Sky Sports tell Sam Eggington he isn't "FAN-FRIENDLY"

That can`t be right surely?Sam is about as fan friendly as you can get

 

Must be on the wide up.
Inly other thing I could think of is the old Chinese whispers'

 

That's absolutely crazy

Yet Okolie is?


He is perfect for TV and it annoys me how he isn't booked much these days

 

if true then what a bunch of idiots

 

Not roadman enough innit

 

Ridiculous. He has to be the most fan friendly going.
He’s not someone the mandem are into though bruv. The fights are secondary now, it’s about image and a DJ and all the other stuff. White isn’t cool, in the eyes of the powers that be. Simple as. All adverts for sport have a black narration over it now. Used to be a deep voice trying to create tension. Now it’s squeaky, brap brap type of stuff. Don’t get it myself.

 

on the wide up

 

Get him back on Channel 5!

 

Great shout!

 

He's the most exciting boxer in the country. If he sold a thousand tickets to football supporters he'd be on TV, no problem.

 

They must have been upset after he stopped hypejob Joe Pigford.

 

Sam is THE epitome of the "fan friendly fighter".

Heart on his sleeve and leaves 100% in the ring.

 

what they mean is “doesn’t have a fan-friendly social media profile”

 

I generally try to defend Shalom and Boxxer as I believe it's imperative to the survival of boxing being mainstream in the UK that whoever is on Sky needs to be doing well, like it or not it is by far the biggest sporting platform in the UK.

But, if this is true its a shockingly bad move. Maybe he doesn't have a big social media following or what ever it is that ticks the boxes for promoters these days but the reality is that if all under cards had 2 or 3 'Eggington' style trading leather Wars on boxing would be a better sport to follow. We often hear cynically 'its not a sport anymore, its the entertainment industry' maybe, but if so, fighters like this guy are the entertainment that fans want to see as opossed to one sided mismatches protecting up and comers that we get now.

I say 'but if this is true', it may well be, but I'm also hesitant to be 100% as its also clear as day there is a hatchet job being done on Boxxer & Shalom by certain social media channels who quite clearly are in bed with other promoters.

Hard to know what to believe at times, but certainly Boxxer don't help themselves sometimes do they!