Tell ESPN you want to see Boxing here

Jesus christ, when has a mass bombardment ever worked? You really think the execs are sitting in their chairs when a runner sprints in with ten poorly worded emails.

"Boss... it's the boxing online community! They want more pugilism on the screens!"

.."But Joey, boxing hasn't been a success on British television for at least ten years - ITV tried to bring it back to primetime but it didn't really work. Where's the avenue for marketing and advertisement? We could replay Germany football for a tenth of the cost and still get more viewers and revenue.."

"...Boss... Rob Palmer threatened to close his subscription down..."

"Rob? The guy who sits on the internet all day purporting to be 'in the know' about all things boxing despite not really having a clue?"

"Yeah, that guy boss..."

"Never heard of him."

 

just dropped them an email come on guys lets get behind this

 

:rofl:rofl:rofl

 

A phone call I received a few weeks ago (abridged version)

ESPN: Hello there Mr Fleaman, I'm a Scottish Telesales respresentative?

FLEA: Hello.

ESPN: We'd like to offer you a free month of ESPN as you were a Setanta subscriber?

FLEA: I only like Boxing, I don't think you guys have got much of that, and it's a hassle cancelling it after the 1st month.

ESPN: well we've got all the live Premiersh....

FLEA: Not a big Footy man nowadays. Just Boxing.

ESPN: Oh, well if ya like Boxing we've got the exclusive rights to the UFC, which is even bett.....

(PHONE LINE GOES DEAD)

 

Funny thing is, ITV4 gets pretty good ratings for their fights. I can imagine one and a half million people staying up to watch Froch-Dirrell, with the right promotion. Trust me, there's enough casuals that stayed up to watch Mayweather-Marquez. A British fighter, hyping it as a tournament and showing the Pascal fight the week before on ITV4 with a doc supporting it, FOR FREE people will watch it.

However ITV prefer showing rolling still images with captions advertising their shows with a backdrop of cheesy muzak at that time of the morning, so there's big competition for the graveyard slot.

 

I make bangers, not anthems.

 

man you got a chuckle outa me with that one

 

I sincerely doubt that 1.5 million have even heard of Carl Froch. Amir Khan is the second most famous boxer in the country and he pulled in 40,000 PPV's for the Barrera fight. I don't really know where I'm going with this, but boxing on telly is in the doldrums, and I don't think Junior Witter vs Jimmy NoBody on ESPN @ 3am is gonna appeal to anybody.

Fact is, Setanta was a beautiful one off - sure, football was its number one priority, but arguably boxing was #2, and look where it got them - bankrupt. Hence why the UFC, steamrolling boxing at the moment is getting the big push on ESPN and boxing is being shafted. Just a shame that our one genuinely charismatic fighter just signed to Sky Box Office.

 

Cant see me emailing ESPN now.

 

If you appeal to Joey he might put in a few good words.

 

Classic.

Reminds me of the time I bought a bike from Halfords and I happened to be wearing a DLH-Mosley 2 t-shirt. The guy on the checkouts said "who won?", I replied "Mosley, but it was controversial", "yeah, just like wrestling isn't it?" :fire "No, its nothing like it".

 

done.