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.
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.
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.
People are just bored. They’ve had enough. That’s what organizers don’t seem to get. The fans are oversaturated.
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.