Comments Thread For: Easter-Barthelemy Tripleheader Peaks At 343K Viewers

[Bronze_Dynamite]

Ajagba vs Wallisch was actually a good fight tho lol

[pillowfists98]

Showtime ratings keep getting worse and worse each year.

[bballchump11]

That sucks, but I'm not alarmed or too worried about that rating. Nobody cares about that fight. It would have been an opening bout of a triple header in the past. Only reason it was a main event is because of how many dates the PBC has to fill.

If Wilder vs Breazeale doesn't do well, then I'd be concerned.

[Thuglife Nelo]

I’m telling you guys, karma. All you DAZN hatin guys and all pro PBC shills whom had embraced HBO’s demise is coming back. To be honest I don’t want that for Haymon, but the LDBC fan base has destroyed PBC because it’s gone too ****** and it’s narratives. I think the only thing that can save PBC is if they start streaming bestiality on FS1. That should bring a huge rural fanbase to the rescue.

[bballchump11]

People are wrong to blame Easter and Barthelemy. Yes the fight was poor but this has happened to all boxing ratings since Al Haymon came into boxing. Only the influx of new exciting talent from parts of the world where boxers didn't used to be able to get US TV dates from on HBO, after HBO kicked Haymon off, like GGG, Chocolatito, Loma, Kovalev, Inoue, Stevenson, etc, brought back a bump in the ratings, but many of them are getting older now and many of them were denied the big fights in their primes, so even many of the new fans that were made in the sport when they came around have already given up on the sport.

I expect to see continued ratings drops across the board if the next wave of talent isn't as good as the prior wave, and if that talent doesn't get top fights and top opportunities in their PRIMES unlike much of the last wave.

Please elaborate on how Haymon is responsible for all of boxing's ratings going down.

[Input1914]

PBC is killing boxing

[CocoonOfHorror]

Sad to see what has happened to Showtime after fantastic 2017 and 2018. Nearly every top PBC fighter is going to Fox and DAZN/ESPN have raised the market rate for heavyweights so any decent Wilder matchup will go to Showtime PPV. And given the crazy money they are supposedly spending on Wilder-Brezeale, how much budget will they even have to bid for PBC fights for the rest of the year.

2017-18 Showtime co-mains were far better than the main events we're getting in 2019. All the Charlo Showtime fights, Gervonta-Pedraza, Hurd-Trout, Mikey-Zlaticinan, off the top of my head were all Showtime co-mains.

[Input1914]

Please elaborate on how Haymon is responsible for all of boxing's ratings going down.

Competitive fights are few and far between. Many key fights are never made or are in danger of not being made. Think of Joshua vs Wilder, Stevenson vs Kovalev, etc. Long layoffs for every PBC fighter

[Idunnoshet]

I’m telling you guys, karma. All you DAZN hatin guys and all pro PBC shills whom had embraced HBO’s demise is coming back. To be honest I don’t want that for Haymon, but the LDBC fan base has destroyed PBC because it’s gone too ****** and it’s narratives. I think the only thing that can save PBC is if they start streaming bestiality on FS1. That should bring a huge rural fanbase to the rescue.

You know . Sometimes you have good points and make good arguments . But then you post some waaay out shet like this and it reminds me not to take you seriously.

[angkag]

Competitive fights are few and far between. Many key fights are never made or are in danger of not being made. Think of Joshua vs Wilder, Stevenson vs Kovalev, etc. Long layoffs for every PBC fighter

This is indeed the problem. Boxing needs the big fights to happen to keep attracting new fans and keep old ones. Eg we can't have Crawford vs Spence/Garcia/Porter/Thurman because of the PBC/TR thing, Mikey v Loma not happening, Wilder/Fury/Joshua should be going at it at least once per year, Gary Russell fading into obscurity, Tank being protected, Yafai too.

Some notable exceptions from the WBSS that is allowing some good fights to happen, but the promoters are killing off the golden goose by suffocating so many fights that could get people talking about boxing again.

Remember the good old days when Leonard fought Hearns twice, Hagler, Duran three times. Compare to how many fights Spence (or Crawford) have had against the top guns of today so far.