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Premier Boxing Champions Struggling For Marquee Fights After Hyped '15 Debut

When Premier Boxing Champions began in March '15, it "rolled out one fight card after another on numerous networks as part of its extensive time buy," but now there is only "one single card on the schedule, and it is nothing to get excited about," according to Dan Rafael of ESPN.com. Networks airing PBC fights last year included NBC, CBS, ESPN, NBCSN, Spike, Bounce TV, Fox and FS1. PBC has a "weak show" on Sept. 27 in Santa Fe on FS1 that is "headlined by welterweight Bryant Perrella against Yordenis Ugas." It is "not a significant, interesting fight." There used to be "multiple PBC cards per week populated by name fighters." Founder Al Haymon spent his investors' $500M "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." Fighter purses have "dropped substantially from where they were last year," and since there is "less money being thrown around, the quality of fights has been dramatically reduced." Showtime, which pays for fights as opposed to being a time buy, is "planning some fall PBC cards, but there are only two more slated for Spike." One outlet that has had the "most significant PBC fights is NBC, which said Wednesday that it will not televise any other cards this year, either on the main network" or NBCSN. Since the cards on FS1 and Bounce TV are "generally prospect oriented or lower-level fights, there are few outlets left this year for the slew of top PBC fighters." There are "no more ESPN cards this year nor are there any more scheduled for Fox or CBS" (ESPN.com, 9/21).

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