him will tune in even if he is fighting a bum. At least they know someone it's getting KTFO.

HBO is the best in the business at building boxing personalities... Pac, Floyd, GGG, Kov, Berto,Canelo,Broner... list goes on

Just about all the big names and forgotten names in boxing are built in conjunction with HBO. Al the guys haymon, showtime, pbc have were built by HBO.

Floyd is the only one who's brand has really grown significantly after leaving HBO. Everyone else is just a Haymon stable fighter now with no real name recognition

[MDPopescu]

... If Ward fought Smith on HBO he'd probably clear a million easy.

... and why wasn't Ward on HBO? Do you happen to know why?

[MDPopescu]

Then why didn't he have that ugly mismatch on HBO?

Did they turn it down because Smith was coming off 2 losses?

... and don't forget that Ward was HBO Sports' Hershman protege for years... If even Hershman, the man who made Ward, let him down... you just imagine...

[BennyBlanco]

Afternoon ratings on network tv versus prime time on premium cable with a fraction of the overall viewers. That's why it's pathetic CBS couldn't do as much as HBO despite paying more then HBO. Not sure if you realise but network tv tends to have much higher ratings because it's in more houses then HBO. I think HBO is in only about 30% of homes compared to CBS which is free and available to everyone. Despite that huge advantage still PBC pulled lousy ratings.

1. CBS pays more than HBO? How's that possible, given that CBS doesn't pay a dime for its programming?

2. PBC on CBS did lousy ratings? Right...that's why only three sporting events - The Open golf on ESPN, NASCAR on NBCSN and CONCACAF/Mexico game, all costing tens of millions of dollars - did better ratings all weekend.

More importantly, you want to guess what kind of viewership a typical Saturday or Sunday afternoon college basketball game on CBS gets? Yes, you guessed it...average is around 0.9 - 1.0, or about 1-1.1 million viewers...same as PBC.

So if PBC ratings on CBS are lousy, and CBS isn't paying a dime for it - then CBS must be ****** for paying millions of dollars for college basketball that generates the same ratings.

[TheThirdEye]