Terence Crawford vs. Kell Brook - 14 November 2020

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I remember when Premier Sports announces a partnership with Boxnatoin.. I think it was last year.. Who knows what happened to that.

They did show the Eubank-Korobov card I think..

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Crawford vs Brook LIVE on Premier Sports 1 in the UK

November’s most anticipated fight now has an exclusive UK broadcast home.

Premier Sports and Top Rank have announced that pound-for-pound king Terence “Bud” Crawford’s WBO welterweight world title defense against Sheffield’s Kell Brook — Saturday, November 14 in the United States — will air live on Premier Sports 1, with coverage starting at 12.30 a.m. Sunday morning.

The Crawford-Brook telecast will also include the highly anticipated rematch between WBA super flyweight world champion Joshua Franco and former world champion Andrew Moloney. Franco upset Moloney via unanimous decision June 23 to capture the world title.

Premier Sports 1 is available in HD via Sky (412 & 429), Virgin TV (551 & 552) and online via the Premier Player available on app and desktop. New subscribers to Premier Sports can easily sign up via the website – www.premiersports.com.

Richard Sweeney, CEO of Premier Sports said, “We are delighted to partner with Top Rank and broadcast this massively anticipated fight next month. There is huge interest in this event from fans in the UK, and we’re pleased to make it live and exclusive to Premier Sports customers.”

Brook said, “I am delighted to announce that my fans across the UK will be able to watch me fight Terence Crawford for the welterweight world title LIVE on Premier Sports.

“It’s bonfire season, and I’m going to be bringing the fireworks, so make sure you subscribe and tune in to watch me become two-time world champion, baby!”

Added Bob Arum, Top Rank Chairman, “I commend Premier Sports for stepping up to broadcast Crawford-Brook. Terence is a generational talent, and I strongly believe Kell has the skills to give him a tremendous challenge. The UK boxing fans deserved an outlet to watch this fight, and thanks to Premier Sports, they will have an opportunity to do so.”

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This is a pisstake, because fans already pay subscription for Sky and BT, who both show boxing regularly..

Now Premier Sports have started getting a few overseas cards here and there.. Unless you already watch Premier Sports for other sports that they show, this means you want fans to now subscribe to ANOTHER channel..

You can just subscribe for the month of November and just pay £9.99 and then cancel.. Be like a one-off ppv event. Like how FITE tv is.

Yet another card which is being shown free in the US primetime... But we in the UK have to folk out additional money to watch the same card here at daft o'clock.

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Premier sports have picked this up for broadcast in the Uk

I’ve never watched anything on Premier Sports. What’s the deal? Is it a paid subscription channel? Will the fight be on PPV?

Paid subscription channel.

[ash.123]

This is a pisstake, because fans already pay subscription for Sky and BT, who both show boxing regularly..

Now Premier Sports have started getting a few overseas cards here and there.. Unless you already watch Premier Sports for other sports that they show, this means you want fans to now subscribe to ANOTHER channel..

You can just subscribe for the month of November and just pay £9.99 and then cancel.. Be like a one-off ppv event. Like how FITE tv is.

Yet another card which is being shown free in the US primetime... But we in the UK have to folk out additional money to watch the same card here at daft o'clock.

Spot on.

Still surprised Sky haven't gone for it. I know it doesn't make 100% financial sense but Brook was one of Hearn's first signings and has no doubt earned him a decent wedge. Jumped around like a maniac when he beat Porter.

[maverick23]

This is a pisstake, because fans already pay subscription for Sky and BT, who both show boxing regularly..

Now Premier Sports have started getting a few overseas cards here and there.. Unless you already watch Premier Sports for other sports that they show, this means you want fans to now subscribe to ANOTHER channel..

You can just subscribe for the month of November and just pay £9.99 and then cancel.. Be like a one-off ppv event. Like how FITE tv is.

Yet another card which is being shown free in the US primetime... But we in the UK have to folk out additional money to watch the same card here at daft o'clock.

Spot on.

Still surprised Sky haven't gone for it. I know it doesn't make 100% financial sense but Brook was one of Hearn's first signings and has no doubt earned him a decent wedge. Jumped around like a maniac when he beat Porter.

Yeah - I watched the Brook IFL interview the other day and it was quite sad. He genuinely seemed upset and pissed off that Eddie and Sky haven’t got the fight. Wonder how much Bob wanted for it - can’t imagine that Premier Sports would have broken the bank for it.

I can’t imagine Premier Sports has a big subscriber base so, as Ruthless said, it’s like a £9.99 PPV.

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This is a pisstake, because fans already pay subscription for Sky and BT, who both show boxing regularly..

Now Premier Sports have started getting a few overseas cards here and there.. Unless you already watch Premier Sports for other sports that they show, this means you want fans to now subscribe to ANOTHER channel..

You can just subscribe for the month of November and just pay £9.99 and then cancel.. Be like a one-off ppv event. Like how FITE tv is.

Yet another card which is being shown free in the US primetime... But we in the UK have to folk out additional money to watch the same card here at daft o'clock.

Spot on.

Still surprised Sky haven't gone for it. I know it doesn't make 100% financial sense but Brook was one of Hearn's first signings and has no doubt earned him a decent wedge. Jumped around like a maniac when he beat Porter.

Yeah - I watched the Brook IFL interview the other day and it was quite sad. He genuinely seemed upset and pissed off that Eddie and Sky haven’t got the fight. Wonder how much Bob wanted for it - can’t imagine that Premier Sports would have broken the bank for it.

I can’t imagine Premier Sports has a big subscriber base so, as Ruthless said, it’s like a £9.99 PPV.

Yeh, will gain them some new subscriber for that month.. Depending on how many hardcore Brook fans will watch it.

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Brook did this deal without Matchroom.. Whether Brook wanted them involved or Matchroom did not want to get involved? Who knows.. But Brook should know, a deal without Matchroom, you can kiss Sky goodbye.

[maverick23]

I’m with BT TV - from what I can tell there’s no way to even get Premier Sports.

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I’m with BT TV - from what I can tell there’s no way to even get Premier Sports.

Only Sky and Virgin.

UNLESS... you get it online only.. Still £9.99

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Brook met new trainer through Instagram

Kell Brook says he is a "monster with self-belief" as he prepares to face WBO welterweight champion Terence Crawford - with a trainer he met on Instagram.

Britain's Brook, 34, challenges American Crawford - who is unbeaten in 36 bouts - on 14 November in Las Vegas.

Brook is not working with regular trainer Dominic Ingle because of the coronavirus pandemic and instead will have Carlos Formento in his corner.

"He's a guy I followed on Instagram because I like his style," said Brook.

The Sheffield fighter said Ingle was unable to travel to his training base in Spain because of concerns about Covid-19 and the possibility of having to quarantine.

Instead he recruited Formento, who was based a short flight away in the Canary Islands.

"I had never worked with him previously because Dominic is my trainer number one. I messaged him on Instagram and basically said 'let's work together'," said Brook.

"The first day, I knew that we gelled unbelievably. He is basically obsessed. He is passionate. And that's everything I need in this fight."

Former IBF welterweight champion Brook was last in action when he knocked out American Mark DeLuca in the seventh round in February.

But the Sheffield fighter's career has been derailed in recent years after back-to-back defeats by Gennady Golovkin and Errol Spence Jr, which left him with serious eye injuries.

In 33-year-old Crawford, Brook will face an opponent considered one of the best pound-for-pound fighters in the world.

Brook says he "doesn't feel the pressure" of a fight where victory would be the "best, best feeling in the world".

"I've got to applaud Terence Crawford for taking this fight, because he is in there with a monster with self-belief," he said.

"He is one hell of a fighter but a smaller man naturally to me. I'm a dangerous man, a big welterweight and a force to be reckoned with."

Brook needed metal plates inserting during eye surgery following the back-to-back defeats by Golovkin and Spence in September 2016 and May 2017.

"Everybody has been writing me off. I'm going against everyone," said Brook, who is irritated by claims he is only fighting for one last pay day.

"This fight is for me. Nobody else bar me."

[TheLeprechaun]

Brook talks a good game before fights and gives it a go but we saw him quit against spence and then make excuses for it. Warranted or not, you are sitting there talking like the hardest man on the planet pre fight and then making excuses for quitting in the fight afterward. Just a note of caution to anyone buying into his recent interviews.

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Brook talks a good game before fights and gives it a go but we saw him quit against spence and then make excuses for it. Warranted or not, you are sitting there talking like the hardest man on the planet pre fight and then making excuses for quitting in the fight afterward. Just a note of caution to anyone buying into his recent interviews.

Yehl he does talk waaaaaaaaaaaayyy too much before fights. Like he has to sell the fights etc.

The whole chocolate brownie crap with Spence was embarassing.

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Makes me laugh when fighters get a new trainer and come out saying I’ve never felt better, he’s brilliant etc. Hardly gonna turn round and say yeah I’ve got a new trainer but he’s rubbish.

[JimJim2009]

Its a nailed on "watch for nowt on youtube the next morning" sort of thing. It is, on paper, a good match up but Kell is way past his prime and it won't end well for him.

[BigDoofus]

Makes me laugh when fighters get a new trainer and come out saying I’ve never felt better, he’s brilliant etc. Hardly gonna turn round and say yeah I’ve got a new trainer but he’s rubbish.

He said the same when he boxed that Aussie stripper and nobody has seen that trainer since

[NoScoutingReports]

Any sports fan in the UK wanting to legally view football/boxing etc has to have a staggering amount of subscriptions nowadays, it's ridiculous. Then Sky/BT Box Office at 14.95 a pop for INDIVIDUAL games of football on top at the moment too, I mean come on. The fact this is on Premier Sports will make more streams available in the UK, but only the hardcore will stay up late for this fight (many hardcore fans won't bother either at this stage of Kell's career).

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Any sports fan in the UK wanting to legally view football/boxing etc has to have a staggering amount of subscriptions nowadays, it's ridiculous. Then Sky/BT Box Office at 14.95 a pop for INDIVIDUAL games of football on top at the moment too, I mean come on. The fact this is on Premier Sports will make more streams available in the UK, but only the hardcore will stay up late for this fight (many hardcore fans won't bother either at this stage of Kell's career).

I’m gonna watch it tbh. Will put my alarm on and wake up at 3-4am.. not for Brook, but I always watch Crawford fights.

Not that I’m paying For it though.

[NoScoutingReports]

Any sports fan in the UK wanting to legally view football/boxing etc has to have a staggering amount of subscriptions nowadays, it's ridiculous. Then Sky/BT Box Office at 14.95 a pop for INDIVIDUAL games of football on top at the moment too, I mean come on. The fact this is on Premier Sports will make more streams available in the UK, but only the hardcore will stay up late for this fight (many hardcore fans won't bother either at this stage of Kell's career).

I’m gonna watch it tbh. Will put my alarm on and wake up at 3-4am.. not for Brook, but I always watch Crawford fights.

Not that I’m paying For it though.

I'm with you in that respect, I always get up or stay up for Bud as he's one of my favourite fighters to watch. Fcuk paying.

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Eddie Hearn Reacts To Kell Brook Questioning His Loyalty

Promoter Eddie Hearn was a bit annoyed when former welterweight champion Kell Brook questioned his loyalty.

Hearn, who promoted Brook for many years, was not involved in the negotiations for Brook's deal to face Crawford.

Brook is also entering the bout without the services of his longtime trainer, Dominic Ingle.

Brook has made allegations that Hearn was bitter, over not being involved in the fight, and pursued payback by derailing the Sheffield boxer's attempt to have Sky Sports broadcast the world title fight with Crawford.

“I’ve done a lot with Kell and I thought I was going to rise above it. But then I started getting people on Twitter saying, ‘It’s bang out of order what you’ve done to Kell Brook’. I have so many problems on my plate right now getting fights for people who are with me and I thought, you know what, I’m going to let you know the truth," Hearn told The Sun.

“It wasn’t like they came to me and said, ‘Let’s work a deal’. They were whoring themselves to everyone else first. They tried BT, ITV, Channel 5, DAZN . . . I think they tried everybody and got turned down. And then they came to me asking for money!

“What was so disheartening for me was when he questioned my loyalty. I went way above and beyond trying to help Kell. I flew to Fuerteventura when he was in hospital after getting stabbed, sorting out all his medical insurance, lots of things. We’ve had some good times and it’s sad really. I feel really sorry for Dominic Ingle also because he has done everything for him from day one and they have got a big cash fight and got rid of him for it.

“I don’t think he wasted too much time chasing the Amir Khan fight, I think he wasted too much time away from the gym. Lots of times I had to drive up to Sheffield to help keep him on track. But now people are accusing me of hanging him out to dry — but he’s making $2 million to fight Crawford and just didn’t want to pay me. That’s all.”

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[fizzjambo]

Waste of talent Brook. I thought at one point he had the potential to be a British all time great but he’s fallen well short of that.

The Porter win away in the US was an excellent result but his run of fights after that suggest a very badly mismanaged prime - fought absolute trash, then jumped two weight classes to get a hiding against an absolute monster and then stripped it all off again to jump back in with the bright young talent in the division next up. I’m sure a combination of people are to blame but it he’s fallen well short of what he should have achieved

[black panther]

Waste of talent Brook. I thought at one point he had the potential to be a British all time great but he’s fallen well short of that.

The Porter win away in the US was an excellent result but his run of fights after that suggest a very badly mismanaged prime - fought absolute trash, then jumped two weight classes to get a hiding against an absolute monster and then stripped it all off again to jump back in with the bright young talent in the division next up. I’m sure a combination of people are to blame but it he’s fallen well short of what he should have achieved

Well said that man

[high tower 1]

Waste of talent Brook. I thought at one point he had the potential to be a British all time great but he’s fallen well short of that.

The Porter win away in the US was an excellent result but his run of fights after that suggest a very badly mismanaged prime - fought absolute trash, then jumped two weight classes to get a hiding against an absolute monster and then stripped it all off again to jump back in with the bright young talent in the division next up. I’m sure a combination of people are to blame but it he’s fallen well short of what he should have achieved

What are you on about ??? He beat frankie Gavin on PPV. He’ll be dining out on the win for years to come.

[ShadrachSimmo]

Spot on.

Still surprised Sky haven't gone for it. I know it doesn't make 100% financial sense but Brook was one of Hearn's first signings and has no doubt earned him a decent wedge. Jumped around like a maniac when he beat Porter.

Yeah - I watched the Brook IFL interview the other day and it was quite sad. He genuinely seemed upset and pissed off that Eddie and Sky haven’t got the fight. Wonder how much Bob wanted for it - can’t imagine that Premier Sports would have broken the bank for it.

I can’t imagine Premier Sports has a big subscriber base so, as Ruthless said, it’s like a £9.99 PPV.

Yeh, will gain them some new subscriber for that month.. Depending on how many hardcore Brook fans will watch it.

It’s only 9.99 when you subscribe for min of 6 months or 11.99 rolling contract.