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

[bigdunny1]

Terrible ratings. Slightly better then the worst NBC ratings to date. And once again PBC finished dead last overall in primetime ratings.

[ShoulderRoll]

A lot more people watched this than watched Lomachenko last week. And the live attendance figures were also much bigger than they were last week.

[killakali]

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.

dont you get it? PBC is cutting back dates and will cut more next year. You can't just go to PBC. Why do you think so many fighters are fighting less frequently than ever on PBC? Bounce is all but gone. ESPN has gone from showing Keith Thurman fights to going back to the equivalent of FNF. That isn't going to be much of an option going forward. Why do you think you don't see those #freeboxingforall hashtags by PBC anymore? They realize they need Showtime badly now. Why do you think Broner is saying he and Danny Garcia is a ppv fight? A year ago they would have been saying how it would be almost as big as the Super Bowl and would sell so much advertising on nbc or cbs. That is out the window now. It is mostly small budget fights like last night or omar figueroa or errol spence etc now on nbc. These are HBO BAD level budgets.

A guy like Figueroa hasnt fought since last year or Devon Alexander and you think a guy like Wade who just got his ass blowed out worse than Jason Collins is going to be next in line on the precious PBC dates remaining?

[tiliheels]

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

actually hbo with lomo who is considered better than fonfar did like 585k they other day...

im sure nbc haymons' ppl didnt have high payouts on this card.

[CmdrSoCal]

That is the best card PBC can come up with for Saturday prime time NBC? Embarrassing. How does boxing still exist in the USA? The numbers are a disaster, a sporting event in that slot should get at least 5+ million. Shrunken fan base + terrible card = dismal ratings.

[bigdunny1]

A lot more people watched this than watched Lomachenko last week. And the live attendance figures were also much bigger than they were last week.

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-al-haymon-boxing-20160203-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

[HeroBando]

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

Ok but not sure the place is papered over last night. Well known Polish boxers can really draw in Chicago and NJ

[ShoulderRoll]

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

Fonfara is popular in Chicago with the large Polish community. I seriously doubt they had to give away too many tickets for this one.

[hhs661]

Good ratings and a good card.

[Cinci Champ]

dont you get it? PBC is cutting back dates and will cut more next year. You can't just go to PBC. Why do you think so many fighters are fighting less frequently than ever on PBC? Bounce is all but gone. ESPN has gone from showing Keith Thurman fights to going back to the equivalent of FNF. That isn't going to be much of an option going forward. Why do you think you don't see those #freeboxingforall hashtags by PBC anymore? They realize they need Showtime badly now. Why do you think Broner is saying he and Danny Garcia is a ppv fight? A year ago they would have been saying how it would be almost as big as the Super Bowl and would sell so much advertising on nbc or cbs. That is out the window now. It is mostly small budget fights like last night or omar figueroa or errol spence etc now on nbc. These are HBO BAD level budgets.

A guy like Figueroa hasnt fought since last year or Devon Alexander and you think a guy like Wade who just got his ass blowed out worse than Jason Collins is going to be next in line on the precious PBC dates remaining?

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