Boycott Pay Per View!

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I know its not Cleverley's fault etc. But for Sky Sports to charge the public £15 for Saturday nights debacle is a disgrace.

I understand all of us are big boxing fans and a match ticket would cost more etc. And people will always pay money to watch any boxing event but you must admit it is now farcical. Pay Per View was invented for large world title fights similar to the Rumble in the Jungle or the up and coming eagerly anticipated Haye - Klitschko fight. I think Sky have totally lost touch with the common man and have lost sense with reality, charging £15 during a time of economic struggle for a one sided show with no real proven stars.

Boxing fans seem to be the only sports fans punished and forced to pay a subsiduary for the sport they love (barring WWE of course), with the greatest of respect, imagine if Sky Sports showed Stoke Vs Bolton, Birmingham Vs Fulham but to watch Chelsea Vs Man Utd it cost an extra £15?

There would be a public outcry. Why do we stand for this?

There is only one way we can get Sky to listen.

We need to boycott this Saturday in our masses, anyone who has already purchased the fight under the pretense that it was Cleverley - Braehmer/ Bellew needs to contact Sky Sports (Tel: 08442410363) and cancel their subscription, get refunded their money in full, it is the only way we the people can show Warren/ Sky and the money grabbing men that represent boxing that we no longer are going to be conned.

This worked with Khan - McCloskey, and Sky had to shift it to Sky Sports 3, before Khan eventually opted for PrimeTime.

If we continually boycott these imbalanced, stupid PPV events we all collectively could see our sport return to Sky Sports proper - a service we already pay vast amounts of cash for on a yearly basis.

Anyone who still wants to pay £15 for Saturday nights fights now, seriously needs their head examined.

Sheng.

shenglong1983 wrote:Scott:

I understand people can spend their money how they like and I am not trying to be an economic Mousillini, I am simply saying if we unite and boycott this PPV SKY TV would have no other option than to stage these fights on regular SKY channels.

What other option would SKY have? Drop boxing all together? Dont think so....

Why not? They get 100k tops watching SFN, of which most will be paying their subscription for football. Without PPV it wouldn't hurt their bottom line to give up on boxing.

Scott:

Are you suggesting that SKY can hold us to ransom, that if we dont pay extra for boxing we run the risk of it not being taken up by SKY TV and boxing would die.

Or alternatively a TV exec would pick it up on another station and we can stop being conned.

We must all pay £15 extra if we wnat to see or sport survive.

They really have worked their PR on you my friend.

I didn't say that but they don't need boxing. We would get an even worse product without PPV because promoters wouldn't be able to finance the bigger bills.

I'm not buying the PPV by the way, and didn't buy the Khan, Harrison, Magnificent 7 or Ruiz ones. But yeah their PR is working wonders!

Scott:


I thought they were doing it to line their own pockets, but if SKY are just charging us to give us better qualty of fights and keep out sport afloat then what a fool I have been.

Saint Rupert Murdoch saviour of boxing.

I didn't mention motives, but if you want to be petty go ahead. It's clear business isn't your forte.

And its clear Tv execs and con men love customers like you.

Well what do they say "A fool and his money...."

Which PPV's have I bought then? You don't score highly on reading skills.

Never mind all that, listen boys its the beginning of the weekend!

have a good one lads (that includes Scott and Cooxy!)

Enjoy the fights and the beers and I'll see you all back here come Monday!

I'm sure there will be much to discuss.

Have a great weekend!

Have a good weekend in your basement refusing to line the pockets of the corporate fat cats!