2026 …. what will happen?

What will happen in 2026

TKO Holdings will secure UK Shows
1
3%
Boxxer will extend their BBC Contract
8
22%
Boxxer wil win their court case
7
19%
MVP will Secure UK Shows
4
11%
Misfits Will Fold
2
5%
Sky Boxing Will Fold
5
14%
Saudi withraw their funding
10
27%
Goldstar emerge
0
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Total votes: 37

Spud MK2
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2026 …. what will happen?

Post by Spud MK2 »

What will happen in 2026??

i am telling you now the Boxxer/Whichusen court
is going to be explosive and severly embarrassing for a lot of people.
JamesPhilips
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Re: 2026 …. what will happen?

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Spud MK2 wrote: 09 Dec 2025, 12:38 What will happen in 2026??

i am telling you now the Boxxer/Whichusen court
is going to be explosive and severly embarrassing for a lot of people.
Why and how?
KiwiRider
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Re: 2026 …. what will happen?

Post by KiwiRider »

Turki gets inebriated at a royal function and pisses off the saudi royal family and gets put in jail, and we never see another oily cent spent on boxing.
gilgamesh
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Re: 2026 …. what will happen?

Post by gilgamesh »

Jai Opetaia will make his Heavyweight debut.

Tyson Fury will have another comeback.
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Re: 2026 …. what will happen?

Post by SeanBrennan »

Chisora won’t retire

Fisher’s father will say bosh a lot

Stomping Ground will attempt further comedic rapport with Eddie Hearn

Bellew will be at home with his wife and kids
gilgamesh
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Re: 2026 …. what will happen?

Post by gilgamesh »

Wardley will finish the year still a Heavyweight titleholder.

Canelo will win the now vacant WBC Super Middleweight title

Claressa Shields will make however many title defenses she feels like

Ronda Rousey will be beaten quickly and paid handsomely in what is likely her one and only Boxing match
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Re: 2026 …. what will happen?

Post by giacomino »

Jai will KO three more overmatched mandatories. Lara will beat up two or three more club fighters/mandatories, none ranked in the top 50. Jake Paul will KO the propped up corpse of a former fighter and declare himself the heavyweight champion. Benn vs Eubanks will happen again despite no interest from anyone outside the UK. Crawford will fight once.
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Re: 2026 …. what will happen?

Post by a force »

I keep thinking every year that surely DAZN will pull the plug soon. I can’t ever remember a broadcasting network running up the kind of losses they are.
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Re: 2026 …. what will happen?

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a force wrote: 09 Dec 2025, 20:17 I keep thinking every year that surely DAZN will pull the plug soon. I can’t ever remember a broadcasting network running up the kind of losses they are.
They have a plan to profitability. Huge losses were expected.
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Re: 2026 …. what will happen?

Post by KiwiRider »

Frostieballs wrote: 09 Dec 2025, 20:22
a force wrote: 09 Dec 2025, 20:17 I keep thinking every year that surely DAZN will pull the plug soon. I can’t ever remember a broadcasting network running up the kind of losses they are.
They have a plan to profitability. Huge losses were expected.
I wonder what that plan actually is.
Because they haven't really expanded the subscribers, they have just fleeced the existing subscribers harder.
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Re: 2026 …. what will happen?

Post by Spud MK2 »

KiwiRider wrote: 09 Dec 2025, 22:59
Frostieballs wrote: 09 Dec 2025, 20:22
a force wrote: 09 Dec 2025, 20:17 I keep thinking every year that surely DAZN will pull the plug soon. I can’t ever remember a broadcasting network running up the kind of losses they are.
They have a plan to profitability. Huge losses were expected.
I wonder what that plan actually is.
Because they haven't really expanded the subscribers, they have just fleeced the existing subscribers harder.
what a total disaster that would be
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Re: 2026 …. what will happen?

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Frostieballs wrote: 09 Dec 2025, 20:22
a force wrote: 09 Dec 2025, 20:17 I keep thinking every year that surely DAZN will pull the plug soon. I can’t ever remember a broadcasting network running up the kind of losses they are.
They have a plan to profitability. Huge losses were expected.
I honestly don’t know a single person that subscribes to it.

My casual mates eyes glaze over if I mention that a fight is on DAZN & the only proper boxing fans I know watch on dodgy boxes.

I just can’t see how it can ever work unless they got premier league football.
Last edited by a force on 10 Dec 2025, 07:04, edited 1 time in total.
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Re: 2026 …. what will happen?

Post by MasterG »

Eddie will get involved in BKB as it's the future
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Re: 2026 …. what will happen?

Post by JamesPhilips »

MasterG wrote: 10 Dec 2025, 07:03 Eddie will get involved in BKB as it's the future
DAZN have a deal with their rival BKFC
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Post by MPW »

giacomino wrote: 09 Dec 2025, 18:52 Jai will KO three more overmatched mandatories. Lara will beat up two or three more club fighters/mandatories, none ranked in the top 50. Jake Paul will KO the propped up corpse of a former fighter and declare himself the heavyweight champion. Benn vs Eubanks will happen again despite no interest from anyone outside the UK. Crawford will fight once.
Lara having two or three fights in ... in ONE year? Oh, perish the thought.
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Spud MK2 wrote: 09 Dec 2025, 12:38 What will happen in 2026??

i am telling you now the Boxxer/Whichusen court
is going to be explosive and severly embarrassing for a lot of people.
https://www.bailii.org/ew/cases/EWHC/KB/2025/2386.html contains the High Court judgment granting Boxxer an injunction against Wischhusen (who they say is still their Head of Boxing) preventing him from contacting Sky or doing any work in boxing except for their benefit.

The allegation appears to be that he planned to set up a rival promotion company to get shows on Sky Sports with Shalom cut out of the deal.

May get very messy indeed if, for example, Shalom were to bring proceedings against Sky in tort for inducing Wischhusen to breach his contract with Boxxer
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Re: 2026 …. what will happen?

Post by tony1234 »

Whitaker won't fight anyone liable to beat him, neither will Itauma
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Re: 2026 …. what will happen?

Post by olij999 »

Some websites indicated that the expedited full hearing of the case was happening in November - did it?
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Re: 2026 …. what will happen?

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dookus wrote: 10 Dec 2025, 10:34
Spud MK2 wrote: 09 Dec 2025, 12:38 What will happen in 2026??

i am telling you now the Boxxer/Whichusen court
is going to be explosive and severly embarrassing for a lot of people.
https://www.bailii.org/ew/cases/EWHC/KB/2025/2386.html contains the High Court judgment granting Boxxer an injunction against Wischhusen (who they say is still their Head of Boxing) preventing him from contacting Sky or doing any work in boxing except for their benefit.

The allegation appears to be that he planned to set up a rival promotion company to get shows on Sky Sports with Shalom cut out of the deal.

May get very messy indeed if, for example, Shalom were to bring proceedings against Sky in tort for inducing Wischhusen to breach his contract with Boxxer
I’ve only skim read but…
Surely boxing is finished then on Sky? I mean all the big promoters are with other TV stations…. Legal issues will likely prevent them from working with any promoter anyway or anyone risking working with Sky…. Sky may have to make a payment to Shalom…. This guy Johnny Wishchusen seems a loose cannon.

Also what’s the real story behind Adam Smith getting thrown under the bus? He wasnt sacked because he had cancer was he? That’s a huge legal case in itself. Heads are gonna roll and Sky is finished in boxing thankfully
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Re: 2026 …. what will happen?

Post by CaptainSpacerod »

Spud MK2 wrote: 09 Dec 2025, 12:38 What will happen in 2026??

i am telling you now the Boxxer/Whichusen court
is going to be explosive and severly embarrassing for a lot of people.
Would you be severely embarrassed were that not to be the case and your predictions were revealed to be nothing other than made up guff.

Or would it in fact be just a tiny bump in the road and a chance to relaunch yourself as forum king Spud 3.0

:yay: :yay: :yay:
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Re: 2026 …. what will happen?

Post by Frostieballs »

JamesPhilips wrote: 10 Dec 2025, 12:35
dookus wrote: 10 Dec 2025, 10:34
Spud MK2 wrote: 09 Dec 2025, 12:38 What will happen in 2026??

i am telling you now the Boxxer/Whichusen court
is going to be explosive and severly embarrassing for a lot of people.
https://www.bailii.org/ew/cases/EWHC/KB/2025/2386.html contains the High Court judgment granting Boxxer an injunction against Wischhusen (who they say is still their Head of Boxing) preventing him from contacting Sky or doing any work in boxing except for their benefit.

The allegation appears to be that he planned to set up a rival promotion company to get shows on Sky Sports with Shalom cut out of the deal.

May get very messy indeed if, for example, Shalom were to bring proceedings against Sky in tort for inducing Wischhusen to breach his contract with Boxxer
I’ve only skim read but…
Surely boxing is finished then on Sky? I mean all the big promoters are with other TV stations…. Legal issues will likely prevent them from working with any promoter anyway or anyone risking working with Sky…. Sky may have to make a payment to Shalom…. This guy Johnny Wishchusen seems a loose cannon.

Also what’s the real story behind Adam Smith getting thrown under the bus? He wasnt sacked because he had cancer was he? That’s a huge legal case in itself. Heads are gonna roll and Sky is finished in boxing thankfully
It is mad, because in my time in boxing, John W was one of the most straight up people I came across.

Is it mentioned if he was working with, or acting on behalf of, anybody else in the sport?
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Re: 2026 …. what will happen?

Post by Coco »

I am a fan of John Wish, never heard anyone speak badly about him, which is an amazing thing in boxing!
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Re: 2026 …. what will happen?

Post by Spud MK2 »

Frostieballs wrote:
It is mad, because in my time in boxing, John W was one of the most straight up people I came across.

Is it mentioned if he was working with, or acting on behalf of, anybody else in the sport?
i was stunned. like i say theres a lot more come … Whichusen and his lawyer … I also see someone mention skys part in this

clearly it is only a question because i do not have a clue …: if sky have enough of case against them is it called
“Corporate Sabotage”
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Re: 2026 …. what will happen?

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Coco wrote: 10 Dec 2025, 15:26 I am a fan of John Wish, never heard anyone speak badly about him, which is an amazing thing in boxing!
until recently i would have agreed.

a very interesting few months
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Re: 2026 …. what will happen?

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:maybe: now a question that clearly has to be asked lf sky are involved which members of sky will be named

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