Comments Thread For: Early Ratings: Thurman-Porter Most Watched Bout of 2016 To Date

[MASTERBX]

Big Al does it again!

[Boxing Logic]

Bad ratings against. Down from Thurman-Guerrero even though this was a way better fight. Of course it's "most watched of 2016" it was the only marquee fight on free TV all year. If I'm CBS there's no way I give PBC a deal if their best fights can only double or slightly more than double an HBO broadcast, with a bigger budget than HBO, even though CBS is in way, way, way more than double the homes of HBO.

[jjsmyth87]

Unfortunately one fight with decent ratings isn't going to save pbc from tanking. Haymon is doing exactly the same thing he did with ShowTime which is put on one good card out of every 3 or 4. Not a sustainable business model. Haymon is the scourge of boxing

[Scipio2009]

It's pretty good for PBC standards. Canelo did over 2 million views on regular HBO last year, I'm sure he would get over 5 millions on "Free TV" against a no name opponent.

Canelo Alvarez did over 2 million viewers for less than a half hour, and that's without counting the ringwalk or any post-fight stuff.

Thurman-Porter did better than Alvarez's audience number over a full two and a half hour broadcast, counting commercials, the co-feature, postfight comments, and even the little bit of dead time after the fight.

[GrandpaBernard]

Thurman is an interesting character

[Scipio2009]

Canelo averaged 2.146mil viewers last March on HBO while only available in 25% of the homes that Porter-Thurman was. It's not a terrible number for Thurman but certainly not great. Very disappointing. I expectd 4mil. This fight was highly anticipated which Canelo Kirkland wasn't.

At least the action in the ring delivered so that it didn't turn off any new potential fans.

Alvarez's number was over literally 15 minutes of TV; Thurman-Porter, as a show, delivered a larger audience than that over the course of 2.5 hours.

It's great that HBO gives fans the time breakdown for the individual fights, but doing so has got people, here and on other boards, deluded.

When was the last time that an HBO Champioship Boxing broadcast, I'm talking about the full show, even averaged 1m viewers?

[bballchump11]

Floyd against a no-name opponent? 5 mil also, whether you and I think Floyd's boxing skills are great or not, he is not well liked, only time he will get great views is if he is fighting names like Oscar, Manny, or Cinnamon and that, buddy, it's a fact.

What's this supposed to mean? Mayweather will get great numbers vs anybody he fights if we're talking in absolute terms. Mayweather vs "cherry picked" Guerrero drew numbers close to Canelo vs Cotto.

[Sweet Jones]

Alvarez's number was over literally 15 minutes of TV; Thurman-Porter, as a show, delivered a larger audience than that over the course of 2.5 hours.

It's great that HBO gives fans the time breakdown for the individual fights, but doing so has got people, here and on other boards, deluded.

When was the last time that an HBO Champioship Boxing broadcast, I'm talking about the full show, even averaged 1m viewers?

Bears repeating: it also had the rebroadcast of the most anticipated fight in years (May/Pac) as its lead in.

[Kigali]

Canelo Alvarez did over 2 million viewers for less than a half hour, and that's without counting the ringwalk or any post-fight stuff.

Thurman-Porter did better than Alvarez's audience number over a full two and a half hour broadcast, counting commercials, the co-feature, postfight comments, and even the little bit of dead time after the fight.

Watch them ignore that.

[Scipio2009]

lol

Bad ratings against. Down from Thurman-Guerrero even though this was a way better fight. Of course it's "most watched of 2016" it was the only marquee fight on free TV all year. If I'm CBS there's no way I give PBC a deal if their best fights can only double or slightly more than double an HBO broadcast, with a bigger budget than HBO, even though CBS is in way, way, way more than double the homes of HBO.

If Showtime/CBS can lock in 10 fight cards on primetime terrestrial TV that'll draw 2m-3m viewers over 2.5 hours (live sports content always draws a premium from advertisers), build in the content on CBS Sports Network (with smaller NBCSN/FS1 type fights and the support programming, CBSSportsNetwork becomes a viable cable channel), and still kick HBO's teeth in on Showtime (with CBS being dominated by football, NFL/NCAAF, from September through January, most of the matchups for that time stretch are going to be on Showtime, with the few PPV fights, the international broadcasts that'll get picked up by Showtime Interational, and the spillover from February through August all ending up on Showtime), the fact that you seem to honestly believe that Showtime/CBS isn't going to be a player for the deal, you played yourself.