Why is there no Boxnation equivalent in America?

[Morrie ATG]

As others have said, it’s all about the country. In Europe, it’s all footballers aka soccer non stop. There are channels specifically for just the team let alone the league. When you are limited in sports, you only focus strong on one market.

If the USA could, there would be a market for it, but the USA is saturated with too many sports. In the UK you can even gamble like nothing. The USA isn’t as ******* as Europe.

Europe and the world strictly football. The USA is the opposite. In the USA there are only premium investments and stars in boxing. This is why PBC was intended to change things in the mainstream. Of course opposing forces didn’t like that, especially HBO.

[Baltimore]

Man I wish we had something like that.

Have like thousands of tv channels on all sorts of random ****** **** and still end up just watching boxing content on YouTube most of the time

[rickJen]

I've always said if I win the lottery I am gonna start this, the WBN, World Boxing Network. If there can be a golf channel, an NHL Network and a NASCAR channel and ****, boxing can do it. The problem is that there's no unified body to put it under, where all the team sports have a league that runs it. But still, boxing has the advantage of having no off-season, there are fight all year round. Even if HBO and Showtime etc showed all the big fights, you could still show a ton of mid-tier cards and fights from all over the world on the network. Throw in pre and post fight coverage to big events, talk show type stuff like First Take on ESPN, documentaries, classic fights and live shows with boxers in studio you could easily fill in the rest of the time with stuff boxing fans would want to watch. Like I said, it's my first order of business if I win the lotto, so everybody root for me to get rich

Nobody knows exactly how much it would cost to start a new tv channel.
There are literally thousands and thousands of channels around the globe, which include many from third-world countries.
It's mind-boggling to think that there hasn't been anyone that thought of coming up with a boxing channel in the US or Canada.
Would be nice to see news about upcoming fights, press-cons, weigh-ins, developing fights, etc.
It's a disgrace mainstream sports channels never cover such things as if it's a sport that is non-existent.

[rickJen]

Man I wish we had something like that.

Have like thousands of tv channels on all sorts of random ****** **** and still end up just watching boxing content on YouTube most of the time

Boxing is god-forsaken sport.
You hardly see mainstream sports media cover it,
unless it's paid advertising.
A dedicated boxing channel would gladly cover promoting any fight from any competing network. SHO/HBO/ESPN would in return gladly allow airing their promotional materials on such channel for free.

[RJJ-94-02=GOAT]

I think Setanta Sports failing is what opened the door. They showed a lot of boxing and that attracted a lot of subs. But they bit off more than they could chew trying to compete buying Premier League football rights.

Yeah that was another factor as well, Setanta went into administration in 2009 I think, I actually didn’t mind Setanta as well it was decent. The main factor was Sky cutting their Boxing budget though, that’s what forced Warren into creating his own channel

[Ray*]

I don't know honestly. There are channels dedicated to far more niche hobbies or things then boxing. I've wondered why no one has started one yet.

The UFC gots Fight Pass & is making ~$4M a month for the UFC. The WWE Network has been around a lil longer & is making ~$12M a month. And looking at rumored BoxNation numbers it looks like they are probably making ~$2M a month. Idk how much you need to start such a network or to maintain it so idk what the profit would look like, but it seems like a long time profitable move & if you are making $24M-$144M a year I'd assume you gotta be in profit or will be shortly.

Am surprised that this idea (Boxnation) only came to frutition over here like 4/5 years ago. I think having a boxing channel with take off massively, considering the demographics, population etc Its a no brainer if you are looking at it from the outside, but maybe there are things that we don't know about that isn't all positive about it.

[Willy Wanker]

Because we're fat and channels like the the Food Network and the Cooking Channel are more appealing than boxing.

[HURTFEELINGS]

We do, but its called YouTube

[Boxnation fan]

Am surprised that this idea (Boxnation) only came to frutition over here like 4/5 years ago. I think having a boxing channel with take off massively, considering the demographics, population etc Its a no brainer if you are looking at it from the outside, but maybe there are things that we don't know about that isn't all positive about it.

PBC could have easily set up their own Boxing TV Channel a couple of years ago when they had limitless funds and a big stable of star fighters.

It does cost a lot of money to set up a TV Channel in HD, pay for a studio with a cast and crew to film the fights and announce on them.

We're talking at least $20 Million just for starters and then the Fight Fee's for the Boxers on top of that.

You would also start with zero subscribers and have have to spend $10 Million just on Marketing your brand and trying to bring in New Subs.

You would lose money for the first 5 years, no matter how quickly you grow.

Long term though, there's huge benefits for you to have your own channel and not have to deal with one of the big tv companies like HBO, SHOWTIME, CBS or FOX.

[Eff Pandas]

Am surprised that this idea (Boxnation) only came to frutition over here like 4/5 years ago. I think having a boxing channel with take off massively, considering the demographics, population etc Its a no brainer if you are looking at it from the outside, but maybe there are things that we don't know about that isn't all positive about it.

Yea true. It would be a risk for whoever did it.