BoxNation announcement tomorrow?

by **Seanusarrilius** Thu 14 Mar 2013, 7:46 pm

Warren says it will concern funding?

What could this announcement be?

by azania Thu 14 Mar 2013, 7:57 pm

Its going to be free to air for 3 months? Hopefully it closes down.

by Rodney Thu 14 Mar 2013, 9:01 pm

azania wrote:Its going to be free to air for 3 months? Hopefully it closes down.

Why? You're a boxing fan and its the only channel that's shown boxing over the last 12 months, Sky have been atrocious in that period, don't care for Warren and his measly stable, however boxnation provides most action from the states (which sky should do, considering the prices they charge)

HD channel is the announcement rumour apparently. Tenner a month for the fights you get is reasonable, however I'm in the minority (I just like watching boxing )

Cheers Rodders

by azania Thu 14 Mar 2013, 9:02 pm

I am a boxing fan and a subscription channel for boxing will kill the sport in the long term.

by Imperial Ghosty Thu 14 Mar 2013, 9:04 pm

I prefer to watch Brook, Froch and Frampton to any of Warrens with the exception of Burns who has now jumped ship anyway so skysports is perfect for what I actually want to see.

by Rodney Thu 14 Mar 2013, 9:07 pm

People keep mentioning prefer to watch oer Warren stable so do I, but boxnation have covered most of US fighters over the last 12 months, I prefer them over Hearn's bills.

Sky is a subscription channel!

Rodders

by **Seanusarrilius** Thu 14 Mar 2013, 9:09 pm

I agree that this announcement is likely to involve some free to air viewing. Warren will need to do that in the short term and will aim to put on a Clev v Bhop & Price v Chisora showdown in the summer, I imagine. The channel lacks exposure, that's the bottom line. If the subscriptions were any good at all Warren wouldn't hesitate to publicize them.

by Rodney Thu 14 Mar 2013, 9:14 pm

I agree Sean but does anyone really care if its finacially secure ect ! people moan about marginalising the sport and this that and the other at the end of the day I couldn't care less as long as I can easily watch the best fighters In the world for a reasonable price, don't know why so many get worked up about it! Sky is a subscription channel and took boxing off terrestrial tv in the late 80s.

If you prefer sky's schedule over boxnations in the last 12 month, then you're telling lies as a boxing fan.

Cheers Rodders

by azania Thu 14 Mar 2013, 9:18 pm

Do you think some random guy who is ambivalent towards boxing will pay an extra tenner to watch boxing?

by Rodney Thu 14 Mar 2013, 9:29 pm

azania wrote:Do you think some random guy who is ambivalent towards boxing will pay an extra tenner to watch boxing?

No and why should I care? Is this random guy gonna stay up and watch the US fights in the middle of the night even if on Sky?

You're either a boxing fan or not, since removal from terrestrial tv, not many can name 10 boxers anyway ?

Cheers Rodders

by azania Thu 14 Mar 2013, 9:31 pm

I'd rather have boxing on back pages and talked about as opposed to being consigned to some backwater channel which you have to pay for.

by Rodney Thu 14 Mar 2013, 9:36 pm

azania wrote:I'd rather have boxing on back pages and talked about as opposed to being consigned to some backwater channel which you have to pay for.

You have to pay for Sky don't you ?

What fights over the last 12 months that sky have shown would make the back page? I can think of one that did and it was on boxnation, listen in an ideal world sky would pick up boxing again, but at the minute it's atrocious, the world doesn't end with Barry Hearn fighters, that bill at the weekend was a joke.

Cheers Rodders

by azania Thu 14 Mar 2013, 9:39 pm

Yes. Sky also has football, golf, tennis etc etc etc and boxing.

by Rodney Thu 14 Mar 2013, 9:43 pm

I know Az I appreciate that, as a boxing fan it's garbage , I dot care about finance and if Bobby across the road is watching it , if you going to follow boxing then sky isn't doing anything for the sport, so don't see the point of hoping in boxnations demise, at least were seeing the bet fighters in the world, instead of nothing.

Cheers Rodders

by azania Thu 14 Mar 2013, 9:44 pm

Fair enough, its your choice. For me I dont like the idea as it is bad for the sport's long term.

by Imperial Ghosty Thu 14 Mar 2013, 9:48 pm

I very rarely have the chance to stay up til 4 o'clock to watch a fight so boxnation does absolutely nothing for me. Froch is the main guy I want to watch and since the days of setanta showing Calzaghe and Hatton being on PPV he's the only guy i've made a concerted effort to stay up for.

by TheMackemMawler Thu 14 Mar 2013, 9:50 pm

If you are a boxing fan then you learn to exploit the internet, whatever that means.

by azania Thu 14 Mar 2013, 9:57 pm

TheMackemMawler wrote:If you are a boxing fan then you learn to exploit the internet, whatever that means.

I'm a serious fan Yahoo

by Rodney Thu 14 Mar 2013, 9:59 pm

Ok mate, think there's more to worry about than the TV channel which is televising it.

Cheers Rodders

by jimdig Thu 14 Mar 2013, 10:00 pm

I think it will be announcing that Khans next fight will be on box nation.
Agreed with Rodders that boxing for a tenner a month is good for the sport. What he should do is open the internet platform of box nation to outside the UK.

by azania Thu 14 Mar 2013, 10:10 pm

I thought Khan was still tied with Sky? Stupid decision if he goes to BN. Warren must be paying him a mint to do that.

by jimdig Thu 14 Mar 2013, 10:18 pm

Warren gave an interview after Burns left him saying he was working on the Khan fight. I'm not sure that its a big enough deal to have an "official announcement". But then any publicity and all that.

by Guest Thu 14 Mar 2013, 10:18 pm

Firmly with Az on this.

We're all on this forum because we are boxing fans but it's simply not enough of an attraction right now to justify another subscription fee and being consigned to the backwaters as Az says.

This approach is a negative step.

by BoxingFan88 Thu 14 Mar 2013, 10:49 pm

Your all going to hate this, but its the Mayweather vs Guerrero fight.

by School Project Fri 15 Mar 2013, 10:18 am

Golden Boy Promotions UK will need a UK network at some point, can't see them utilising Primetime and from what I remember a few weeks back, Hearns said Sky were only employing his services.

I would love to see GBP UK on the station.

by School Project Fri 15 Mar 2013, 10:29 am

Also...

Here's an interview with Frank Warren from Daily Mail (http://www.dailymail.co.uk/sport/boxing/article-2291761/Frank-Warren-exclusive-Reports-death-greatly-exaggerated--Jeff-Powell.html):

'Sorry to disappoint people but this isn't the end for me, it's the beginning of something bigger.' Warren hits back at claims he's losing ground in boxing's turf warBy Jeff Powell
PUBLISHED: 23:48, 11 March 2013 | UPDATED: 10:25, 12 March 2013
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Not for the first time the disparate names of Frank Warren and Mark Twain appear in the same sentence.
‘The reports of my death have been greatly exaggerated,’ remarks Warren as he eats a hearty meal wearing a smile not normally seen on the face of a condemned man.
He is scoffing not only some of the finest food in London’s club-land but at the very notion that his empire is crumbling and that his BoxNation television channel is too cash-strapped to survive much longer.
Fighting talk: Promoter Frank Warren says talk of his demise is being overplayed
Warren had paraphrased the great American humourist thrice before.

Once after he was shot in the street. Then when Don King sued him for $12 million. Most recently as we broke bread on another occasion when his promotional network was being minced through the doomsday scenario.
This time he is responding to speculation that the power in British boxing is shifting so far away from him towards Eddie Hearn that he will shortly be out of the boxing business.
Warren sips a glass of vintage red wine which another notable connoisseur, Sir Alex Ferguson, would be proud to pour and says: ‘If the Hearns put as much money into boxing as they do into Leyton Orient then I’ve got nothing to worry about.’
Swapping camps: Eddie Hearn's Matchroom signed Ricky Burns from Frank Warren's stable
Moving on: George Groves celebrates his victory over Dario Balmaceda with trainer Adam Booth after his first bout as a Matchroom fighter
More from Jeff Powell... JEFF POWELL: Forget Fergie handing the reins to Mourinho after this cruel injustice... he's got to solve the Rooney question first 07/03/13 Just who is to blame for Mayweather's $200m superfight with Pacquiao not taking place? 50 Cent reveals all... 04/03/13 Jeff Powell: Interim? The job description for Benitez should have been Infernal Manager 28/02/13 JEFF POWELL: Price's KO to Thompson was a 'freak stoppage' after world title hopeful suffered perforated eardrum, reveals Maloney 25/02/13 Jeff Powell on Friday: Hard times demand tough measures and they don't come much tougher than George Graham... bring him back, Arsenal 21/02/13 JEFF POWELL: Big mouth Audley is BACK but vows to let his fists do the talking, Price ready for Thompson and how Hatton entertained us 18/02/13 Jeff Powell on Friday: Defensive Sir Alex charms Jose... England's win in Ireland was like watching Stoke... how Giggs learnt from the Best and why did PSG sign unfit Beckham? 14/02/13 Jeff Powell: Fury has embarrassed himself by pulling out of Price fight but it's British boxing fans who are the real losers 11/02/13 VIEW FULL ARCHIVE
He is ribbing me, a long-suffering Orient fan, almost as much as he is mocking Eddie’s father Barry, the club’s owner.
‘Got to laugh,’ he says. 'Sorry to disappoint so many people but this is not the end for me, it’s the beginning of something much bigger.’
Then, as he is preparing to sue Hearn and his latest defecting boxer, Ricky Burns, he says: ‘Look, I don’t resent competition. We all need it. I was the one who took on and broke the old monopoly years ago. I love the challenge. Keeps me on my toes.
‘But don’t take liberties.
‘It saddens me to take legal action against Ricky but he has three fights left on his contract with me and he owes me all the cut I’ve never taken from him as his co-manager.’
We are talking while Burns is bunking off to Hearn. He is following in the wake of George Groves whose decision, coupled with the bug which sickened the Mexican rival to Burns in a world championship unification fight, forced the postponement of this coming weekend’s big show at Wembley.
Groves switched to Hearn’s bill at the same arena last Saturday and, in their frustration at the delay, the Burns camp announced a desire to gallop away from the Warren stable. They did so on the back of allegations that the opponent, Miguel Vazquez, had not really agreed terms.
‘A load of bull,’ says Warren.

He is still smiling but the empire is striking back.
‘There’s the small matter of the contracts,’ he says. ‘We have produced photographs of Vazquez signing his document. We have also published the certified medical report on his condition which justifies the postponement. Anyway, it wasn’t too long to wait from March 16 to the rearranged date of April 20.

‘I’m not young or naïve enough to think you can force anyone to fight but on principle I have to sue for compensation and damages. For a start I’ve paid out to hire Wembley twice.’
The more sinister whisperers have been trying to plant seeds of doubt about Warren’s financial position.
Now he gets serious…..and more transparent than many might expect: ‘I know who’s putting this out – and why - but the berks who are listening just don’t get what I’m doing.
‘Tell ‘em it’s the television, stupid.
Box office sucess: David Haye's fight with Dereck Chisora pulled in 240,000 subscriptions for BoxNation
‘I’m transforming the business, again not for the first time. I’m giving everyone the chance for boxing to control its own TV output….at a time when even Sky are drifting ever further away from boxing.
‘Yes, it’s expensive to run our own channel but it gives us our independence.’
How expensive?

‘There’s been an investment of £18 million thus far. Lots of people smirked and said BoxNation wouldn’t last ten minutes. Well we’ve been going two years and now we’ve started breaking even.
‘The financial position is strong enough that we are pumping more money into High Definition transmission . And that’s bloody expensive. But this will give us a second channel for broadcasting the live fights, while the rest of our feature content and so on stays with the original feed.’
Is it all other people’s money?
‘Tell everyone this as well. Soon after we first put the consortium together a couple of the potential partners pulled out. So as well as our original stake me and my family covered those millions. it actually worked out for the best. It left us able to bring in some of the most notable individuals in broadcasting and the City. We have resources in terms of finance and talent which are committed to the long-term.’’
Past wars: Warren was sued by American promoter Don King for $12million
The smirkers query how many £10 a month subscribers BoxNation really has:
‘No exaggeration – unlike the reports of my demise – we peaked at 240,000 for the Haye-Chisora fight last summer. Then, during the quiet period for boxing in December, January and early February we dropped to 120,000 . But it’s rising again and we will climb back above 200,000 fairly shortly.
‘The maths aren’t difficult. That gives us revenue of £2 million a month. By any reckoning that gives us a company worth at least £60 million. Who else in British boxing can say that? And it’s going to get bigger.’
How so, when Sky’s decision to consign all their fight dates to Hearn is catching the attention of many boxers and their advisors?
Back on box office: Carl Froch's rematch with Mikkel Kessler at The O2 will be shown on pay-per-view on Sky
Warren smiles again and makes this arresting revelation: 'We've got a couple of big fights in the pipeline. And there will be a lot more for the boxing fans to watch.’
It is my understanding that Amir Khan will be screened on BoxNation for his homecoming fight next month and they will also be the British broadcaster for Floyd Mayweather’s comeback against Robert Guerrero on May 4 in Las Vegas.
Now that Bernard Hopkins has surpassed his own record as boxing’s oldest world champion – by taking Tavoris Cloud’s light-heavyweight title at the age of 48 – more is likely to include a huge unification bout for Nathan Cleverly against The Executioner in Cardiff’s Millenium Stadium this summer.
Coming home: Amir Khan's first fight on UK soil since 2011 will be shown exclusively on BoxNation
But Warren says: ‘I’m no longer solely dependent on my own boxers and shows. I beam in world class fights from the US, Europe, all over the world.’
Warren sensed that Sky might be soft-pedalling on Khan until he forces his way back into world title action and stepped in. He also has a solid working relationship with Richard Schaefer, the chief executive of Oscar De La Hoya’s Golden Boy Promotions, and is harvesting the UK rights to their biggest-name clients, Mayweather included.
He admits his disappointment at not securing Ricky Hatton’s one-and-only comeback fight but is turning that to his advantage: ‘Ricky hoped for a big pay-per-view audience on Primetime but they fell short of 100,000 buys. I feel sorry for him. He lost money because our guarantee was more than he got.’
Back on the box: Floyd Mayweather Jr. fight with Robert Guerrero on May 4 will be shown on BoxNation
Now one of the stars of Hatton Promotions, Martin Murray, will be on BoxNation when he challenges the world’s supreme middleweight champion Sergio Martinez in Buenos Aires later on the April 27 night of Khan’s re-appearance in Sheffield.
Sky’s main focus this spring is on potentially the biggest fight of the year, the world title re-match at a sold-out 02 Arena of Carl Froch’s epic battle with Miikkel Kessler. That will be their first pay-for-view venture since the Haye-Klitschko fiasco almost two years ago.
Warren says: ‘I’ll be watching the numbers with interest. I honestly hope it goes well for Carl. He’s a proper fighter. Really exciting. He’s one the major standard bearers for British boxing.’
Those sentiments will surprise Warren’s critics, as did his public assertion that the split with Groves was amicable.
The making of champions: Warren helped promote Naseem Hamed, Joe Calzaghe and Ricky Hatton

‘I wish George luck,’ he says. ‘It’s unfortunate that he’s pulled out of a lot of fights with injuries. Although I do believe he would have reached his ambition of a world championship challenge more quickly if he had stuck with our European title fight on Saturday.’
Warren explains thus his altered attitude towards most unsettled fighters: ‘If people want to know what I’m going to do without Groves or whoever, well it’s the same as I’ve always done.

Develop our best young boxers into world champions by doing all I can to bring them home advantage, Then put on some of the most thrilling fights in British boxing history. The way I did with Ricky, Nigel Benn Naseem Hamed, Frank Bruno, Joe Calzaghe and all those guys.

‘It’s starting again with the likes of Billy Joe Saunders. Only now I’m doing it without the support of Sky… but on our own TV channel.’
Staying loyal: Nathan Cleverly has pledged to stay with promoter Warren
As for the doom-mongers, does he have a message for them?
‘Yeah, tell ‘em I don’t give a damn about them. I don’t care that they don’t understand what I’m doing, that I’m the one who is creating a better future for boxing.’
At 61 and as full of fire as ever, Frank Warren still sounds like the young promoter who shook up the hardest game more than 30 years ago.
Prize-fighting is as tough as sport comes but writing off this man is a dangerous game.

by BoxingFan88 Fri 15 Mar 2013, 1:58 pm

They just announced the Bradley fight, is that a big announcement Shocked

by Guest Fri 15 Mar 2013, 2:02 pm

Depends...is Bradley fighting Nathan Cleverley?

by Rowley Fri 15 Mar 2013, 2:04 pm

DAVE667 wrote:Depends...is Bradley fighting Nathan Cleverley?

Clev fighting someone you have heard of? Sounds unlikely to me.

by Guest Fri 15 Mar 2013, 2:05 pm

Rowley wrote:
DAVE667 wrote:Depends...is Bradley fighting Nathan Cleverley?

Clev fighting someone you have heard of? Sounds unlikely to me.

TRUSSY will tell you I've never heard of Bradley. Cobblers, he was in the Hangover movies.

by ErmanH Fri 15 Mar 2013, 2:33 pm

BoxingFan88 wrote:They just announced the Bradley fight, is that a big announcement

Just received an email from Boxnation and it says that a "major fight announcement" will be made during the coverage of the Bradley fight.

by **Seanusarrilius** Fri 15 Mar 2013, 4:06 pm

ermietrude wrote:
BoxingFan88 wrote:They just announced the Bradley fight, is that a big announcement

Just received an email from Boxnation and it says that a "major fight announcement" will be made during the coverage of the Bradley fight.

Price v Chisora?

Clev v Bhop?

by OasisBFC Fri 15 Mar 2013, 4:28 pm

i don't understand the animosity to box nation.

all the football clubs have their own channel, why shouldnt a boxing stable have its own platform to show their fights - plus they show the best fights from the states.

they're starting to go down the documentary route which is fantastic (the quality of them wasnt, but it's getting a lot better). and if what warren says is true and they're breaking even, thats fantastic for a business after 2 years.

that said, i don't subscribe and I don't have sky sports either.

by Guest Fri 15 Mar 2013, 4:43 pm

WHEN Warren secures the Khan fight and WHEN he broadcasts the Mayweather fight and WHEN he brings Hopkins to Cardiff, people might consider he isn't quite dead in the water just yet but I predict Warren will fall short of these lofty promises and then try fob people of with 2nd or 3rd rate

by no-mas Fri 15 Mar 2013, 5:07 pm

OasisBFC wrote:i don't understand the animosity to box nation.

all the football clubs have their own channel, why shouldnt a boxing stable have its own platform to show their fights

I can understand what you are saying but that is a poor example, Yes football clubs have there own channels but majority of the games (especially the 'big' games) are still on sky sports for everyone to veiw, you dont have to subscribe to MUTV to watch Uniteds games, that is just an extra.

by Rowley Fri 15 Mar 2013, 5:18 pm

Since I am killing time before I go home I will again articulate my objections to Boxnation, it is nothing to do with the content or cost it is what I believe will be the long term effect on the sport. By its very nature the channel will only ever be purchased by people who are already boxing fans.

If most or all boxing is stuck away on there young people or casual fans will have no exposure to the sport and thus will not get into it, if new fans do not get into the sport they are less likely to buy a ticket for a fight, buy a boxing magazine or try their hand at it, long term how can this be anything other than unhealthy for the sport because people get old, people die, people drift off and get other hobbies, if they are not replaced the fanbase of the sport cannot do anything but wither and die.

I know people are going to say you have to pay for Sky, which is indeed true but you get pretty much every sport worthy of the name on Sky in some form or other and so fans of football, cricket, snooker, darts, rugby or pretty much every sport have a good chance of having Sky and watching a fight, the same is simply not true of boxnation.

by TRUSSMAN66 Fri 15 Mar 2013, 5:41 pm

Desperately trying to keep subscribers by getting anything..........Nothing worse for a company than continual bad publicity.....

Leads to a lack of confidence and shareholders getting squeamish..

by Guest Fri 15 Mar 2013, 6:02 pm

Desperate times at Frank HQ.

BoxNation is not conducive to growing the sport and shows a total misunderstanding of the market from Warren. It reeks of being a vanity project for a guy cutting his nose off to spite his face.

The quicker it's gone the better,

by Champagne_Socialist Sat 16 Mar 2013, 2:38 am

the thing is that if boxnation doesn't show the fight no one will.

by Rick James Sat 16 Mar 2013, 9:08 am

BoxingFan88 wrote:Your all going to hate this, but its the Mayweather vs Guerrero fight.

BoxingFan88 called it right. (On a side note, it's 'You're' and 'it's' Wink

)

BoxNation twitter:

5mins ago BoxNation ‏@boxnationtv
BREAKING: #BoxNation to show @FloydMayweather v @GHOSTBOXING (Robert Guerrero) LIVE and EXCLUSIVE on May 4th! http://www.boxnation.com/boxing-matches/floyd-mayweather-v-robert-guerrero/ …

2h ago BoxNation ‏@boxnationtv
We've stepped up our major fight announcement and will now be releasing exciting news at 9am TODAY here on Twitter! #BoxNation #GuessWho

by Strongback Sat 16 Mar 2013, 9:33 am

To be honest I don't really care how popular boxing is with the general public. The general public is largely inhabited by brain washed simpletons. For an example just listen to a football radio call in show.

The actual sport of fighting is one of the purest tests of man versus man that exists. That will always fascinate A certain number of people. The idiots will jump on board every few years when a Ricky Hatton or such like makes a splash and appears amongst the footie articles on the back pages of the tabloids.

by Imperial Ghosty Sat 16 Mar 2013, 9:43 am

Boxing is all about making money and the more fans the sport has the more money boxers make.

You might not like the fans who followed Hatton but he made a bucket load of money because of those fans, had a lot of people talking about boxing and his fights were massive spectacles, had he started out on boxnation then that would never have happened. His fight with Tzuyu was repeated on BBC I believe as was Calzaghes against Lacy, it is things like that the sport needs not a subscription based channel that brings no new fans in.

by OasisBFC Sat 16 Mar 2013, 10:05 am

no-mas wrote:
OasisBFC wrote:i don't understand the animosity to box nation.

all the football clubs have their own channel, why shouldnt a boxing stable have its own platform to show their fights

I can understand what you are saying but that is a poor example, Yes football clubs have there own channels but majority of the games (especially the 'big' games) are still on sky sports for everyone to veiw, you dont have to subscribe to MUTV to watch Uniteds games, that is just an extra.

not all united games are on sky sports and the only reason they aren't exclusively on MUTV is they can't afford not to be on sky sports.

but as a boxing fan, why should you have to subscribe to sky and then sky sports as an additional extra? - they dont have a dedicated boxing channel like they do with F1. i couldnt care less about most of their other output. for everyone to view boxing you have to have pay extra for sky sports for very limited boxing output.

box nation have announced they're showing the mayweather fight. sky sports are slacking and have scaled their boxing output back over the last year in a trend that doesnt seem to be reversed anytime soon.

by Imperial Ghosty Sat 16 Mar 2013, 10:11 am

That's not the reason at all, teams in england can't negotiate their own TV package.

by **ShahenshahG** Sat 16 Mar 2013, 10:19 am

Imperial Ghosty wrote:Boxing is all about making money and the more fans the sport has the more money boxers make.

You might not like the fans who followed Hatton but he made a bucket load of money because of those fans, had a lot of people talking about boxing and his fights were massive spectacles, had he started out on boxnation then that would never have happened. His fight with Tzuyu was repeated on BBC I believe as was Calzaghes against Lacy, it is things like that the sport needs not a subscription based channel that brings no new fans in.

I reckon it might be worth screening the repeats of his exciting fights on bbc/itv anyway - brings in more subscribers and mitigates some of the criticism boxnation takes. Of course you'll get the odd man waiting for the repeat rather than subscribing but people like to make a night of these things and a fight a couple of weeks down the line wont be much use since everyone will know the result. Might be a bit much asking for repeats but perhaps a match of the day type thing every week/couple of weeks after the footy.

by manos de piedra Sat 16 Mar 2013, 10:26 am

Having more boxing available isnt neccessarily a bad thing. Boxnation is showing many fights that might not otherwise be viewable outside streaming. Its pretty reasonably priced also. Idealistically Id love for all the big fights to be on regular tv but its not going to happen. Id be hopeful that with Hearns success Sky would consider expanding its calender but even then what you basically have is a UK stable.

If boxnation was stealing big fights away from terrestial tv or Sky then it would be worse but as far as I can see it simply picking up on fights that UK customers wouldnt have the option of seeing on tv anyway. It might not be ideal for growing the sport, but its alot better than going back to the days when fans got to see 5/6 fights a year on Sky. I dont think its as bad for the fans as is made out because the alternative is simply having less boxing on tv and lets be honest if boxnation could should some good U.S based fights on a regular basis it would be worth the subscription.

by WHU_Champo_League_in_7Yrs Sat 16 Mar 2013, 11:17 am

The channel may be failing but for boxing fans its a brilliant channel

They have shown more than 50% of the big cards in America, Germany etc and have done what SKY have failed to do and for £10 a month I'd rather watch these cards then stream them on a 18 inch computer screen which may get interrupted or broken reception

I didn't subscribe to BN to see the likes of Cleverly and Burns fight, I bought it to watch Cotto-Trout, Salido-Lopez, Cotto-Mayweather, Canelo-Lopez, Broner-Demarco etc the big cards that we don't get to see on SKY unless there is a British boxer involved

It's not going to attract the casuals, but I can't see why any hardcore fan wouldn't want it, whether watching it live it recording (anoter thing you can't do on a stream) for the next day. Mayweather-Guerrero is $70 on showtime PPV and we get it for £10 along with other May cards

by **ShahenshahG** Sat 16 Mar 2013, 11:41 am

Get to see mares fight for the first time too.

by Makaveli Sat 16 Mar 2013, 11:43 am

Agreed boxnation wont be attractive to the casual fans but for people like us, it has done a hell of alot more than sky in the last couple of years. I understand what people say about skysports, you subscribe and you get alot of other sports with it, but realistically how often in the 7 days of the week does boxing come on? ringside is repeated twice, fight night is repeated twice and i think prize fighter is only repeated once. when you compare that to other sports like cricket or football or darts or golf, they get faar more air time. I watch wwe also and i can tell you, with that theres never a worry about missing it because that is repeated more than 10 times in 1 week.

The advertising for boxing is also rare on sky sports unless its a big fight or prize fighter, so im not so sure that sky sports is helping bring in casual fans either.

by **ShahenshahG** Sat 16 Mar 2013, 11:45 am

Is broner fighting on this undercard?

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