Which channels show boxing in UK nowadays?

[handsofstone]

I,m a tivo customer with virgin and am subscribed to Sky Sports and Allegedly but from today ESPN is no longer available on the virgin format,as an avid boxing fan i watch every fight on every station apart from Eurosport,but i need to check every channels own webpage daily to make sure i dont miss anything but im getting sick and tired doing that,especially as some channels havent shown a live show in months,so id like an update please if anyones any wiser


Loaded-I heard they were pulling the plug,have they?is it definite?
Premier Sports-Havent shown a live fight for nearly a year,are they out also?
Channel 5-Were supposed to be pulling out then showed Furys last fight,any idea where they stand these days?
Primetime- they show about 1 fight a year,whats going on?
BT Sports-any plans to show boxing as of yet?


I love the Friday Night Fight series on ESPN but i cant afford to subscibe to that and BT if it starts showing boxing and becomes available on virgin

[Mimmy]

channel 200 0n sky box has fights on night time ive not seen one yet so don't know whats on offer.

[Lenny Cravats]

Controversial TV channel show classic fights.

[handsofstone]

Yeah Loaded/Controversial TV on channel 200 on Sky show a lot of old fights but i heard they were pulling out all together with the live shows,last fight they showed was Jon Lewis Dickinson v Mike Stafford

[lefty]

I,m a tivo customer with virgin and am subscribed to Sky Sports and Allegedly but from today ESPN is no longer available on the virgin format,as an avid boxing fan i watch every fight on every station apart from Eurosport,but i need to check every channels own webpage daily to make sure i dont miss anything but im getting sick and tired doing that,especially as some channels havent shown a live show in months,so id like an update please if anyones any wiser


Loaded-I heard they were pulling the plug,have they?is it definite?
Premier Sports-Havent shown a live fight for nearly a year,are they out also?
Channel 5-Were supposed to be pulling out then showed Furys last fight,any idea where they stand these days?
Primetime- they show about 1 fight a year,whats going on?
BT Sports-any plans to show boxing as of yet?


I love the Friday Night Fight series on ESPN but i cant afford to subscibe to that and BT if it starts showing boxing and becomes available on virgin

Is that because of BT coming on the scene?

[handsofstone]

I,m a tivo customer with virgin and am subscribed to Sky Sports and Allegedly but from today ESPN is no longer available on the virgin format,as an avid boxing fan i watch every fight on every station apart from Eurosport,but i need to check every channels own webpage daily to make sure i dont miss anything but im getting sick and tired doing that,especially as some channels havent shown a live show in months,so id like an update please if anyones any wiser


Loaded-I heard they were pulling the plug,have they?is it definite?
Premier Sports-Havent shown a live fight for nearly a year,are they out also?
Channel 5-Were supposed to be pulling out then showed Furys last fight,any idea where they stand these days?
Primetime- they show about 1 fight a year,whats going on?
BT Sports-any plans to show boxing as of yet?


I love the Friday Night Fight series on ESPN but i cant afford to subscibe to that and BT if it starts showing boxing and becomes available on virgin

Is that because of BT coming on the scene?

Yeah thats right mate Im all for more boxing on TV but paying for Sky and Allegedlys enough,not forgetting PPVs

[thatllbeme]

espn friday fights will be on bt vision
5 have galahad and hughie fury 14/9/13
goldenboy are starting monday night fights hopefully allegedly gets these

[lefty]

I,m a tivo customer with virgin and am subscribed to Sky Sports and Allegedly but from today ESPN is no longer available on the virgin format,as an avid boxing fan i watch every fight on every station apart from Eurosport,but i need to check every channels own webpage daily to make sure i dont miss anything but im getting sick and tired doing that,especially as some channels havent shown a live show in months,so id like an update please if anyones any wiser


Loaded-I heard they were pulling the plug,have they?is it definite?
Premier Sports-Havent shown a live fight for nearly a year,are they out also?
Channel 5-Were supposed to be pulling out then showed Furys last fight,any idea where they stand these days?
Primetime- they show about 1 fight a year,whats going on?
BT Sports-any plans to show boxing as of yet?


I love the Friday Night Fight series on ESPN but i cant afford to subscibe to that and BT if it starts showing boxing and becomes available on virgin

Is that because of BT coming on the scene?

Yeah thats right mate Im all for more boxing on TV but paying for Sky and Allegedlys enough,not forgetting PPVs

It takes the piss!

[handsofstone]

espn friday fights will be on bt vision
5 have galahad and hughie fury 14/9/13
goldenboy are starting monday night fights hopefully Allegedly channel gets these

Thats helpful,much appreciated

[Boxing Prospect]

A shame no one picks up the weekly televised Thai cards. Many of them are fun to watch, especially ones like today's.

[JamesH]

A shame no one picks up the weekly televised Thai cards. Many of them are fun to watch, especially ones like today's.

When allegedly started, I thought this kind of thing (rather than showing endless repeats) would be their schedule fillers.

[Boxing Prospect]

A shame no one picks up the weekly televised Thai cards. Many of them are fun to watch, especially ones like today's.

When Allegedly channel started, I thought this kind of thing (rather than showing endless repeats) would be their schedule fillers.

Would have made sense. I can't imagine it costing a lot to get a live feed, or tape delay, of the Channel 7 cards, working out a deal with Kameda/Teiken/Ohashi Gym/Ioka Gym.

Getting fights like Kompayak Porpramook v Koki Eto would have helped expose how great this sport really is at the moment, rather than letting us all believe the sport is dying.

[JamesH]

A shame no one picks up the weekly televised Thai cards. Many of them are fun to watch, especially ones like today's.

When Allegedly channel started, I thought this kind of thing (rather than showing endless repeats) would be their schedule fillers.

Would have made sense. I can't imagine it costing a lot to get a live feed, or tape delay, of the Channel 7 cards, working out a deal with Kameda/Teiken/Ohashi Gym/Ioka Gym.

Getting fights like Kompayak Porpramook v Koki Eto would have helped expose how great this sport really is at the moment, rather than letting us all believe the sport is dying.

Exactly. There are a lot of cards they could pick up cheaply that would give them a USP. I'm sre there must be a reason they haven't, I'm just curious as to what the reason is.

[nfc90210]

Sometimes Eurosport show live boxing. Last week, for instance, they had the Solis fight. Fights can also pop up on Premier Sports (another subscription channel) as well - I think I watched the last Adamek/Cunningham fight there.

The Sky Planner lets you search by category (sport) and then by sub category (boxing). I do that once a week and am able to find most of the boxing that's on. You'll get a ton of stuff listed most of which will be allegedly/ESPN Classic filler/repeats but if you spend a few minutes going through the results you can normally find stuff the stuff you want to watch. I would imagine that the Virgin Planner/Channel Guide would allow a similar kind of search.

[thatllbeme]

bt sports will be free to virgin media xl customers in 2 weeks time like espn was

[Jack B]

BT have bought ESPN (the UK TV channels anyway) and they now operate under the same banner. So if you want to watch ESPN, you're going to have to get the BT Sport package.....

[stevedoc]

i'm with virgin to and i'm gutted that ESPN has been dropped , i recorded loads of fights from ESPN classics but they will be deleted from me in about 6 weeks which is terrible i think ,i have most of my hard drive filled with old fights that i will now have taken away.

[handsofstone]

bt sports will be free to virgin media xl customers in 2 weeks time like espn was

Based on................



Dont get me wrong i hope your right but.............

[Alba]

bt sports will be free to virgin media xl customers in 2 weeks time like espn was

Based on................



Dont get me wrong i hope your right but.............

there was a memo that went round the staff at virgin to say they were negotiating it but it wasent by any means gurenteed .