Sky Sport Drops PPV

Will the big Fwank cards go to Primetime or will he suck it up and settle for free Skysports?

 

Well i guess AK will be on Primetime for the near future...either that or he may be back on terrestial television (channel 5 or ITV)??

 

I think it can only be a good thing for boxing in this country.

If fighters or promoters feel they can make a go of it on PPV, then by all means let them..... won't be long before they come crawling back, without the publicity platform that Sky currently provide.

Khan's example is slightly different in that he genuinely believes he's a PPV attraction, and is fighting in the States at 4am. Sky have obviously made a concious decision to disassociate themselves with that kind of practice.

I believe that Sky are committed to the sport but want several things:

1. To cover the sport on their terms.

2. To get a good product for their investment, which in turn offers value for money to the customers.

You can only imagine how much hassle goes on at their end to put a show together. Arguing with promoters over money, quality of undercards, opponents etc.... and for what?

Not a great deal obviously.

If the next set of Olympians get offers from America let them go. It's not as if our last lot have been active or offered value for money, is it? The contracts they were given restricted everything.

Channel 5's figures prove that there is interest in boxing. If boxing is on at a reasonable hour with two good fighters facing each other then people will watch.

What they don't want is a bill full of predictable mismatches or a fighter going up against bums for years before cashing out on PPV and getting chinned.

 

Great news!

 

I don’t see how stopping PPV, which genuinely was forcing the sport into obscurity, will be a “straw that broke the camel’s back”. The fact that Sky recognise their viewers deserve better for the money they pay is a good sign.

But boxing will only grow if free-to-air TV starts to show it. I know the investment doesn’t make sense right now, but it’s important to keep plugging away. Fury-Chisora got over 2m viewers on average. Mitchell-Murray got less than 300,000.

How the hell is that a business model? Short-term profit over long-term benefit. Hopefully, without the lure of Sky PPV money, promoters will look for other ways to boost revenue.

 

My view is it can only be a good thing. Sky are doing the right thing. I can see Sky stop promoting Khans fight as its for a rival and Khan will be in the shoes that Froch was and his PPV numbers will fall big time.

I would love to see the bbc come back in for some fights. You look at the sports they are loosing the rights to. They could do a 5 fight a year deal with a fighter or promotor and step back into boxing and see how it goes. Or if they were to wait and see after the Olympics how the UK team does and back those new Olympians in there early fights and build them up to British and World level. Get them when they start out and it wont cost much to hold onto them. Sadly with the bbc and the cuts and the moaning women they wont want to see boxing on bbc and would rather see tax payers money going on Eastenders or some other soap ****.

 

My view is it

They're not allowed to do that. It would be considered as hampering competition.

 

I think it would be a really good idea to have the lads from the Olympics on terrestrial for their first few fights.

Look at the difference between Khan's activity levels and exposure in his first three years as a pro to the class of 2008.

Everybody in the country knows who Khan is, whether they like him or not..... hardly anybody knows who the others were, other than boxing fans and Sky subscribers.

That can't all be down to Khan being 17 at the time and from an ethnic minority background.

 

This.

If Mick Hennessy can get a proper deal sorted with Five then he'd be in a great position to sign the 2012 Olympians. I'm sure these lads want to become household names and with Mick they could get terrestrial coverage as they move up the ranks.

If/when they make it then you can start talking about Sky/Primetime for bigger paydays.

 

Khan lost them so much money because no one buys his **** fights.

 

This decision is nothing to do with Sky not having any realistic PPV fights lined up in the near future?

 

I was hoping we'd get a few more Magnificent 7 type cards - you'd get a solid nights boxing that doesn't just depend on the main event.