Comments Thread For: Santa Cruz-Mares A Huge Ratings Hit For PBC on ESPN

[mrpain81]

2.1 million+ were watching on ESPN and ESPN Deportes during the peak

[Scipio2009]

The numbers are not that great. A whole lot of spin going on to say they are. But it looks good compared to how TERRIBLE the ratings where when ESPN debuted with the Thurman fight. The Garcia fight slightly improved on that and this fight did slightly better as well. If you are PBC you are looking for the arrow to point up but they are still not where they need to be especially considering the fact they are still losing multi-millions each show because these cards are very expensive and they foot the entire bill including paying the networks and I still saw little to no real TV advertisement. That's concerning that they have had this many shows and still advertisers don't want much to do with PBC.

I will say the overall product is MUCH better on ESPN then any of the other networks and that's because ESPN like the other networks ACTUALLY has experience airing boxing and has a real announcing crew with credibility. And it shows.

^^^^ the salt is heavy with this one.

Mares-Santa puts 13k people into Staples Center, draws a growing TV audience (which, unofficially, peaks at almost 1.7m viewers), yet the detractors still want to talk **** (only caught part of the Ceja-Ruiz fight, before catching the rest of the show on Sunday, so honestly can't speak on the variety of commercials).

On every PBC platform (sans BouceTV, who have only had one show, and FS1, who have yet to have their initial show), the audiences have been growing and, most importantly, coming back for the follow-up shows.

all that salt is bad for your blood pressure.

[Vasyl’s dad]

How is this huge ratings for "free tv"? HBO you have to pay for and gets the same amount of viewers.

ESPN isn't free.

[mrpain81]

Numbers are legit, MMA Payout reporting same thing.

[wlliam]

So what's your point? That you have to pay monthly for ESPN along with 1300 other channels? Well yeah...duh

Are you implying that #freeboxingforall isnt free @ all!? What a rip off!!!

[wlliam]

Haymon needs to smarten up and accept the mexican american market is the biggest when it comes to boxing....stop featuring guys who can't sell **** in the main event, pay them 100k tops and stick them in the undercard where they belong. You get the top mexican or mexican-american contenders in real fights and you will have people watching.

The guy created the artificial market for undefeated americans though, so it's biting him in the ass.....having to pay millions to guys who can't draw flies like quillin, berto, broner.....

This guy knows his stuff, listen up kids

[Scipio2009]

Haymon needs to smarten up and accept the mexican american market is the biggest when it comes to boxing....stop featuring guys who can't sell **** in the main event, pay them 100k tops and stick them in the undercard where they belong. You get the top mexican or mexican-american contenders in real fights and you will have people watching.

The guy created the artificial market for undefeated americans though, so it's biting him in the ass.....having to pay millions to guys who can't draw flies like quillin, berto, broner.....

Funny how you blatantly ignore Keith Thurman doing a solid job of moving tickets in Tampa, Danny Garcia delivering a $1m gate in NYC, Adrien Broner doing a decent job of moving tickets in Cincinatti, and Deontay Wilder (in all likelihood) putting 15k people into the Legacy Arena for his fight at the end of the month. Not to mention Montreal still being arguably the sport's biggest drawing market, Chicago seemingly returning as a top fight town (behind this new crop of rising Polish fighters) and Las Vegas still being "the home of The Champ". For all the disparaging words put forward, Jacobs-Quillin is likely going to draw a pretty sizable audience in NYC as well.

Mexican/Mexican-American fight fans are definitely important to the lifeblood of the sport; just don't act as if they're the only audience worth looking at, especially if the end result is to grow the entire boxing audience to sports fans.

Golden Boy has followed your dream scenario, and they only have one fight that the general sports audience is interested in (Cotto-Alvarez); once that's out of the way, outside of Oscar De La Hoya getting caught in fishnets again, there's no other bout or fighter that they have that the general sports audience would give a **** about.

have fun with that

[Scipio2009]

Both fighters got paid 1.25M each too? I doubt these are "huge" ratings.

13k tickets sold, while having an avg of 1.2m viewers tune in, on cable, over the entire two hour block?

hate if you want

[Vasyl’s dad]

Lol @ rooting for pbc. Who really cares who put the fight on? Just you dorks. It was a great matchup and that's all that matters. Nobody was buying pbc merchandise, but they were buying everything else.

[wlliam]

Sorry but 1.2m is not even huge for HBO.

Yes it is..if HBO just did 1.2 dudes would be creaming themselves