Sky boxing - Quantity or quality?

[JamieC]

Originally Posted by BoxingAnalyst

Hearn is putting on by far the best cards in Britain.

And as for you wanting to see more boxing..how? BN pick up most international cards!

he has put on good shows granted, and promoted them extremely well, but recently they havent been great (still early doors) and you could argue that coldwell is putting on better shows but doesnt have tv backing. and tbf its popular to slate *****, but he puts on big event, we wanted Haye-Chisora, he delivered and Mitchell-Burns recently, Bellew-Clev etc, albeit on a different channel, and i think it took him being kicked off his sky deal to get some of those fights in action. Why not just have dates that promoters bid for with their shows and sky decide? Why give someone a monopoly and decrease output anyway, we've lost quantity and decent overseas cards and Hearn is stretched atm to deliver the dates on his own

[dftaylor]

Originally Posted by flatulent_bob

Isn't walking dead FX? Another one that was amazing for a season then they cut the budget replaced Darabont and then went off shark jumping.

Walking Dead is AMC, along with Mad Men and Breaking Bad.

[JamieC]

Originally Posted by Jonsey

because if i had pointed out why i have a subscription to Showtime & HBO i probably would have been asked why.

to be clear i am not a baller with apartments all over the world. i am moving to the US in a few weeks time and my apartment which i will share with my soon to be wife has HBO & Showtime already set up because there was an offer on when I was last visiting and it worked out cheaper to pay for an extra few months than pay full whack.

so no that wasn't what i was doing.

regarding the aviator. you get a ton of fighters and people on this forum talking about keyboard warriors and hiding being names. So I like to be open about who I am so that people can't accuse me of that.

The only thing I am showing of is my red WAR hat which i would imagine everyone is really envious off as allot of people on here have aviators of photoshoped red war hats.

if i really wanted to show off i would tell you that i met 2 of the girls from the MTV show The Valleys today!

fair enough i wasnt having a pop just thought it was going to start an argument again

[Jonsey]

Originally Posted by JamieC

he has put on good shows granted, and promoted them extremely well, but recently they havent been great (still early doors) and you could argue that coldwell is putting on better shows but doesnt have tv backing. and tbf its popular to slate *****, but he puts on big event, we wanted Haye-Chisora, he delivered and Mitchell-Burns recently, Bellew-Clev etc, albeit on a different channel, and i think it took him being kicked off his sky deal to get some of those fights in action. Why not just have dates that promoters bid for with their shows and sky decide? Why give someone a monopoly and decrease output anyway, we've lost quantity and decent overseas cards and Hearn is stretched atm to deliver the dates on his own

Come on Jamie Coldwell shows better than Matchroom??? Thats crazy talk.

[flatulent_bob]

Originally Posted by dftaylor

Walking Dead is AMC, along with Mad Men and Breaking Bad.

I was meaning over here, it's FX not Atlantic.
Although if they did pick it up from them along with Dexter there wouldn't be many decent US imports left.

[dftaylor]

Originally Posted by flatulent_bob

I was meaning over here, it's FX not Atlantic.
Although if they did pick it up from them along with Dexter there wouldn't be many decent US imports left.

Ah right, my apologies. I don't think there are too many that aren't over here.

The only one people haven't mentioned, and the best after Breaking Bad for me, is Justified.

[flatulent_bob]

Apologies not needed, but we've probably stumbled on another reason for the cuts in boxing budget.
The HBO link up and picking up so many top series from the states will cause belts to be tightened elsewhere. Even between Sport and Entertainment.
Atlantic has certainly paid off.

[dftaylor]

Originally Posted by flatulent_bob

Apologies not needed, but we've probably stumbled on another reason for the cuts in boxing budget.
The HBO link up and picking up so many top series from the states will cause belts to be tightened elsewhere. Even between Sport and Entertainment.
Atlantic has certainly paid off.

It's certainly attracted a customer base they weren't getting before. Typically, my sister doesn't get it as part of her package.