Quote: Hearn... told The Daily Telegraph: "We want to keep Carl on Sky Box Office in the UK..." ***********.telegraph.co.uk/sport/othersports/boxing/10137578/Carl-Froch-handed-four-superfights-by-HBO-as-defeat-of-Mikkel-Kessler-makes-America-sit-up-and-take-notice.html Eddie Hearn previously said: Thats important, [Hayes first fight with Matchroom to be on Sky Sports] especially with our mission because fan perception of what were doing is important, we dont want them to think: Oh, Froch-Kesslers pay-per-view so thats how it is going to go now, it isnt, answered Hearn when asked if putting Haye on Sky Sports was an indication that the powers-that-be wont milk the PPV teat dry. Froch and Kessler is a freak fight that comes around once in many years, especially in the U.K., so when we signed David people came out and said it would be another pay-per-view, but it isnt what Im saying is that pay-per-view should be for something very, very special. Haye on normal Sky Sports will do massive numbers, and thats paramount to what Im trying to do on Sky. "Froch and Kessler is a freak fight that comes around once in many years" "we dont want them to think: Oh, Froch-Kesslers pay-per-view so thats how it is going to go now, it isnt," "what Im saying is that pay-per-view should be for something very, very special" But now they want to keep Froch on PPV? All Carl Froch fights now are "very very special"? I got the impression from what Hearn was saying before that PPV would only be used rarely. I'm tempted to say that Hearn isn't living up to what he said, but is going down the "milk the fans" path. I know regular Sky Sports doesn't pay that much, so it's kind of understandable that they want to use Sky Box Office. (And you can argue it's needed to make certain fights happen.) But when Sky have cut back on their boxing anyway, and to then make you pay extra...
This was inevitable. Once you've proved you can get people to pay once, it'd be a very generous move to opt not to do it again.
If Hearn put on as many shows as what he does interviews with Kugan Cassius wed be delighted with him. Seems up until this point he prefers hearing the sound of his own voice rather than giving the boxing public what they want.
Froch's not PPV... Delusion or what. He's a nobody, He has 1/7 of the twitter followers that Amir Khan has and Khan has blocked thousands of people due to racist/ glass chin tweets, Khan has 1.4 mill while Froch has 218k. The only active boxers who have more than Khan is Floyd. Khan is a household name, Froch isn't
people seem to forget that kessler was a big draw too and the event was a big draw.. froch v kessler.. styles = a good fight. whos froch going to fight that makes it a ppv event.. i have no idea.. i can see murray v froch happening.
...and that's Hearns fault why? Don't Sky dictate the amount of dates given to Hearn? If they were asking for 35 dates and he wasn't filling them, then I would see your point.