Comments Thread For: Carl Frampton-Leo Santa Cruz Had Ratings Peak of 549,000

[Boxing Logic]

This is what happens when you take two guys who have scarcely fought a top opponent in their entire careers and expect more than hardcore fans to flock to their TVs. Frampton has had one relevant fight before this, Quigg, but none besides that, and had never fought on US television as far as I know. Santa Cruz has had one relevant fight before this, against Abner Mares, who had already been knocked out and hasn't been the same at 126 since.

So what do you expect? It has nothing to do with the TV Networks. It was a great fight but these guys have never been in important fights before, so why would fans know them? If Haymon actually built on this momentum, and put them in with Russell, Rigondeaux, Donaire, Valdez, maybe Gamboa coming down to 128 for a fight, Lomachenko, and so on, make all those fights back to back, one every 4-5 months, then by the end of a 5-7 fight streak of relevant fights, including rematches, the guys who come out at the top of the division will be stars, and they will get ratings again. But just making one good fight, that isn't even the best guys around the weight class like Rigondeaux, Lomachenko, maybe Valdez, every 5 years is not going to build hype or fan interest no matter what channel you put it on.

[Boxing Logic]

double post double post double post

[Bigg Rigg]

Those numbers are pretty bad considering how good the fight was. Barclays Center was on fire tho. Irish fans too over the building!

[HanzGruber]

sad.. showtime needs **** schaefer.. we all need ****

[AddiX]

This is what happens when you fight for al Haymon on Showtime and let bums promote your fights for a small one time fee.

Real stars need real promoters, not this rinky dink ass promotion Haymon does.

All these fighters, still, no stars....

[JUNIABOY]

I hope that they give us a rematch anyway.

[JASON SHAW]

Amazing ratings compared to ggg & crawfords ppv flops!

Amazing ratings compared to the hbo ppv flops by ggg tha bum kila & crawford!!! Eyeballs is what matters and this fight was seen by almost 5 times more than ggg and crawfords ppv combined!

[Shadoww702]

How do you donate you points??? I lost to Taste on the Leo/Framtpon fight.

[Shadoww702]

I hope that they give us a rematch anyway.

They just have to tell me where and here's my $$$$$ to them. I LOVED the fight!

Sure Salido/Vargas might of been a tad better but this had more on the line! This had two guys in their prime with ZERO losses. Same goes for Thurman/Porter. Even Porter was beaten before.

IDK it just seemed like this one had more at stake.

[Lester Tutor]

the moment people don't realize that CBS Sports brands "Showtime" and "PBC"

Showtime regular subscribers that like sports don't follow PBC on other networks. OR, if they do, that means CBS sports wins double whammys because they bring fans back and forth from different channels. Just like HBO watchers pretend to not watch PBC branding, and vise versa.