Ratings: Crawford-Lundy 982K, Santa Cruz-Martinez 297K

[R_Walken]

If all Haymon wanted to do was air his fighters on Showtime then why did he spend hundreds of millions to create PBC and buy air time on OTHER networks so he could produce his own programming under the PBC brand? So he paid all those millions for nothing to just go back to the normal method of sending his fighters to showtime? He's sending his guys to showtime after spending most of last year having his guys fight on PBC because PBC is running out of money and he can't afford to air fights that lose millions of his investors money every event. And you can call Dan bias all you want but he works for ESPN and him reporting that PBC is not fighting on ESPN until June is a pretty good source since he works there. And this comes off the heals of numerous other reporters NOT Dan saying PBC is running out of money that their investors lost massive amount of money in 2015. And not just ESPN PBC is not airing on really any networks. Back in sept when all the network deals were in swing PBC was airing like 9 shows a month. So far this year Jan had like 4 shows, Feb had only 2 shows, March has only 1, April has only 2. Everything else is going to Showtime. No Spike cards till April. No NBC cards till mid April. No ESPN cards till maybe June. When the amount of shows started dropping last year around Nov idiots were saying oh PBC just doesn't want to compete with NFL/College Football they will wait till Feb when Football is over and flood the networks with fights. Then people said they just light in Feb/March because of college basketball is coming up. Now it's clear they will be light until MAYBE May/June the earliest. The bar just keeps moving further and further for Haymon fans 2016 will end and you will say Haymon just saving these cards for 2017. SMH

You win today Dunny

Haymons goal of bankrupting Showtime & CBS while scamming and defrauding innocent old ladies of their retirement funds worked and PBC will close down shop in 2-3 months

Leaving HBo and their decreased budget and 15-18 shows of their mismatches the only outlet left for Boxing fans to enjoy the sport

As a fan of the sport this Sounds like a win to me. Can't wait for your predictions to become reality

[Santa_]

Santa Cruz-Martinez would have easily reached a million views if they were on HBO. PBC needs to stop doing business with Showtime. It's a dying network. Can't wait till HBO comes crawling back to Haymon.

[Pigeons]

Santa Cruz-Martinez would have easily reached a million views if they were on HBO. PBC needs to stop doing business with Showtime. It's a dying network. Can't wait till HBO comes crawling back to Haymon.

I don't think there's any doubt about that.

DeGale-Bute, Jacobs-Quillin, Wilder-Szpilka, and Santa Cruz-Martinez would have all broken 1M viewers on HBO. Instead DeGale-Bute and Santa Cruz-Martinez did ~200K, Jacobs-Quillin did ~300K, and Wilder-Szpilka did 500K. Showtime is a TV ratings black hole right now.

[deanrw]

HBOs recent ratings have dropped off, but man Showtime's ratings have basically been cut in half.

There has to be something else going on. Are fans suffering burnout? There is no other reason I can think of for such a sudden and big drop.

[285Kid]

Why is Showtime still showing boxing? , and those HBO rating are not great the main event guy got million dollar check

[mathed]

Showtime is struggling pretty badly. Espinoza is doing a knock up job over there.

[mathed]

Santa Cruz-Martinez would have easily reached a million views if they were on HBO. PBC needs to stop doing business with Showtime. It's a dying network. Can't wait till HBO comes crawling back to Haymon.

Why do you think Showtime is struggling so badly? Hymen took all the talent to kick his PBC gig off. He single-handedly destroyed them and you can't wait until HBO comes crawling back to them, lol. The PBC ratings are tanking as well.....I think you got things backwards.

[JJRod]

HBOs recent ratings have dropped off, but man Showtime's ratings have basically been cut in half.

There has to be something else going on. Are fans suffering burnout? There is no other reason I can think of for such a sudden and big drop.

I was thinking this could be it too.
Maybe it was too much too soon with PBC.

[Pigeons]

It appears these numbers are on par with what Showtime is doing for their ShoBox series. The numbers for their last ShoBox show from 2/19 were as follows:
Magda-Brooker 165K
Williams-Foster 229K
Ellis-Odom 244K
Lopez-Munoz 163K

[Raonic]

That HBO card was a terrible card. Surprised it that much. I thought it'd be lower than Bradley-Rios.

And lol at the LSC viewers.