The UK knows how to do pay per view

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  1. Uncle Oden

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    actually, I do not know if this is PPV over there, but this broadcast is a tremendous bargain for $25 in the US. The card is deep, and they actually put on fights if other fights end quicker than expected. Unlike that disasterous DLH-Pacman undercard.

    The announcers are very fair and knowledgable and the roundtable adds something extra to the broadcast.

    A job well done.
     
  2. CHEF

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    I was just thinking the same thing... 25 in the US.. awesome
     
  3. ishy

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    Aye it is PPV here. This is a decent one, to be fair we have had some dud PPV's in the UK before.
     
  4. ishy

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    IT's £15 in the UK so about $20.
     
  5. Uncle Oden

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    when I ordered, I figured I was getting a one man Colonel Bob Sheridan broadcast. Thankfully not!
     
  6. ishy

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    So you guys like our UK broadcasters? They do all the Sky fights which means Hatton and Khan fights and they used to show the big US fights before and had the same commentators that you're getting. These days they don't show stuff from the US now.
     
  7. CHEF

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    yeah.... I like the announcers.... good so far... I like the round table as well... US shows might learn a thing or 2 if they watch it:hey
     
  8. Uncle Oden

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    I absolutely do. I've listened to these guys on streams before, but being a stream, i am not really paying much attention to the blow by blow. All I care about is a balanced broadcast with no pom pom cheerleading and no ridiculous overreactions.
     
  9. CHEF

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    :good
     
  10. ishy

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    To be honest, they're slightly biased in Hatton's favour when he fights but apart from that they're great. They guy with the scottish accent is Jim Watt who was a world champ at Lightweight.
     
  11. CHEF

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    I like him very much... these guys are great... good job:good
     
  12. schuey100

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    Don't forget, us guys in the UK also need to subscribe to SKY to watch this as well as paying the £15 so it's a bit more than $20 USD
     
  13. ishy

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    You can get it with no sky subscription I think. just need sky. And you can get it on Virgin as well.
     
  14. schuey100

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    Sure but you needed to have subscribed to SKY at some point and Virgin also requires a subscription.

    I was just saying it's not a case of rocking up with a TV an an aerial and paying £15. :)
     
  15. ishy

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    :good