What Happened To One-Fight Cards?

[MeanestNiceGuy]

Hopefully the thread question was clear, but, if not....why aren't there any one-fight telecasts anymore?

The last one I remember was Khan vs Garcia back in 2012....it aired on HBO right after a George Lopez comedy special. That was the only fight aired that night, which was straight to the point!

Does anyone know why those types of events aren't televised anymore? I'm not complaining about undercard fights, I'm just curious why the one-fight cards seemingly stopped.

Anybody remember other one-fight cards that were televised in the past???

Thoughts?

[Nash out]

I watched that fight, really enjoyed it. I had no idea it was a one fight card. How many other one fight cards have their been in recent times?

[OnePunch]

Hopefully the thread question was clear, but, if not....why aren't there any one-fight telecasts anymore?

The last one I remember was Khan vs Garcia back in 2012....it aired on HBO right after a George Lopez comedy special. That was the only fight aired that night, which was straight to the point!

Does anyone know why those types of events aren't televised anymore? I'm not complaining about undercard fights, I'm just curious why the one-fight cards seemingly stopped.

Anybody remember other one-fight cards that were televised in the past???

Thoughts?

I dont know for sure, but I would suspect that since they would have roughly the same production costs, they would want to get 2 or 3 hours of content instead of only 1 hour.

But that is just speculation on my part......

[buge]

1-fight cards are not in the long-term interests of boxing promoters, since they probably want to build up prospects' name recognition on the undercards of major fights

[uncle_ray]

I hated those 1 fight cards on HBO, an hour of BS and then a 3 round fight where Kermit Cintron jumps out of the ring and then wants to fight once he's on the stretcher

[paulf]

I dont know for sure, but I would suspect that since they would have roughly the same production costs, they would want to get 2 or 3 hours of content instead of only 1 hour.

But that is just speculation on my part......

Yeah bingo, that's clearly part of why Fox is buying boxing: they're getting two, sometimes three(PBC) hours of sports content for less than the price of one episode a network drama, whose costs are rising all the time. People will counter "re-runs get the same ratings on network TV", but you can't just run reruns all day in primetime.

[YoungManRumble]

Well there were 6 fights on the under card they just weren't televised.

TSN network sucks so bad up here they cut off at least the fight, or two fights before the main event with curling "action" so often times I am watching one fight cards not by choice.

[E-Thug]

Victor Ortiz vs Andre Berto was a one fight card if I remember correctly and Ruslan Provodnikov vs Mike Alvarado was definitely a one fight card too.

I'm glad they're gone, what a waste of time staying up for one fight.

[Kezzer]

Why would anyone want a one fight card??

If anything matchroom , who have grown the most over last 5 years , have gone the opposite route. They often have ten fights (obviously first Ones are newer fighters) - with dazn deal these are mostly shown! Not only them though - but social media is being used to promote the later fights by letting people stream for free the earlier fights.

So the marketing strategy is going the opposite way if anything

[TheMyspaceDayz]

Hopefully the thread question was clear, but, if not....why aren't there any one-fight telecasts anymore?

The last one I remember was Khan vs Garcia back in 2012....it aired on HBO right after a George Lopez comedy special. That was the only fight aired that night, which was straight to the point!

Does anyone know why those types of events aren't televised anymore? I'm not complaining about undercard fights, I'm just curious why the one-fight cards seemingly stopped.

Anybody remember other one-fight cards that were televised in the past???

Thoughts?

It was a way to show off a PPV replay anyone had missed the week prior. So a week after Mosley - De La Hoya 2 you’d see Byrd - Oquendo. The replay alone, maybe people skip it so they’d put a live fight in that’s juuuust good enough to make the double feature worth it for people who are on the fence.

*edit*

I didn’t even explain what happened to them ha. I don’t know. Spaced out today, sheesh.