Jacobs-Quillin only draws 267,000 viewers??? ouch...

[M Bison]

See to be honest the fans who'd rather watch football over this fight are the problem, absolute mugs how could you not watch this it was a great fight and a fairly solid undercard that was on display.

[US Dirk Killer]

What a complete bomb! I knew it.... Al's plan to destroy Showtime is one step closer.

I mean, look at the past 2 weeks... combined they're a little over half what a fight in Germany did... ridiculous! they did less than an afternoon showing... combined... hell, they did less than the replay of the afternoon showing combined... that's horrible, outright horrible.

Also notice how they still haven't released last weeks numbers and not this week's either...t he Nielsen numbers are out, but these are just so terrifyingly low, that they don't bother

3.5 million plus, heavy push, All Access, promoting for months.... all for jack.

[Pigeons]

For those interested in the real numbers... HBO and SHO break their ratings into pre-fight, actual fight, and post-fight segments.

9:00-9:17pm (pre-fight Cuellar-Oquendo): 217K
9:17-10:07pm (Cuellar-Oquendo fight): 221K
10:07-10:30pm (post-fight Cuellar-Oquendo/pre-fight Jacobs-Quillin): 274K
10:30-10:37pm (Jacobs-Quillin fight): 386K
10:37-10:56pm (post-fight Jacobs-Quillin): 267K

http://sportstvratings.com/texas-baylor-usc-stanford-college-football-leads-cable-sports-tv-ratings-for-saturday-december-5-2015/4062/

So Cuellar-Oquendo averaged 221K and Jacobs-Quillin averaged 386K. Last week for Showtime, Alvarez-Chilemba averaged 173K and DeGale-Bute averaged 269K. Showtime is struggling.

[boxcityusa805]

wow...showtime paid 2.4 million to get these crap numbers?! Main event fighters earned $3 million!? Meanwhile golovkin HBO cards get gets 6 times the viewers at a lower fee and lower purses.
Showtime subscriptions are about 70% of the HBO so of course viewership will be lower but you would think this fight could have pulled closer to 1 million than 0!

[Hougigo]

What happens now is that they need fights for next year or continue to suffer.

Haymon will probably let more fighters on....but if he needs a big push too, maybe not

I also doubt anything can be worked with HBO

[AddiX]

What happens now is that they need fights for next year or continue to suffer.

Haymon will probably let more fighters on....but if he needs a big push too, maybe not

I also doubt anything can be worked with HBO

Hbo wants Haymon gone, they never use to spend this kind of money on purse fees.

Of not for Haymon driving up the prices, GGG/Lemiuex wouldn't of even been ppv. Making it ppv was the only way they could afford to do it.

That event was never expected to make big $, they wanted to cover the cost.

Headliners on HBO Boxing getting 2 mill a fight now when 1 mill use to be more than enough, that's the Haymon effect.

And consequence, is we get less fights on HBO.

[i'm a fun haver]

Whatever dude. Schaeffer says they need to let Showtime bid on the fight when he knows that legally impossible and your desperate ass wants to call that a duck, lol. Whatever helps you sleep...

K2 sent an offer after Schaefer n Quillin were running their mouth and all of a sudden Schaefer wanted to talk about the networks trading fighters. Quillin didn't say ****.

[285Kid]

You can blame the first fight for that , they killed the casual

[Rich2123]

Showtime is struggling

No doubt. With the PBC, I think a good chunk of the boxing fans who had Showtime dumped it because most of the good fights that would have gone to Showtime were elsewhere.

Showtime can rebuild, but they better get on it.

[New England]

How is this a deflection?

never said these numbers were good but i understand why they are so bad. Shoot i even expected less

Like i said in the post above this one, many of you for some reason dont watch other sports or dont know that when big games are going to be on that this sport will suffer.

how is it not deflecting ?


you brought up golovkin's ppv numbers [which weren't all that far from quillin - jacobs showtime numbers ] you deflected from quillin and jacob's poor showing and onto golovkin's modest ppv figures.