MAJOR UK TV DEAL FOR MONTE CARLO BOXING SHOW

[HS Press]

MAJOR UK TV DEAL FOR MONTE CARLO BOXING SHOW

WORLD TITLE ACTION BACK ON TERRESTRIAL TELEVISION IN THE UK

LIVE ON CHANNEL 5

London/Johannesburg, October 6 - In a major coup for UK boxing fans, October 25’s “Title Tornado” tournament in Monte Carlo, jointly headlined by the UK’s Martin Murray in a world title eliminator and Stuart Hall in a world title fight, will be broadcast live on Channel 5 in Britain.

Working in collaboration with leading promoter Mick Hennessy, and Hennessy Sports’ William Storey, Golden Gloves promoter Rodney Berman has ensured that Murray’s WBC Silver middleweight title defence against Domenico Spada and Hall’s IBF world title fight against undefeated Randy Caballero will be seen by millions of households live on UK terrestrial television.

This is a significant milestone for the sport given that the last major world title fight broadcast live on UK terrestrial television was Carl Froch against Jean Pascal for the WBC title in December 2008, also promoted by Mick Hennessy on ITV.

“I’m delighted,” said Hennessy, who in the past has developed and promoted top boxers including the likes of Junior Witter, Carl Froch, Darren Barker, Howard Eastman, Herbie Hide and James De Gale. He currently promotes heavyweight sensation Tyson Fury and Super bantamweight star Kid Galahad, among many others.

“Murray is an elite-level fighter with a huge following at home. The fans deserve to see more of him.”

Another British highlight on the card is former world champion Hall’s crack at the IBF world title. UK fight fans will be able to see live whether Hall can regain the world title he held until four months ago. British fight fans will also get to see Europe’s most avoided middleweight, the West Country Warrior Nick Blackwell, making his Monte Carlo debut.

Berman expects over 100 countries to tune into the Monte Carlo tournament, which also features two world championship fights and another WBC Silver belt championship bout between unbeaten Ryno Liebenberg of South Africa and undefeated Eleider Alvarez of Colombia, with the winner certain to step into a full-blown world title fight against Adonis Stevenson.

When China’s Xiong Zhao Zhong challenges South African Hekkie Budler for the WBA and IBO minimumweight belts, expectations are that 300 million Chinese will watch the fight live, according to manager Gang Liu.

Africa’s SuperSport, which broadcasts in 54 countries in Sub-Saharan Africa, will also broadcast the event.

Known as one of the most exclusive vacation destinations in the world and situated on the Mediterranean Sea in South West Europe, Monaco attracts millions of visitors each year. The Casino de Monte-Carlo, owned and operated by the Monte-Carlo Société des Bains de Mer, is the premiere casino destination in Europe. The Casino de Monte-Carlo continues to attract some of the wealthiest and most well-known celebrities and aristocrats throughout the world.

[keirw]

Good old Mick, always has an ace up his sleeve

[ste1983]

Great news well done Mick (gets a lot of unfair stick in my opinion)

[Boxerbeetle]

Good stuff, always a bonus to have boxing on terrestrial television. Will look forward to it.

[ste1983]

Just a shame its on a night when allegedly and Sky both have domestic cards on too, that can't be helped I suppose.

[Sklar]

Nice one, Mick!

[Crazyboy]

I'm chuffed to bits, I try and get to all Stuey's fights but this one was sadly out of reach for me financially!

Wish I could be there but good luck to all involved!!

[Andrew]

Great news.

[The Law]

Great stuff!

[pyenest77]

Top stuff!

[handsofstone]

Quality stuff that

[seanilius]

That stuff is both great and top. In addition it is also found to be quality.

[black panther]

That stuff is both great and top. In addition it is also found to be quality.

Great news for us fans,
Well done Mick!
Who else gets us free boxing?
He gets unfair stick.
For Carl Froch,
He didn’t do the trick.
But if you complain about this,
You’re a bit of d*ck.

[ste1983]

Blackwell fighting Khomitsky on this bill now

[TheCobra]

Great news and a great bill.

[Bodyshot3]

Channel 5 seem to be the good guys boxing has been looking for since ITV and the BBC ran away and hid under a rock....they're buying fights, putting them at decent hours and I can even stomach a few mins of Al Bernstein for that. Nice job C5.

[magwitch]

Channel 5 seem to be the good guys boxing has been looking for since ITV and the BBC ran away and hid under a rock....they're buying fights, putting them at decent hours and I can even stomach a few mins of Al Bernstein for that. Nice job C5.

I like Bernstein

"British fight fans will also get to see Europe’s most avoided middleweight, the West Country Warrior Nick Blackwell, making his Monte Carlo debut."

Monte Carlo debut? No sh*t!

Great news, fancy a lad from Darlo being the first Terrestrial tele World Title combatant in 6 years!!

[magwitch]

Great news well done Mick (gets a lot of unfair stick in my opinion)

Agree, I've seen one or two idiots getting stuck into him on here the past couple of years. This will be a super evening's tele - irrespective of what's on another channel.

With the Chinese and African contingent broadcasting this, it could be almost world event!

[Andrew]

Blackwell fighting Khomitsky on this bill now

Seen this on Twitter that lad must have boulders in his pants.

Why isn't Khomitsky fighting Ryder anymore.

Nether the less quality card for Channel 5

Murrays opponent isn't that bad.

Blackwell v Khomitsky and Hall Caballero should quality fights.

The two light heavies look good on paper think is 10 v 14 on boxrec

[Fortynineandout]

Well done channel 5

Good "stacked card" ...it would be PPV on sky !

[london]

Great news but I hope they show more of the undercard unlike when they covered Tyson Furys fights.

[ste1983]

Blackwell fighting Khomitsky on this bill now

Seen this on Twitter that lad must have boulders in his pants.

Why isn't Khomitsky fighting Ryder anymore.

Something to do with when Khomitsky fought Buglioni, Frank included a clause in the contract that Box-nation would have exclusive rights over Khomitskys next 3 (I think) fights if in the UK.

I saw Warren getting a lot of stick on here for it, yet if it was the other way round the same people would be praising Eddie for great business sense and saying Warren should have read the small print before making the Ryder fight.

[ste1983]

Great news but I hope they show more of the undercard unlike when they covered Tyson Furys fights.

Thats my only worry Channel 5 usually only set aside 1.30-2hrs

[handsofstone]

Great news but I hope they show more of the undercard unlike when they covered Tyson Furys fights.

Thats my only worry Channel 5 usually only set aside 1.30-2hrs

x2 Thats what i was thinking,i really wanna see the Budler fight,actually i want to see all the fights that they mention

[Joellucketti]

I was thinking exactly the same about the times on channel 5. Really good card in Monte Carlo and the last two bills Ive seen on allegedly over there ain't been bad nights. I really doubt channel 5 are going to have it on longer than 2 hours, once you take out the breaks you get on there every 5 minutes how much boxing are you going to get.

They'll probably show the Murray fight and the hall fight, depending on the length of those Blackwell will be very lucky to get any screen time.

This means ill be missing out on my favorite south African Hekki Budler lol.

I was disappointed when seeing this was on channel 5 really, the last two shows over there that have been on allegedly have been really good, and you cant beat allegedly coverage.