Showtime Ratings: Martin-Joshua 275K, Selby-Hunter 205K

[ianjamsie]

That's good...

The sky figures will be released in a month.

Our population is a 6th of yours. So if you want to play it simple half a million in the uk is like 3 million in the USA.

Which I believe would smash all your records.

[bigdunny1]

Without knowing whats going on behind the scenes I think Showtime's problem was they didn't have anything to fill the void when PBC came to be. Maybe that was something agreed upon with Haymon. Maybe Showtime's budget was so spent on Floyd they couldn't air any boxing for a minute. But not having a product or much of one to show is gonna have people thinking Showtime doesn't even have boxing anymore. Thats Showtime's fault not Haymon's.

I never said Showtime is blameless in this mess. Either Haymon totally screwed them over or Showtime were idiots to give that man that much power where he could ever be in the position to cripple them. Whether one side is more to blame or if it's a combination of those factors. The fact is Haymon has totally destroyed Showtime's boxing department. The damage done when Haymon broke up Golden Boy and created PBC is the obvious line in the sand when the ratings fell off a cliff. Haymon sent back his fighters in droves to Showtime starting back in what last Nov? And it's mid April and the ratings are still tanking even with all these fighters back on Showtime. How Espinoza still has a job when he let one man totally hijack and run Showtime into the ground

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It was a prospect vs a bum. The outside world doesn't see the weekly Joshua hype threads and didn't even know Martin had a belt. It was a Friday night fights level matchup.

Those ratings aren't really that bad for what the product was.

[CaneloMaidana]

Thats disturbingly low for Showtime isn't it? Although its not unsurprising when you barely show any cards for the last 12 months.

Showtime in deep trouble. They barely rate now even with good fights. If the head of CBS wasn't a fan would they even show it.

[Eff Pandas]

I never said Showtime is blameless in this mess. Either Haymon totally screwed them over or Showtime were idiots to give that man that much power where he could ever be in the position to cripple them. Whether one side is more to blame or if it's a combination of those factors. The fact is Haymon has totally destroyed Showtime's boxing department. The damage done when Haymon broke up Golden Boy and created PBC is the obvious line in the sand when the ratings fell off a cliff. Haymon sent back his fighters in droves to Showtime starting back in what last Nov? And it's mid April and the ratings are still tanking even with all these fighters back on Showtime. How Espinoza still has a job when he let one man totally hijack and run Showtime into the ground

About the only thing I agree with from the above remark is that I'm shocked Espinoza has his job still. But I think thats on him not cuz of Haymon's allegedly voodoo & Harvard education hustling everyone in the business apparently. Haymon can outmaneuver all the players in the business, but can't fill fill a small venue in Winter Park, FL. Okay sure.

[285Kid]

PBC need to stop putting heavyweight boxing on Showtime.. NBC & CBS is the place to get the sport over

[BrometheusBob.]

And people were saying that Joshua is a bigger star than GGG

[ThumperMcDougal]

Time slot mixed with the fact only hardcore boxing fans know these two in the states. Believe me, Showtime looks like they are going to start promoting Joshua... He'll do big numbers soon.