As boxing experiences a global resurgence, Al Haymon’s PBC is crumbling. With Benavidez and Fundora facing nobodies and the promotion’s only stars being wasted, is this the beginning of the end for Premier Boxing Champions?
It looks like it more and more.
Literally, fighters have left them, gone their different routes, all their old stars are faded and getting beat.
Their main boxers at the moment are Sebastian Fundora and David Benavidez.
But they are looking at putting them in there against spurious opponents next, after Benavidez beat Gilberto Ramirez and Fundora beat Keith Thurman last.
That is it for PBC surely, they cooked beyond belief, some notes;
- PBC crashed from number of events in 2016 to this point over ten years, check
- Venture capital dried up, forcing weak cards onto pay-per-view
- Benavidez lined up against unknown Noel Mikaelian instead of a real threat
- Sebastian Fundora fed nobody Ermal Hadribeaj on October 17 in a complete mismatch
- Hadribeaj has 8 KOs in 25 fights—no business near Fundora
- Mayweather‘s $340M lawsuit alleges Haymon ran a fraud scheme against him
- Showtime shut down, leaving PBC with only Amazon and no long-term deal
- Amazon cannot be happy in PBC or Haymon at this point
- Boxing is booming—Inoue vs. Nakatani sold out 55,000 in Tokyo
- DAZN absorbed PBC, but cross-fights remain impossible as PBC isolates stars
- Shocking business from DAZN to go into business alongside PBC, proves DAZN on the decline also, as others come to market instead more and more
- Boxing booming as a sport again at the same time in the US and internationally
- Fundora vs. Ennis pushed to 2027—proof they won’t make fights fans want
Proof, all of the above, of the crazy rate of decline of PBC.
This, in a time that the sport has seen records broke in Japan for Inoue vs Nakatani at the gate and some records in Asia for all of combat sports PPV.
And records not long ago broken in America for Canelo vs Bud in Vegas.
Dissected.
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