Comments Thread For: Showtime Announces Blockbuster Schedule

[BennyBlanco]

That might have been the plan, but was it part of the pan to have SHO's boxing ratings plummet in the meantime?

I think this announcement is great, there's some really quality fights in it.

But with that said, I'm just wondering what the ratings will be like on SHO.

Cuz I'm looking at the schedule, and while there is some quality there, we know that Europoean-based fight cards usually don't do great ratings in the states...so Martin-Joshua and Wilder-Povetkin may not do great numbers. Gary Russell Jr. isn't a ratings draw. Jack-Bute and Provodnikov-Molina probably won't do great ratings.

WHO CARES?!?! We have quality fights. Who cares what ratings they generate?

Neither you or me are making any money, or losing our jobs, based on what ratings are. Just sit back and enjoy quality fights.

Boxing "fans" are unbelievable.

[PulpFriction]

Alright! Free boxin.....oh they're all on showtime.

[LA_2_Vegas]

good replacement fight in Badou Jack V Bute

[about.thousands]

[bballchump11]

Don't think Showtime will keep up this consistency but I expect the PBC to pick their schedule up in the summer after showtime slows down.

I would personally prefer fights on free TV, so I'm not too concerned with it. But if Showtime want to pick their ratings up, they need to have a consistent schedule with good fights on it. If they go too long without fights, people will just unsubscribe from them or they'll miss out on promotions for upcoming fights. I suspect that they'll see a steady increase in viewers over the summer.

[dc3383]

It doesn't matter if it's PBC on Fox,NBC,ESPN,CBS or a Showtime fight the same guy is still running the show. IF PBC closes tomorrow Haymon still got some one else to give him well over 400 mil no out of pocket expenses. Everything runs as normal.

[Scipio2009]

Massive fight? It did 300k viewers flopping big time on Showtime. And again the fact is since late last year NOBODY knows if any of these fights will actually end up on PBC. Too many cases of fights being leaked as PBC fights but being pushed back for months (ex Thurman vs Porter) or flat out shipped to Showtime (Jacobs) or guys now fighting on HBO (Khan). 8 PBC Shows booked through the end of April (Jan 4, Feb 2, March 1, April 2) the rest ARE NOT PBC shows they are Showtime produced shows that air under the Showtime brand NOT PBC brand. Showtime paid for them most of these fights would be going under the PBC brand if the money weren't running out. They put out 8 shows in last Sept alone and by the end of April that's the exact amount TOTAL they will have the first Quarter of 2016. That's not alarming? Or that they said all these network deals were monthly series. Yet it will be AT LEAST 8 months before the next PBC on ESPN card and not by design because they have pushed back the ESPN 2016 debut not once, not twice but 3 times according to Dan Rafael who I'm assuming is a great source on this since he works for ESPN. Or the long months NBC, SPIKE have gone without fights. The last Bounce card announced future dates for the next Bounce card which Dan Rafael reported this week has been CANCELED. They can't even afford those low budget Bounce TV fights lol

Berto-Ortiz II has already been penciled in for April 30th (PBC on FOX), so you can add another show to your count. Haymon does what he does, and the schedule slowly gets filled in.

PBC put on 46 fight cards in Year 1; at the pace that things are going, PBC is again on track to air over 40 fight cards in Year 2.

Keep harping about doom and gloom if you want; PBC will end up putting on another 40 PBC cards by Christmas 2016, and you're going to continue to look foolish.

[bigdunny1]

Berto-Ortiz II has already been penciled in for April 30th (PBC on FOX), so you can add another show to your count. Haymon does what he does, and the schedule slowly gets filled in.

PBC put on 46 fight cards in Year 1; at the pace that things are going, PBC is again on track to air over 40 fight cards in Year 2.

Keep harping about doom and gloom if you want; PBC will end up putting on another 40 PBC cards by Christmas 2016, and you're going to continue to look foolish.

Two washed up bums that haven't looked good in years. Ortiz vs berto rematch would of meant something 5 years but means nothing when both are not top 10 on anybody ww rankings. And all PBC did in year 1 is lose investors hundreds of millions and can't afford to put out even cheap Bounce cards that's why you seeing such a drastic drop off in PBC cards and almost everything going back to showtime. Face it PBC looks like a colossal failure. If money wasn't an issue they wouldn't keep pushing back ESPN cards, canceling bounce cards and going like 4 months between NBC and Spike cards. When PBC announced these TV deals they said each network would be monthly series. What happened to that? ESPN provided it doesn't get pushed again by PBC will go 8 months between cards. But sure things are going great for PBC. LMAO

[R_Walken]

I would personally prefer fights on free TV, so I'm not too concerned with it. But if Showtime want to pick their ratings up, they need to have a consistent schedule with good fights on it. If they go too long without fights, people will just unsubscribe from them or they'll miss out on promotions for upcoming fights. I suspect that they'll see a steady increase in viewers over the summer.

Yeah agree 100%

It'll be interesting to see if showtime can improve on their awful recent ratings

Props for the Garcia/Iverson pic and the Sweet Pea / DLH Gif

[ShoulderRoll]

Overall that's a pretty damn good lineup. The fight that caught me off guard is Cuellar vs Mares, that one is going to be fire and I wouldn't be surprised if Mares gets himself another title.