Are Matchroom and Sky ruining boxing?

thats the main point for me!

 

Nice post.

The Froch/Kessler fight on PPV? Hilarious.

Agreed on too many "Prizefighters". They are 9/10 absolutely wank.

 

Well if this doesn`t work there will be no more boxing on Sky.As far as i`m concerned it`s better the the ffn dross some we used to have,some people have short memorys and last saturdays show was good we had 8 live fights much better then 1 live fight and then some taped stuff at ten o clock on a Friday night with a brit beating up an African for a commonwealth title.If Sky ever pull the plug,boxing in this country would be ****ed

 

How many times does Eddie need to say.... If it wern't for Box Office the fight wouldn't happen. :hi:

 

No they're not ruining it but they're not making it as good as it possibly could be either.

I wish there was more boxing on Sky, remember the glory days of Saturday Fight Night when there was a show every week? Matchroom can't be blamed for taking the ball and running with it. Eddie Hearn was spot on when he said that promoters like Maloney and Hatton werne't producing quality for money. Crap venue with crap fights. I would have liked Sky to have given them a kick up the arse and told them to shape up instead of just dumping them without warning.

Sky are a business and only care about money. I can't understand though why they'll cut back on boxing when we're currently in a golden era for British fighters yet will spend loads securing rights for NASCAR, Basketball and Elite League Speedway, sports absolutely nobody watches or gives a **** about. That money should instead go towards getting more boxing on, hand some other promoters dates and get some other class British fighters back on the channel. It would help improve the ratings.

Eddie HEarn says boxing always runs at a loss. My view is if you're going to lose money at least spend it on something good instead of something useless.

 

Boxing fans can be fickle sometimes!

No Sky and Hearn aren't ruining boxing, I think they need to up their game a bit as they're almost becoming guilty of putting on the type of poor shows that Sky axed (Hatton & Maloney type shows) but they've had a fair amount going on and shows have been moved due to injury etc. I think you need to give them until the end of 2013 before judging them too harshly, they're making signings and I have no doubt Prizefighter will be phased out slowly.

 

You've said it earlier in your post, sky is a business.

It will cost them next to **** all to take basketball from america and show 2 games on a sunday night between 6-12. If you want to put that money towards like you say, weekly saturday fight nights, you'll come up short.

 

And the NBA gave sky rights to show basketball for next to nothing to grown the sport here.

 

They put British basketball on as well along with a load of other niche sports. Surely if you add all that up you'll have enough to invest more into boxing or some other more deserving sport.

I'm bias admittedly because I'm such a huge boxing fan so these executives won't share my frame of mind but I think this case is bloody simple. Scrap all the "who gives a ****" sports which get no numbers and invest the money elsewhere where you might get a return. Even with the cricket they overspend. I'm a cricket fan but who the hell is going to watch an ODI in India during the middle of the afternoon? Sky just seem to be investing money in the wrong places IMO.

 

It could in Denmark.

 

Yep from the start of next season with the stable he has build up would be time to really judge to see if he`s going to get it right,I agree there will be less prizefighter, Hearn has admitted they will cut it down a couple to about a 4 year next season

 

Totally understand, but this is purely from a boxing fan point of view.

Sky SPORTS, needs to be varied for the customer. I think what sky sports bring to the table as a sports fan is fantastic, yes it could do with more boxing, we's all love that, but 90% of sky sports subscribers are football fans with a casual sport interest.

 

atsch

 

Terrible thread.