Thread: How come the UK gets Oscar v Floyd for absolutely FOOK ALL...?

Baffling but who's complaining



Emanuel Steward has witnessed some of the most hyped, viewed and lucrative bouts in boxing history as the trainer of legendary boxers Thomas Hearns and Lennox Lewis.

But even Steward is amazed at the buildup for Oscar De La Hoya's super-welterweight title defense against Floyd Mayweather Jr. on Saturday night in Las Vegas.

"I've never seen anything like it," Steward said. "It's going to break all the pay-per-view records, even the heavyweights."

The fight would be a draw with little publicity because De La Hoya and Mayweather are two of the most renowned nonheavyweights in the past 20 years.

An innovative marketing campaign, headed by De La Hoya's company, Golden Boy Promotions, has many believing this fight can become the largest-grossing pay-per-view event of all time. The fight, which will cost $54.95 to watch, is projected to not only top the pay-per-view record of 1.99 million buys set by two heavyweight fights (Evander Holyfield-Mike Tyson in 1997 and Lennox Lewis-Tyson in 2002) but the record of $112 million generated by Lewis-Tyson.

"We're promoting like no other promoter has ever promoted," De La Hoya said. "And we're bringing in something new to the table with the sponsors. I mean, it's incredible."

De La Hoya's fight against Felix Trinidad in 1999 set a record for pay-per-view buys for a nonheavyweight bout (1.4 million).

"This is the way boxing should be promoted," De La Hoya said. "If Golden Boy Promotions was promoting the Trinidad fight with me, we would have easily done more than two million homes."

Few nonheavyweight fights have created this much national buzz. Probably the last to do so was the Sugar Ray Leonard-Marvin Hagler middleweight title fight in 1987. But that fight was predominantly a closed-circuit broadcast, and the potential audience for Saturday (61 million homes) is much greater.

"It feels like as big a buildup and promotion for a nonheavyweight fight in this sport in about 20 years," said Ross Greenburg, president of HBO Sports. "We've done all we can do to get the word out. Certainly, we've had some of the largest promotional tie-ins in boxing history."

Because were GREAT!! Britain

am amazed myself

posted a couple of weeks ago - i didn't think we had ever paid for a non heavyweight fight that didn't feature a Brit but someone said hopkins dlh was ppv in uk

if thats right god knows why this is free !

It was originally gunna be on PPV, but Sky get alot of complaints about not showing enough boxing, so I think they did this to appeal to boxing fans in the UK that they actually care about them.

Americans shouldn't complain that we do, they can watch pretty much any fight from all over the world. We get fights selected for us!

I think Emmauel Steward is the most overated trainer in boxing history. He had some succes in the 80's with his kronk boxers, but who has he taken from scratch to be a world champion since the days of hearns and mccrory?

To be honest, if this had been on PPV I'm not completely convinced that I would pay for this one. At the end of the day you pays your money, and I would just be too worried it would be a let-down to shell out cash for it. But that's not a problem so it's free and it's appy days.

I truely dont know the logic behind sky showing this free..

I dont understand where the money comes from...

Is it that they hope new people will order sky sports for the purpose of the fight?

Cos they must have paid a lump sum and said we'll show it to alot of homes for free apart from obvious sky bills that already exist..

Me so confused...lol

Same as
I'd pay over the odds to see this if i had to.
Can't wait

Nothing is free.

Some one is paying for this.

In third world countries the GOVERNMENT pays for fights like this and broadcast them Via Satellite. I am not sure how they do things in GB but maybe their local sponsors will be paying the bills.

Ain't nothin' free brotha'. <----That is my Desmond from LOST impression.

true , even though I'm worried this will be a chess match I would pay out 50 quid or so regardless for this one.

I remember Saddo not paying for Holyfield Tsyon I as he said it was a serious mismatch

Nah that was always gonna be a tear-up

If it was free - I would be watching it, but you have to be subscribing to sky sports and getting raped for £40 a month - so it aint free

I'm round a mates
k*nts won't get me

forgot about that and just realised the angle Sky are going for !!

The 6 month minimum sign up - the bastards !

And then there's those who would normally be switching off now at end of football season.

Good strategy here by Murdoch and Paul Dempsey (where is he these days )

Originally Posted by Mark TKO

forgot about that and just realised the angle Sky are going for !!

The 6 month minimum sign up - the bastards !

And then there's those who would normally be switching off now at end of football season.

Good strategy here by Murdoch and Paul Dempsey (where is he these days )

Good old 'Dempo'