Absolutely gutted! Im looking forward to De Gale v Groves more but this is still sickening, especially the day after I bought it! Id imagine we will be refunded as surely they cant have that fight alone as PPV. Its also not the way Cleverly would have wanted to take the title. This Braehmer guy is a joke.
BoxingNewsED Tris Dixon Spoken to Frank Warren, looks like the show will go ahead on Sky Box Office. Just spoken to a heartbroken @NathanClev Check out the BN site Looks like its going ahead on PPV
there is absolutley no way sky can get away with a British title fight as a PPV. This just shows what a ****ing moron Warren is for putting on a PPV where the undercard has no depth.
Ismail Silakh is supposed to fighting this weekend, perhaps they could tempt him? Silakh might not be on that list but trust me he is top drawer. Gutted for Clev
Course it will. Like it or not, the majority of people buying this card are buying it for DeGale v Groves, and Clev is a secondary attraction. Stick him in there with some other bloke for the world title, and I don't think that many people are bothered he's not fighting Braehmer. Hate to say it as I mentioned it last night, but the Behind the Ropes curse has struck again.
You could say that about Khan-McCloskey, Haye-Harrision, Haye-Ruiz etc etc all would have been ****ed in the same circumstances.
It's a good job Sky have done a decent job hyping the DeGale v Groves fight. Not everyone who's ordered the event will be hardcore Boxing fans, so if they still see DeGale v Groves they'll be happy. It's only hardcore fan's who'll complain about this still being PPV, which i don't think Sky or FW will be too bothered about
Thats the thing, Braehmer would have been a good, interesting fight but for a lot of (most?) people Cleverly vs. anyone for the world title is just as good.