Sky leaving boxing?

Ye like you say, it depends what the terms are.
It should all come out in the next week or two.

 

The ''Massive announcement'' that still hasn't come

Benny Boy lied about the ''multiple offers'' thing that's for sure lol. There'll be one offer, max. Probably Channel 5 or TNT. Maybe it'll be a co-promotional deal or something.

 

So you are pretty confident they do have a decent deal?

 

Don't know if confident is the right word but from what I'm hearing, yes I think they have a deal elsewhere. It's all a bit if guesswork and Chinese whispers but it's from people within boxxer and who work with them.

 

They’ll get a new deal somewhere. Boxing is good live content for broadcasters and (for now at least) they’ve got a fairly decent roster with some decent profiles built up on Sky.

I don’t think it’ll be some knockout, gamechanging, amazing deal for them though. If it was, you’d think it would be sorted and announced long before now. Just reeks of them scrabbling around for something as if Sky dropped them with no notice, when you’d imagine this has been on the cards and Shalom’s radar for a while.

 

Maybe Boxxer will try the YouTube route? Partner up with Talk Sport or something.

 

Probably a forlorn hope, but I'd like to see ITV go back into boxing,. See what a free to air broadcaster can do with the sport? Unlikely given the financial pressures at present, but would be a nice throwback to the 90s and maybe a chance to build a wider audience for a sport increasingly difficult to find outside a DAZN subscription.

 

Love the idea. I fear that any boxing they had would be relegated to ITV4 / online.

Can't remember seeing anything other than football and racing on the main channel for a long time now, not even some of the higher profile darts tournaments. (Happy to be corrected on this though).

 

They tried around 2018/19 didn’t they? From memory they had Groves v Eubank, Groves v Smith, Spence v Mikey Garcia and a Pacquiao fight.

 

They did, I'd forgotten that! It was a bit piecemeal though from memory. Just picking out some individual fights and I don't think it did enough to convince them to stick their toes in any deeper. I guess Channel 5 are going to remain the only terrestrial broadcaster showing much boxing, bar the BBC's occasional regional stuff.

 

You all need patience

There will be an announcement from Boxxer after June 30th.

 

It didn't help that PBC were the promotion ITV had deals with either

 

for me there isn't enough on the normal subscription sky (non ppv). Hardly any shows like that when there used to be quite a lot on normal sky. Everything big is PPV and I will keep my opinion to myself about what I think of PPV.

 

Everything above average interest PPV these days.

 

I hope Sky stay in boxing. If they do, they are best concentrating on good domestic, CW, Euro level fights. Then hope to build a star for PPVs, that they have on long deal. If they concentrate on the world class fighters, they will be blown out the water financially by Saudi. The best promotor they could get for god domestic fights is Mick Hennessey.