ITV are covering the big Cardiff show over two TV broadcasts

JimJim · Post by **JimJim** » 05 Jul 2006, 04:35

Saturday night on ITV1 live its Williams vs Skelton + Enzo + Amir from half past nine until 11.25pm.

Monday night, ITV4, 9pm-11pm, is Lockett vs Rhodes + rest of the undercard.

Its a shame they can't push the boat out with several hours of continuous live coverage on Saturday night, across both channels (couldn't they postpone a bloody repeat of William Shatner in Invasion Iowa ?!?) but this is better than trying to condense all those fights into a two hour show so credit where its due.

DG. · Post by **DG.** » 05 Jul 2006, 09:38

delayed Domestic action?.

Podmore_Birmingham · Post by **Podmore_Birmingham** » 05 Jul 2006, 09:40

Least they are showing it... eventually!

But, it won't be quite the same, with everyone knowing the results of the fights. It will take away the luster.

Still, least we get to see them.

Tom Podmore.

KOJOE90 · Post by **KOJOE90** » 05 Jul 2006, 09:48

Not too impressed, but as others have said at least we are getting to see the undercard..... eventually.

I for one would rather see the Lockett - Rhodes fight live than the Khan fight. But with Khan being the new ' next big thing' I understand why ITV want to give him the big exposure.

JimJim · Post by **JimJim** » 05 Jul 2006, 09:51

Me and my dad will try to avoid the results of the bouts intended for the second show, so we can watch them "live". I am hoping that ITV are not actually stupid enough to give away any results during their Saturday night broadcast but I wouldn't put it past them !

emma · Post by **emma** » 05 Jul 2006, 10:01

Thats a bit stupid.why didnt they just put it on itv4 on saturday.

vargas · Post by **vargas** » 05 Jul 2006, 11:16

Surely they could find a couple of hours of space on ITV2/3 or 4. I thought they made the extra channels for situations like this. Could they not stream the fights on ITV.com or allegedly's website?

JimmyJamJerusalem · Post by **JimmyJamJerusalem** » 05 Jul 2006, 11:49

It's pretty dire isn't it!!!!

jonny · Post by **jonny** » 05 Jul 2006, 11:50

Podmore_Birmingham wrote:Least they are showing it... eventually!

But, it won't be quite the same, with everyone knowing the results of the fights. It will take away the luster.

Still, least we get to see them.

Tom Podmore.

Yeah nice to know we will get to see the other fights at some time.

Max Molyneux · Post by **Max Molyneux** » 06 Jul 2006, 06:17

Whos worth watching on the undercard? I ain't never seen none the undercard fighters there showing on Monday except Foster.

KOJOE90 · Post by **KOJOE90** » 06 Jul 2006, 06:24

Max Molyneux wrote:Whos worth watching on the undercard? I ain't never seen none the undercard fighters there showing on Monday except Foster.

Lockett vs Rhodes

JimJim · Post by **JimJim** » 06 Jul 2006, 09:11

Martin Watson vs Gavin Rees and Bradley Pryce vs Hassan Matumla are both title fights, plus there's Kevin Mitchell, Stephen Foster, Souleymane M'baye and Ross Minter all fighting too, and they've all been main event fighters in their own right.

Okay, some of these fights might be walkovers but its still good to see them making progress and there is the element of risk too; with so many Warren fighters on the show, its possible that one or two might slip up !

At the 2003 show at the Ice Rink, Wayne Alexander took a warm up on the undercard and got knocked out, and at the show at Cardiff Castle in 2001 Bradley Pryce came a cropper too.