Boxing on Foxtel this week

As promised, heres the schedule for Canvas Classics for the next few months;

11/2/08 – Ray Mercer v Tommy Morrison


18/2/08 – Prince Naseem Hamed v Steve Robinson


25/2/08 – Mike Tyson – Fallen Warrior


CANVAS CLASSICS MARCH 2008:


3/3/08 – Evander Holyfield v Michael Dokes


10/3/08 – Charles Williams v Bobby Czyz


17/3/08 – Lionel Rose v Rocky Gattelari


24/3/08 – Oscar De La Hoya v John John Molina


31/3/08 – Carl Williams v Bert Cooper

CANVAS CLASSICS APRIL 2008:


7/4/08 – Ike Ibeabuchi v Chris Byrd


14/4/08 – Pernell Whittaker v Buddy McGirt


21/4/08 – Junior Jones v Marco Antonio Barrera II


28/4/08 – Terry Norris v Sugar Ray Leonard






Some great fights there, Lionel Rose up in March and a great selection of classics. Don't forget tonight that theres also an undercard bout on with the Mercer-Morrison replay.



Big thank you to Mat Brooks for sending me this schedule.

 

I'll start putting the fox guide in here as well from now on. I'll do one up till next week as I might be away at work for a few weeks, not happy, will probably miss the Pavlik-Taylor rematch now.

Wednesday 13th FEB

SkyRacing 9AM/7AM KOTV 1/2hr Repeat


Thursday 14th FEB

ESPN 5AM/3AM Boxing Series: Kelvin Davies(24[16]-7-2) vs Eric Fields(10[8]-0)* 4hrs Repeat

*This is listed as running for four hours, The Friday night version is only two so I assume they'll add another card or probably ESPN World Series of Truckwashing or something similar for two hours.


Friday 15th FEB

FoxSports3 11PM/9PM Fight Sports Knockouts 1hr

ESPN 11PM/9PM Boxing Series: Monty Meza-Clay (26[17]-1) vs Eric Aiken (16[12]-6-1) 2hrs


Sunday 17th FEB

Main Event 1PM/11AM PPV: Pavlik vs Taylor II 4hrs


Monday 18th FEB

SkyRacing 11PM/9PM KOTV 1/2hr

SkyRacing 11.30PM/9.30PM Canvas Classics: Prince Naseem Hamed v Steve Robinson 1hr

 

Sorry, been away, work commitments and a connection slower than dial up is playing havoc. Hopefully this will work.

Saturday 23nd FEB

ESPN 2AM/12AM Boxing Series: Darnell Wilson(22[19]-5-3 vs BJ Flores(20[13]-0-1)


Sunday 24th FEB

Main Event PPV Klitschko vs Barney Rubble er Ibragimov


Monday 25th FEB

SkyRacing 11PM/9PM KOTV

Sky Racing 11.30PM/9.30PM Canvas Classic: Mike Tyson - Fallen Warrior


Wed 27th FEB

SkyRacing 9AM/7AM KOTV

FoxSports3 2.30PM/12.30PM Fight Sports Knockouts

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Wow, thats woeful isn't it? Friday night fights moved to Saturday morning, one episode of Fight Sports Knockouts and its mid arvo. Weekend PPV and again Sky Racing with the Mike Tyson doco are the highlights. Next week should be able to include some expanded coverage of whats on KOTV, once again thanks to Mat Brooks.
Enjoy, I won't, forget to set the recorder and not home until the 28th.

 

Sky Channel legend Mat Brooks has sent me an expanded list on this weeks KOTV screening Monday and repeated Wednesday. Heres a rundown;

This week on KOTV – Hammerfist Herbie Hide is chasing his first cruiserweight title.
We find out why the ‘Dancing Destroyer’ moved down a division
And watch your ankles – boxing’s shortest ever world champion lets ‘em fly in Gold.

Highlights of Cuban heavyweight prospect Odlanier Solis taking on the aptly named Julius Long.

Unbeaten but untested middleweight prospect George Tahdooahnippah* taking on James Cook *Pronounced TAD-A-NAPA

6 years ago this week boxing’s shortest ever world champion ‘Baby’ Jake Matlala retired. Here’s the diminutive South African slugger’s WBO flyweight battle with Pat Clinton.

A few minutes on Herbie Hides campaign to win the Cruiserweight title then to Germany as Hide is hoping to revitalise his fortunes against unbeaten cruiserweight Mikhail Nasyrov.

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Thats basically the footage of fights on this weeks KOTV, of course theres more with the regular news, upcoming fights and brief highlights on whats happened this week. Pavlik-Taylor II will open the show but don't expect any footage, probably just photos at a guess. This was just a quick cut and paste job with some minor editing, I'll work out a better layout for next weeks episode. Hope this is useful for some of you.

Next weeks show will have highlights of Chris Johns recent title defense which has me wondering, will our very own Mark DeMori make his KOTV debut? More details to follow.

 

Well congratulations are in order this week for our very own 'Bobby', Mark De Mori, who makes his debut on KOTV this week with a quick grab of his 1st round KO win over Richard Tutaki.

KOTV screens every Monday night at 11PM/9PM and repeated 9AM/7AM on Wednesdays. This English produced show is a pretty handy half hour wrap up of the fight game. This week they feature Chris Johns and as a result,a few of the supporting bouts have been given a run. Marks only briefly featured, well it was a quick fight but for those of you who dont have access to Fox, heres the script for Marks bit.

Congrats to Mark, well done mate.

And onto the week in boxing on Fox.


Thursday 28th FEB

FoxSports3 1AM/11PM Fight Sports Knockouts 1hr

FoxSports3 2AM/12AM Fight Sports Knockouts 1hr


Friday 29th FEB

FoxSports3 7.30PM/5.30PM Boxing: Big Time Boxing (Card tba) 2 hrs

ESPN 2AM/12AM Boxing Series: Delvin Rodriguez(21[13]-2-1) vs Troy Browning 2hrs


Saturday 1st MAR

FoxSports1 3AM/1AM Boxing: Fight Sports Knockouts 1hr

FoxSports1 3PM/1PM Boxing: Fight Sports Knockouts 1hr


Monday 3rd MAR

ESPN 4PM/2PM Classics Boxing: Gatti vs Robinson I 1hr

ESPN 5PM/3PM Classics Boxing: Gatti vs Robinson II 1hr

SkyRacing 11PM/9PM KOTV 1/2 hr

SkyRacing 11.30PM/9.30PM Canvas Classics: Evander Holyfield v Michael Dokes 1hr


Tuesday 4th MAR

ESPN 2.30AM/12.30AM Boxing Series: Delvin Rodriguez(21[13]-2-1) vs Troy Browning 2hrs


Wednesday 5th MAR

SkyRacing 9AM/7AM KOTV repeat 1/2 hr

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Also on KOTV this week; Chris Johns recent defense, a preview of Maskaev vs Peter and in a stroke of bizarrely bad timing, they look back to the Holyfield-Dokes fight that will be screened in full on Canvas Classics minutes later. Also on KOTV, highlights of Andreas Seran vs Sam Setu, highly touted welterweight starlet Selcuk ‘Mini Tyson’ Aydin of Turkey takes on Jurjis Boreiko in Halle, Germany.

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A better week of viewing this week, ESPNs Friday Night Fights are pushed into early Saturday AM by the U19 Cricket World Cup. A few Fight Sports Knockouts are scattered at all hours to be used as spak fill in the programming schedule.

 

Still nothing, usually by now its up. Will keep checking throughout the day.

 

Nah, its listed as a usual fight card, ie 2 hour show. Usually they have the generic description early in the week ie 'An explosive experience for boxing fans' and then a day or two before they list the main event. For whatever reason that hasn't happened yet. I'm in Braveheart mode at the moment...hold...hold