Originally Posted by Master

Sky have us by the balls.

You fucking despise SKY don't you mate?

So boxing fans will pay for this, I agree. Most casual fans however probably won't.

If it is true that Froch is getting a guaranteed $1 million, from Showtime, for the round-robin fights then wouldn't it have been in his, and Hennessy's best interest to "give away" the fight for "free" (that's £100,000) to a British broadcaster in the hopes of increasing Froch's UK TV profile and possibly ensuring more lucatrive offers further down the line?

Even taking the most basic of workings £100,000 is something like 7,650 thirteen pounds (This is of course before administration costs are taken into account). Also, there is advertising; they could obviously purchase commercials on SKY or Terrestial channels but they won't come cheap and if they don't advertise then buys will obviously be down. Oh, and then everybody has to divide up all the (hoped for) profits and I'm sure the people behind Prime Time will want most of that.

Anyone seriously think Hennessy and Froch are going to walk away from this deal with more that £100,000?

This is a disaster waiting to happen if you ask me.

Originally Posted by Kel

Originally Posted by Master

Sky have us by the balls.

You fucking despise SKY don't you mate?

You should see my bill this month close to £100 (phone, internet and tv). I will stop the sky after the Haye fight, maybe the Cotto v Pac if they have that. I may just subscribe and download the fights in future. Bring back Setanta, ESPN is crap.

Originally Posted by Master

Originally Posted by Kel

Originally Posted by Master

Sky have us by the balls.

You fucking despise SKY don't you mate?

You should see my bill this month close to £100 (phone, internet and tv). I will stop the sky after the Haye fight, maybe the Cotto v Pac if they have that. I may just subscribe and download the fights in future. Bring back Setanta, ESPN is crap.

haye is box office so you can cancel now

Originally Posted by Drago

Originally Posted by Master

Originally Posted by Kel

You fucking despise SKY don't you mate?

You should see my bill this month close to £100 (phone, internet and tv). I will stop the sky after the Haye fight, maybe the Cotto v Pac if they have that. I may just subscribe and download the fights in future. Bring back Setanta, ESPN is crap.

haye is box office so you can cancel now

I will watch the repeat a week later then cancel.

Originally Posted by Master

Originally Posted by Drago

Originally Posted by Master

You should see my bill this month close to £100 (phone, internet and tv). I will stop the sky after the Haye fight, maybe the Cotto v Pac if they have that. I may just subscribe and download the fights in future. Bring back Setanta, ESPN is crap.

haye is box office so you can cancel now

I will watch the repeat a week later then cancel.

ha ha good thinking

i hate watching fights after i know the result tho same with football

Originally Posted by Drago

Originally Posted by Master

Originally Posted by Drago

haye is box office so you can cancel now

I will watch the repeat a week later then cancel.

ha ha good thinking

i hate watching fights after i know the result tho same with football

By that time I should know if they have the Cotto v Pac fight that is the fight of the year for me.

Guys if you don't want to pay silly prices and have a decent computer setup that makes watching online ok then sign up to XME Forums.

It's $10 a month (£6.82 for me this month) and they cover not only every boxing and MMA event, even minor things like Green vs Simms and Thaxton Murray, but they also cover all premiership football, NFL games, and other major sporting events.

They are even developing an iphone app so you can watch straight from your iphone!

Quality is awesome, as good as Setanta's online service was and they cover absolutely everything.

Not sure how they do this without getting busted but they have thousands of members now and seem to not be bothered.

You just pay each month via paypal or $2.99 for a 24 hour trial. It doesn't automatically rebill so you need to manually pay each month but that's good if you don't want to watch anything one month, you won't get charged.

It's great, it's cheap and best of all it sticks two fingers up to these big corporations who try to rip us off with crazy ppv prices.

Will try it as I do want to stick up 2 fingers to them.

Originally Posted by GuyIncognito76

So boxing fans will pay for this, I agree. Most casual fans however probably won't.

If it is true that Froch is getting a guaranteed $1 million, from Showtime, for the round-robin fights then wouldn't it have been in his, and Hennessy's best interest to "give away" the fight for "free" (that's £100,000) to a British broadcaster in the hopes of increasing Froch's UK TV profile and possibly ensuring more lucatrive offers further down the line?

Even taking the most basic of workings £100,000 is something like 7,650 thirteen pounds (This is of course before administration costs are taken into account). Also, there is advertising; they could obviously purchase commercials on SKY or Terrestial channels but they won't come cheap and if they don't advertise then buys will obviously be down. Oh, and then everybody has to divide up all the (hoped for) profits and I'm sure the people behind Prime Time will want most of that.

Anyone seriously think Hennessy and Froch are going to walk away from this deal with more that £100,000?

This is a disaster waiting to happen if you ask me.

I hope he doesn't. If the terrestial companies don't want to support one of our only two world champions, and arguably our most exciting fighter at the moment then I hope he tells them to go fuck themselves.

Why should he have to give himself away for free?

If the terrestial companies don't want them fight in America for Showtime and don't cooperate with British telly at all.

Problem is that Froch's success against Taylor has made him relatively interesting to an American audience, along with the American challenger, which has decided his fight will be late night in the UK to suit the American fans.

This means that audience for UK tv is going to be minimal for live coverage, and seriously devalues the proposition to tv channels in the UK. Vicious circle continues, Froch doesn't feel he gets proper money, goes onto this PPV, less people see him fight, fanbase and interest dwindles, and turns into a downward spiral. It's a sad situation for one of two legitimate British champions, but unless he deals with the mainstream networks to make it accessible to a large market, then the offers made to him will continue to go down, as the viewing figures for the PPV will not be very impressive.

Originally Posted by GuyIncognito76

Prime Time Live

Anyone think Hennessy has just set up his own TV Station?

Frozen out Carl Froch deserves a fighting chance with mainstream TV | Kevin Mitchell | Sport | guardian.co.uk

Frozen out Carl Froch deserves a fighting chance with mainstream TV | Kevin Mitchell | Sport | guardian.co.uk


Interesting Froch/tv related artical.

Originally Posted by Master

Originally Posted by Drago

Originally Posted by Master

I will watch the repeat a week later then cancel.

ha ha good thinking

i hate watching fights after i know the result tho same with football

By that time I should know if they have the Cotto v Pac fight that is the fight of the year for me.

lets hope so

Originally Posted by Kirkland Laing

Originally Posted by GuyIncognito76

Prime Time Live

Anyone think Hennessy has just set up his own TV Station?

Frozen out Carl Froch deserves a fighting chance with mainstream TV | Kevin Mitchell | Sport | guardian.co.uk

good read