Comments Thread For: PBC, FOX Over The Moon With Ratings For Garcia-Guerrero

[Fetta]

Great for the sport!!

[Scipio2009]

Now was this cause it wasnt going up against any major sporting event? or is it cause the fight was perceived as a real fight finally? or did haymon plan work by having these dude fight twice on network tv building their brand and then facing them together?

all I want to know is what happens when they cant buy time slots anymore, and have to shop their content? I know pbc is good for this wave of fighters but what about the next? most likely are gonna take pennies on the dollar. time will tell

but wtf does this mean "An estimated 6.2 million viewers watched all or part of Saturday night's fight card" lol did they watch all or not? and what is the definition of part? channel surfers?

lol

PBC just had an event that, over 2 and a half hours, averaged 2.2m viewers for the entire broadcast, saw more viewers tune in as the night went on, had a main event fight that averaged 3m viewers (with that number peaking at 3.5m viewers at the culmination of the event), while also drawing a sizable rating in the 18-49 demo (with 18-54 being the only demo that advertisers even care about). To try and act as if that isn't worth a good amount of money is laughable.

[MrRolltide91]

Boxing is weird. Garcia isn't particularly impressive in the ring, nor particularly entertaining. He doesn't typically dominate opponents, he isn't considered one of the sports best and his personality is average. But he gets good ratings, go figure. Good for him and PBC though, hopefully some other guys get up there as well (Thurman, Spence, etc).

Maybe because he's puerto rican?

[Boxfan83]

Good for PBC, I wish they wouldve compared #s to UFC.

[Boxfan83]

Boxing is weird. Garcia isn't particularly impressive in the ring, nor particularly entertaining. He doesn't typically dominate opponents, he isn't considered one of the sports best and his personality is average. But he gets good ratings, go figure. Good for him and PBC though, hopefully some other guys get up there as well (Thurman, Spence, etc).

There was a reason why the 4 headliners were all Latino. PBC had to break out the Latino power to get people watching, good/smart business move, itll keep people tuned in.

[ИATAS]

Maybe because he's puerto rican?

That definitely helps but I don't think he's a huge puerto rican star as an American from Philly. Maybe I'm wrong but I never got the impression he was beloved by Puerto Ricans. Maybe he's just really liked in Philly and the East Coast in general. Would be interesting to see a breakdown of the numbers.

[_original_]

Guerrero is the real ratings star, he also put up those crazy numbers with Thurman.

[Scipio2009]

Boxing is weird. Garcia isn't particularly impressive in the ring, nor particularly entertaining. He doesn't typically dominate opponents, he isn't considered one of the sports best and his personality is average. But he gets good ratings, go figure. Good for him and PBC though, hopefully some other guys get up there as well (Thurman, Spence, etc).

Danny Garcia is a young, handsome Puerto Rican-American fighter from the inner city, who speaks English and is working on his Spanish, fighting in boxing's glamour division. For that contingent 1st generation American Latinos (mom and dead immigrated, but kids and/or grandkids went to American schools from kindergarten), Danny Garcia is far more relatable to them than Canelo Alvarez or Felix Verdejo Jr is, tbh.

As long as he's put in good fights (avoid putting him in with fighters simply trying to just survive), he's going to end up being a TV superstar (PPV is still a touch away, especially with the likely increase in sponsor money coming from the strong TV numbers)

[kiaba360]

You think so? I think he needs 1 or 2 more wins against guys of that caliber first. Don't know if I see a fight with Garcia vs. Porter/Thurman doing 300k buys right now.

I don't think it's a PPV-caliber fight, but neither was GGG/Lemieux and it wound up on PPV. The winner of Pac/Bradley vs. the last man standing between Garcia/Khan/Porter/Thurman is a PPV-caliber matchup.

[.!WAR MIKEY!.]

lol

PBC just had an event that, over 2 and a half hours, averaged 2.2m viewers for the entire broadcast, saw more viewers tune in as the night went on, had a main event fight that averaged 3m viewers (with that number peaking at 3.5m viewers at the culmination of the event), while also drawing a sizable rating in the 18-49 demo (with 18-54 being the only demo that advertisers even care about). To try and act as if that isn't worth a good amount of money is laughable.

It is laughable when you comparing it to what networks usually air (sitcoms and reality shows), these stats are laughable, maybe compared to other boxing events its comparable (IDK) but not for the time slots they are buying. So what do you think gonna happen when Haymon business model changes (cause it will, he cant buy time slots forever) and he trys to shop the PBC boxing events to fox or any prime network? they gonna pass cause they can make alot more money airing sitcoms then airing boxing. Simple as that.