Comments Thread For: Fox Sports, PBC Reveal Details of Multi-Year Agreement

[DeadLikeMe]

Yeah, because you know a lot more about promotion than the most successful concert promoter in the world.

Why complain? TR tried to get on TRU TV after PBC was announced, was that hurting the market considering casuals don't know who is promoted by whom? Oh yeah was GB's buy of TV Estrela or whatever it is, hurting the market?

You just want to see PBC fail. That's all it is. If there wasn't a plan in place there would be no reason for this to happen. Notice a lot Haymon fighters haven't been broadcast yet, thats probably the reason for this tie in, for them to get some airtime before going to the "pros" on CBS/NBC.

And as far as HBO goes they have put on neither quantity or quality this year. Their biggest fights have been mismatches.

The funny thing is last time Pac lost the same guy spent months talking about how Showtime and ODLH/Schaefer were the death of boxing.

[BWC]

For those complaining its too hard to find the fights on TV, we live in 2015. Your TV has a search function and there is this new thing called Google, its crazy, it like a powerful engine designed solely for searching.

I think it's too much to ask someone to go to the PBC website now, come on buddy.

[Deevel916]

For those complaining its too hard to find the fights on TV, we live in 2015. Your TV has a search function and there is this new thing called Google, its crazy, it like a powerful engine designed solely for searching.

Looking for fights that u know are on is different than advertising it to the casuals and massses who don't know there's a fight on a channel like spike, ESPN or BounceTV. Many casuals just aren't aware that these fights are even taking place.

Now say a casual viewer is home channel surfing and comes across a fight one night on nbc. He may think that he can tune into nbc to catch these fights in the future. Nope because the next card may be on one of the other 6 networks on different day/time. Many of these casual don't even know nor do they care what promotion is behind it. They just want to see an action packed fight.

[Mr. Philadel]

remember when Tuesday Night Fights used to come on the USA Network?...Uncle Al bringing that old school flavor back to the sport....Thanks Unc!!

[BWC]

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You people are unreal. You spend hours a day on NSB, posting on like five threads at a time, yet you can't go to the PBC website to see what the upcoming fights are? Does that make even the slightest bit of sense?

[The Big Dunn]

All you guys are talking about how easy it is to find fights... If it's so easy why is no one watching? Because the matchmaking sucks on top of that. And yet this whole website is not the audience PBC is trying to get to watch. Boxing fans will find boxing, it's not rocket science. I don't know when the next MMA card is, that's why they do commercials. MMAJunkie42069 knows this **** so he wouldn't be who the commercial was for.

You don't gain NEW fans/audience/clients by moving around your clothing store/TV show. I keeps seeing Dunn say NBA, MLB, NFL... Yeah, we get it they are different channels Dunn. They also get 3-100x's the ratings boxing gets and they are on ESPN ALL the time. There is literally a 24/7 sports network (5 of them at least) that tell you all about the NBA and NFL.

These ratings are also from home teams having their home fans watch. Those teams have been around for 50-100 years on some cases... Boxing doesn't have that loyalty to any fighter. Boxing is a sport but it's nothing like the other sports, the comparison to a TV show is more valid than a sporting event. But again this is only part of the equation, better matchmaking would lead to better ratings as well. I mean how do you really get people to tune in, as casuals to a 30-0 versus a fighter is 33-7 or whatever Paulie was, no one is watching that.

The difference is Haymon doesn't have a network deal so he has to do time buys. I am sure if he got a network deal he would do what you suggest.

Time buys means he has to find spots where networks have openings. So at this stage it seems moving around is all he can do. As such, IMO he needs to improve advertising and promotion.

Boxing is still a sport, its based on winning and losing. There is a fixed time limit. To compare it to non sports is utterly ridiculous.

[Deevel916]

The funny thing is last time Pac lost the same guy spent months talking about how Showtime and ODLH/Schaefer were the death of boxing.

Speaking of which, where is Showtime boxing and Schaefer?

I like Oscar but he's surviving off of 1 fighter at the moment.

[The Big Dunn]

remember when Tuesday Night Fights used to come on the USA Network?...Uncle Al bringing that old school flavor back to the sport....Thanks Unc!!

I made this point yesterday and in an earlier post.

I got to watch GREAT fights on Tuesdays. Great young fighters-roy, Floyd, bhop. You I know liked it because they gave you shows from the Blue Horizon featuring philly guys bhop, calvin grove etc.

I just don't see the downside to this.

[Deevel916]

I think it's too much to ask someone to go to the PBC website now, come on buddy.

Some casuals dont even know what the hell PBC is. We do, but the average casual may not.

[SUBZER0ED]

True... but like Dunn said in an earlier post... nowadays is so much easier to find what you're looking for you know with the cell phones, laptops, tablets etc...

IMO they can do some kind of message reminders/phone messages something like that so people can sign up for it.

PBC has an agreement with several channels. AL could have cross-channel advertising, ie a commercial on ESPN about an upcoming fight on NBC and vice versa.

So...PBC needs more exposure...what the **** is being on a multitude of channels then?

PBC is hemorrhaging money...so they should spend more on advertising.

Makes sense

Advertising is part of the cost of doing business. Simply having a product without sufficient advertising is pointless, because many will not even know about it. Remember, I'm talking about casuals, who by definition will not go out of their way to find something that they are only moderately interested in. If Al wants to appeal to the casuals, he'll have to go get them.