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bodyactive wrote:Denns Hobson is a promotor who is full of passion for the sport, He puts money in with little return cares about his fighters and has their interests as a priority,
He takes fighters from no where and gets them shots at genuine world titles, who else does that....he puts on entertaining shows full of 50/50 fights what the ppl want to see....I can go in bookies and have a home accumulator and win every time on a Hearn show....Gavin and Kel is a decent matchup but who ever pays for that other than kels family and Gavins who cant get there are mugs cause its not worth the pay per view money....
Hearn and warren have this TV game stitched up and Hennessey seems to have vanished so with Dennis making a statement I hope every one tunes in FREE and leaves the SKY pay per view alone and its good for all boxing fans to get a taste for nowt

Paullow wrote:

bodyactive wrote:Denns Hobson is a promotor who is full of passion for the sport, He puts money in with little return cares about his fighters and has their interests as a priority,
He takes fighters from no where and gets them shots at genuine world titles, who else does that....he puts on entertaining shows full of 50/50 fights what the ppl want to see....I can go in bookies and have a home accumulator and win every time on a Hearn show....Gavin and Kel is a decent matchup but who ever pays for that other than kels family and Gavins who cant get there are mugs cause its not worth the pay per view money....
Hearn and warren have this TV game stitched up and Hennessey seems to have vanished so with Dennis making a statement I hope every one tunes in FREE and leaves the SKY pay per view alone and its good for all boxing fans to get a taste for nowt

You're right - Brook vs Gavin isn't worth the PPV money,

But when you add in 2 50/50 or 60/40 world title fights where the champion is travelling, plus 3 50/50 / 60/40 British or Commonwealth title fights and nearly 7 hours of boxing including 6 title fights plus AJ who will draw a bit of interest then it IS well worth the £16.95 IMO. I've been a big boxing fan for about 10 years now and i genuinely can't remember a better UK card than this. Can't wait for Saturday, will be missing the FA Cup final over it and compared to the Bellew-Cleverly undercard where it was a case of how many rounds (if any) Quigg, McDonnell, Groves etc lost, this is fantastic.

LancashireLoyal wrote: Burkinshaw's opponent,He's got a SD win over Simpiwe Vetyeka and an upset over former WBC International champion Nkqubela Gwazela.Mboyane stopped him in the 11th but Gwazela beat him soundly in the rematch.I don't think having a tear up with this guy is the way to go,I think he struggles when you box him especially off the back foot.I wouldn't say he has great power but he can suss you when he smells trouble.Ross sounds up for it anyway!Might be a corker this.

Boxing Prospect wrote:Funny thing is if Eddie put on some good shows on Sky Sports he'd get a pass for putting this Saturday's stuff on PPV, problem is he's given us turds recently and is expecting fans to fork out.

Another similar problem is that he's using Joshua Vs TBA's as a main event which is then getting Joshua a lot of stick as well.

I know I'm often "anti-Eddie" but he's making a rod for his own back. If he needs Joshua Vs TBA to get interest in the card then the show's aren't worth the Sky Sports subscription. By all means do Joshua Vs TBA WITH a genuine main event level bout alongside it, but don't forget that main event level bout.

ste1983 wrote:
Thats true the show is really good, but when you take into account the shockingly poor Matchroom cards that have led up to this show (because anything decent has been saved for this one) do you not feel you've already paid the £16.95 by paying subscription fees for Sky Sports and getting a very below par product?

whiteboy wrote:

ste1983 wrote:
Thats true the show is really good, but when you take into account the shockingly poor Matchroom cards that have led up to this show (because anything decent has been saved for this one) do you not feel you've already paid the £16.95 by paying subscription fees for Sky Sports and getting a very below par product?

By my reckoning the boxing for May on SKY was Dirrell - Degale and Burns & McDonnell in America (plus some shite from Brum).

If that's below par, then when it has ever been at 'par'?

ste1983 wrote:

whiteboy wrote:

ste1983 wrote:
Thats true the show is really good, but when you take into account the shockingly poor Matchroom cards that have led up to this show (because anything decent has been saved for this one) do you not feel you've already paid the £16.95 by paying subscription fees for Sky Sports and getting a very below par product?

By my reckoning the boxing for May on SKY was Dirrell - Degale and Burns & McDonnell in America (plus some shite from Brum).

If that's below par, then when it has ever been at 'par'?

I said shockingly poor Matchroom cards, none of the fights you mentioned where on a Matchroom card

WelshDevil wrote:Great news! Hopefully, this will lead to more free boxing on Freeview channels like Spike.

handsofstone wrote:I'm with Virgin so don't get Spike plus I'll be watching PPV unashamedly but what's the chances of me getting to see this bill the next day online?

baron_otto wrote:I'm likely to watch the spike fights. Be good to support a different channel - especially if viewing figures help boxing get wider coverage

mrbishi wrote:Only managed to catch the ross burkinshaw fight. The set left a lot to be desired but jaime moore was cracking as usual.

mrbishi wrote:The whole chips,beer and fights angle is very loaded/fhm circa 1995.