Comments Thread For: ESPN: Garcia-Malignaggi Peaked Near 1.5 Million Viewers

[bigdunny1]

How do you know the finances of PBC? Did you even know the investors know they were going to lose all this money? They aren't overspending to get HBO numbers, they are overspending to grow the brand. Costs money to make money.

The fight purses are public information. PBC just spent almost 3 times what HBO spent and we know that they are paying the networks millions for the airtime. How are they growing the brand when this is like 1/3 the rating Danny Garcia got in his fight earlier this year on PBC? Thurman and Broner all got significant worse rating their second fights on PBC as well. How is the brand growing seems to be going the reverse.

[AddiX]

And it was paid ahead of time by Al Haymon.

He paid for the time the fight was on espn, we don't know what kind of coverage he got in that deal, if he paid for it, or if espn paid for it, production cost, etc.

Haymon pays for a lot, but the networks are still taking on some costs.

[Beater_of_ass]

The fight purses are public information. PBC just spent almost 3 times what HBO spent and we know that they are paying the networks millions for the airtime. How are they growing the brand when this is like 1/3 the rating Danny Garcia got in his fight earlier this year on PBC? Thurman and Bronzer all got significant worse rating their second fights on PBC as well. How is the brand growing seems to be going the reverse.

They're going reverse? This is the highest boxing rating on ESPN since the mid 90's. Yeah, they're failing miserably. I mean this time last year PBC's ratings were 0.00 How was that working out? The rating is different because it was a horrible matchup. Again, I didn't say it was great, I said it's a good start. Take your salt somewhere else and wash it down.

[Beater_of_ass]

He paid for the time the fight was on espn, we don't know what kind of coverage he got in that deal, if he paid for it, or if espn paid for it, production cost, etc.

Haymon pays for a lot, but the networks are still taking on some costs.

And ESPN got the highest boxing rating in 20 years for their troubles and at minimal risk.

[bigdunny1]

They're going reverse? This is the highest boxing rating on ESPN since the mid 90's. Yeah, they're failing miserably. I mean this time last year PBC's ratings were 0.00 How was that working out? The rating is different because it was a horrible matchup. Again, I didn't say it was great, I said it's a good start. Take your salt somewhere else and wash it down.

Comparing this to a fight from the 90s with 1/10 the budget? Just stop like the idiots who claimed after the Thurman fight bombed well it out did ESPN Friday night fights. Really comparing fights with prospects and journey men making peanuts to world Champs making over 1mil purses on PBC? You don't think you should adjust the bar for success?

[AddiX]

And ESPN got the highest boxing rating in 20 years for their troubles and at minimal risk.

Ratings don't mean **** if you overspent marketing the event.

Like I said, it's an improvement, so that's good, but we don't really know what #s they are looking for.

And PBC still doesn't have sponsors, which in the end is the goal here.

[bigdunny1]

And ESPN got the highest boxing rating in 20 years for their troubles and at minimal risk.

Leaving out the fact that for over 20 years ESPN boxing cards operate at a tiny fraction of what it costs PBC to put on these fights. That's kind of a big point you glossing over. Like comparing a big blockbuster movie with a 100 mil budget to a indy movie made for less then 5mil. If the indy movie makes 40 mil that's a major success for the blockbuster does that is a massive failure because one is ridiculously more expensive.

[bigdunny1]

Ratings don't mean **** if you overspent marketing the event.

Like I said, it's an improvement, so that's good, but we don't really know what #s they are looking for.

And PBC still doesn't have sponsors, which in the end is the goal here.

Exactly. It's a improvement from the Thurman disaster but going from disaster to bad doesn't mean it's a success. Lol PBC needs better ratings then this to attract advertising and limit the huge loses they are enduring. And losing to the ufc prelim is a bad look especially when you got nothing but free press from ESPN all week long.

[Fetta]

Ratings don't mean **** if you overspent marketing the event.

Like I said, it's an improvement, so that's good, but we don't really know what #s they are looking for.

And PBC still doesn't have sponsors, which in the end is the goal here.

So you dont know what numbers are being sought but will constantly complain about them anyway. Ill go with ESPN being happy.

But what do they know.

[STREET CLEANER]

Danny and Haymon have too many haters in this site. No matter how good the news is for boxing they will find a way to spin it or simply start hating on those two no matter what