Sky leaving boxing?

I detect you are not one of the people who see the lady in the studio live pre match and start singing

Oh Eni Eni
Eni, Eni, Eni, Eni Aluko

 

When you consider how much PR women's sport get compared to others, like women's cricket being the lead story on BBC sport etc, it is madness.

It's like EVs, the powers at be are telling us we want them, but the consumer is going "Urm no we don't thanks"

 

I’m a sports fan and I watch no women’s sport. I never have. It’s by definition second rate. According to the BBC this is the summer of women’s sport and many household names are going to be made. I don’t know hardly any women who like sport but the ones that do watch men’s football. Who’s watching women’s sports, a handful of school girls and some assorted weirdos. Let’s be honest it’s sh1te.

 

Whereas in the US it’s completely different. I was there last month and saw how popular women’s basketball and softball(!) is over there.

 

All true but Skys golden days of boxing have been over for 2 decades now...the golden era of Sky boxing was late 80s,90s especially and early 2000's.....by 2005 Hamed,Tyson,Lewis ,Benn,Eubank,Collins were all retired and the bbc and itv got back into top level domestic and international boxing followed by setanta in the late 2000s and boxnation in the early 2010's....In the first half of the 2010s Froch and a few others apart Sky was poor compared to its illustrious past ...than AJ and Fury hit their peak and represented the last hurrah...

 

See frigging Jonas got an MBE, handing em out like drumstick squashies aren't they

 

BBC especially it's agenda driven one thing also it's a cheap time filler womens football, cricket, rugby etc.

That very few people watch, on free to air. Each to their own like you I've zero interest in any of it.

 

Still no announcement

 

Diamante has just announced that Frankie Warden is marrying Aggie Hearn and Ben Shalom is the best man.

 

Diamanté announcing the couple

"Frankie & Eddie Warren Warren - Hearn Hearn"

 

'From the 4 corners of the honeymoon suite bedposts'

 

Warren was on Talksport yesterday, he was asked about Boxxer joining DAZN and he replied with “don’t hold your breath on that”, he was then asked is he eyeing up any of their fighters, he replied saying there are a couple but the interest is more the other way around with Shalom’s fighters looking to jump ship.

If a DAZN deal was in the works I think both Warren and Hearn would have some inside knowledge and wouldn’t be taking the **** the way they are, it also applies to a lesser extent to other broadcasters, they must have enough contacts around the industry to get a whiff of any kind of deal.

 

That leaves TNT Sports, Channel 5, Dave Channel, Amazon Prime Box Office, Netflix or a new Boxxer Nation Channel on Sky.

Eagerly awaiting the anouncement from Benny Shalom.

 

Don't think anything can be announced until the contracts have legally come to their end date.

 

Depends what the terms are, but seems unlikely. We knew officially that Matchroom and Queensberry were joining DAZN when they still had dates remaining with Sky/TNT.