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

[bchap05]

I enjoyed the fight and it has created more buzz than most fights I've seen recently. Had a few buddies watch as well. If it was on sho or Hbo they wouldn't have watched. I'm all for PBC when they put on fights like this.

There will always be a ton of haters. Its what boxing fans do best. Complain.

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PBC>HBO
HBO only shows mismatches now the good fights are on PPV
Vargas-Salido being the exception.

[bigdunny1]

These are not great ratings. Still don't know why people keep trying to compare these to HBO ratings. HBO is not on network TV and it's a subscription premium channel. It's a totally different business model that has no reliance on selling commercial time. HBO is in 1/3 the amount of homes then CBS or the rest of the big 4 networks. If these ratings were on HBO sure they would be great. But they aren't. By default PBC was always going to have higher ratings by being on a network where even if they air reruns of old shows they get over 1m viewer. PBC should do at least 3X the ratings of HBO. To properly judge these ratings you need to compare it to NBC,CBS,FOX,ABC. Those guys are competing against each other NOT HBO.

[IMDAZED]

I enjoyed the fight and it has created more buzz than most fights I've seen recently. Had a few buddies watch as well. If it was on sho or Hbo they wouldn't have watched. I'm all for PBC when they put on fights like this.

There will always be a ton of haters. Its what boxing fans do best. Complain.

Amen to that. Was a real nice Saturday evening getting texts from cats who otherwise wouldn't text me re: boxing. And I'm so so thankful it loved up to the hype.

[bigdunny1]

These ratings are not even good by PBC standards (which is lowering the bar for Network TV ratings in the first place). This was the biggest and best fight PBC has made to date by a long shot. A fight that they literally have been promoting for OVER a year. A fight that Showtime helped promote with a All Access 4 part series with cameras following around Thurman and Porter. A fight that is essentially the Super Bowl for PBC thus far. It should of did 4-5m viewers and without a doubt broke the ceiling for PBC ratings. Instead let's see how the ratings stack up to PBC's own Sat Prime time ratings. They have released 10 Sat Prime Time cards to date listed in order by date they aired on EACH network.

NBC
3.37m Thurman/Guerrero
2.88m Garica/Peterson
2.33m Porter/Broner
2.2m Wilder/Duhaupas
1.8m Figueroa/Demarco
1.24m Spence/Algieri
1.2m Fonfara/Smith


FOX
2.24m Garcia/Guerrero
1.51m Berto/Ortiz

CBS
2.12m Thurman/Porter

Worse then NBC's first 4 PBC's shows, WORSE then FOX's debut show earlier this year. Worse then less important mismatches. Sure this is a increase on the LAST few NBC cards which featured prospects and B and C class fighters. But it's actually disturbing that a year and half later this big so called "PBC Mega fight" is only the 6th highest TV ratings out of the total 10 Prime Time cards that PBC has aired to date. And the trend of NBC, FOX and CBS have of each debuting PBC Prime time cards worse the longer PBC has gone on. 3.37 for NBC, 2.24 for FOX and now 2.12 for CBS.

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These ratings are not even good by PBC standards (which is lowering the bar for Network TV ratings in the first place). This was the biggest and best fight PBC has made to date by a long shot. A fight that they literally have been promoting for OVER a year. A fight that Showtime helped promote with a All Access 4 part series with cameras following around Thurman and Porter. A fight that is essentially the Super Bowl for PBC thus far. It should of did 4-5m viewers and without a doubt broke the ceiling for PBC ratings. Instead let's see how the ratings stack up to PBC's own Sat Prime time ratings. They have released 10 Sat Prime Time cards to date listed in order by date they aired on EACH network.

NBC
3.37m Thurman/Guerrero
2.88m Garica/Peterson
2.33m Porter/Broner
2.2m Wilder/Duhaupas
1.8m Figueroa/Demarco
1.24m Spence/Algieri
1.2m Fonfara/Smith


FOX
2.24m Garcia/Guerrero
1.51m Berto/Ortiz

CBS
2.12m Thurman/Porter

Worse then NBC's first 4 PBC's shows, WORSE then FOX's debut show earlier this year. Worse then less important mismatches. Sure this is a increase on the LAST few NBC cards which featured prospects and B and C class fighters. But it's actually disturbing that a year and half later this big so called "PBC Mega fight" is only the 6th highest TV ratings out of the total 10 Prime Time cards that PBC has aired to date. And the trend of NBC, FOX and CBS have of each debuting PBC Prime time cards worse the longer PBC has gone on. 3.37 for NBC, 2.24 for FOX and now 2.12 for CBS.

It did more than 2.12. It was the most watched fight this year.

[SouthPawHitman]

70 million viewes for Spinks vs Ali? . Boxing fell off something serious.

I'm expecting Cruz-Frampton to do those kind of numbers

[Sweet Jones]

just curious but did you plan on mentioning that Canelo-Kirland did over double the viewers than that replay.

Are you also including that approx. ~300k-400k who were already in a boxing mindframe and watched that Mayweather/Pac replay that was being broadcast on Showtime too then flipped over?

It was a boxing night one week after and included the replay of the biggest fight in boxing history. But yeah, let's just give Canelo all the credit.

[Sweet Jones]

These are not great ratings. Still don't know why people keep trying to compare these to HBO ratings. HBO is not on network TV and it's a subscription premium channel. It's a totally different business model that has no reliance on selling commercial time. HBO is in 1/3 the amount of homes then CBS or the rest of the big 4 networks. If these ratings were on HBO sure they would be great. But they aren't. By default PBC was always going to have higher ratings by being on a network where even if they air reruns of old shows they get over 1m viewer. PBC should do at least 3X the ratings of HBO. To properly judge these ratings you need to compare it to NBC,CBS,FOX,ABC. Those guys are competing against each other NOT HBO.

Right on cue..........................

[CaneloMaidana]

These are not great ratings. Still don't know why people keep trying to compare these to HBO ratings. HBO is not on network TV and it's a subscription premium channel. It's a totally different business model that has no reliance on selling commercial time. HBO is in 1/3 the amount of homes then CBS or the rest of the big 4 networks. If these ratings were on HBO sure they would be great. But they aren't. By default PBC was always going to have higher ratings by being on a network where even if they air reruns of old shows they get over 1m viewer. PBC should do at least 3X the ratings of HBO. To properly judge these ratings you need to compare it to NBC,CBS,FOX,ABC. Those guys are competing against each other NOT HBO.

Lomachenko got 500k, this 2.4 million. That's almost 5 times as much.