Warrens show on BT tonight

The Monaco one wasn't great, not much to excite in this.

I think it's basically an extended commercial for the upcoming Frampton PPV. The best of Franks stable will be there, so not much left for this one. Probably fulfills a contractual obligation to BT too?

 

Completely pointless card, should have canned the whole thing when Dubois pulled out. Feel sorry for people who bought tickets expecting to see Dubois-Cojanu.

 

this is awful stuff, only Sunny Edwards getting Ko'd could redeem this card

 

The bt deal has been a bit of a flop really. Tyson Fury is the only draw of any kind outside of Leeds or Belfast and he struggled to sell the rematch v Wlad ffs!

No real stars in the making either in terms of prospects

 

I think some decent promotion could see Dubois, Gorman and Yarde attract a few fans.

Sadly the best way to get the first two some recognition has been dismissed by Warren and the latter is being matched so softly that he almost seems doomed to drift around the periphery for a while yet.

 

The BT deal has made the following fights possible -

Frampton v Donaire/Garcia (which turned out to be a good fight)

Warrington v Selby / Martinez

Tyson return which drew massive figures

Wilder v Fury

Warrington - Frampton coming up including a very solid undercard.

Yarde & Dubois have the capability of becoming big stars, whether Frank can deliver in his part remains to be seen.

There’s also other good prospects coming through. BT has been far from a flop, especially considering there new in the game and Frank is still getting back on his feet.

 

Given how long it's been going it feels like a bit of a flop in fairness. It was December 2016 when Warren announced the deal and his 'new era.' Let's see what happened from what he said at the time:

[url]https://www.frankwarren.com/new-year-new-beginning-for-boxing-on-the-box/[/url]

Stepped up twice in two terrible fights which he lost. Has left Warren.

Canelo and GGG have fought each other, but Saunders is now not holding a world title and is booked to fight some Hungarian bouncer.

Not really any blockbusters and Flanagan has now lost his title, a couple of fights and still largely unknown.

This was two years ago. No comment needed.

 

He has just delivered on Fury v Wilder,one of the biggest fights anywhere in the world this year.

Next weekend he has a world title fight between 2 guys who sold out stadiums on BT.

Guess what? You have gone and been totally negative and I’ve gone and been totally positive.The truth is somewhere in between.

 

That's fair point, but overall I think it's been disappointing.

An issue with Warren that I had years ago and still do is that he's very, very keen on talking up fights which don't happen. Don't get me wrong - we'd all have liked to see Saunders Canelo, Saunders Golovkin, Flanagan Linares, Flanagan Crolla, Yarde anyone decent. It can't just be everyone else's fault why these fights that we could look forward to never happened.

 

BT will be happy with Frank. He delivered the biggest fight of the year.

 

Sorry to go back to statistics, but BT will be happy depending entirely on what that fight did numbers-wise.

 

Honestly didn't know there was a card on tonight.

 

If Tyson had been KOd Fwank was in trouble simple as that.

 

Non PPV boxing is poo on both Sky and BT - disgraceful tripe month after month being served up