Has Sky already lost to BoxNation?

theres absolutley no wat the channel gets 100,000 subscribers. No way!

where they got 5million uk boxing fans from as well. thats mental

 

yeh the HD stuff is a big one for me personally. i never get the primetime ppv's because of it just watch them the next morning.

thats my issue with the channel. i do think it could work i just dont think ****** is the right man to be at the helm. he is to old school.

 

What--the--****? I just assumed BoxNation was some crappy little network that would show small-time fights and replays. Wow. That line-up is ridiculous.

 

Check the viewing figures for espn UFC main events and compare them to 3am cards that were on sky.

 

What evidence do you have of this other than him telling people he is a shareholder?

 

I meant what is the risk to Voldemort if he was making big losses whilst on Sky (as he himself said) anyway...

 

I have ended my SKY subsciption weeks ago. It was the best decision I made in a while.

BoxNation have an awesome schedule. I hope it stays free for a while.

 

The UFC comes only once a year in the UK and I doubt that the local mma shows do much in terms of attendance.

 

I find that very hard to believe.

 

wasnt Setantas biggest hurdle the fact that them "dodgy satellite boxes" where out at the time Setanta came on the scene?

did you english lads have them? basicaly they where little illegal decoders that EVERYBODY IN IRELAND HAD, you only need your standard cable package, yet with this reciever you got all the sky sports, setanta, sky movies and even Sky PPV events all for free, they where on the go for 2 years, and i heard from a guy once that they reckoned only for the "dodgy box" Setanta would have gotten alot more subscriptions

as for Boxnation.

i think it'll fail miserably myself. The boxing market is too niche now to support a dedicated boxing channel.

just put it like this, think of your close circle of friends, and then think how many of them are hardcore boxing fans, compared to casual fans?

i have freinds that i watch the boxing with, but out of 5 of them, there's only me that would buy PPV events or anything that required more money to be spent

 

Sky have apparently gone in big for Khan v Peterson with a long term plan to win Khan back for Box Office fights v Brook and Mayweather

 

Sky were responsible for the sport's expulsion to the fringes. It went from being the sport of the working class on ITV and BBC to only for people prepared to pay. Because the fights weren't regular enough there was no regular fanbase to justify most fans paying.

And now boxing is becoming even more niche. But BoxNation at least seems like a good plan, even if it is limiting the audience.

Barry Hearn can make all the smug comments he likes about how he's growing the audience. If he really was, he'd be working to get it back on terrestrial.

 

every guy and his dogs started training in "cagefighting" all over the UK. A lot more than people who box, at least round my way.

 

Credit to sky for previewing the weekends action btw...
Didnt expect that