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[TuXx]

They need the build up to introduce the casual audience to the fighters. Established boxing fans will find it tedious but if you want boxing to make a long lasting return to Broadcast Channels then they need to grab casual viewers. And if they can do that, it can be a shot in the arm of the entire sport as MMA's surge of popularity pulled a lot of those casual fans away. So these cards (specifically the NBC cards) need to pull in casuals and give them a crash course on why they should care about these fighters in addition to putting on fights that are flashier and more war-like with visible names on the calls and analysis (Sugar Ray Leonard/Leila Ali).

The fights are going to be the fights regardless but the packaging needs to bring that new blood in, in order to survive and flourish.

I guess I'm just spoiled on how HBO and Showtime does things. It'll take some getting used to but hopefully they can make some minor tweaks once this gets more established and casuals get more familiar with the fighters.

 

[RBH]

There were no entourages in the ring before the fight -- just the boxers and their trainers -- and an off-camera ring announcer to introduce the proceedings. Interestingly, no reference was made to Thurman's world title, clearly Haymon's decision as he seeks to downplay the sanctioning bodies, a move that has led to heavy speculation that he will seek to introduce a PBC belt at some point.

http://espn.go.com/boxing/story/_/i...bert-guerrero-retain-welterweight-world-title

 

[Heel]

Reben carried the Mayweather program.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0E6TmsmuNBQ

 

[Skittles]

Feels good to not have to pay an absurd amount of money to watch some boxing

 

[Jest Chillin]

I guess I'm just spoiled on how HBO and Showtime does things. It'll take some getting used to but hopefully they can make some minor tweaks once this gets more established and casuals get more familiar with the fighters.

If the ratings and the revenue are there and these programs continue then I'm sure they'll tighten everything up but the nature of Broadcast will probably necessitate some of the extra segments. The other thing to keep in mind is that PBC/Haymon probably won't be able to consistently provide cards with the same fighters so eventually they'll do what other sports cable channel cards do and use their cards to introduce up and comers and build them up.

Best thing to do if it really bothers you is just set a DVR to record it and wait like 10-15 minutes before you start watching so you can skip what you don't want to see. The downside to that of course is that you'd have to avoid live chats/threads.

 

[_illmatic_]

Overall I think the PBC is good for boxing. Lots of great main events on a local channel. Can't really beat it.

 

[Forsaken82]

The entire thing felt like the boxers (and Refs to not stop the fights) were told to go the distance for the sake of ratings and sponsors

I will give it another few days, but if by the third day we have gone 6 perfect 12 round fights... I am calling shenanigans.

 

[UrbanDandy]

The entire thing felt like the boxers (and Refs to not stop the fights) were told to go the distance for the sake of ratings and sponsors

I will give it another few days, but if by the third day we have gone 6 perfect 12 round fights... I am calling shenanigans.

The Al Haymon effect?

 

[RBH]

 

[abuC]

The entire thing felt like the boxers (and Refs to not stop the fights) were told to go the distance for the sake of ratings and sponsors

I will give it another few days, but if by the third day we have gone 6 perfect 12 round fights... I am calling shenanigans.

Broner hasn't scored a knockout in 5 fights, he wasn't going to knockout Molina.


Thurman has power but Guerrero has never been knocked out and that was only the 2nd time he's ever been down. The casual fan doesn't want to see 12 rounders, they want knockouts or phone booth brawls, the next major card won't have that either. If the results were fixed you'd see spectacular knockouts in all the fights because that's what the fans typically want to see.

It's too bad they couldn't get the Matthysse vs Provodnikov fight, cause that's going to be a war and somebody is going to sleep.

 

[RBH]

Boxing last night gave NBC primetime win among Big 4 networks in coveted 18- to 34-year-old demo.

https://twitter.com/darrenrovell/status/574633985868984320

NBC boxing last night drew 2.5 overnight rating. Well above NHL last Saturday night. NBC wins night among adults 18-49. Norfolk top market.

https://twitter.com/AustinKarp/status/574623860638760961

Per NBC Sports PR, last night’s debut of PBC Boxing in primetime on NBC averaged a 2.53/5 household rating/share from 8:30-11p ET and was highest-rated sporting event from 9-11p ET (2.67). The 2.53 overnight rating nearly tripled NBC average for Saturday afternoon fights from 2012-14 (.88) according to NBC. We’ll update this post with preliminary viewership as soon as we see it.

NBC says the rating increased every half hour & peaked at 3.01 from 10:30-11pm ET for final 6 rounds of Thurman-Guerrero bout.

Top markets for Premier Boxing Champions on NBC:

Norfolk 5.5/8
Cincinnati 4.9/10
San Antonio 4.8/9
New Orleans 4.3/7
Ft. Myers 3.9/7
Sacramento 3.7/8
Dayton 3.6/6
Orlando 3.3/6
Philadelphia 3.3/6
Tulsa 3.2/5

http://sportstvratings.com/pbc-boxi...ht-household-rating-preliminary-numbers/1685/

http://tvbythenumbers.zap2it.com/20...ins-night-48-hours-in-an-instant-down/372327/

 

[RBH]

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.

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

 

[thefro]

Meltzer says the timezone adjustment hasn't been done yet for the Pacific time zone, so the final rating should go up once those are in.

http://www.f4wonline.com/more/more-...es/41539-premiere-boxing-rating-notes-updated

We'll have to see how the other shows do, but if they maintain that type of rating they'll get a TV deal to put on fight cards.

 

[Zok310]

Everytime AB hit Molina it looked as if he walked into an invisable wall....
lol
PPV quality event all for free in NBC.

 

[studyguy]

Molina was absolute fucking trash, dude made that fight stink something awful. Not a fan of Broner's shit normally... but never before had I wanted Broner to clown on someone after a fight more than Molina.

 

[Turin]

It probably wasn't a good idea to open the card with an Adrien Broner fight considering he's been safety first lately. I hope most people stuck around for the main event.

 

[RBH]

It probably wasn't a good idea to open the card with an Adrien Broner fight considering he's been safety first lately. I hope most people stuck around for the main event.

It looks like they did.

NBC says the rating increased every half hour & peaked at 3.01 from 10:30-11pm ET for final 6 rounds of Thurman-Guerrero bout.

 

[pixelation]

That Abner Mares fight sure sucked.

 

[Turin]

It looks like they did.

 

[Tom_Cody]

Quick thoughts:

-Mixed feelings about the production overall. The atmosphere in the arena felt dead and the announcing was horrible. Legends, etc but they felt divorced from the modern word of boxing. Everything just felt bland and whitewashed.

-One bright spot was the editing of the highlight clips throughout the night. Apparently many more cameras were used for the nights than in a traditional broadcast, which no doubt helped them capture the key punches from optimal angles. It was pretty amazing that they had such great promos/highlight packages queued up right after the fights. This is what can get them on Sports Center.

-Broner's performance was disappointing. It kind of reminded me of Victor Ortiz's fight against Nate Campbell following his loss to Maidana. Broner won almost every minute of the fight, but it was disappointing that he never pressed the action as much as it looked like he could have. Very disapointed considering the stage he was given.

-Solid performance by Thurman. There is an alternate universe where Robert Guerrero could have been a PPV star, coming all the way up from featherweight winning championships along the way. Unfortunately his lack of a real trainer and his stretches of inactivity have ensure that he has always been towards the top of every division he has occupied, but he has never broken through. I'm not sure how much credit to give Thurman for the win, but he showed solid boxing ability, hand speed, and power. He continues to be a top undefeated contender at 147.

-It looks like the ratings were pretty good. It will be interesting to see what kind of momentum they can build with this.


I already have tickets to the PBC card on April 11th at the Barclays Center:

Danny Garcia vs. Lamont Peterson
Andy Lee vs. Peter Quillin
Daniel Jacobs vs. Caleb Truax
And some other Haymon prospects further down on the undercard.

It will be interesting to see what one of these cards looks like in person.

 

[RBH]

The 2½-hour telecast, marking boxing’s return to network prime time in many years thanks to Haymon’s time buy, averaged 3.4 million viewers, according to Nielsen, which said it was the most-watched professional boxing broadcast in 17 years, since Fox averaged 5.9 million viewers for “Oscar De La Hoya’s Fight Night” on March 23, 1998. That card was headlined by then-junior middleweight titlist Yory Boy Campas defending his belt by third-round knockout of Anthony Stephens.

Viewership increased every half hour through the telecast, peaking at 4.2 million from 10:30 to 11 p.m. ET, which was during the second half of the main event between Keith Thurman and Robert Guerrero.

The telecast posted a 2.11 rating/4 share in the “fast national” ratings, which likely will change once the full numbers come out later in the week. Those numbers mean that out of all television-equipped households in the United States 2.11 percent were tuned to the PBC card and 4 percent of all television-equipped households in use during the show were tuned to PBC.

http://espn.go.com/blog/dan-rafael/post/_/id/12163/pbc-numbers-are-in-they-look-good

 

[RBH]

How do the PBC ratings compare to UFC on FOX?

The most recent UFC on Fox show, UFC on Fox 14 headlined by Alexander Gustafsson vs. Anthony Johnson, pulled in 2.82 million viewers, a definite notch below the PBC show. That was the high mark for the UFC in some time. UFC on Fox 13: Dos Santos vs. Miocic saw a significantly lower 2.27 million viewers, which was consistent with their most recent shows.

The highest rated UFC on Fox show remains the first ever event (Velasquez vs. Dos Santos I) which drew 5.7 million viewers back in 2011. Overall, only 4 of the 14 UFC on Fox events have beaten this PBC show in terms of viewers - none more recent than UFC on Fox 6: Johnson vs. Dodson in January 2013 (3.77 million).

http://www.bloodyelbow.com/2015/3/9...ampions-al-haymon-ufc-ratings-boxing-mma-news

 

[BadAss2961]

It probably wasn't a good idea to open the card with an Adrien Broner fight considering he's been safety first lately. I hope most people stuck around for the main event.

Broner's a small guy and just doesn't have much power at welterweight. He used to knock dudes out.

 

[Ninja Scooter]

Beating the Gustaffson fight is pretty impressive considering how much hype the UFC was putting behind Gus (they put him on the cover of the EA game presumably because he was mega over). Dana looking like a real clown now. Hopefully this causes UFC to reconsider their entire format. How about shorter 2-3 fight cards so people aren't watching 40 minutes of commercials before a single fight?

 

[BadAss2961]

Beating the Gustaffson fight is pretty impressive considering how much hype the UFC was putting behind Gus (they put him on the cover of the EA game presumably because he was mega over). Dana looking like a real clown now. Hopefully this causes UFC to reconsider their entire format. How about shorter 2-3 fight cards so people aren't watching 40 minutes of commercials before a single fight?

I don't really mind UFC's format, it's their presentation that sucks. They always put on the same drab, tired show. Doesn't matter if it's Big Foot vs Mir on Fox Sports or Jones vs Cormier on PPV, they have the same themes and the same setup every single time. The only difference being the commentary.

Even down to the ring card girls are recurring acts, with similar body types to boot.

 

[RBH]

ESPN and ABC are joining Al Haymon's boxing party.

Boxing adviser and manager Al Haymon's "Premier Boxing Champions" series is coming to ESPN and will replace stalwart show "Friday Night Fights" as the network's platform for live boxing beginning this summer, ESPN announced Wednesday.

ESPN and Haymon Boxing Management have finalized a long-rumored deal under which Haymon has purchased time on the network that will see the return of regular big-time fights to ESPN in prime time -- not ESPN2, where FNF has aired since 1998.

The monthly PBC series, which will feature many of the elite fighters from Haymon's star-studded stable of nearly 200 boxers, will debut on ESPN and ESPN Deportes on July 11 (9 p.m. ET) with a card that is to be announced.

The final show of "Friday Night Fights" will air May 22 on ESPN2, with the finals of the 2015 heavyweight and junior middleweight Boxcino tournaments. While the new deal means that ESPN will televise fewer cards than it has been, the quality should be significantly better with the PBC bouts.

"ESPN has a long history of carrying world-class boxing events and the new 'Premier Boxing Champions' series continues our commitment to the sport with premier-level prime-time fights previously only available on premium cable networks," ESPN president John Skipper said.

Although most of the PBC on ESPN cards will air on Saturday nights, the heavy fall schedule of college football means there will also be shows during the week.

Over the course of the two-year deal, which runs through July 2017, at least two of the 24 two-hour cards will air on ABC, ESPN's sister network, on Saturday afternoons. Haymon is buying the air time for the 24 cards. ESPN is footing the bill for the production. PBC holds an option for six additional cards. Haymon also has to pay the fighter purses and the other expenses related to putting on an event.

ESPN3.com will stream preliminary bouts from each card. It will also stream PBC on ESPN weigh-ins the day before the fights. Live coverage of the fights will also be available through WatchESPN on computers, smartphones, tablets, Amazon Fire TV and Fire TV Stick, Apple TV, Chromecast, Roku, Xbox 360 and Xbox One via an affiliated video provider.

The deal with ESPN, which will retain the worldwide rights to the fights and editorial control over the broadcast, is just the latest for Haymon in an ambitious project that has already altered the landscape of televised boxing in the United States as he continues to lock up one broadcast platform after another with a series of time-buy deals that include the return of boxing to three broadcast networks -- ABC, NBC and CBS -- after decades in which they largely ignored boxing.

Haymon's investors are pouring hundreds of millions of dollars into the PBC, which this year already announced deals with NBC/NBCSN (40 shows through 2016), CBS (at least eight shows this year in a multiyear deal), Spike TV (at least 33 monthly shows through 2017) and Bounce TV (monthly prospect-oriented cards beginning in July on the network Haymon helped found in 2011).

Haymon's PBC franchise launched with fanfare on NBC on March 7 with the network's first major prime-time fight in 30 years when welterweight titlist Keith Thurman outpointed Robert Guerrero in a slugfest in Las Vegas.

Six days later, the series premiered on Spike TV with former two-time welterweight titlist Andre Berto knocking out Josesito Lopez in the sixth round of an exciting fight in Ontario, California.

PBC on CBS debuts on April 4 in Quebec City with an afternoon card headlined by light heavyweight champion Adonis Stevenson defending his title against former super middleweight titlist Sakio Bika.

Haymon does not speak to the media, and a spokesman for his organization did not return a message seeking comment on the ESPN deal, so his grand plan has not been outlined. It would appear that by bringing regular big-time boxing back to network television and basic cable -- even if his investors have to initially pay to do it -- he hopes the cards will bring in strong-enough viewership and advertising support. That way, networks will see boxing's value and eventually pay big money to air his fights the way Fox did when it agreed to a nine-figure annual deal with the UFC.

Although PBC on ESPN means the end of "Friday Night Fights" after a 17-year run, blow-by-blow announcer Joe Tessitore and analyst Teddy Atlas, both ringside fixtures, will continue in their roles on the PBC cards. Additional on-air commentators will be announced at a later date.

"It's bittersweet because 'Friday Night Fights' has been an integral part of boxing for 17 years at ESPN, but this opportunity to bring bigger and better fights to the network has been a long time coming," said ESPN's Brian Kweder, an ESPN senior director of programming and acquisitions, who is responsible for boxing at the network.

While FNF had a studio portion of the show each week to cover the latest boxing news, there will not be a studio element on the PBC shows. However, Kweder said there will be time in the broadcast to go over the news of the week from the site of each card.

http://espn.go.com/boxing/story/_/i...pions-series-replace-friday-night-fights-espn

 

[jwhit28]

That sucks. I mean I'm grateful for better cards on network/basic cable, but I watch FNF with my dad every Friday it's on. Are they going to scrap the announcing crew too?

Edit:Never mind I see the crew is staying for PBC.

 

[RBH]

Television By Numbers and Sports TV Ratings report that the debut of Premier Boxing Champions on Friday night on SpikeTV drew an average viewership of 869,000 viewers. It received a 0.3 rating in the adult demo of 18-34.

According to Spike, PBC drew 1 million viewers between 10:45pm-11:15pm ET which was during the Josesito Lopez-Andre Berto fight. PBC was to air from 9-11pm but there was a 20 minute overrun for the main event. The event average made it the “most watched boxing event on Friday nights in 8 years” according to Spike. The highlights from Friday’s fights have been viewed 1.5 million times between PBC’s Facebook and Twitter feeds.

The event was the debut of Spike’s revamped Friday Night programming featuring combat sports. PBC featured Lopez versus Berto in the main event. Berto won via 6th round TKO.

The event drew 869,000 viewers over the 2 hours and 20 minutes airing on SpikeTV. It did run opposite a lot of College Basketball as the conference tournaments were in full swing. Notably, the ACC conference tournament game between Duke and Notre Dame on ESPN was the highest-rated sports cable program on Friday night as it received 2.617M viewers for a game that started at 9:50pm on the east coast. Preceding that game on ESPN, North Carolina and Virgina drew 2.054M viewers at 7:00pm.

Per TV By Numbers, the highest-rated show on cable on Friday the 13th was Gold Rush on the Discovery Channel which drew 3.274M viewers.

http://mmapayout.com/2015/03/pbc-on-spiketv-draws-869000-viewers/



Actually a better viewership number than what Bellator usually does on Spike.

 

[mreddie]

NBC, Spike, CBS, ESPN.

Damn, this is channel hoping a lot.

I guess there's no exclusive channel for the PBC as of now?

 

[RBH]

With just a few days to go before the "Premier Boxing Champions" series makes its debut on CBS on Saturday (3 p.m. ET), the network announced the broadcast team for the event.

Kevin Harlan will serve as the blow-by-blow commentator with former two-division titleholder Paulie Malignaggi and top trainer Virgil Hunter working as analysts. Brent Stover of CBS Sports Network will be the host.

Saturday's card will be headlined by light heavyweight champion Adonis Stevenson (25-1, 21 KOs) of Montreal, defending his title against former super middleweight titlist Sakio Bika (32-6-3, 21 KOs) of Australia. Opening the card will be Montreal-based Russian light heavyweight Artur Beterbiev (7-0, 7 KOs) facing former titleholder Gabriel Campillo (25-6-1, 12 KOs) of Spain at the Pepsi Coliseum in Quebec City.

Harlan, who works for CBS and Turner Sports, is best known for his 30-year career calling NFL, NBA and college basketball games. But he has also called boxing here and there over the years.

Malignaggi is well known to boxing viewers as an analyst for Showtime, a sister network of CBS, since 2012.

Hunter, the Boxing Writers Association of America trainer of the year in 2011, has not worked as a broadcaster, but he is one of boxing's most respected trainers, working with the likes of super middleweight champion Andre Ward, Amir Khan and Andre Berto.

Stover has served as a studio host for CBS Sports Network since 2011 and has done play-by-play announcing for football, basketball and Olympic sports.

CBS was in discussions with former heavyweight champion George Foreman to work with Stover as a co-host, but the two sides were unable to complete the deal.

The second PBC on CBS card will take place on May 9, with former lightweight titlist Omar Figueroa and former lightweight and junior lightweight titlist Ricky Burns both moving up to junior welterweight for their bout. There will also be cards in June, July and September, with up to three more after that in 2015.

http://espn.go.com/blog/dan-rafael/post/_/id/12446/cbs-announces-broadcast-team-for-pbc

 

[OctoMan]

Damn. RIP Friday Night Fights

 

[OctoMan]

Cbs card sucks.

 

[Tom_Cody]

Cbs card sucks.

I'm looking forward to it. Stevenson versus Bika isn't the cleanest pairing, but I think it will most likely end up being a high contact fight.

And Beterbiev versus Campillo is a fantastic crossroads matchup.

 

[Tom_Cody]

Tremendously interesting article on the numbers behind the PBC. Definitely check this out if you are interested in the business behind the sport:

http://ucnlive.com/a-second-look-at-the-premier-boxing-champions-platform/

 

[RBH]

Tremendously interesting article on the numbers behind the PBC. Definitely check this out if you are interested in the business behind the sport:

http://ucnlive.com/a-second-look-at-the-premier-boxing-champions-platform/

Good read, thanks for the link.

 

[RBH]

First PBC show on CBS is this Saturday afternoon.

 

[RBH]

Al Haymon’s Premier Boxing Champions series returns on Saturday, April 4th. We’ve seen the PBC on NBC and on Spike TV, but this Saturday the PBC makes its debut on CBS. And as a special twist, this will be the first PBC event that takes place in the afternoon.

The two fight light heavyweight card includes the co-feature of Artur Beterbiev-Gabriel Campillo and the main event pitting lineal and WBC light heavyweight champion Adonis Stevenson against Sakio Bika. The card starts at 3:00 PM ET, a couple of hours before the tipoff of the Final Four.

.

 

[RBH]

Beterbiev/Campillo and Stevenson/Bika on CBS now.

 

[RBH]

Beterbiev with the quick 4th round KO:



https://twitter.com/mickakers/status/584436578283626496

 

[RBH]

Looks like they're now allowing the fighters to come out to their own entrance music. Good choice.

 

[professor_t]

Bika can take a hell of a punch. Jesus.

 

[jchap]

I can't wait to see Stevenson try show boating like that against Kovalev

 

[professor_t]

I can't wait to see Stevenson try show boating like that against Kovalev

That would be a hell of a fight. In any other sport it would be guaranteed, but this is boxing so who knows if it will ever happen.

 

[Skittles]

Is it over? Did I miss both fights? lol

 

[RBH]

Premier Boxing Champions has brought the sweet science back to three of the four major free television networks this year.

And starting Saturday, PBC will bring boxing back to where it all started -- on the radio.

SiriusXM, the satellite radio giant, announced Monday that it has signed a deal to broadcast PBC series events on its network.

Live coverage on SiriusXM kicks off with Saturday's NBC-TV fight card at Barclays Center in Brooklyn, N.Y., with the main event featuring undefeated junior welterweight champion Danny "Swift" Garcia (29-0, 17 KOs) against former champion Lamont Peterson (33-2-1, 17 KOs). The co-main event features undefeated middleweight and Brooklyn resident Peter "Kid Chocolate" Quillin (31-0, 22 KOs) against WBO champion Andy Lee (34-2, 24 KOs).

The broadcast will air on Sportszone, Channel 92, beginning at 8 p.m. ET.

SiriusXM's broadcast team is led by blow-by-blow announcer Randy Gordon, a former Ring Magazine editor and New York Athletic Commission chairman, color analyst Gerry Cooney, the former heavyweight boxer, and nationally syndicated radio host Sway Calloway is the ringside reporter.

Boxing's history on radio goes back to the 1920s and '30s, when fans huddled around the radio listening to legendary announcers such as Graham McNamee describe in great detail the title fights of the day.

Even through the golden years of the 1970s when another legendary announcer, Don Dunphy, brought the Muhammad Ali-Joe Frazier fights to life, radio was the medium where many boxing fans got their fight fix. Closed circuit or Theater TV, the main telecaster of heavyweight championship boxing in those days, was too costly for most.

Steve Cohen, SiriusXM's senior vice president of sports programming, said that while the company airs NFL, MLB, NBA and NHL broadcasts and every game of the NCAA tournament, none of those are produced by SiriusXM.

"So we decided, if we really want this we're going to have to go out and do this ourselves," Cohen told USA TODAY Sports. "We did some with horse racing, and we did it at a very high level. We won an Eclipse award with Dave Johnson, we've produced Breeders' Cups, and the Belmont Stakes, and now in doing this with boxing, we're so excited about it, especially from a production standpoint, and everybody wants to get involved."

Cohen said Gordon has listened to several classic boxing matches on radio to get a feel for how he needs to deliver the action.

"It's so different from television because you're really the eyes of the listening audience," Cohen said. "And you need to take them everywhere the fighters are in the ring: center of the ring, up against the ropes, and let them know what's going on. With that said, if you're doing your job correctly as a boxing play-by-play guy on the radio, you won't hear much from the analyst until after the round. That's the way it was done."

Cohen wants listeners to feel like they're at ringside, taking in all the sights and sounds.

"We're going to have the ring all miked up through the TV partners that are working with Al Haymon, and they've been awesome in providing us that natural sound, and so we want to bring this right through your radio," Cohen said. "We want you to hear the guys hitting each other, we want you to hear the corners. We want to bring you the whole visual of what's going on in that ring and all the sounds that go along with that through your radio."

SiriusXM will broadcast more than 10 Premier Boxing Champions events in 2015. Future broadcasts will be announced at a later date.

http://www.usatoday.com/story/sport...eal-with-pbc-to-put-boxing-on-radio/25334487/

 

[Tom_Cody]

Very cool

 

[bean breath]

Anyone going to watch this?

 

[kinggroin]

I wouls, but I don't have cable or an antenna.

 

[Syphon Filter]

Anyone going to watch this?

yea we mostly hang around the boxing thread here.

 

[The Wraith]

Huge fan of Garcia ever since he beat Lucas Matthysse. Hyped for this card.