Kessler in Notts wednesday

[DavidPayne]

Eldorado, yeh, that's who Cotto should fight next.

[paddyavh]

Hope its Sky.

[Tommy Gunn13]

What time is the announcement???

[15829]

apparently 12 o'clock tomorow

[Adamj1987]

anyone any idea who?

[DavidPayne]

Here's a left field one for you.

Channel 5.

[Adamj1987]

channel 5 would be good

[doctorboxing]

channel 5 would be good

Yep ever since they stopped showing the mucky stuff at nights there's not much on it to watch.

Terrestrial TV would be a real coup for Hennessy.

[d]

Fingers crossed!!

I think this tournament deserves a tv slot and could be very good for the game.

[stevieb_8006]

5 every now and then show obscure american fights late at night. didnt they dip their toes by showing the skelton vs rogan highlights? I think they'd do a good job with boxing. low budget, just show the fights, sensible punditry thats kept to a minimum.......

does any1 remember that contender style show they did where they plucked 8 amatuers and had a box off? Hagler presented the "belt".

[DG.]

I reckon it`s Justin TV

DD

[twenty six]

Don't get your point Gomez.
Don't give a shit what the foreigners are spending and who sees it abroad, want to see it in the UK and ideally that the deal with the UK Broadcaster puts dosh in the kitty for the fighters.
Just can't see anything major though but stress again sincerely hope I'm wrong.

[leforge]

Sales not going well for Nottingham card then?

[alexpaterson]

Magic news I dont mind who it is as long as 1 of them pick it up

[hitman_hatton1]

so i can see froch get beat up now can i. :)

[J]

3.30 pm any news then?

[lefthook82]

@hitman

Soemthing tells me you have a sneaky twenty ( or more) on Froch to win

[Alba]

this is tommorow,press confrence in Nottingham.

[J]

Aaah thanks sorry i see it as he posted on 28th hence my q..cheers for clearing that up.

[MightyWarrior]

From a UK TV point of view, it's a shame Froch doesn't get Abrahams next. Because whoever screens these here ( my wild guess would be ITV ) would be able to show AA/Taylor out of Germany, and the Froch fight - same night, back to back.
That would set things up for the viewers perfectly - keep things for the next stage simple: the two winners they've just seen, meeting each other next time out, prizefighter style.

They set up the first Leonard/Hearns fight that way, both winning in blistering style on the same night, different arenas, setting up the showdown. Much bigger scale of course, but the idea worked brilliantly.

Of course Taylor winning wouldn't be as attractive as AA v Froch....Still it's going to be a hell of a showcase night - Froch v the brash yank in his hometown, and Abraham in VERY tough with Taylor. That's a 50/50 fight, Taylor will give King Arthur nightmares.

[hitman_hatton1]

@hitman

Soemthing tells me you have a sneaky twenty ( or more) on Froch to win

never.

froch is the favourite anyway isn't he?

[leforge]

I think Abraham and Froch fights hsould be on the same bill makes commercial sense!

[iwz678]

I agree with leforge we should have two fights on the same bill either in America, Germany or UK.

I hope this is a proper tv deal and not some highlights package or something. Dead excited about this now and I really hope it's ITV because I really like John Rawling and Duke McKenzie, they've done a splendid job over the years when allegedly was on ITV and now with Hennessy.

[leforge]

I be very surprised if its ESPN. ITV may have it on itv4!

[MightyWarrior]

Lot of people in boxing don't think these fights will come off and the tornament will end half way through.

Which was what everybody must have thought when this idea was first announced. It's hard enough to hold one fight together, let alone 6 over 6 months in 6 different places.

But I read somewhere that Showtime had tied them to watertight contracts, once they signed up, and they'd be "finished" in boxing if they pulled out ( whatever that means ) either way, hopefully pulling out will be more trouble than it's worth...