The debut of the Premier Boxing Champions series on CBS was not much of a draw.

Coverage of the PBC on CBS earned a 1.1 overnight rating Saturday afternoon, down 15% from the network’s most recent boxing telecast — a special edition of Showtime Boxing that aired in December 2012 (1.3). The 2012 special was the only boxing telecast on CBS between 1997 and this weekend.

The 1.1 overnight is less than half of what NBC earned for the inaugural PBC telecast in March (2.5). With that said, it tops the 0.9 overnight NBC averaged for afternoon boxing telecasts from 2012-14.

Despite the low numbers, the PBC on CBS topped Sunday’s NHL coverage on NBC (0.9).

(Wknd. numbers via ShowBuzz Daily)