After 37 years of putting on some of the most illustrious boxing matches in history, Showtime Sports bids farewell. Premier Boxing Champions (PBC) served as the exclusive boxing program on Showtime. This is another network to pivot away from boxing. Or is it from PBC the networks are shifting from?
PBC on NBC
PBC on FOX
PBC on ESPN
PBC on CBS
PBC on FOX Sports 1
PBC on NBC Sports Network
PBC on Bounce
PBC on Spike
** ESPN continues to air boxing in partnership with Top Rank Inc.
If you deny the genius of Al Haymon, you are simply hating. Haymon’s innovation is what boxing needed. With that said, BOXING in its entirety required the move, not just a few hundred fighters and 2 or 3 select promoters. According to the Premier Boxing Champions (About Us) page, PBC was created for television by Haymon Sports, LLC. It states that PBC is a boxing series that returns the sweet science to its rightful place atop the sports pantheon.
PBC is not a promotional company. PBC is not a managerial company.
PBC is a boxing series. It is a series that has appeared on all major networks for sports.
While I believe ALL the promoters and power players in boxing are to blame for things falling apart the way that they have, I can’t ignore the moves of PBC and not question what in the entire fuck happened over the last eight years.
Spot on post !!