Comments Thread For: Spence-Algieri PBC Card Draws TV Average of 1.24 Million

[Vasyl’s dad]

Yeah I'd say so. Then getting this type of attendance is good imo. I questioned why Spence would headline an NBC card on a Saturday night already, but Haymon knew what he was doing. This is a big push for him to become a star.

Attendance for tonight's card at @barclayscenter is 7,628. #PBConNBC

— Mike Coppinger (@MikeCoppinger) April 17, 2016

Filling up less than half of an arena is never good. They secure those venues because they want to fill them up, not because they want fan boys to make excuses on messageboards how more than 10,000 empty seats is good for the night.

[Scipio2009]

You must not be bright enough to realize I was commenting about the popularity of baseball players over boxers. Not my fault.

I'm not talking baseball players versus boxers; my comment was specifically focused on Adrien Broner and Bryce Harper. Adrien Broner makes $1m per fight because 1)his events bring money to the table and 2)he's known broadly enough that his fights/antics bring eyeballs with him.

Bryce Harper is better known than Adrien Broner is; no one disputes that. Is Harper so much more well known than Broner that Broner earning $1m per fight is outrageous yet Harper possibly getting $40m per year is not? never in life.

No use trying to spin out of this.

[Scipio2009]

Filling up less than half of an arena is never good. They secure those venues because they want to fill them up, not because they want fan boys to make excuses on messageboards how more than 10,000 empty seats is good for the night.

I have no doubt that Lou DiBella didn't open up the full Barclays Center for the fight; if the venue is anything like Oracle, only the lower bowl of the venue was staged for the fight (pulling 8k-9k seats).

[Vasyl’s dad]

I'm not talking baseball players versus boxers; my comment was specifically focused on Adrien Broner and Bryce Harper. Adrien Broner makes $1m per fight because 1)his events bring money to the table and 2)he's known broadly enough that his fights/antics bring eyeballs with him.

Bryce Harper is better known than Adrien Broner is; no one disputes that. Is Harper so much more well known than Broner that Broner earning $1m per fight is outrageous yet Harper possibly getting $40m per year is not? never in life.

No use trying to spin out of this.

Actually, it is, considering the market to see Harper is much much larger. The Nationals average 2.5 million paying fans per year since 2012. Thats 82 games a year at home. Thats not including the millions who pay to see him on the road. Now compare that to broners 2 fights a year.

[Redd Foxx]

Attendance looks good but the tv numbers are ghastly. You can't argue that sports did it because the ufc card which beat it was a terrible card on paper with no real name value. Spence/Algeri should have drawn comparably.
Really hope they're able to pick it up in future pbc cards.

[bballchump11]

Filling up less than half of an arena is never good. They secure those venues because they want to fill them up, not because they want fan boys to make excuses on messageboards how more than 10,000 empty seats is good for the night.

Did you talk crap about Pacquiao when he failed to fill up the Cowboy stadium? I care more about the overall attendance than the percentage of the seats being filled.

[Scipio2009]

Actually, it is, considering the market to see Harper is much much larger. The Nationals average 2.5 million paying fans per year since 2012. Thats 82 games a year at home. Thats not including the millions who pay to see him on the road. Now compare that to broners 2 fights a year.

Assuming that your numbers aren't complete bull****, that puts the average paying audience at roughly 30,500 paying fans per game. With the ballpark only opening up in 2008, you could easily compare the paying fan numbers from 2008-2011(before Bryce Harper) to the paying fan numbers from 2012-present(after Bryce Harper); doubt that it actually happens, for obvious reasons, but always fun to point out folks trying to use numbers to make up a point.

Beyond that, "millions" aren't paying to see Bryce Harper on the road; they're paying to see their home team play but, beyond that, they're paying to see the Washington Nationals play. You pull Bryce Harper and it's not like the stadium is going to be empty, lol.

Adrien Broner, as the headline fighter, was able to draw 10k people to the DC Armory to see him fight; you pull Broner from the card, and the attendance drops drastically.

Bryce Harper can hit free agency, go to a team like the Atlanta Braves, and the Washington Nationals would still put north of 25,000 people, on average, into Nationals Park for every game.

[killakali]

I have no doubt that Lou DiBella didn't open up the full Barclays Center for the fight; if the venue is anything like Oracle, only the lower bowl of the venue was staged for the fight (pulling 8k-9k seats).

Plus they gave away 4000 tickets. they barely sold over 3000 but spence is from texas and wouldn't sell any tickets there anyway. algieri sold a few but that is it

[Scipio2009]

Plus they gave away 4000 tickets. they barely sold over 3000 but spence is from texas and wouldn't sell any tickets there anyway. algieri sold a few but that is it

Tickets were given away but I doubt that the actual count got up to 4000. nice try, tho

[ThatDude44]

They care. Just fed up from:

1. Lack of action
2. No structure
3. Bad decisions
4. Corruption

I go to bars during UFC fights and these are the 4 biggest criticisms I hear about boxing. They love the sport and wish more elite boxers would transition over.

A UFC fight going to the ground 90% of the time is the literal definition of "lack of action"