Boycott primetime!

Please not another 50 pages on this shite atsch

 

Not even going to bother. You're too moronic to understand anything.

 

Hopefully it'll have more success than the Haye-Audley boycott.

 

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I know it's unlikely but say if Vitali does fight Haye early next year, would we now expect to see that on boxnation most likely due to ******s German connections?

 

you are a well known Primetime nuthugger ,maybe because they show the khan figthts !

 

Primetime offer a decent service. If I actually went to any of these fights that they have shown, I would of shelled out a lot more than £15.

I like the idea of this Box Nation. I do not see it lasting too long in its initial business plan, but good luck to them, and I would gladly eat humble pie, if they prove me wrong.

But back to the point, there is space for both, and having Box Nation will not dictate whether I purchase a fight from Primetime.

 

nah but dont you see if there is no one buying there ppv's they will go away and in the long term there is a good chance they will end up on boxnation.

 

If Primetime are showing a fight for £15, and someone wants to watch that fight and is happy to pay the £15 to do so, then noone in that equation is an idiot - that is just simple market supply and demand.

In most marketplaces, competition is a good thing. I would be far more worried if we only had one potential supplier of live boxing coverage; the current scenario where we have a number of options is something that I see as a good thing. It suggests that there is a market for live boxing, and that there is money sloshing around in the sport. All of which makes it more likely that the big fights will get made. With a number of coverage options within the UK, British boxers have more leverage at the negotiating table, again giving us more chance of the big fights being made.

The competition between the various coverage providers is more likely to keep standards up than it is to lower them. I for one like the fact that we have a mix of subscription and ppv coverage. I will subscribe to Boxnation, I already have Sky, and if Primetime carry a fight that I like, I will buy that, while not having to pay for stuff I don't fancy (UFC).

It strikes me as bizarre that for years we have, as fans, bemoaned the fact that boxing is a dying sport that is leaving our television screens; now that we have a number of new options arriving, all offering interesting fights, people start complaining at having to pay for it.

Paying for things is a feature of 21st Century life. Holding out for a dream scenario where we get to see all the same fights but for free on terrestrial television is just waiting on something that is not going to happen.

So I for one will not miss out. I realize that I am fortunate in being able to afford that, but enough of us on here seem to go to enough live cards that the relatively small cost of these various television viewing options does not seem unreasonable to me, given the century we live in.

 

Tell you what, let's all boycott ESB. Lirva, you go first to set an example and we'll all follow...promise.

 

If I was 2 months younger I'd whoop your Ass!

 

I can understand being mad, knowing they're getting in the ****ing way. It's not an excuse of "they're showing us fights, if you want to see them pay this amount", it's that thye're stealing them from the stations who would show it and rightly recognise it's not worth putting on PPV. Of course they're gonna get rights to boxing where they're gonna charge for it so they'll buy the rights at a higher price.

But I am completely done with primetime. There's no sour grapes, I enjoyed the the Mayweather/Ortiz stream and just had a laugh instead of getting mad, I enjoyed the Khan streams, I'm just not interested in paying for that **** anymore. There's no way I could be made to order Khan's fight against Peterson, it's one of the most uninspired and uninteresting matches of his career, and if they charge for that, it's laughable. I have a feeling Khan's next match after that isn't going to be worth stopping up for and paying £5/10/15, whatever - for.

 

They arn't "stealing" the fights any more than Sky have some God given right to show them.

 

Who is to say that Sky or whoever would not put Khan-Peterson on ppv if they had the fight? And we pay for Sky, anyway, just monthly rather than ppv.

I just don't accept the argument that the existence of Primetime prevents some benevolent broadcaster giving us the same fights for free.