Hearn mugging off fans

Like everyone is saying we get to vote with our money.

At £14.99 im a no
At £9.99 i would've thought about it
At £5.99 it would've been an instant yes.

Looks an even worse fight now with no Adam Booth as well.

 

Not really. The touting agencies bought most of them up to sell on at a profit,they are all over SeatWave, Viagogo etc at unflated prices. Froch-Groves doing 20,000 genuine ticket sells in 11 mins? No chance.

 

it could end up being a mismatch, Groves hasn't got the chin like a Kessler to last the 12 rounds. Should be on regular Sky Sports. I'll watch it but i won't pay for it.

 

Froch can make most fights PPV now as his following from the casual fans is snowballing with every fight. Strange now to think that only a few years ago he was on a backwater satellite channel struggling to sell fights getting laughed at by Khan for being jealous and unable to sell outside of Nottingham. Now it's Khan on the backwater channel, Froch on PPV

 

Behave...Khan is still three times the draw that Froch is - the TV channel situation is more to do with his promotional arrangements not involving Hearn. I Im pretty certain Khan's agreement with boxnation is still financially more lucrative then Froch's even though he's on the sky platform. I note that Hearn mentioned that he met with Amir the other week so something might be in the pipeline anyway. At a guess ****** will do everything possible to keep Khan on BN though especially if he gets passed Alexander he looks nailed on to get the Mayweather fight next May which will send subscriptions through the roof and secure the station.

 

It's not just about whether you want to pay it or not, it's about being a fan of boxing and seeing the sport further marginalised and taken away fro new fans by being ****ed on PPV due to short sighted greed

 

Smooth Eddie pick-pocketing the boxing fans.That didn't take long,did it.

 

Nope, never said that at all. What I said was while people were raving about the 4 weeks between Clev (17th Aug) to Mayweather (14th Sept), i'm saying the next 4 weeks(up until Oct 19th) is very very poor compared to Sky Sports' boxing schedule.

- Copper box show
- Poor Frampton card (let's be honest the undercard is and will be awful)
- + whatever GBP they manage to pick up late and cheap - Hopkins etc

Vs

- Olympia show
- Joshua card
- Bradley Vs JMM
- Alvarado Vs Provodnikov

This is excluding the Haye-Fury card and boxing the following two weeks boxing - Brook card on 26th, and Hull show on 2nd. That is a very strong boxing schedule from a broadcaster who's main expenditure is football rights.

That's what I was saying.

 

The fact this fight sold out in 11 minutes tells it's own story. If you don't want to pay for PPV it's simple.. you have 2 options.

1. Don't watch it
2. Go to a pub and watch it

 

So still 20000 people will be there?

 

Exactly. No one knows the card either yet. Supposed to be 3 world title fights

 

I like boxing.....I don't know much about it.....but there is nothing more that I love than sitting on a Sat night watching a good Sky and or BN promotion.I am far too lazy to get off my fat arse and go and see any live boxing so I view BN as a bloody bargain and am happy to pay the odd fifteen quid for ppv......of course as a Yorkie I'd rather not pay for owt...but hey a good nights entertainment for the price of a bag of chips and a mucky mag......come on lads there is being careful but don't be tight arses!

 

Don't like/don't pay may be fair enough, but the packaging as PPV, cards which by previous British standards are clearly unworthy of the designation, shows the parasitic nature of the regime over at Sky. Play ball, and it'll continue.

 

Khan maybe a bigger draw in Bolton but not in the whole country. Both were on sky , Froch went on PPV and I am guessing SKY didn't want to pay out for another molina so Khans people went to Boxnation. Boxnation will only ever get the fights sky doesn't want because all boxers know sky is a better platform. Khan vs Alexander if it was a big draw would be on sky. The only big fight he can have that would go ppv is Mayweather or Brook and its laughable to think either of those would be on boxnation

Khan is probably a bigger household name but that doesnt mean anything as the majority the people who read hello magazine don't watch boxing or would ever go. For people who would actually go watch a fight, you only have to look at ticket sales to know froch is way ahead now.