Why does Boxing do better on German TV?

Buncey could put us right on that one......?? Defo a thread for this Thursday's show...

I think that it is more of a social night overthere.... apprently there was BBQ's and allsorts going on last night in Shalke....

That is a top stadium... I went to see Man City there this season....:yep

The atmosphere at them shows is shite though..... some of the indoor shows you can hear a pin drop..... just a round of applause at the end of a round :happy

Whatever they are doing we need to take a leaf out of their book and start getting some better exposure of Boxing on our TV screens before our sport on TV just fades away and is overtaken by other sports....:bbb

 

What you gotta ask is..."What is boxing competing with?"

And the answer is probably not a lot. I don't think they have cricket, rugby union, rugby league and so on. Boxing has got more of the market, evidently.

 

Spot on!! :good

Been a journeyman in Germany must be very lucrative....I am suprised many of our boxers are not spending more time out there.... I think they have the Bundesliga and that is it really... Gotta admit it looked very good last night and the time before that with the holograms for the last Klit fight was great....we can only learn.... Maybe Hatton can get amongst them and get a TV network going for boxing in the UK... there is a market out there for sure....:happy

 

David Hasselhoff's on the adverts

 

a lot to do with the type of crowd that goes and the way the sport is presented by the media


the demographic over here is men 20-40 who have been drinkin all day forces a lot of others away and the media present it to those who know no better as a glorified **** fight rather than a proper sport

 

We have the Bundesliga, Formula 1, a bit of Tennis (but much less than in the active Boris Becker era), Handball, Basketball...

But in germany things like Rugby, Cricket, American Football aren´t really happening on TV.

Boxing here is something special and gets big media attention. Huge shows with many (more or less) german stars...

 

the audience is much more educated, appreciative and knowledgable on the sport, they don't just see it as fighting but as a sport and are just as impressed when a guy doesn't get hit as when he hits.

 

I would disagree, overall they clearly are a lot less educated!

The reason I think the sport does better in Germany, is it is sold as an event, an occasion. It does not really matter who the superstar fighter is fighting, because that the boxing becomes secondary to most, as it is a night out.

I mean, if you have a night at the Theatre with your friends, and go for a meal at a favourite restaurant etc, if the companies good, the night out is not necessarily spoilt by the terrible play you watched.

 

Good point. I don't understand why a lot of the people pay £50 for a bill only to stand in the bar to get pissed and then rush in for the main event. You might as well stay at home with some friends and a carry-out.

 

nice post

 

and how does that explain the massive TV ratings? plus if that was the case and they were just going for a night out and didn't give a **** about what they were watching then things like the ufc would've made a big impact in German in fact its been laughed out of the country, looked at with disgust and rightly ridiculed

 

I think the UFC thing was in Germany a couple of weeks ago, and there looked a fair crowd there.

Boxing is shown on the mainstream channels with proper advertising. Also fighters are mainstream personalities.

If you could build a time machine and bring back 80s Bruno and 60s Cooper, the fight fills Wembley Stadium five times over and 25 Million would watch it, if it were on the beeb.

But I do not see that happening; think of it like this, Germany is 30 years behind us, they will be bemoaning the lack of mainstream boxers in 30 years and harking on about the good old days when Vlad Klitschko sold out a 60,000 seater Football Stadium!

 

what amazes me is that they draw these massive audiences when the fighters are not even german

 

In the 80s many a naive person would not call Bruno British, but he still drew Millions to his big fights.