PBC on NBC Sports Network Saturday night posted 250,000 viewers per Sports TV Ratings. The viewership represents an over 30% decrease in viewership from its August event on the network.
PBC on NBC Sports Network
July 2015 – 247,000
August 2015 – 362,000
September 2015 – 250,000
In the main event, Gabriel Bracero knocked out Danny O’Connor. The 3 hour event occurred Saturday night 8-11pm ET from Lowell, Massachusetts.
NBC Sports Network is in almost 82M homes per TV By Numbers.
Payout Perspective:
Tough night for boxing as the top four cable sports ratings were college football and MLB on Saturday night. ESPN’s college football featuring Arkansas-Alabama drew 4.835M viewers from 7-10:30pm. After that, the Cal-Utah game on ESPN drew 4.2M viewers from 10:30-1:45am ET. In addition, the MLB Playoffs on TBS were also popular on cable sports as the Cubs-Cards (4.6M from 5:30-8:42pm) and Mets-Dodgers (4.2M from 9-12:30am) drew big ratings.
Diego says
I don’t think it matters what else was on that night. Boxing and MMA have not done well on NBC Sports Network. That’s all there is to it.
I missed this one because I didn’t know it was on. I wound up watching boxing from England on beIN Sports instead because I stumbled across it.
The Greatest says
Great KO too, but i missed it as most people did.
It was a Boston guy fighting in Boston. He was ranked #153 fighting a guy ranked #63.
I would bet 200k of those 250k viewers came from Massachusetts alone.
Skia says
People are just bored. They’ve had enough. That’s what organizers don’t seem to get. The fans are oversaturated.
The Greatest says
Bored? I don’t believe they are.
Its just that PBC has shows on all the time because they have a huge roster of fighters.
But not too many ppl are going to be watching Danny O’Connor fight.