Golden Boy offer Khan fight to ITV for nothing?

large south asian population in New York. Don't know if any of them give a **** about boxing though :think

 

No it can't.

 

Thats just good business sense.

Like if I had a fleet of vans selling doughnuts.....

....I'd park them out the front of police stations.

 

If there is a slight hope that we in the u.k. can watch one of our guys for free on a terrestrial channel, then i just hope one of the ****s at itv does the decent thing and does what needs to be done to get it. I know nothing about t.v. contracts, i just know they are ****s for not showing the froch fight live.

 

from the bolton news

reading between the lines ,this is showing maybe there is some truth .why release a story like this?to appply pressure on sky maybe,we all know espn aernt intrested in boxing .

 

Why would they put such a high profile fight on ITV4???

ITV1 would get millions of viewers that time in the morning for Khan in a world title fight.... millions more than ITV4 get at any time, day or night. Sounds wierd to me.

 

who cacres about this fight i wanted to see khan fight madaina! i knew he wouldnt fight him. apperntly no one knows who he is, i know who he his. i saw him mess up victor ortzir . one of the fights of the year!. there was like a hundred knockdowns in the first round. who they tring to kid? thats the fight i want to see, khan will take paulie apart most likely. paulie isnt a big hitter as we know, his hands i doubt are getting any better. maidina is a big hitter though. get this fight made!

 

Sounds weird because it's not right. The fight goes on ITV 1, to be repeated next day. Possible 1 and four.
Vali is being econimical with the truth. My understanding is that this is a done deal for ITV.
Where it leaves Golden Boy and Khan in the future is interesting. Word on the street is that they were told by Sky something along the lines of "Reject this and forget it in the future." Itv are mulling over an entry to the ppv world, which would make them potentially very powerful players in competition to Sky.

 

I really want to believe this ,but please tell me when is this going to be announced formally ?also this about itv entering ppv ,is it not just pie in the sky and this has been muted before but with no follow up

 

aah the classic "word on the street"

 

ITV are considering entering the PPV world?

Really?

This will be the same ITV that are in dire financial straights?

I very much doubt they've got the rescources to fund a PPV channel.

 

They definitely are.

http://www.telegraph.co.uk/finance/...looks-to-pay-per-view-to-restore-profits.html

It's in response to how much they're struggling. They've also been in talks with David Cameron, similar to Rupert Murdoch, trying to have TV regulation changed for 'competition reasons'.

 

It's not really PPV though is it? It's more a case of paying a subscription for ITV 2, 3, and 4 to those not watching on sky, virgin or anything like that. And to be fair, people have been on about this for ages-no more so than when Froch got the wrong end of the stick talking about an 'ITV Box Office' channel to show his Super 6 fights-in an ITV interview.

Talk of ITV going pay has been on for a year or so and it might happen eventually, but stuff like an 'ITV Box office' PPV channel is a long way off.

 

I'm not sure it is - they've been looking at revising their broadcast agreement.

 

Its not going to be on Sky Box Office.