Comments Thread For: Santa Cruz-Mares A Huge Ratings Hit For PBC on ESPN

[youbeight]

Let's be honest, no one is a ratings expert and no one knows what's the target rating they are looking for. They replaced a low budget low ratings broadcast with a high budget broadcast that's increased ratings and forced the network to cover the sport a lot more than it has in years. If they can keep the CBS Sunday afternoon fights going and the prime time NBC and ESPN cards with the weekly fox sports 1 cards and lights out on spike for Friday's it should be interesting in year from now. They're finding their time slots they just need more balanced cards.

[-Hyperion-]

Haymon needs to smarten up and accept the mexican american market is the biggest when it comes to boxing....stop featuring guys who can't sell **** in the main event, pay them 100k tops and stick them in the undercard where they belong. You get the top mexican or mexican-american contenders in real fights and you will have people watching.

The guy created the artificial market for undefeated americans though, so it's biting him in the ass.....having to pay millions to guys who can't draw flies like quillin, berto, broner.....

[bigdunny1]

True. PBC has been stomping FNF's ass in ratings. Although less, but better shows. Still doing a high rating for the last decade or w/e is good news for sure.

And the reality is love or hate PBC they are becoming, if they aren't already, HBO's #1 competitor & they've only been in business since March so the movements they've made so quick are very impressive.

ESPN has not been in the world class boxing arena for over a decade and FNF had such a small budget so of course the ratings are better. Just for the amount of money they are putting into this it was impossible for the ratings to be less. PBC has been overspending HBO's budget and getting with a the exception of one or 2 fights less ratings. Despite airing shows on Network and cable TV that are available in far more homes then HBO. That's not very impressive. PBC also loses money each show because they foot the entire bill and have little to no advertisers where as HBO needs no advertisers and makes money each show. They have a long way to go to catch HBO but they have passed HBO's next competitor Showtime. PBC has basically put Showtime boxing out of business.

[THEFRESHBRAWLER]

So does Golovkin-Lemieux

Lmaoooo killed him

[Fetta]

So a ESPN broadcast between two young Mexican fighters for a world title in a 13k ticket sold arena in their backyard does the highest boxing rating telecast on the network ever with 1.27m viewers and STILL people are hating ? Come on now it's no longer criticism at this point.

took you this long to figure that out.

[THEFRESHBRAWLER]

ESPN has not been in the world class boxing arena for over a decade and FNF had such a small budget so of course the ratings are better. Just for the amount of money they are putting into this it was impossible for the ratings to be less. PBC has been overspending HBO's budget and getting with a the exception of one or 2 fights less ratings. Despite airing shows on Network and cable TV that are available in far more homes then HBO. That's not very impressive. PBC also loses money each show because they foot the entire bill and have little to no advertisers where as HBO needs no advertisers and makes money each show. They have a long way to go to catch HBO but they have passed HBO's next competitor Showtime. PBC has basically put Showtime boxing out of business.

Lmaoo overspending? It's not your money fool. So what position are you in to say they are overspending??? You just a blogger like the rest of us

[.:: JSFD26 ::.]

ESPN isnt free TV. FNF on ESPN has been averaging between 350,000-400,000 viewers the past few years. Arreola-Stiverne II brought in 900k views, and that was their largest boxing viewership since 2006.

So this fight was the biggest fight on ESPN in at least a decade. When you consider that this fight also probably did a very nice gate, things are looking very good all around.

So you mean to tell me PBC isnt actually on free TV? What a shocker! Isn't that what everyone preaches around here? Free TV this, Free TV that. Free boxing here, free boxing there.

[MrRolltide91]

That's good

[.:: JSFD26 ::.]

Both fighters got paid 1.25M each too? I doubt these are "huge" ratings.

[IMDAZED]

Nah, Golovkin vs Lemieux is more of a WCB broadcast, since they are both champs. The promoters and HBO had to put this match on PPV due to the budget contraints, from what I've read. Both fighters purses demanded it. If they took lower pay, it would have been on regular HBO.

Right. So it should be on network TV not PPV. Same ****