Are Setanta doing a good job of covering boxing?

Yes, with the one gaping omission that was the Froch Taylor debacle.

 

why do we fell the need to opver analise setantas ocverage/level of coverage of boxing?it is being doine to death ,they have deliverd in the past and things (as a boxing fan) have been a lot worse .so please can we give the 'Setanta threads a miss' as they are boring and repetive

 

Yes

 

Of course they are i don't see why people complain about them. Think of the amount of fights we would have missed if they didn't pick up the boxing. They will always miss one or two fights but they will pick up the very best

 

I think they have done a good job for sure. Production could probably improve and they could also do with a larger table in the studio on fight nights, things up to their shins

 

i dont see any one else in britain showing boxing as much as them except maybe sky. but i prefer setanta

 

I think they do a good job, it's inevitable that they can't pick up every fight due to budgets not being bottomless pits. If I was to offer constructive criticism though:

Show the cards from start to finish - all to often we get the main event and maybe 1 or 2 from the undercard. I want to settle down for a night of boxing, not join it near the end.

Use the american commentary - I like hearing what the Americans have to say (reference to the showtime commentary for Froch Taylor, much better than the British one on this occasion.)

Otherwise, keep up the good work!

 

No.

They buy up all the international action they can and not because they love boxing but because it forces people to subscribe and watch.

With SKY you get a 4 hour programme for an international fight not showing a British guy and they will show 4-5 fights starting at 2am. Setanta will start around 3am and only show the main event and, if we are lucky, 1 or 2 others.

SKY send commentators to the big international fights whilst Setanta give us the poor international feed.

SKY have good discussions throughout the night from a panel of knowledgeable pundits whilst Setanta have Andy, who in my opinion doesn't know too much about boxing, and Steve Bunce who, as much as I like him, becomes annoyning after a while and hasn't yet learnt that reading an e-mail telling us what "Dave from Dagenham" thinks will happen is shoddy presenting. I don't care what the man on the street thinks...

Finally, we can get the latest Julio Caser Chavez Jr fight, which has no importance but we don't get Wright vs Williams or Froch vs Taylor...

Tomorrow night we're getting around 7 hours of television and we will see nearly a dozen fights. When Setanta showed Haye vs Maccarinelli the programme went on for nearly 4 hours and we had 4 fights and only 1 of them, I believe, went past 6 rounds!

Setanta is so poor that they're not even all style over substance because their style is amatuer and they have no substance...

 

Lee Mc, if you relied on sky for boxing then you'd be ****ed.

Setanta are way better than sky, even if their coverage is far from polished.

 

When is the last time Sky showed us a fight without a guy from the UK


You slate Setanta for not picking up Wright and frochs fight but yet you think sky is doing a better job :huh


Sky have lost all ground on fights they get domestic fights as usual but no longer give us the quality cards in america. The Pac and hatton card doesn't make up for months of nothing imo

 

You'll only get that if you wish to £15 for the privilege.

That's £15 over and above any existing subscription you pay for Sky Sports.

Setanta IMO have been excellent. Hope the stories of their imminent demise are much exaggerated.

 

The alternative being the pathetic coverage Setanta gave us for the Hopkins vs Calzaghe show...

If you want quality you sometimes have to pay for it...

 

presentation needs to improve, but come on guys setanta are showing fights that would not otherwise be televised in the UK

overall they're doing a great job