Pubs showing boxing?

bugs · Post by **bugs** » 31 Aug 2005, 10:20

Hiya,

I'm gonna be out at a stag do on the 9th of Sept Obviously this causes difficulties for me in watching the Woods - Gonzalez fight.

Does anyone know if the pubs will show this? Or better yet if any pubs in Oxford will show this?

Thanks,
Malcolm

bugs · Post by **bugs** » 31 Aug 2005, 10:23

And the Calzaghe fight the following night.

Coconut · Post by **Coconut** » 31 Aug 2005, 12:53

If you phone ahead and there's a group of you you could get The Wheatsheaf to sort it out for you in their upstairs room.

I'm assuming you're around central Oxford, there.

stujones · Post by **stujones** » 31 Aug 2005, 14:20

Most pubs with Sky do tend to show the boxing in my experience, might not have the sound on mind.

If they cater the football/Rugby they tend to also show the other live sports even if its Ten Pin Bowling.

Coconut · Post by **Coconut** » 01 Sep 2005, 04:05

That said, Stu, there aren't many in central Oxford that do do the footie and the centre is not big on boxing. Pubs / bars are either swanky / pretentious and no sport or too grim to have tellies.

There's a pretty ropey pub round the back of the covered market, I think called something like The Castle (this could be bollocks) that used to be an Aussie bar, that place would almost certainly be showing it. Utter dive, though. I'd still recommend giving The Wheatsheaf a shout.

bugs · Post by **bugs** » 01 Sep 2005, 04:34

Thanks, Ill try the Wheatsheaf. I am going to be on a barge on the canal and drinking along its length, so hopefully that goes through the center.

nickd · Post by **nickd** » 01 Sep 2005, 04:36

Try the Wheatsheaf.

"That my son is a right touch" (if you watch Soccer AM you'll know what I am on about)

Coconut · Post by **Coconut** » 01 Sep 2005, 04:55

bugs wrote:Thanks, Ill try the Wheatsheaf. I am going to be on a barge on the canal and drinking along its length, so hopefully that goes through the center.

It doesn't really. It starts just north of the station and keeps going north, out of town. Station is about ten minutes walk from centre. All depends where you stop off for the night, really.