Does GGG need PBC/Al Haymon for more exposure?

[daggum]

The extended length of the bout stayed with the home audience, as the Feb. 21 late afternoon special edition of HBO World Championship Boxing generated 862,000 viewers. The event peaked at 938,000 home viewers, and—combined with its exclusive prime-time rebroadcast later that evening—was watched by 1.433 million homes.

http://www.boxingscene.com/golovkin-...viewers--87787

GGG-Murray=862 original
GGG-Murray=860 replay

GGG-Brook=843 original
GGG-Brook=700 replay

Every PBC Saturday afternoon broadcast last year did over a million views and Spence did 6 million this year.

hmm thats nice but how much did spence make? 250k. ggg just made 5 million. isnt the point of boxing to make money? could have swore floyd fans used to say that. why would he go to broke as a joke pbc and fight for 2 dollars?

[DreamerUSA]

I need an option C, neither. I'm sick of exclusive network deals, fighters should be able to fight wherever the money and competition are at. That is why I hope GGG tells HBO to go **** themselves when his deal is up. Any network would drool to have GGG fight for them. He should just fight on whatever network on a fight by fight basis. Free market *****es.

[Jsmooth9876]

GGG is one of the top 3 faces in boxing right now like it or not. The fact that not many people watch boxing is more a black eye on the sport itself honestly. Take away that amazing spence number after the olympics and all the numbers stink..

UFC has just taken boxing over and there's no coming back. Take it for what it is, enjoy it and carry on the hate..

[j0zef]

no matter how hard they push, ggg's drawing power isnt improving, you can put his face on every cereal on america and still wont change a thing...

Judging by internet trends, his popularity amongst casuals and his fight purses, I'd definitely say his drawing power is increasing. Two years ago vs. Rubio, Golovkin's purse was 900k. Last year vs. Lemieux, it was 2m. This year vs. Brook, the rumoured number is 5-6m.

You can also see how he compares to Canelo. He's about ~1/4 as popular (and rising) when they fight, and enjoys similar popularity during rest periods.

[champion4ever]

It could take years to make boxing a mainstream sport again. So I say the answer is no.

[icha]

that chart shows clearly that canelo draws more attention than ggg on fight weekend, of course the last stats only show gggs fight weekend since canelos is next week, but the difference is a lot, i expected ggg to be at least at half...

[Motorcity Cobra]

That's not how you do it. You have to include as many variables as possible. Canelo is still much higher but you gotta include other spellings

[bigjavi973]

no, but how can cotto fans say this guy is shit when he crapped his pants as soon as kellerman said his name? again, another rhetorical question, don't bother answering

oh like the reply that ggg gave when asked about ward?

[bigjavi973]

no, but how can cotto fans say this guy is shit when he crapped his pants as soon as kellerman said his name? again, another rhetorical question, don't bother answering

oh and btw:

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[bigjavi973]

I need an option C, neither. I'm sick of exclusive network deals, fighters should be able to fight wherever the money and competition are at. That is why I hope GGG tells HBO to go **** themselves when his deal is up. Any network would drool to have GGG fight for them. He should just fight on whatever network on a fight by fight basis. Free market *****es.

^^^^^ this guy gets it. Green K