Former UFC Fighter Believes Floyd/Manny Will Be The Last Real Big Boxing Fight

[The Infamous]

Pro Boxing Returns to Primetime With Solid 2.5 Overnight
By Paulsenon 03/08/2015 MMA/Boxing, NBC, Ratings


The debut of the Premier Boxing Champions series topped every UFC telecast on FOX in more than two years.

NBC earned a 2.5 overnight rating for the inaugural Premier Boxing Champions telecast Saturday night, the highest for a fight telecast on broadcast television since a January 2013 edition of the UFC on FOX (2.6).

The 2.5 easily tops the most recent fight telecast on NBC, an afternoon NBC Sports Fight Night telecast in September (0.7). NBC averaged a 0.9 overnight for Fight Night telecasts from 2012-14.

Compared to the UFC on FOX, the only other fighting series on primetime network television, Saturday’s PBC debut topped 10 of the 14 telecasts. The only UFC on FOX telecasts to earn a higher overnight were the inaugural edition in November 2011 (3.5), coverage in January (2.7) and December (2.8) of 2012, and the previously mentioned January 2013 window.


The telecast earned a 2.7 overnight from 9-11 PM ET, which according to NBC was the highest for any sporting event during the time period. Keep in mind that two-hour window also included the Duke/North Carolina college basketball game on ESPN. The overnight peaked at a 3.0 from 10:30-11 PM.

Compared to other recent Saturday night sporting events on broadcast, the PBC sailed ahead of an NHL regular season game on NBC the previous week (1.0), but trailed NASCAR’s Sprint Unlimited on FOX three weeks earlier (3.2).

(Sat. numbers from NBC)


http://www.sportsmediawatch.com/201...ons-ratings-nbc-debut-overnight-tops-ufc-fox/



@krackdagawd


And that was with Black fighters as the A-Side (including one without a strong fanbase in Keith Thurman).....like you said, watch what happens when #ChavezCoalition and #swiftset makes it's debut on PBC on NBC


Crazy thing is, 8 MILLION people were watching until half way through the Broner/Molina fight and then they switched due to the lack of action in the fight. The numbers could've been even HIGHER

Link for the 8 million viewers? According to the official numbers, the show peaked at 3.9 million viewers:

The show peaked at a 3.01 rating (roughly 3.9 million viewers) from 10:30-11 p.m. ET for the final six rounds of the Thurman-Guerrero bout.

http://www.fightnews.com/Boxing/nbc-boxing-wins-saturday-primetime-ratings-war-281492

 

[Newzz]

Link for the 8 million viewers? According to the official numbers, the show peaked at 3.9 million viewers:



http://www.fightnews.com/Boxing/nbc-boxing-wins-saturday-primetime-ratings-war-281492

@Mook


You lying to the people about my boy AB huh?


Where's the receipts?

 

[krackdagawd]

Comparing a thoroughly-hyped debut card against an average UFC on FOX card I don't think that's a fair comparison Even then, the last UFC on FOX did almost as well as the boxing card.

2015 has been a very good year for MMA in terms of numbers.

There were no popular fighters on this card how was it overly hyped?

You just said it was a great year for mma as far as numbers but you want to compare cards from 2011

Its not a fair comparison because boxing is beating mmas recent events.

Move those goal post to 2011- 2013 yet boxing is the dying sport :sog:

Wait until Chavez jr crushes those #s as well

 

[Mook]

@Mook


You lying to the people about my boy AB huh?


Where's the receipts?

Took y'all long enough

 

[Newzz]

Took y'all long enough

 

[krackdagawd]

Took y'all long enough

this dude

 

[#SOG_soldier]

Oh it makes sense huh, why not compare it to what UFC on fox is doing now since boxing is the dying sport and all. :999:

What do the numbers for the last UFC on fox look like?

Why don't we compare those?

HOW MUCH DID THE MOBB SELL CURTIS?





UFC on fox hasn't had ratings like that since Jan 2013, if we dying you already dead. :sog:


And as far as advertisements go Haymon bout the time slot, NBC isn't relying on advertising $.

nikka im high as hell. my bro think something wrong with me.

 

[#SOG_soldier]

Took y'all long enough

is that shawn micheals?


Am i eight right now?

 

[krackdagawd]

nikka im high as hell. my bro think something wrong with me.

Prime Killa Cam

 

[The Infamous]

There were no popular fighters on this card how was it overly hyped?

You just said it was a great year for mma as far as numbers but you want to compare cards from 2011

Its not a fair comparison because boxing is beating mmas recent events.

Move those goal post to 2011- 2013 yet boxing is the dying sport :sog:

Wait until Chavez jr crushes those #s as well

It had hype and buzz. It was the first PBC event on NBC.

Let's look at 2015:
UFC 182 - 800k buys
UFC 183- 600-700k buys
UFC Fight Night averages 2.75 million viewers on FS1 (not FOX). That's comparable to the PBC on NBC #'s, all while FS1 being in a about 25 million less households.
UFC 184- 500-550k based on early estimates. When you take into consideration that this was one of the worst cards ever put together, that's actually a very, very good number. The card had 1 recognizable name and that was Ronda.

It makes sense to compare debut against debut. Like I've said, debuts generally rake in higher #s than subsequent shows. UFC on FOX 1 averaged 5.7 million viewers compared to PBC's 3.13 million. It also had a 3.1 rating for the 18-49 key demo compared to PBC's 1.0 rating.

And even if we compare PBC's #s to the last UFC on FOX #s (like I did in my last post), they're close.

The point I'm trying to make is that both sports are doing pretty well. Yes, boxing is bigger in the US, but not by a lot (as some posters here have said).

 

[WhodatWhoadi]

*Sees posters he cool with from both the boxing and mma threads, going at it*

 

[Master Teacher]

It had hype and buzz. It was the first PBC event on NBC.

Let's look at 2015:
UFC 182 - 800k buys
UFC 183- 600-700k buys
UFC Fight Night averages 2.75 million viewers on FS1 (not FOX). That's comparable to the PBC on NBC #'s, all while FS1 being in a about 25 million less households.
UFC 184- 500-550k based on early estimates. When you take into consideration that this was one of the worst cards ever put together, that's actually a very, very good number. The card had 1 recognizable name and that was Ronda.

It makes sense to compare debut against debut. Like I've said, debuts generally rake in higher #s than subsequent shows. UFC on FOX 1 averaged 5.7 million viewers compared to PBC's 3.13 million. It also had a 3.1 rating for the 18-49 key demo compared to PBC's 1.0 rating.

And even if we compare PBC's #s to the last UFC on FOX #s (like I did in my last post), they're close.

The point I'm trying to make is that both sports are doing pretty well. Yes, boxing is bigger in the US, but not by a lot (as some posters here have said).

Boxing is bigger world wide

UFC isn't MMA, it's one promotional company

what we saw yesterday was one man's company Al Haymon promotional debut on network TV

His premier boxing brand does not have the cache of a UFC as far as BRANDING, also UFC was on basic cable regularly before fox unlike boxing

Also the first UFC o Fox featured Cain V.s. Dos Santos for the heavyweight title, the two best guys in the division fighting for the belt

if this fight was Broner V.s Garcia for the 140 pound he would've destroyed all records

but why give something away for free when you can build it into a mega fight throw this vehicle

 

[Mac Casper]

Are we expecting Garcia Vs. Broner?

 

[The Infamous]

Boxing is bigger world wide

I know that Boxing is bigger world wide, I never said otherwise.

UFC isn't MMA, it's one promotional company

The UFC is synonymous with MMA, like the the NBA is synonymous with Basketball and the NFL to Football.

what we saw yesterday was one man's company Al Haymon promotional debut on network TV

His premier boxing brand does not have the cache of a UFC as far as BRANDING, also UFC was on basic cable regularly before fox unlike boxing

Also the first UFC o Fox featured Cain V.s. Dos Santos for the heavyweight title, the two best guys in the division fighting for the belt

if this fight was Broner V.s Garcia for the 140 pound he would've destroyed all records

but why give something away for free when you can build it into a mega fight throw this vehicle

No matter how you look at it, the UFC's first card on FOX did very good #'s. Too bad the broadcast and main event itself went pretty bad.

 

[Mac Casper]

http://www1.skysports.com/boxing/ne...ook-in-the-uk-but-blasts-over-rated-amir-khan