Are Matchroom and Sky ruining boxing?

I kinda miss the regularity of Friday Fight Nights, I gotta say. Even though some were underwhelming.

 

same here

even whenthey went to sat nights it was ok , but we do not get enough fights on sky

 

A regular Friday Fight Night offering and a few of the bigger shows on a Saturday night, would be my preference.

 

Indeed. But that surely ain't gonna happen until one or two egos relent.

 

Saturday night shows have to be big shows with a minimum of three top class and competitive bouts at the top of the bill. Eddie can't consistently deliver that, even on the reduced output of 20 shows per year. Its a flawed policy and we get less boxing as a result.

 

True but Sky and Hearn have always said this is a work in process. If Hearn signed every fighter that wants to join his stable he would be in a position to do that.

I think you actually see more live boxing than you did before with Friday Fight Nights where you got 1 live fight per card. Now you have at least 3.

I think the perfect scenario is to have 16 Big Saturday Night cards, a simular standard to the Frampton & Bellew cards that have passed. 4 PPV's, one every quarter which need to be Big main events with a quality under card. Then have 10 weeknight cards on a Wednesday when theirs no football. 5 of them could be Prizefighter and 5 of them could be similar to what Friday Fight Night used to be. 1 British title and then 2 prospects or an area title fight.

What I don't understand about Sky is why they don't purchase some US fights. Sign a deal with TopRank. It would take so much pressure of them if they were showing 1/2 US cards a month and I doubt it drains the budget.

 

Not sure about 5 Prizefighters!! That's 4 too many if you ask me, but meh...if it gets the viewing figures what can ya do.

 

I am not a fan of Prizefighter but if its on weeknights and not taking away from any regular shows its not an issue.

Prizefighter still serves a purpose. It opens up avenues for fighters and gives them a good payday. Pretty much every PF winner has gone in to do something meaningful.

 

You know what I'm saying. The Sky/Matchroom deal is a monopoly of Sky boxing for Matchroom which imo is not a good thing. I think it would be better if Sky opened the doors back up for other promoters to compete for their dates, competition brings the best out of people.

 

BoxNation have a Frank monopoly. If you wanna be on BoxNation you speak to Frank not Simon Green?

When Frank & Hennesey were with ITV and 5 there had exclusive contracts?

Sky working with multiple promoters was always the exception rather than the norm.

 

We have less boxing shows on now, bigger intervals between cards.

I'd prefer this (and more than one promoter as well):

12 big Saturday night shows
20 Friday Fight Nights
5 Prizefighters

PPVs on case by case basis. But they should have a UK & US leg featuring top class PPV worthy fights.

 

Of course Sky isn`t terrestial.I meant without Sky or terristial tv boxing will be in trouble.Matchroom having full controll seems to be the last throw of the dice by Sky,to have one promoter who they trust.If this doesn`t work there will be no boxing on Sky.I am supporting this approach and hope he gets it right,so far i would give him 6/10.He does need to do better because if he`s still producing shows like the London one which does **** viewing figures this time next year they will pull the plug

 

But Friday Fight Night obviously wasn't working for Sky. You need to offer something that has the potential to actually happen.

 

61,000 viewing figures for Saturday night boxing isnt working too well either. Its not rocket science good competitive match making should be the policy at Sky whether it is Friday or Saturday night boxing. Too many shows under the old Friday Fight Night were mismatches, but that could change.

 

You are more likley to have competatice fights on a Saturday night. More ticket sales = more money = better fights. At least thats how it should be.