Even with Groves being added to the line up its garbage...Groves is on the decline now he's had his 15 minutes...
What a whiney *****. Swap "Eddie" for "Britney" and i'm imagining this is what you were like whilst writing this. "Leave Eddie Alone". [yt]kHmvkRoEowc[/yt]
hes getting quite smug now, all this ''well done if you bought a ticket for the 22nd''. Eddie mate theres one okish bout supported by complete mismatches and a paper world title bout
I agree. and he was highly unimpressive against Rebrasse. really couldln't care less about a groves fight, and the chat you get out of him is just ridicolous. Proper sop.
The card itself is decent; the main event is one I'm interested in watching. Should it be PPV? I really don't think so. Will I still shell out 15 quid to watch it? Yep, so I guess I'm the **** really...
It's far from the worst PPV card we've ever been sold, but the problem isn't this particular card for me, it's what comes next. If this sells well it obviously justifies that there was a paying audience for it and proves Eddie right to a certain degree. The obvious next step however is see whether they can push things a bit further and put on a cheaper show and still get PPV sales for it... It worries me that we'll be being told next that Coyle v Campbell can only be made if it's PPV. Or that Mitchell v Crolla is a great domestic world title eliminator and should be PPV. I don't blame him for it, but Eddie's out to make money as are Sky and therefore they're going to be looking for minimal outlay for maximum return which will rarely equal competitive PPV cards.
I wouldn't say that this card as a whole is any worse than say the DeGale/Groves card. I can remember no end of mismatches being sold by Sky/ITV on PPV especially when Tyson was active. That said, it's a pretty terrible card compared to those in the late nineties.
Hearn always spectacularly misses the point in regards to this latest PPV. He states that if you dont want to see this PPV, then dont buy it. Fans want to see the PPV, but feel that they are already paying for SkySports boxing through their subscription fee. Why doesn't he get that!
I don't get where you are coming from. You say the ppv is "a bit of a joke" but will buy it anyway as it is a "good night of boxing". Which is it, a bit of a joke which implies a ripoff or a good night of boxing. You say Hearns got his "arm twisted" to provide a set of amount of ppvs per year and had to provide this " bit of a joke". Hearns did not get his arm twisted, he signed a contract knowing full well what his obligations were. He has put together a card with poor match ups for the bigger name fighters, these days seeing the bigger names comes at a price. I expect that the £15 for low quality fights will lead to higher prices for ppvs where the likes of De Gale and Groves face off against higher quality opponents. We pay less for big fights than somewhere like the States and the money men will wont to maximise their income potential in the future. I can't say if boxing is more popular since Hearns got involved. Boxing is cyclical. Look at Hamed, Hatton, Haye, Froch. Hearn is just in lucky position at the moment. You ask is Hearns has ever "let us down" then say although he delivered twice with Froch and Groves his recent cards have been a let down. That reads to me like you think Hearns has let the fans down.