Marquez vs Mayweather Delayed in Aus !!!!

[bikersk]

Im with you snakey. Was just about to order the fight and went to the site to get the number to call and realise the fight wont be shown till tues and the UFC is on Sunday -ruined my weekend. And to top it all off an aussie is fighting on the undercard and it's not in the news even and the fight is delayed........................by days. What the hell is going on? I sense an angry old man spending sunday sending angry emails instead of watching the fight

[bikersk]

I just rang the bastards at Foxtel and they tell me it's Main Event who make the programming decisions. So I go to the Main Event website only to find you can only email, no phone number. They have their address there but no number. I sent an email asking for the event to be shown live but i guess it wont be answered till well after the fight. Any way there is a ph number for the address of the Main Event PTY Limited (5 Thomas Holt Drive North Ryde NSW 2113) it says in Telstra it's UK TV and is 0298136700 - Call them and tell them you are unhappy, hope its the right company. Well it's all I can do I guess. Bastards!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

[Snakey]

I just rang the bastards at Foxtel and they tell me it's Main Event who make the programming decisions. So I go to the Main Event website only to find you can only email, no phone number. They have their address there but no number. I sent an email asking for the event to be shown live but i guess it wont be answered till well after the fight. Any way there is a ph number for the address of the Main Event PTY Limited (5 Thomas Holt Drive North Ryde NSW 2113) it says in Telstra it's UK TV and is 0298136700 - Call them and tell them you are unhappy, hope its the right company. Well it's all I can do I guess. Bastards!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Already emailed the cunts, dont think it did any good but it made me feel better Snakey is drowning his sorrows right now and would just like to say FUCK YOU MAIN EVENT...FUCK YOU!!!!!

[bikersk]

Here is the reply from Main Event.

Dear Steven,
Due to technical reasons, the Main Event Channel can only show one Pay Per View event per day. In this instance Main Event has a previously scheduled event on Sunday, October 20 (UFC 103), so is unable to broadcast the Mayweather v Marquez fight which has been scheduled at the same time in the USA .
Main Event is only one channel and there are no other options to broadcast pay-per-view boxing on another channel. It is unfortunately current limitation of the service.
Knowing fight fans will still want to see the fight, Main Event will broadcast delayed coverage of the Mayweather v Marquez Event on Tuesday the 22nd, Wednesday the 23rd and Saturday the 26th. And as the fight will be on-delay, Foxtel, Austar and Optus are offering this fight at a reduced price – please check with your service provider.
Kind regards,
Main Event


Here is my reply to theirs.
Hi,

Thanks for the reply, I actually didn't expect it. Ok despite the typo saying the event (UFC 103) was already booked for October 20, I presume you mean September 20 the actual date of the event. So are you saying that the UFC event (UFC 103) was booked before the boxing event Maywether Jr V Marquez and could not be changed due to the UFC 103 booking being made first? And if so why can't these things be changed? Would it not be possible to show the UFC first then the Boxing say 1 or 2 hours delayed instead of days later? Or is this the technical reason you refer to?

Cheers

Steven

[Andre]

Stuff em anyway, if they want to put Ufc over boxing Im voting with my feet and heading for a paid clear internet stream from now on; save money anyway.

[Snakey]

Stuff em anyway, if they want to put Ufc over boxing Im voting with my feet and heading for a paid clear internet stream from now on; save money anyway.

Yeah good idea. I never got a reply for my email, probably coz i abused the shit out of them

[bikersk]

Yeah well they know they made the wrong choice so reply or not they still made the wrong decision. Hopefully though our dissent will avoid similar problems in the future.

[HattonTheHammer]

just hope people actually chose to get online and get themselves a decent stream for a massive occasion the world over rather than just settle for broke and watch faggy WWF wannabes UFC