Frank Warren leaving Sky

[skel1983]

Looks like Boxing Nation is where we will be watching Frankys future fights starting with Bellew v Cleverly. You have to laugh the amount of stick Warren gave Khan for going to Primetime!!

I honestly think Eddie Hearn and Matchroom are slowly taking over British boxing. Frank obviously can't make any money without having PPV, and since sky has binned that idea since the last couple of Haye shams Franky has upped sticks and left.

[0james0]

Sky still keep laughing as he needs them to host the channel. So they'll still pick up a pay cheque.

Sky is also the place to be generally for exposure in this country so I doubt they care about Khan or Warren.

[Fenster]

This was so obvious since Box Nation started.

So what do we have to pay? Subscription or PPV?

Boxing is an utter joke of a "sport"

[Vendettos]

I won't watch any other station than sky!

Good luck Warren you wanker!

[GuyIncognito76]

Wow! I can't see how this is going to work:

Eddie Hearn says that it's going to be £10 a month with one card a week.

I can't see who's going to pay that in the current climate. You'll obviously get no casual fans, so you're stuck with just the hardest of the die hards.

£120 a year though (plus the inevitable activation fee probably £140) is the equivalent of purchasing eight PPV cards at £15 each (or nine and a bit taking the £140 total)!!! But no PPV quality fighters.

<edit> Oh, and if the git has bought Pac v Marq then I hope the venture destroys his entire business.

[Mark TKO]

my days of paying for fights are over - unless its one I think is worth it.

Only Pac v PBF would get me to part with the cash now.

As for a subscription - fuck that for a game of soldiers

[rosco1984]

Agreed!sick ov these shit ppv's and subscription channels!it's killing boxing.new fans to the sport are not going to pay for the likes ov clev v bellew!warren is a fucking tosser and will b interesting to c if he can keep a hold ov his big names.

[Master]

We are getting ripped off at least all the boxing was on sky at one time so we paid for the subscription, then they start having PPV and now each promoter has set up their own channels. The greedy bastards, hope they go bankrupt and die.

[superheavyrhun]

And so the cycle starts again. Boxing has been on a merry go round for a few years now, alternating between paid and terrestrial channels, hopefully this means more of the promoters picking up a pay packet from someone like ITV, Channel 4 or 5, and boxing starts coming back to terrestrial again.

Promoters putting all their fights on their own channel isn't a viable business model in my view, as it eliminates 99per cent of the casual viewers that are needed for successful advertising and sponsorship. Hopefully in a few months we'll be back to the days of seeing massive fighters on terrestrial broadcasters such as Eubank and Benn were in their day, and more recently Calzaghe.

[Master]

It seems to be going in the opposite direction a select few can watch it on a channel not everyone has access too. Warren will go down the PPV route, where is marsh when you need him.