****s, ****ing ****s. Went on BBC Sport expecting the Burns win to be one of the main stories, not the main story but certainly ahead of "Dawson facing spell on sidelines". But ****ing no, it's below **** like ****ing "Houllier silent on Villa role" and "Pedrosa takes pole in San Marino". How the **** does bollocks like that have more importance than a British fighter winning a version of a world title in a fight he was expected to lose? It's a ****ing abomination. I'm not sure what that means but that's what it is. Buncey have a world with your bosses :twisted::twisted::twisted: Elitist BBC ****s. You can shove your F1 up your arse, wasting our license fee on that bollocks.
Not to put a downer on the evening, but it is world title (1 of 4 recognised) in probably the shitest division in boxing. It should be newsworthy though, you're right about that. But its not Honeyghan over Curry type ****.
Did you genuinely believe Burns would be the headline or just hoping? Of course the football headlines would be first. No one cares about boxing in the general public, it's sad but true.
Not the main headline but above the Golf and the Rugby and all that. It takes the **** the lack of coverage the non-mainstream fighters get. This is more newsworthy than some Golf tournament or some standard Rugby match. The BBC do not support boxing, they just jump on the bandwagon when a fighter gets famous. They'll be all over Haye's next fight but Froch won't receive that much coverage from them, nor will Booth next week. Is boxing really that much on the fringes?
It is mate. How many of your friends are into it on more than a completely casual basis? **** all? Same as me then.
I was also peeved it wasn't even on the main sports page!!! Had to click on Boxing to see anything about it, shameful!
Does nobody on here actually box? Thats who I talk about it with some of my mates buy the big fights for the same reason most watch the superbowl every year.
The BBC don't give a **** about boxing. they haven't since they spunked their load all over Audley's olympics win. They got stung there and haven't really been back. We say it time and time again, but if a terrestrial channel had been behind boxing, had built a following and some promotion for bitish boxing, the viewing figures would be there. With the proper advertising on ITV1 and promotion of the fighters involved, tonight we had a world title fight, an all british commonwelaht title war and if this folllowed straight on from x factor I am sure that viewing figures would have been huge. There are some fantastic British fighters for TV to get behind just now, fighters able to build a following and to create the type of hype and drama we had with Ben, Watson and Eubank etc - it just needs a brave person within one of these channels to stop throwing money at football and shite dramas and to put it to boxing!
That's a good and worrying point. And even more worrying - if you know people who are into boxing how many are under 40?
They will be on the bandwagon when the seasons into full flair and boxings the talk of the town. Sky are similar in a way though, when Calzag was fighting on setanta it was skysports who couldnt give a **** and gave him minimal coverage on there webby.