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ITV to show the entire comp across their various platforms (which obviously means some will be PPV).
Eight weeks in a row starting Saturday.
Callum Smith-Erik Skoglund live on ITV4 on the 16th.
They haven't listed all yet (including Usyk-Huck this weekend) but it's safe to assume Eubank Jr will continue to be PPV. Groves-Cox? They might have a go with that too.
Fantastic to get the cruiserweight killers all screened though and the tournament all on one platform.
So they have got it ahead of Sky then?
That's a bit of a shocker
What a mustard run of Saturday nights (for nerds at least)
USYK VS HUCK - Sept 9th
SMITH VS SKOGLUND - Sept 16th
DORTICOS VS KUDRYASHOV - Sept 23rd
BRIEDIS VS PEREZ - Sept 30th
EUBANK JNR VS YILDIRIM - Oct 7th
GROVES VS COX - Oct 14th
GASSIEV VS WLODARCZYK
BRAEHMER VS BRANT
with a competition like this how would people feel about PPV for the whole tournament?
would people be willing to pay something like £30/£40 to get the entire tournament rather than paying £10/£15 for the fights they decide are PPV worthy?
No fuck PPV and subscriptions!
Not even Master - the worlds biggest miserable cheapskate ponce - can moan about this (he still will as Eddie has fighters in it). No BoxNation or Sky subs, great matches all on the freemans. Excellent.
If Eubank or the odd Brit matchup/later rounds are PPV, fine. None of the cruisers will be PPV.
Yes! Great ideaQuote:
Originally Posted by Batman
Yeah but for example if they make the following fights PPV :Quote:
Originally Posted by Fenster
quater finals
Groves v Cox
Jr v Yildirim
semi finals
Jr v Groves
final
Jr/Groves v Smith
at £15 a fight then that comes to £60, how about the option of £30 before the tournament starts to guarantee you get all of the fights for that price regardless of who is on the PPV
The cruiserweight tournament is very interesting
The super-middleweight tournament isn't as good
But still it should be fun however I still remember the Super Six
Which was filled with delays and fighters pulling out.
I will take it, at least it is on mainstream TV and the groves v Eubank is worthy of PPV by todays standards.
Better this than put it on you tube and charge.
Yeah that's a good idea if you'd prefer that sort of thing, however, you're assuming those fights take place. What if Jr, Groves or Smith lose? These aren't "gimme" mismatches.Quote:
Originally Posted by BatmanYeah but for example if they make the following fights PPV :Quote:
Originally Posted by Fenster
quater finals
Groves v Cox
Jr v Yildirim
semi finals
Jr v Groves
final
Jr/Groves v Smith
at £15 a fight then that comes to £60, how about the option of £30 before the tournament starts to guarantee you get all of the fights for that price regardless of who is on the PPV
Regardless.. I think it's terrific that we get a couple of months of consecutive world-class Saturday night boxing without being on subscription platforms. Reason? We still get the SKY/Matchroom and Warren/BN content. The only moan i've got is the fights will clash.
ITV getting this couldn't have worked out better.
I can see how this is gonna go down with the missus
They should have ensured that it was going to be a Groves v Junior finals they are the biggest names.
Jesus.. that is some fucked up logic.
They should fix it so the biggest names don't have to earn the right to win?
C.Smith, Cox, Yildirim and Brant - four young totally unexposed unbeaten fighters, boring, I don't know them so they shouldn't get a chance. Deary, deary me
Its full on FA Cup logicQuote:
Originally Posted by Fenster
I remember when Robbie Savage was doing the FA Cup draw, now I know that the geeza is a monumental prick but before pulling the balls out he said something along the lines of ''everyone wants to see Man Utd v Chelsea in the quarter finals but we all know that Sky won't allow it'' I think he was forced to apologise and reiterate that the draw is completely random.
I am not asking it to be fixed but that the best fighters be seeded like in Tennis.Quote:
Originally Posted by Fenster
Are they fuck? Don't be so fucking stupid. Typical if someone who thinks Name is the most important thing.Quote:
Originally Posted by Master
So if there was a guy called Muhammad Ali, he'd go straight to the top of the pile without proving anything? Smh!
Yes they are both, hold titles.Quote:
Originally Posted by Primo CarneraAre they fuck? Don't be so fucking stupid. Typical if someone who thinks Name is the most important thing.Quote:
Originally Posted by Master
So if there was a guy called Muhammad Ali, he'd go straight to the top of the pile without proving anything? Smh!
1.they don't both hold titles. Groves holds a title, The IBO is meaningless and the only people who see it as a viable belt are clueless cabbages.Quote:
Originally Posted by MasterYes they are both, hold titles.Quote:
Originally Posted by Primo CarneraAre they fuck? Don't be so fucking stupid. Typical if someone who thinks Name is the most important thing.Quote:
Originally Posted by Master
So if there was a guy called Muhammad Ali, he'd go straight to the top of the pile without proving anything? Smh!
2. It was fucking seeded. That's why Snr. Got to choose Jnr's opponent.
Still Eubank is a big name isn't he?
And who the fuck has he beat to be a "big name?"
Fair play, you are showing your true colours now, aren't you? #clueless
Semantics.Quote:
Originally Posted by MasterI am not asking it to be fixed but that the best fighters be seeded like in Tennis.Quote:
Originally Posted by Fenster
Boxing doesn't work like any other sport, rankings are based solely on opinion, each individual contest establishes the best fighter between the competitors of that particular standalone event. For boxing to work like Tennis everyone would need to fight each other numerous times to conclusively establish a hierarchy system.
You've assumed you know who the best fighters are. We don't.
Groves, Jr, C.Smith and Brahemer were seeded by way of fame/popularity.
World Boxing Super Series: The Muhammad Ali Trophy and $50m up for grabs
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The World Boxing Super Series has been hailed as the "Champions League of boxing".
The new event offers a $50m prize fund, a trophy named after Muhammad Ali and its tournament format aims to deliver a flow of easy-to-follow storylines for fans.
Its first fight arrives on Saturday, so what impact will the venture have? Will George Groves contest a huge all-British fight with Chris Eubank Jr? And will we get a unified champion?
Boxing, with its many weight divisions and multitude of belts can be confusing. The World Boxing Super Series aims to be anything but.
It will run two tournaments, one for cruiserweights and one for super-middleweights. Within each, eight men will compete from a quarter-final stage through to an eventual winner being crowned in each weight category.
Along the way, if a fighter meets an opponent who is currently a world champion, that belt will be on the line.
Quarter-finals aim to be completed by the end of October, semi-finals by the close of February 2018 and winners decided by May.
Simple then? But if you are a lover of boxing's trash talk and heated rivalries, fear not as already they seem set to prosper in the format.
At the final news conference before Saturday's first cruiserweight bout, Marco Huck pushed WBO world champion Aleksandr Usyk, prompting a furious Usyk to state he will "bury" his rival.
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Comosa AG - the company which owns the event - is an amalgamation of firms, with former Golden Boy Promotions CEO Richard Schaefer and European based Sauerland Promotions heavily involved.
"The tournament will have so many storylines," Kalle Sauerland told BBC Sport. "It's not just to find a winner, it's to generate fun and excitement through storytelling."
And the soap opera began at July's draw where seeded boxers, faced with their unseeded rivals, picked their quarter-final opponents.
Sauerland added: "I've been at events since and fighters have been talking, asking one another 'why did you pick me?'
"Fans in boxing always ask 'why is this guy not fighting that guy?' "There are no politics here, eight guys, four seeded, four unseeded, the rest we let them do themselves.
"This is a project which is destined to become the Champions League of boxing. It was a big statement for us to put this event out there. I think we have over delivered in terms of fighters."
Middleweight Brits and cruiserweight unification
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It is fair to say fighters have been positive about the concept. IBF super-middleweight champion James DeGale desperately wanted to enter were it not for a shoulder injury.
But four British names already feature in the super-middleweight branch of the tournament, headed by WBA champion Groves.
He faces fellow Briton Jamie Cox in London on 14 October, with the winner meeting the victor of Eubank Jr's fixture with Avni Yildirim in Germany a week earlier.
Many in the sport were shocked Eubank picked the undefeated and tricky Turkish fighter but should he beat him and face Groves, fans could see an all-British semi-final with the WBA title on the line.
Liverpool's unbeaten Callum Smith is seeking his own first world title shot and makes up the British contingent, getting his tournament underway against Sweden's Erik Skoglund - who sports a perfect 26-fight record - in his home city on 16 September.
Groves is the only world champion in the super-middleweight tournament but in the 200lbs cruiserweight division, three titles should in theory be unified by May.
Latvia's Mairis Briedis (WBC), Russia's Murat Gassiev (IBF) and Ukraine's Usyk (WBO) will all put their titles on the line, meaning the tournament winner will sweep the belts.
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The Muhammad Ali Trophy the two winners will receive was designed by the late Silvio Gazzaniga, who created and designed the Fifa World Cup trophy in 1971.
The two tournaments will boast a $25m prize fund, with the winner of each expected to rake in a haul of $10m in total across the three victories required to land the title.
Boxing does not have the choice of using a penalty shootout to decide any tournament match which ends in a draw on the scorecards, so a quirk in scoring the bouts has been introduced.
Any fight deadlocked on all three cards will see a fourth ringside judge called upon. If their card is also level, the winner of the final round of the bout progresses.
Sauerland stresses keenly that on boxing records, such a bout would still be marked as a draw. The tie-break protocol is only used to decide who progresses, not necessarily who wins.
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A tournament featuring super-middleweights named the Super Six World Boxing Classic took place between 2009 and 2011. While its cast was stellar, with victory being claimed by Andre Ward, its length meant the event's momentum arguably waned.
Other incarnations of tournament formats such as the Prizefighter Series enjoyed success, with shorter fights ensuring an event could be concluded on one night.
The new competition has interested Television bosses, with rights sold across Europe. A US deal is "in the pipeline", according to Sauerland, who last week announced ITV will broadcast the tournament across its platforms in the UK.
"I think it was one of the biggest deals in British boxing history in terms of scope," he added. "Make no mistake about it, the UK market is now the most important in the world."
Some of the fights will be free to air, while others will be pay-per-view. Unlike some traditional fight deals cut in the UK, fighters will not receive bonuses for pay-per-view sales and will be rewarded through already agreed appearance fees and prize money.
"We have invested a lot of money to try and not be too like boxing," added Sauerland. "If you look at Wimbledon, would Roger Federer get a bonus because Swiss TV paid extra? He'd get prize money, like fighters will here."
Those backing the Super Series hope to roll the tournament out across more weight divisions with time. Saturday night, when Huck meets Usyk in Berlin, could be a first step in returning professional tournament boxing as a mainstay.
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So is the fight tomorrow night free on ITV4 then?
@Master
Not live it's notQuote:
Originally Posted by smashup
I would take free but not live.Quote:
Originally Posted by BatmanNot live it's notQuote:
Originally Posted by smashup
Usyk vs Huck is about to start...
First rnd Usyk...
Usyk moves good,gives Huck problems...Huck did better,but not enough
2nd rnd Usyk...
3rd rnd To Usyk who is just better than Huck...
Usyk is bettering the crap out of Huck in the 4thround.
Huck is getting outboxed even if he hits Usyk he takes them well
Usyk is taking the pissout of Huck in the 5th, he is a cocky sod.
Usyk is amazing ... Huck is getting a beating
Usyk should really stop Huck who trying hard but will end up just surviving now as the fight goes on
Yeah Usyk is starting To play with Huck...
Round 8 Huck get point deducted for hitting Usyk when he slipped. Just shows you how desperate Huck is now. He is getting battered.
Usyk is having fun and Huck lost every rnd ...
Usyk winning and stops Huck in the 10th with a barrage of punches and the ref stops it.
Huck shows a lot of heart.
Usyk is very good.
This tournament is great...lets hope nobody gets injured and pulls out...
World Boxing Super Series: Oleksandr Usyk stops Marco Huck to defend title
Oleksandr Usyk defended his WBO cruiserweight title with a stoppage win over Marco Huck in the opening World Boxing Super Series bout.
The Ukraine fighter looked stronger and better conditioned throughout and a relentless flurry of punches saw Huck stopped on his feet in the 10th round.
The win in Berlin takes undefeated Usyk through to the semi-finals of the first World Boxing Super Series tournament.
The event will conclude in May and features a $50m prize fund.
That pool will be split across two tournaments, one for super-middleweights and one for cruiserweights, with each featuring eight fighters competing from a quarter-final stage.
Usyk will now face a semi-final against either Latvia's WBC world champion Mairis Briedis or Cuba's Mike Perez. That bout will see the WBC and WBO titles unified as under tournament rules, fighters holding belts will put them on the line throughout the knockout competition.
Usyk, 30, extended his career record to 13 fights without defeat against Huck, who has now lost five of his 46 contests.
The power of Usyk's punches often forced his German opponent backwards and at times Huck looked fatigued as rounds wore on. His rival though remained solid, taking the centre of the ring and showing patience throughout as he dominated.
Huck survived punishment late in the seventh as Usyk landed a straight left and a hook in the corner, while in the eighth he landed two crisp left hands before going down under a low blow which saw Huck docked a point.
In the 10th Usyk worked his rival around the ring, exerting pressure with combinations as Huck opted to simply cover up. The 32-year-old had tried to throw counter-punches in reply when troubled in previous rounds but with little to offer, referee Robert Byrd ended the contest.
The super-middleweight competition begins next week when Liverpool's Callum Smith takes on Sweden's Erik Skoglund in his home city.
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Not that anyone on here cares but Dorticos-Kurd is streamed free on the world boxing series site... except for Brits