Calzaghe vs Kessler on primetime in the US

calzaghe-kessler is on setanta sports.

hatton-mayweather is on sky box office.

itv only have amir khan now.

warrens deal ran out with itv a couple of months ago and he has now gone to setanta, with the exception of khan, who warren has signed a 7 fight deal with itv over.

 

I'm pretty sure HBO held a $1M option to move the fight to US prime time. The fighters will get paid a lot more for it, although I wish they had done a day fight with a rebroadcast, so I could watch the HBO fights in the day and the Showtime fights at night.

 

HBO website still says 5 PM Eastern US time. Calzaghe is not going to be happy about this.

 

Calzaghe will be plenty happy if he gets paid an extra $500k or so for the late start.

 

lacy-calzaghe started 2am local time as well.

not that it matters i suppose, i'm always pissed up by the time the events start.

 

U.S.A. rules the world!!!!!! Hu Hu Hu

 

America didn't demand anything. It was Frank Warren hunched up on the corner with a hat turned up beside him begging HBO for a donation, at which point HBO delivered but also took control of the timeslot.

If the money were there without HBO, they could have staged the fight at anytime they wanted. If you were going to invest millions on the fight, wouldn't you want control to help the investment pay off?

 

i think calzaghe will be too classy for kessler and will stop him in the eighth or ninth round.

 

Then it's Warren's fault, not America's.

And Americans don't hate Calzaghe, they just don't know much about him since he has never fought here and isn't on TV here. Now that he is going to be, you're mad?

 

Its an awful time to be fighting, and Calzaghe admitted his issues with sleeping against Lacy.

If sleep deprivation can push him to that kind of showing then Im all for it.

Calzaghe will box Kesslers ears off.

 

Sweeet! Sounds like a vodka and Redbull night for that 1 o'clock start.

 

this is the best fight in boxing and its a good thing that its being shown to as many people as possible

 

Considering their skill levels, huh? :yep

Calzaghe has beaten better fighters than Kessler. Its just that they didnt have the extended O.

The only difference is that this time Calzaghe is the older fighter. He will win decisively. Just a little less decisively than he should.

 

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