Great News - Hennessy says next Fury fight on channel 5

Saturday's fight was on terrestrial television, and Fury's promoter Mick Hennessey believes his fighter's exposure will add to his appeal.

"We have a situation where we have options, but his next fight is going to be on Five," said Hennessy.

"I've noticed non-boxing people talking about this fight, talking about Tyson Fury. He's been getting recognised in the street by non-boxing people.

"If we have about five or six outings on terrestrial TV he's going to be a household name for sure."

This is fantastic news imo, the fight was quality and got a big audience, boxing on terrestrial TV can only be a good thing

would be interested to know how many viewers the chisora fight got

Seanusarrilius wrote:would be interested to know how many viewers the chisora fight got

Average 2.26m, peak 2.9m.

Scottrf wrote:

Seanusarrilius wrote:would be interested to know how many viewers the chisora fight got

2.9m.

Does that stand for metric tonnes of man-flab on display?

Scottrf wrote:

Seanusarrilius wrote:would be interested to know how many viewers the chisora fight got

Average 2.26m, peak 2.9m.

Pretty good considering it was a domestic clash.

Lumbering_Jack wrote:

Scottrf wrote:

Seanusarrilius wrote:would be interested to know how many viewers the chisora fight got

Average 2.26m, peak 2.9m.

Pretty good considering it was a domestic clash.

Channel 5's best figures of the week I think.

Its great for C5 and UK fans but lets put it in perspective. Even if the Primetime figures are bad, the Khan v Judah fight will have done much much more worldwide.

Well done to 5 for taking a chance though and I hope they get more events on the back of this.

Hobo wrote:Its great for C5 and UK fans but lets put it in perspective. Even if the Primetime figures are bad, the Khan v Judah fight will have done much much more worldwide.

Well done to 5 for taking a chance though and I hope they get more events on the back of this.

In perspective 1.5m were the biggest viewing figures for boxing in America for the first half of this year. May well still be.

Hobo wrote:Its great for C5 and UK fans but lets put it in perspective. Even if the Primetime figures are bad, the Khan v Judah fight will have done much much more worldwide.

Well done to 5 for taking a chance though and I hope they get more events on the back of this.

Not interested Hobo, i wouldn't of paid for the Khan fight and sky didn't want it either, this fight was better and got a good audience for a British title fight, hopefully boxing makes an unlikely comeback on terrestrial tv, fair play to Hennessy and five, the bbc are an absolute disgrace, they would rather show a meaningless game show, etc than a championship fight. Shocking