Comments Thread For: Fonfara-Smith PBC on NBC Sees Increase With 1.32M Rating

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Comments Thread For: Fonfara-Smith PBC on NBC Sees Increase With 1.32M Rating

According to Television By Numbers, Saturday's Premier Boxing Champions televised card on NBC drew an overnight rating of 1.32 million viewers. This edition of PBC on NBC, which began at 8:30PM EST and ran until 11:00PM, saw heavy underdog Joe Smith Jr. make a big statement in the light heavyweight division with a shocking first round knockout of highly ranked Andrzej Fonfara.
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[Pigeons]

so a free channel does the same numbers as hbo which is a pay channel and only 10 percent of people have it? lmao!

You're an idiot. HBO is in 35M homes and HBO reports ratings for each fight. PBC reports ratings for the entire telecast including commercials, in between fights, etc.

[THEFRESHBRAWLER]

Great point. So just as many people are familiar with Fonfara and Joe Smith Jr as they are with GGG. And more people are familiar with Fonfara and Joe Smith Jr than they are with:

Ward vs Barrera (1.062 mil)

Crawford vs Lundy (9862)

Lomachenko vs Martinez (613k)

Vargas vs Salido (833k)

Kovalev vs. Pascal (1.17 mil)

Luis Ortiz vs Tony Thompson (740k)

And Danny Garcia doubles GGG's numbers whenever he's on network TV.

LMAO you killed him with this one. Pbc= more viewers and money for the fighters. I couldn't care less about when where and how the investors make their money

[FrankieClutch]

I caught a bit of the Payano-Warren fight. Really sloppy fight, but it was competitive. I was not expecting Fonfara to get knocked out like that, geez.

[THEFRESHBRAWLER]

You guys are going to worry yourself to death about these dam "investors". Since when did y'all start caring about how much the investors make?? If I'm a fighter I'm going to where there's the biggest audience and the best pay.. Forget what you bloggers who never won a fight thinks. Fonfara Vs. freaking Joe Smith just did 1.32 million views.. If it was on HBO that fight wouldn't crack 700k..This is a WIN for the boxer no matter how you spin it. Why should we be concerned with how much these rich people making?

[Divine Hammer]

poop numbers.

[killakali]

Great point. So just as many people are familiar with Fonfara and Joe Smith Jr as they are with GGG. And more people are familiar with Fonfara and Joe Smith Jr than they are with:

Ward vs Barrera (1.062 mil)

Crawford vs Lundy (9862)

Lomachenko vs Martinez (613k)

Vargas vs Salido (833k)

Kovalev vs. Pascal (1.17 mil)

Luis Ortiz vs Tony Thompson (740k)

And Danny Garcia doubles GGG's numbers whenever he's on network TV.

Great point...so when fighters like Broner, Wilder etc go from Showtime to free tv PBC back to Showtime their ratings are LOWER than we were on Showtime before getting the PBC free tv exposure. So you are saying they get the viewers once on pbc and they are so turned off by the product they don't watch them on showtime and actually less people than previously watch them on showtime. GOT IT!

[JustOzzy82]

Good numbers considering the names on the card. Very below average names but turned out to be a very good card. Had good ratings and I hear there were 10K people there live. Not bad at all.

[El-blanco]

You guys are going to worry yourself to death about these dam "investors". Since when did y'all start caring about how much the investors make?? If I'm a fighter I'm going to where there's the biggest audience and the best pay.. Forget what you bloggers who never won a fight thinks. Fonfara Vs. freaking Joe Smith just did 1.32 million views.. If it was on HBO that fight wouldn't crack 700k..This is a WIN for the boxer no matter how you spin it. Why should we be concerned with how much these rich people making?

Because those rich people decide whether or not this continues. If they keep losing money they will pull the plug. Furthermore them constantly losing money doesn't give much confidence to other rich people(TV networks) to buy this product and give them a deal. That's why it's important for this to be better executed and to perform better than it has. Your thought process is too short term and you, and a lot of others on here, can't see the bigger picture.

[Motorcity Cobra]

Great point...so when fighters like Broner, Wilder etc go from Showtime to free tv PBC back to Showtime their ratings are LOWER than we were on Showtime before getting the PBC free tv exposure. So you are saying they get the viewers once on pbc and they are so turned off by the product they don't watch them on showtime and actually less people than previously watch them on showtime. GOT IT!

You're saying it's a bad thing for PBC when a fighter like Joe Smith Jr and Fonfara ("no names") are getting as much exposure as GGG and more exposure than Lomachenko, Crawford, Ward, Kovalev? As many people saw a construction worker named Joe Smith Jr fight last night as say GGG fight Wade. Think about that for a minute. Wade can use his exposure and go on PBC. GGG can only go to PPV where he'll be seen by less people.