Skys faith in Matchroom pays off - Record viewing figures

What's really refreshing about Matchroom is that they seem to put on the fights the public want to see, i mean take a look at carl froch, every fight he has is against a top top guy, that seems to be the attitude they are pushing and i love it.

Well done to eddie hearn, who said boxing is dying?

 

Froch vs. Kessler II, Brook vs. Jones for the IBF title and Bellew would be a PPV, I think. I hope not because we need as many great free cards as possible but you couldn't blame them.

 

its great but i wish the papers would get on board a bit more. all the negative press over chisora and haye and on sat we witnessed everything that is amazing and right with our sport and froch was lucky to have half a page. not one columist said anything. it was all about englands bore fest. it ****ing infuriates me.

 

Haye got much more viewers than that several times on PPV. Imagine what he would have got on regular sky sports!

 

Great promotion, no doubt about it. The undercard was ok, looked better on paper but Frampton fight wasn't quite the tear-up I expected, then again you can't really blame Matchroom for that.

The week leading up to the fight was excellent, good buildup shows (particularly the Behind the Ropes), live weigh-in and lots of advertising.

I was disappointed the show didn't start until 22:00, 20:00 or even 21:00 would have been better, I'd have liked to see more of the undercard live.

If Sky decide to re-introduce PPV for boxing it would be an absolute disgrace in my opinion; they have taken the decision to cut the boxing output, ok that's their choice, but don't then have the nerve to bloody charge extra for some of the shows. When there were live shows every week I didn't mind the occassional PPV all-nighter!

I like Matchroom, I like the shows they put on and they have a good stable.

My concern is that if the decison by Sky to concentrate with just them (and occassionally Maloney), there is a good chance more promoters will move towards Boxnation.

Now as a Boxnation fan I'll love this, it will offer diversity and better match-ups, but what does that leave on Sky? Will that restrict the competition domestically for their Matchroom fighters?

:think

 

I wouldn't grudge paying PPV for a Froch fight, providing there is a half decent undercard, out of all the British fighters Froch deserves an extra bit of wedge.

 

He deserves no credit for Froch. He didn't build the guy, take him through the ranks, get him the WBC shot, put him in the Super Six... he just jumped in at the end and secured him some space on Sky.

Let's consider: he played a big part in getting Audley Harrison a shot at Haye, has reduced the amount of dates boxing gets on Sky, monopolised those dates, banned his fighters from being interviewed on BoxNation.

On top of that, his father was the one that created the platform to do all that. He's done the precise sum of **** all. Yeah he got Bute over, but so what? Well done for doing your job. Shame someone else did all the hard work for him.

What a guy - so interested in building the sport!

I'll give him some credit when he does something that actually benefits the sport, not just him, his father and Sky.

 

Matchroom want a monopoly. Who do you think really pushed for less promoters? Matchroom played its cards and has locked everyone else out, same as Golden Boy was doing with HBO. But somehow people look at Eddie and co with a fond twinkle and pretend less boxing on Sky with less promoters is somehow a good thing.

 

hes a promoter francis, not a UN ambassador for boxing. Its his job to make himself and his fighers as much money as possible.

He promotes the fights and puts them to sky. what adam smith and barney franics choose to do is their perogative

 

It is worth pointing out that whilst 668k viewers is great for Sky, Galahad/Wale got nearer to a million on C5 earlier this month. And Fury gets about 2m when he fights.

Terrestrial > Sky

 

When will you let the Audley/Haye thing go? You bring it up EVERY time there's a thread about Hearn, he promoted Audley very well actually, how can you blame him for promoting his own fighter? Looking for someone to blame? Blame Sky and yourself for being gullible enough to pay £15.

Also, how has Hearn reduced the amount of dates on Sky? It's not his fault he's the only promoter on the platform actually putting on good fights.

 

you must still av a good strong undercard this gets the venue full and the buzz people will feel at home , I was well impressed with what I saw, looked like a great venue to watch a fight

 

I won't let it go, because it's a valid point. I've no problem with him doing his job for Harrison, but it was a howler of a fight. If he'd been so concerned with putting on the best contests, he wouldn't have pushed that piece of ****.

Hearn put pressure on Sky to accept the fight, incidentally. And then abandoned Audley right after.

So you don't think it's odd that Sky reduce the amount of dates and give 90% of them to Matchroom at the same time? Come on...

That is utter ****. Hatton put on Matthews-Crolla, an excellent fight on paper and in the ring, right before Sky pulled the plug. Other promoters put on good fights all the time, including some solid small hall promoters. Why not help to grow the sport by televising them?

Oh wait, because that takes the play away from Eddie. He's a ****ing weasel and once he starts doing what every promoter does, you'll all be complaining. I'm just getting the middle-stage out of the way.

 

And I'm fine with that, let's just not pretend he's doing anything that really benefits the sport. Don't make out that Hearn has a huge amount of influence over what Sky does with its Sports output. Matchroom provide so much content for Sky that it would be ****ed if they took their ball home.

I'm just tired of Eddie Hearn, Saviour of Boxing. He doesn't exist.