Members LMWBXR Posted September 22, 2016 Members Share Posted September 22, 2016 PBC was a big deal last year. It was the first TV boxing I had seen since the late 80's ish that was not PPV or HBO/Showtime. ESPN seems to think they have run out of talent, viewers or cash -Last year some of the early cards they did were really big with tons of fanfare and now they are more basic. Besides that I had not noticed a decline. ??? Quote "There is but one single card on the schedule, and it is nothing to get excited about. It's a weak show on Sept. 27 in Santa Fe, New Mexico, on FS1 that is headlined by welterweight Bryant Perrella against Yordenis Ugas. This is not a significant, interesting fight. Once upon a time, there were often multiple PBC cards per week populated by name fighters; Haymon spent his investors' $500 million lavishly as though it would never run out. Now it is plainly clear that the war chest has been badly depleted, even though PBC officials are loathe to talk about it." ESPN Full Story Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
GRIM Posted September 22, 2016 Share Posted September 22, 2016 Well we can't have top noth fighters on top notch cards all the time every fight, Last I heard PBC had blew through some mad ammount of money paying the named boxers very well. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
selij Posted September 22, 2016 Share Posted September 22, 2016 Spence/Bundu drew record network figures 6m viewers Link Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members LMWBXR Posted September 22, 2016 Author Members Share Posted September 22, 2016 57 minutes ago, selij said: Spence/Bundu drew record network figures 6m viewers Link That is the card that had Heather Hardy vs. Shelly Vincent on it. It was a great fight. Record figures, how about that .. I hope that PBC stays solid simply because it's great seeing boxing on network tv for sure. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
GRIM Posted September 23, 2016 Share Posted September 23, 2016 PREMIER BOXING CHAMPIONS SHUTS DOWN THEIR NBC PROGRAMMING FOR 2016 New York, NY (September 22, 2016)– Premier Boxing Champions will likely shut down their NBC and NBCSN programming for the remainder of 2016. The events that will be cancelled are 2 prime time December cards and at least 3 NBCSN cards. The remainder of this year’s PBC fights will be on Showtime, FOX Sports One and on Spike. “We are working with the PBC folks to move remaining shows to better dates in first 2-3 months of ’17,” an NBC spokesman told ESPN.com on Wednesday. “Most people in TV sports programming stay away from trying to counter program college football, the NFL, MLB playoffs and the start of the NBA season in October and November,” PBC spokesman Tim Smith said. “PBC is a TV boxing series and as such it’s mindful of the sports programming around it and it wants to maximize potential viewership among sports fans.” Many top PBC fighters have only fought once this year and don’t have anything else scheduled at this time. Those people would include Danny Garcia, Andre Berto, Daniel Jacobs, the Charlo twins, Erislandy Lara, Rances Barthelemy , Adrien Broner,Gary Russell Jr., and many others. The PBC fighters who haven’t participated at all in 2016 like Abner Mares, Lamont Peterson, Peter Quillin, etc. Is this a bad sign for the future of PBC? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
WBF OG mexfighter Posted September 23, 2016 WBF OG Share Posted September 23, 2016 they blew their wad on up and comer black fighters destroying mexican no-hopers that USED to have a name. they lost all the mexican interest which is huge for boxing in the u.s. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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