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

[285Kid]

All those people got the watch the American fighter Paul Smith do his thing , Keep putting that guy on tv and see if casual fall in love with him

[ThatDude44]

Numbers came back quick as heck.

[El-blanco]

uhhh what dates have they cut back on? sorry but of course some channels are going to have cards where we dont know people as much and why is that bad? he has so many cards so many fighters its impossible for every single card to be name fighters if that were case it be 2 cards a month tops. u guys try way way way way too hard trying to bash pbc and all the bs info u guys get are from boxing writers on twitter who are paid to bash and spread misinformation about pbc

Stop being so pathetic man. This outfit has lost hundreds of millions of dollars with literally nothing to show for it aside from dwindling ratings. Terrible idea, terrible execution. Anyone trying to rationalize it is ******ed.

[MC Hammer]

Shows what happenswhen you don't have to compete. Put them on in the summer and the fighter should be good

[Scipio2009]

people do realize that the preliminary PBC audience number literally was for the entire broadcast (Payano-Warren II, Erickson Lubin's fight, Fonfara-Smith Jr, and Centeno-Sulecki), with no other breakdown, right?

compare broadcasts to broadcasts, rather than this silliness of comparing entire broadcast averages to individual fights.

[daggum]

Stop being so pathetic man. This outfit has lost hundreds of millions of dollars with literally nothing to show for it aside from dwindling ratings. Terrible idea, terrible execution. Anyone trying to rationalize it is ******ed.

yeah but that was their plan. you just dont understand.

[SouthPawHitman]

My main problem with PBC is that its just too much change too fast. We knew to look for boxing on Fridays on ESPN and Saturdays on HBO and Showtime for a decade man. All of a sudden theres no fights on ESPN fridays, Showtimes goes silent for six months, and there's random ass cards on Spike, NBC, CBS, ESPN on random weekdays or worse weekend afternoons. Who has time to keep up with this shit?

I do. I'll PM you next time a PBC card is coming on.

[Scipio2009]

PBC attendance numbers are inflated because there give mass amount of tickets away for free. They don't publicly release live gate figures to associated press for a reason. Danny garcia fight with guerrero gave away a ton of free tickets numerous outlets reported this. But pbc announced over 12k in attendance. But LA TIMES looked up the live gate

http://www.latimes.com/sports/la-sp-...203-story.html

"For last month's Garcia-Guerrero fight in Los Angeles, the fight card's purse totaled $3.2 million, versus only $508,620 in live-gate ticket sales."

So based on the ticket prices they only sold around 5k tickets and GAVE away more then half the tickets. They are making little to no money at the gate in these fights

lol. how did you make the leap from finding out that the live gate for Garcia-Guerrero was just under $510,000 to then arguing that that would mean that 5,000 tickets were sold?

according to the LA Times (http://www.latimes.com/sports/la-sp-...124-story.html), tickets were priced $300-$25, with the full 18k-seat building possibly staged.

based on the breakdown of the tickets sold, a $500k gate could've gotten you anywhere from just over 1650 tickets to 20,000 tickets sold.

would love to see how you did your own deduction.

[R_Walken]

Not earth shattering but Another top 5 rating for the PBC this year with essentially unknowns.

No one here knows if the network or PBc think this is a sucess or failure but people expecting NBA / NFL #s are Setting the bar too high and hoping it fails

Probably better to compare it MLS / Premier league soccer on NBC which managed to get something like a 80 mill a year contract.

All that matters is it was a Good card from top to bottom and Smith stole the show. Props to him pulled off some real life Rocky sh.it

[R_Walken]

lol. how did you make the leap from finding out that the live gate for Garcia-Guerrero was just under $510,000 to then arguing that that would mean that 5,000 tickets were sold?

according to the LA Times (http://www.latimes.com/sports/la-sp-...124-story.html), tickets were priced $300-$25, with the full 18k-seat building possibly staged.

based on the breakdown of the tickets sold, a $500k gate could've gotten you anywhere from just over 1650 tickets to 20,000 tickets sold.

would love to see how you did your own deduction.

Dunnys literally spent 100's of hrs in the last year and change writing novels that would make JRR Tolkien blush about the demise of PBC filled with fabrication and doomsday scenarios while sucking off anything associated with GB


I don't get how a fan of the sport could hope for the demise of a product that is giving fans more fights and access then ever before. But to him this is a bad thing