'Time for the BBC and ITV to take boxing seriously'

First of all no they didn't and secondly there is a difference between big US fights and 2 unknown eastern europeans.

 

The difference is hype. Besides C5 just got 3m viewers for showing an African and a Gypsy heavyweight bout where both were ranked well outside the Worlds top 50. The average casual will watch a good competitive heavyweight fight if it gets hype and is on at a decent start time.

 

Both were in the top 50. Fury is from Manchester and Chisora is from London. Between them they had 20 fights shown on live TV. It was for the British title.

Alexander Dimitrenko vs Beitut Ursulan does not derserve to be on Primetime national tv.

 

Chisora is from Africa born and bred, both his parents are African thus he clearly is African. Neither were in the top 50 before the fight, Fury would be top 40 now due to winning.

Going by your reckoning then Sprott's fight in a few weeks against Dimitrenko deserves to be on channel 5. He's an actual known English fighter going for a European title after all.

 

The fight was for the British title. Its harder selling a final eliminator for the Latvian title to casual fans.

 

boxrec have Fury at No.9 and Chisora at 24. Laughable.....but still both are in the top 50 in the world.

No it doesn't. Only elite level boxing deserves to be on national TV. I don't even think Fury vs Chisora should have been.

Haye vs Klitscko
Froch vs Johnson
Khan vs McCloskey
Khan vs Judah

these are the only fights that deserved to be on Terestiral tv this year.

 

Lucky Khan-McCloskey wasn't as things turned out...;O)

 

if there is any chance of boxing coming back to the terestrial screens then boxers are gonna have to take massive cuts in wages and i cant see that happening any time soon, especially the big draw fighters, and who can blame them for taking the big money, i know i would rather be on sky, hbo or whatever and have the big coinage coming in for fights rather than be on the beeb or itv and that for well less than the big broadcasters offer....

its a shame yeah but the only good thing about maybe taking less money and fighting on terestrial is that the general public know who you are a lot quicker than if you are on sky, hbo etc, its a shame like i said but them fans who know who you are wont pay the bills when you retire....sad, but thats what the sport has become its a buisness now more than a sport, same as football.

 

if your ITV why would you invest on a boxer, like they did withy Amir Khan, for 3 years and as soon as he gets to world level he ****s of to PPV.

 

Like to see what that rating would be during the football season.

 

the bbc and itv do less and less sports i wouldn't be shocked if they weren't do any sport in the future

 

Good point. Khan killed terrestrial and Haye killed PPV.

 

I can see why they don't screen live boxing, too expensive and harder to schedule than some other sports.

I'm not sure there was fantastic live coverage of boxing other then for a period between mid 80's and early 90's when ITV covered pretty well and BBC had Sportsnight for midweek fights like Bruno.

What I don't understand is why there isn't not live coverage of fights on BBC or ITV, using Sky or whoevers production and having their own commentary if necessary. Surely it would add to the profile of the boxer and if they were signed to Primetime or Sky more subscribers next time?

 

They will probably be happy for a million viewers. I say that presuming he fights a nothing fighter like Coleman Barrett. I still wouldn't be shocked if it got at least double that. The average hetrosexual of Britain and Ireland is fed up spending every saturday night watching nothing but cultural marxist ***athons non stop. There is a serious market for Five to exploit here and they have a great platform to build from.

 

Match of the Day starts at about 2230 and goes to about 0000. They only showed one fight (Chisora vs Fury) so if they do that again they would just bring the fight forward by an hour.