Why hasnt any uk broadcaster decided to show the gamboa and juanma fight card,

Bang on the money. This is the sort of card that Sky have never really bothered with. Its a bit too "trade" for them.

 

just be happy if they give us pacquiao vs cotto

expecting someone to televise this is just being nescient

 

It's not economically viable to broadcast that late at night, due the the minimal viewership.

 

That garbage makes them a lot of money, five is removing all their late night sport from next year and replacing it with those premium line quizzes.

 

Went to see this one live and have to say it was a fantastic night of boxing. Met a lot of fans of all the fighters beforehand and they were all great guys. A lot of Duddy's fans were commenting on my Buncey T-Shirt and said they would check out the site. Ended up sitting amongst a load of Puerto Rican Juanma fans and what a great crowd they were. At the bar beforehand they chose to speak English for my benefit and I must take my hats off to them, great crowd. Also met a load of Duddys fans in an Irish bar along the road before we went in and had a great craic with them too

ps. I stupidly put my programme down for a few seconds in the toilet and when I turned around it was gone lol

 

Lucky you, you watched one of the fights of the year (maybe even the fight of the year) live with all that atmosphere!

 

Plenty of people on these forums complained about Setanta while they were alive and kicking. While their Freeview service was laughable and their business model horribly broken, at least they made an effort to rebuild the sport.

Primetime look like fly by nights, really. I doubt they did big business off a busted-up old US champ, a solid but unheralded Armenian, an unknown American prospect and an unlikeable, ugly Nottingham fighter who’d be best known to the public for crying that Joe Calzaghe wouldn’t fight him.

These are facts – it was never a great financial move. They also made the mistake of pricing the PPV too high – if you want to attract the casual fan, you need to make the price of entry better value.

 

If they cant show their own WBC Super-Middleweight champ on a NON pay per view channel they aren't exactly going to show this fight are they.

 

I know these cards will never get shown on UK tv but the idea behind these two getting put on the same card is building up to a super-fight. And make no bones about it, it will be a super-fight but it's not a mainstream fight to the casual fans who recognise the likes of Khan. And outwith FFN that is what Sky will show. And that makes sense financially but maybe if they took a gamble every once in a while they might get on to a winner.

What is wrong with Sky showing delayed at 8.30am on a Sunday morning? I would love that as an alternative, it's only a few hours after the card has finished. They used to do that I remember watching Barrera v Morales 3 on a Sunday morning on Sky, great stuff.

You never know Primetime might get in on the act. Until then cards like that will be a stream or a download or a dvd purchase.

 

What about ESPN?

 

They can go and shove a chainsaw up their arse! That reminds me I need to cancel my subscription.