Matchroom Boxing leaving Sky?

Yeah I get that but that's just the nature of broadcasting isn't it? Once you have a competitor you can't win the rights for everything so then it's about winning the high ticket rights that people don't want to miss.

I think they would need to lose a bit more before they see some kind of exodus of subscribers.

 

The exodus started 2 years ago and can only get worse with price increases for much less sport.

Bad enough for them with the legal competition but the criminals out there are raking it in at £50 per year for all sport.

Most people I know have me down as a fool for still being a Sky Subscriber.

Beginning to seriously think of leaving for the first time myself now that the boxing has gone as the high subscription price for EFL Football is poor value these days.

 

Your list is not correct dude. UFC was not on sky 10 years ago. You can't just say cricket as it gives the impression they have lost cricket totally which is ridiculous. English domestic league and home internationals still with sky. English cricket would be dead if it wasn't for the money sky throws at the ECB.

Sky lost English domestic league Rugby Union only. Sky walked away from the domestic Scottish cups so are we really gonna say they lost them. The biggest domestic cup is on premier sports. That should tell you something!

Sky had bundelisga for one year I think. Ratings very low so never renewed. Pretty sure even when they had champions League rights they didn't bother with Europa League. I don't recall sky ever broadcasting Europa League games.

Did sky have Serie A 10 years ago? I don't recall this at all. Bravo had it then wasn't it ESPN or Setanta. Sky showed some Italian cup games a few years ago but that's it.

La Liga screwed themselves over. Demanded too much from sky. Sold a false dream from eleven sports. That folded so now on premier sports for less money than they were originally getting from sky. La Liga won't try that tactic again!

 

Empty stadiums no doubt has also had an impact on subscribers leaving or considering leaving. I'm not quite ready to pull the plug on Sky Sports just yet but seriously considering it, any sport but especially football with no crowds is soulless.

 

Sky will fight to keep any sport that they feel is important to their business model.

If the only sport they retained the rights to was Premier League football they’d still retain 80% of subscribers, and that might be a conservative number.

In the IFL interview Hearn talks about the investment needed to meet his ambitions and its clear Sky won’t pay what he needs to achieve that.

 

Sure UFC was on Sky at some stage but I did omit wrestling and kabbadi from my list.

 

Exactly, boxing is small fish to Sky. Notice when they rebranded their channels in 2017 from Sky Sports 1,2,3 etc to Football, Cricket and F1, they didn’t create a boxing channel and that was the year boxing was booming, with Joshua’s win against Wlad,

Hate to be a cynic but Sky are not fools, this might’ve been the plan all along. A slow but timely reduction and exit in Boxing. Just like they did a decade ago, until it becomes “hot” again.

 

Lost Heineken cup as well?

 

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Nah they showed the first ever UK show and that was it. Sky have never really been hot on MMA. Even when UFC grew massively they never really seemed interested. They did show them UK cage rage shows. They let Bellator go recently also.

 

Yeah that's right. Rugby League fan and forgot about that competition. Just read BT contract is up in 2022 so be interesting to see if DAZN and Sky try take them away from BT.

 

I always wondered whether sky's WWE deal effected getting the UFC in the sense there was a no compete clause and WWE saw UFC as a WWE competitor but clearly not as BT have WWE and UFC.

If UFC rights were avaliable now it would be interesting to see if Sky looked at it to replace boxing.

 

I bet Adam Smith would love commentating on sweaty kabbadi matches

 

"These lads really put their heart and soul into it don't they Matt? you can see the sweat oozing from their scrotums and I for one find that very exciting."

 

I was happy to hear Eddie say, that wherever MR go, whether it's DAZN or sky (we all know it's dazn) MR have to have control over the media, that includes the production teams. He said that he feels in touch with what people like and don't like and he feels that the analysts/ punditry atm is out if touch .
Hearn ain't silly, he will frequents this forum and other boxing site forums, listening to podcasts, twitter etc, that's how he will get his sense of what people like and don't like from and who their presenters are.
I think we will start seeing more of our favourite presenters, pundits and analyst's once he gets settled in at dazn