Comments Thread For: Premier Boxing Champions: Still Lacking For Focus

[bojangles1987]

The problem is the fights being put on free TV. We've gone from Thurman/Guerrero to ****ing Smith/Fonfara. Meanwhile all the good fights have ended up back on Showtime. What fights they have built up through mismatches on free TV have ended up taking place on Showtime. What's the ****ing point of tuning in to CBS or NBC or ESPN to watch crap fights when I know the good ones require me to pay for Showtime? All their doing is reminding casuals of how difficult it is to follow boxing and why they went away from boxing to begin with.

PBC has totally screwed this up so far. This is a golden opportunity to help boxing and they've instead reminded people of everything that drove them away to begin with. PBC needs to start making all these matchups that they have, putting them on free TV, and giving people a reason to care again. Stop trying to portray fights like Thurman/Porter or Santa Cruz/Mares as big fights that need to be built up over years. Fights like that should be on PBC channels often.

[bojangles1987]

The biggest thing PBC seems to be confirming about Haymon is that he still has no idea how to build a star fighter. He's so inconsistent with his matchmaking and schedules. Compare what he has done with the many welterweights under his banner to what Arum has done with Crawford. It's no comparison.

[R_Walken]

As they should be. PBC does have more dates set aside than does HBO Sports.

But HBO's talent pool is definitely better at the box office.

They also have like 4x the amount of fighters but the complaint doesn't hold weight to facts

Why don't you post how often these guys are fighting since the middle to late last year? I know why because EARLY last year PBC had more money so these guys fought more regularly. Then the cards bombed lost more money then expected and starting last fall the names headlining these cards started dropping in star power and the big names started becoming inactive or moving back to Showtime.

Thurman hasn't fought since last July
Porter hasn't fought since last June
Jacobs hasn't fought since the first week of last Dec and will not fight UNTIL maybe Sept
Quillin hasn't fought since last dec and has NO fight on the horizon
Danny hasn't fought since Jan and STILL has no fight lined up
Khan went a FULL year without fighting before facing Canelo May 7 (last pbc fight was May 29 2015)
Omar Figueroa hasn't fought since last dec
Adonis Stevenson hasn't fought since 9/11/2015 and doens't have a fight until 7/29/2016

Since middle of last year these guys have all become virtually once a year inactive fighters.

Dunny don't move the goal posts to fit your anti PBC agenda. Since Mar 2015 PBC fighters have fought the same if not more then HBo fighters especially off PPV

You come across as a little whiny b.itch trying to dispute this fact especially when the facts are right in your face . But now you want to cry and say well from jan 2016 to May 2016 their inactive. Like seriously put a soother in your mouth and shut the f.uck up and find another complaint to cry about that if you look at it probably won't be valid either.

[Boxfan83]

This fallacy that PBC fighters are dormant just isn't true brought on by anti PBC media and the public eats it up . Since March 2015

GGG- 3 fights 1 PPV
Kovalev - 3 fights
Postol - 1 fight & 1 fight on PBC undercard
Canelo 3 / 2 PPV
Vargas - 2
Bradley 3 / 1 PPV
Matthysse 2
Chocolatito - 3 / 1PPV
Loma - 3 / 1 PPV
Rios - 2
Ortiz - 4 / 2 off HBo

Now compare with

Thurman - 2
Danny Garcia - 3
Wilder - 3
Charlo - 4
Lara - 3
Jacobs - 3
Quillen - 3
Broner - 4
Spence - 5
Degeale - 3
Badou Jack - 3 / 1 PPV

I don't know about you but to me it would appear that the PBc fighters are actually fighting more often then HBo fighters especially if you consider them fighting off PPV. So what's your next made up complaint going to be

Ok I will send you a green k for doing all that research.

[bigdunny1]

They also have like 4x the amount of fighters but the complaint doesn't hold weight to facts




Dunny don't move the goal posts to fit your anti PBC agenda. Since Mar 2015 PBC fighters have fought the same if not more then HBo fighters especially off PPV

You come across as a little whiny b.itch trying to dispute this fact especially when the facts are right in your face . But now you want to cry and say well from jan 2016 to May 2016 their inactive. Like seriously put a soother in your mouth and shut the f.uck up and find another complaint to cry about that if you look at it probably won't be valid either.

I'm not moving shyt since a year ago this same time Haymon fighters are fighting less frequently and the numbers back that up. EVERYONE knows in the early days of PBC Haymon was throwing his top names on cards. Since late summer/fall of last year that changed and guys for some reason are not fighting as often? Why is that? Please tell us all

[OnePunch]

The thing I don't understand about these networks where PBC is shown is that they're not helping to promote the show. A 15 sec ad on a top show like Big Brother's new season, for instance, would help a ton in drawing viewers.

well why would they? They already got paid for the airtime so they really couldnt care less one way or the other if anyone watches.

[R_Walken]

I'm not moving shyt since a year ago this same time Haymon fighters are fighting less frequently and the numbers back that up. EVERYONE knows in the early days of PBC Haymon was throwing his top names on cards. Since late summer/fall of last year that changed and guys for some reason are not fighting as often? Why is that? Please tell us all

Little Baby Dunny set whatever date you want and let's look at it if you want and we'll compare but don't be your usual biased self and just hope you stop being a whiny b.itch and accept the facts however the chips fall even if they don't support your argument

Obviously some fighters won't fight as much in your given time frame but some others will fight more. But this notion that HBO fighters fight more often and PBc lay dormant for extended periods of time isn't true

[CmdrSoCal]

Matchmaking is the only problem whether it is PBC, HBO, Showtime etc boxing is a bad joke. PBC has the worse matchmaking with whole cards designed on purpose to be non competitive with a favored prospects vs a low ranking seemingly weak fighters. Luckily the underdog accidentally outperforms expectations like Joe Smith did unfortunately that is rare, 90% of those fights are waste of time garbage as planned. As long as fighters like Wilder get payed millions to fight fighters like Areola boxing will suck forever. If you don't like it don't watch it, when the ratings hit zero the execs will be fired and maybe new ones will demand real fights from promoters.

[krazyn8tive]

This article is f.ucking garbage. How much time did the author waste of his life typing this

A boxing outfit willing to go out on a limb and give more access to fans with a chance of growing the sport is hurting it. Is this for real ?

No one was cheering when Lara / Zavexk got made but that garbage fight on ESPN was a better match up then anything FNF put on in how long. My bad the historic fight of Monroe / Vera was the stuff that makes legends, it gave Willie a chance to get destroyed against Gennady

Has one writer written on the public Executions that happen on HBO. I mean I know everyone stopped what they were doing to watch the epic match ups of
GGG / Wade
GGG / Monroe
Kovalev / French Plumber
Crawford / Jean
Crawford / Lundy
Ortiz / Thompson
Verdejo / anyone he's faced on HBO
Mayfield / forget the guys name
Chocolito / Anyone he's faced on HBo

Literally HBo serves up 75% sh.it unless it's PPV but it's just crickets like what upcoming fights have they announced
Ward / Brand = Birderline garbage
Kov / Chilemba = Decent
Fury / Klit = Good

their only great fight is PPV in Postol / Crawford

This is one of the problem with boxing , is the media they love to tear it down You wouldn't read any of this deprecating writing in the UFC, NBA, NHL with the reporters that cover the sport

Not saying the PBc is above critique , obviously some match ups suck balls, a more consistent schedule would Probably help, The production team could use some work but F.uck at least their trying to give fans competitive fights on a accessible platform.

Competitive fights?! Really?! You can only get away with saying that because Thurman-porter is in two days.

[jqSide]

No one was cheering when Lara / Zavexk got made but that garbage fight on ESPN was a better match up then anything FNF put on in how long.

That's just ******. I've been watching FNF for years and they have produced some of the best fights I've seen on free tv. They don't even have mega budget to overpay fighters. Compare that to Lara getting $1 million for fighting a semi-retired, blown up welter, Zaveck. Waste of time and money.

You obviously don't watch FNF. You're just guessing.