What's going on with PBC?

[Scipio2009]

Dan Rafael during his Friday chat last week reported that he has been told that NBC is cutting ties with PBC at the end of the year when their 2 year time buy is over. I don't think NBC cares about the Spence TV ratings it was boosted by the Olympics nothing more.

PBC will end up with the main content deal under the CBS/Viacom umbrella (CBS/Showtime/Spike/CBS Sports Network), will likely continue providing content for BounceTV and ESPN, and will likely keep influence over Toe-to-Toe Tuesday (if Haymon isn't providing the fights, "friends of Haymon", ie Schaefer or possibly Roc Nation, will likely provide talent for those dates).

[Dean_Razorback]

and if PBC holds true to their pattern, Spence will likely fight again next June or July.......

next olympics if they are trying to get similar numbers to the bundu fight lol

[MrRolltide91]

Danny still on vacation

[al-Xander]

Why are there no fights scheduled for October,November and December?

If there are, they would have been announcing them by now. If there'll be announcements next month, fights will, of course, be held next year.

[BM dnobagaV]

Y y'all hatin' on a slick, successful brutha

[PACnPBFsuck]

PBC need to get out of New York , the new rules is not good for boxing just go to others cities

They can't, when it comes to boxing, Barclays and Stubhub are hot.

[therealpugilist]

good pbc needs to die!

why? you like paying for every decent fight on PPV?

[therealpugilist]

Al shouldnt have been paying his fighters +1mill plus to fight TBA

THE FIGHTERS DESERVE MONEY...A LOT MORE THAN THE SUITS!!!!! fans aren't in their taking any risks

why the hell are so many of you worried about how another person's pockets are lined?

who gives AF.....just line up competitive fights NOT on PPV!!!

[WesternChamp]

its a shame because i was enjoying all these free fights too... could careless who's promoting it, etc. as long as its free, im down for it.

[New England]

I got no idea man, I like PBC and everything they're doing, but it seems the rumours about Al running out of cash are true, why are guys like Thurman, Garcia, Porter etc fighting once every 10 months? These guys are very vocal about wanting to stay active but they're fighting one a year, twice at most if we're lucky.

I know Al has a big stable and it can't be easy handling over 200 fighters, but if the problem isn't cash, he's doing a terrible job keeping these guys active.

haymon's model is very different from most premium TV boxing matches. he buys time and makes money on ad revenue and a percentage of the purse he makes as an "advisor." it's not even clear what he's doing. but at any rate, he has to buy slots of time to put his fighters on TV. when you fight on HBO it is the other way around. HBO pays a flat fee to broadcast and archive the fight. promtors take that fee, and other revenue like gate and sponsorship money, and then they subtract the purse they give to fighters.

haymon technically isn't even a promotor. he uses lou dibella and others to act as a promotor.


maymon's investors may lose their shirts and he still may come out on top because of the fee he takes as an advisor. his PBC enterprise may flop, but if he gets the next floyd mayweather under contract and starts selling million ppv buy events that likely won't matter.


al haymon is not a dumb guy. he is not. we don't know the full story on this yet.


think of enron- it was a sham and a shell corportaion, but a lot of the executives still got paid huge bonuses and walked.