Reckon Spike TV will do any more boxing?

[ILikeBeer]

Dennis Hobson has hailed as a success his debut collaboration with Spike TV, after viewers were left on the edge of their seats by the televised ring-action at Rotherham's Magna Centre on May 30.

Top of the bill saw Ross Burkinshaw throw caution to the wind against South Africa's Klaas Mboyane for the vacant WBO Inter-Continental bantamweight title. Fight-fans were enthralled as the pair traded ferociously, before Burkinshaw was forced to retire injured after four rounds of toe-to-toe action.

Chief-support was another fan-friendly affair as Barnsley's Josh Wale edged Welshman Dai Davies in a Commonwealth featherweight title eliminator. The pair set about each other for the full 10 rounds, with cuts and clean shots wowing the crowd, as the Spike TV cameras recorded the see-saw battle.

"It was a success," stated promoter Hobson. "There are a couple of things we'll tweak but, without trying to reinvent the wheel, we're looking to create more entertainment and get casual and non-boxing fans interested. Sometimes people don't like change, but we're trying to do something a little bit different and hopefully people won't be negative from the start.

"I definitely believe we can add a different dimension to the norm when it comes to shows, while not forgetting that it's all about the boxers trying to further their careers. The show and production was pulled together pretty quickly, behind the scenes we worked very hard, and all-in-all I thought the concept worked well. As I say, we'll tweak a few things in future but I'm very happy with how it went.

"Ultimately it's all about making the right matches for the fighters and the crowd. Boxing is an entertainment business as well as a sport, and it's so important to have well-matched, competitive contests. We did that again on Saturday night, the fights were terrific, and the feedback we've had has been very positive."


http://www.worldboxingnews.net/2015/06/ ... h-spike-tv

[ILikeBeer]

Any news on whether Virgin are getting in on the action?,I can't seem to find anything recent

I don't seem to have Freeviw on my TV, not that I'm aware of anyway,I managed to get the Burkinshaw card on 5 on demand on the telly but I just hope they keep putting all their cards on because i can't watch it on demand online because my shitty little tablet won't allow it

I'll be gutted if I miss Lara-Rodriguez on Friday and the Haskins undercard the next night

Still in negotiations, I'm afraid.

I thought Freeview was pretty much built into every telly, these days? Does it not just require an aerial? You might be like me, and not use an aerial for your main telly. (As I'm plugged into Virgin, I've never really seen the point.) But you should be able to plug in an aerial and tune it in to pick up the freeview channels.

[handsofstone]

Any news on whether Virgin are getting in on the action?,I can't seem to find anything recent

I don't seem to have Freeviw on my TV, not that I'm aware of anyway,I managed to get the Burkinshaw card on 5 on demand on the telly but I just hope they keep putting all their cards on because i can't watch it on demand online because my shitty little tablet won't allow it

I'll be gutted if I miss Lara-Rodriguez on Friday and the Haskins undercard the next night

Still in negotiations, I'm afraid.

I thought Freeview was pretty much built into every telly, these days? Does it not just require an aerial? You might be like me, and not use an aerial for your main telly. (As I'm plugged into Virgin, I've never really seen the point.) But you should be able to plug in an aerial and tune it in to pick up the freeview channels.

Cheers ILB,I'll give it a try,I've got an aerial about somewhere

[expe]

Any news on whether Virgin are getting in on the action?,I can't seem to find anything recent

I don't seem to have Freeviw on my TV, not that I'm aware of anyway,I managed to get the Burkinshaw card on 5 on demand on the telly but I just hope they keep putting all their cards on because i can't watch it on demand online because my shitty little tablet won't allow it

I'll be gutted if I miss Lara-Rodriguez on Friday and the Haskins undercard the next night

Still in negotiations, I'm afraid.

I thought Freeview was pretty much built into every telly, these days? Does it not just require an aerial? You might be like me, and not use an aerial for your main telly. (As I'm plugged into Virgin, I've never really seen the point.) But you should be able to plug in an aerial and tune it in to pick up the freeview channels.

Cheers ILB,I'll give it a try,I've got an aerial about somewhere

Depending on how old your telly is you might not need an aerial, your Virgin box will be connected to the telly through a cable, probably HDMI and the TV will be set to feed that input. There should be a button on the TV remote(not the Virgin one), or on the telly that allows you to change the input, like you would if you have a DVD player. If you change it back to the default TV setting it should come up with freeview.

[handsofstone]

Cheers expe,I'll give that a try,I'm having no joy with the aerial, I'm hopeless with this sort of stuff

[ILikeBeer]

Cheers expe,I'll give that a try,I'm having no joy with the aerial, I'm hopeless with this sort of stuff

Don't worry. So am I.

I've had that flat screen telly in my living room for 18 months, and I've never bothered to install the freeview channels. I watched the Ross Burkinshaw fight on my little freeview telly in my bedroom.

This evening I plugged in an aerial for the first time in my living room. Luckily I pressed a few buttons on my remote, and it installed them all for me. I didn't even need to change between HDMI stuff, that would baffle me. Fortunately now, if I turn the Virgin box off, it can go straight to freeview. So should I wish to watch Spike TV on my 42-inch, I can.

Good luck. Good to know that I aint the only one who is a bit of a div when it comes to this sort of stuff.

Ps. I hope the Spike TV coverage is worth watching. It wasn't last time.

[handsofstone]

Cheers expe,I'll give that a try,I'm having no joy with the aerial, I'm hopeless with this sort of stuff

Don't worry. So am I.

I've had that flat screen telly in my living room for 18 months, and I've never bothered to install the freeview channels. I watched the Ross Burkinshaw fight on my little freeview telly in my bedroom.

This evening I plugged in an aerial for the first time in my living room. Luckily I pressed a few buttons on my remote, and it installed them all for me. I didn't even need to change between HDMI stuff, that would baffle me. Fortunately now, if I turn the Virgin box off, it can go straight to freeview. So should I wish to watch Spike TV on my 42-inch, I can.

Good luck. Good to know that I aint the only one who is a bit of a div when it comes to this sort of stuff.

Ps. I hope the Spike TV coverage is worth watching. It wasn't last time.

Haha I know its fatal I feel like a dinosaur, I've pissed about with and without an aeriel in all rooms and still no joy,i got a few of the BBC channels in the kids room but that's it,I managed to get Burkinshaw on demand through virgin but they removed after a few days so I'm just hoping they put the other 2 shows from spike on there again this week

Thanks for all the advice everyone though cheers

[taffytoon]

Are they showing the undercard of the Haskins bill tomorrow?

[handsofstone]

Are they showing the undercard of the Haskins bill tomorrow?

Yep half 7 on spike I'm gonna have to watch that and the Lara card on channel 5 catch up

[handsofstone]

I watched the Lara-Rodriguez on channel 5 catch up on demand on my laptop this morning,handy for us who have virgin and don't get spike

I'll do the same tomorrow morning for the Haskins-Iwasa undercard, no doubt I'll find out the Ajisafe result when I put channel 5 on tonight at 10 though