Thurman Vs Collazo on BT Sports/ESPN

The Spike PBC cards (unless they feature a British fighter) will almost certainly be on Spike UK from now on. Likewise the ESPN cards being on ESPN UK. The rest are up in the air.

 

Thurman v Collazo is an utter trash fight I don't blame sky or BN for not giving it the time of day. Some of you lot are like hysterical women..BT buy 1 fight that nobody else wants and some of you start talking about cancelling BN and Sky it's ridiculous. BT are not interested in rivaling sky for boxing it's just a silly suggestion. football yes they are happy to smack Murdoch on the chops as it's a rating winner..boxing there not interested. They didn't even bother tabling a bid for May- Pac which is the biggest fight certainly in the next 10 years or more so that says it all really.

 

Give the people what they want? A date for boxnation demise? Stop being a chicken.

 

Lol PBC ESPN fights will be on BT/espn, bt haven't bought nothing

 

BT don't have PPV platform on sky so it wasn't worthwhile for them to bid the required amount for something that happened at 5am

 

You do realise that is not how it works right. The UK channels are complete separate entities. Hell ESPN left the UK market a few years ago. BT sport just came to an agreement to keep the brand name.

And isnt spike UK actually owned by channel 5?

The PBC cards will go to the highest bidder. It really is that simple.

Nobody has an exclusive deal.

 

Would have watched it if it was on BN, but I can't say I'm overly ****d about missing this one

 

The day the subsidiser pulls out

 

This content is protected

 

Not even worth an out of date chocolate button found in a steam room

 

Agree, this makes sense. Or if this cannot be done maybe BT subscribers get Boxnation free or at a discounted rate.

Either way Boxnation is nowhere near value for £10 per month when it can't even monopolise British boxing coverage let alone grab international fights on a regular basis

 

You're half right there with the separate entities thing, but this is a lil different to the norm.

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The ESPN PBC cards will all end up being on the BT channels, as ESPN hold the TV rights for these cards in all of the territories they operate it, and while they no longer operate in the UK, BT have a deal with ESPN that essentially makes them their UK arm for the forseeable future. They could sell them on to someone else if they wanted, but as a sports channel, why would they?

It's the same reason all the Friday Night Fights cards were on the channel, regardless of the promoter.

The Spike one is a weird one. I suspect they hold the UK rights for all of the Spike PBC fights (as there'd have been no reason for them to purchase Lara v Rodriguez on it's own the other week), but unlike BT, are happy to sell them on to Sky or BoxNation (see Dirrell v Jack and Khan v Algieri) if another broadcaster is willing to give them any money to show them. Have to see how that one develops.

 

it should be on BBC wednesday sportsnight!!
...with old ass harry carpenter commentating on it!

 

There should be a boxing highlights show on terrestrial TV.