Dec 12th O2 PPV Canfest - AJ 1/10 to beat Whyte in Eddie 50/50 Fight

Pro punter if all you can do is slag off last nights card then you really aren't any kind of boxing fan at all.

 

People who judge the quality of the card by the odds are ****ing morons. Bookies price up fights horribly wrong all the time.

Embarrassing.

 

Eubank and Joshua fights as you said were entertaining, Mitchell fight was decent, Campbell fight whilst not being thrilling was very close and competitive, what do you really expect from a card though? Not every fight is perfectly 50/50 and completely thrilling, but if you get 50/50 fights then there really cannot have any complaints whatsoever. Bellew I thought was in a good fight, but if you aren't happy with that card overall then why are you watching boxing as you will never be pleased?

 

Beachie makes a good point about Punter. He (or she) is never happy, usually coming at each topic from a TV Channel start point ("Hearn sucks! Boxnation is pants!" etc), but the idea that ALL fights at all times in all ways have to be 50-50 and super-thrilling before an outlay of a few quid is worth it....? Well, that's just plain odd. And, I'd have thought, so self-evidently ridiculous that I'm surprised anyone who knows anything about sport would think this was a reasonable starting point.

In fact, the only basis I can see for complaints come-what-may is if you're so tight for cash you simply can't spring for a few PPVs a year. nothing wrong with that, but if that is the real objection then just say so. Stop whining about cards like the one yesterday which was manifestly WORTH 15 or so pounds, which is a pizza and a cheap beer.

 

The situation for sky sports subscribers who only subscribe for boxing content is more interesting, because they genuinely have something to complain about. The principle. Being charged once, then again when everything is shifting to PPV model. SKy should offer PPV cards either free or greatly reduced fee for existing sports subscribers in my view. Seeing as they don't? Well, on principle I cancelled my sports package two years back, and instead just buy the PPV that interest me.

 

instead of listening to abdul, why dont you actually look at sky's financial numbers from september 15 if you want real numbers.

https://corporate.sky.com/documents/investors/results/2016/q1 press release.pdf

 

In hindsight eddie hearns showing his inexperience in matching his fighters. Or putting quick money first. Saturday night shouldnt have been ppv. Campbell didnt really need a solid guy with 34 wins of 37 or something like that. Mitchell should have been kept away from that guy...completely high risk low reward type of fight. Picking stupid fights for mitchell. Done the same with burns zlatican and others. Trying to get good opponents to make it ppv worthy but in some cases either picking nitemare fights with unknowns he thinks will be easier than they are or rushing his fighters a bit too soon. Even joshua going from cornish and the rest to whyte was quite a jump again to ensure ppv. It almost nearly went ti ts up for him. Needs to forget about ppv,s for now till hes got a genuine ppv star. Build his fighters the right way then the real money will come.

All he sees is either matching for a ppv card. Matching two of his fighters for a big british fight or the quickest way to a title shot.

Forgotten all about matching up for career progression getting learning fights at the right stage in much the way frank w arren done with his fighters. All about quick money now then when it doesnt work out doing the same with the next new addition to matchroom.