Is this the beginning of the end for boxing on UK TV?

I can see streaming picking up big time in the next year.

 

The problem with streaming at the moment is that is has an iffy reputation because people always look for free streams and the quality can be dodgy. Its better to pay a couple of quid a month and know you're going to a get a decent, reliable service.

 

Frank Warren said he is looking at the possibility of streaming.

 

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sky are saying vitali and valuev have reached an agreement so they must be going to show that as well

 

Thats Haye out in the cold until Xmas.

 

If Warren was to start streaming it would be a very good thing. For people to sit infront of a small PC for 3 hours its gotta be a good card with decent 50-50 fight..............something frank ralrey does.

 

I hope this means Arreola vs Haye.

 

ITV have pulled the pug on all boxing. I wonder where this leaves Hennessy Sports.

 

I recently moved and in the process decided to sort through my collection of boxing magazines. 5 years ago people were predicting the death of boxing in this country and between 2004 - 2009 the sport has gone from strentgh to strength.

Sure we've lost Setanta but people are looking at their existance through rose-tinted glasses. They weren't providing anything we hadn't had from Sky. Sky, as I have said before in another thread, in the year before Setanta came onto the scene were so dedicated to boxing that we had Wright vs Quartey and Taylor vs Spinks on concecutive weekends. We also had BOTH Tarver vs Hopkins and Cotto vs Mallignaggi on the SAME night.

All Setanta did was offer silly money for the right to cover certain events and that's why we're talking about them in the past sense.

When it was obvious to everyone that Setanta wouldn't survive Sky snapped up the rights to Klitchsko vs Chagaev. The type of fight they USE to show BEFORE Setanta. Sky have 4 sports channels to fill and it is obvious that Boxing, purchased at a sensible price, will play a big part.

I truely believe that Sky will sign Hennessey sports and that is a good thing as it forces the other promoters to create better cards to gain the best slots. Sky are able to show a card on Friday and one on Saturday and often did. We don't produce enough boxers to ever warent a third show so we WILL see everything plus more.

Companies like Setanta come and go. On Digital showed some boxing and so did, as mentioned somewhere above, Screensport. They went bust and Sky picked up the pieces before someone else came along.

The biggest threat to Sky would be better streaming but then that doesn't effect us.