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Re: Is the Fury v Parker going to be a hard sell?
Posted: 04 Sep 2017, 10:25
by Glass Joe
Hennessey is a complete and utter joke of a promoter, surely if the TV deal was all signed and sealed he would of announced at 10am this morning but as usual he has let us fans and his boxers down again, I bet he didn’t have anything signed when he made the announcement that he was going to announce the TV station which must of meant that he told the fury’s that a deal was in place when it wasn’t.
Just hope that allegedly step up and take the fight, least there will be one decent promoter involved in the event!
Re: Is the Fury v Parker going to be a hard sell?
Posted: 04 Sep 2017, 10:36
by JimJim2009
Give him a break it's not Mick's fault CBEEBIES won't return his calls
Re: Is the Fury v Parker going to be a hard sell?
Posted: 04 Sep 2017, 10:50
by mfc_se15
It really is a joke isn't it hahahaha.
I doubt many of us will see it as "great" news when it comes either, just a relief that it's finally been sorted!!
Re: Is the Fury v Parker going to be a hard sell?
Posted: 04 Sep 2017, 10:58
by bripez
I long for the good old days when a promoter would simply make an announcement about an announcement - they can't even do that these days.
Re: Is the Fury v Parker going to be a hard sell?
Posted: 04 Sep 2017, 12:30
by Andrew
Re: Is the Fury v Parker going to be a hard sell?
Posted: 04 Sep 2017, 12:52
by mullenman
Joke shop
Re: Is the Fury v Parker going to be a hard sell?
Posted: 04 Sep 2017, 12:57
by Andrew
Re: Is the Fury v Parker going to be a hard sell?
Posted: 04 Sep 2017, 13:00
by mickey1975
20 of us going. Fury will surprise Parker.
Re: Is the Fury v Parker going to be a hard sell?
Posted: 04 Sep 2017, 13:25
by jameswilson
Their celebrating like they have won the fight. I've said before I think the fight will be canned and I think Parker will win and to be fair the fight now looks like it is going ahead, although there is time for it to all go Mike Lee yet. But I aint gonna be looking stupid until Hughie Fury's hand is raised. If the fight goes ahead and Fury gets pancaked then the only people holding their dicks will be his team.
It reminds me of when Groves went 'round 1 to me' in the press conference for the Wembley fight.
Re: Is the Fury v Parker going to be a hard sell?
Posted: 04 Sep 2017, 14:52
by handsofstone
Effing shambolic state of affairs
Re: Is the Fury v Parker going to be a hard sell?
Posted: 04 Sep 2017, 15:05
by dirk2686
handsofstone wrote:Effing shambolic state of affairs
Interesting to see the difference in terms of quality of promotion between a Joshua fight and this shambles.
People saying 'well, it's just because he's on Sky' totally miss the point. The fight is two weeks on Saturday, no TV deal, venue empty, nothing on social media, barely any hype. A shame for Hughie but the promotion has genuinely been quite pathetic.
Re: Is the Fury v Parker going to be a hard sell?
Posted: 04 Sep 2017, 15:19
by handsofstone
dirk2686 wrote:handsofstone wrote:Effing shambolic state of affairs
Interesting to see the difference in terms of quality of promotion between a Joshua fight and this shambles.
People saying 'well, it's just because he's on Sky' totally miss the point. The fight is two weeks on Saturday, no TV deal, venue empty, nothing on social media, barely any hype. A shame for Hughie but the promotion has genuinely been quite pathetic.
Any promoter who doesn't frequently use social media is doing his fighters a disservice, its free, most people use it, even if their not personally interacting, at least constant retweets etc, hammer the twitter constsntly, Eddie's use of social media is a big part in why he's the best promoter in the world today
Re: Is the Fury v Parker going to be a hard sell?
Posted: 04 Sep 2017, 15:36
by Mimmy
Any Boxrec members going to this fight out of interest?
Re: Is the Fury v Parker going to be a hard sell?
Posted: 04 Sep 2017, 15:47
by dirk2686
handsofstone wrote:dirk2686 wrote:handsofstone wrote:Effing shambolic state of affairs
Interesting to see the difference in terms of quality of promotion between a Joshua fight and this shambles.
People saying 'well, it's just because he's on Sky' totally miss the point. The fight is two weeks on Saturday, no TV deal, venue empty, nothing on social media, barely any hype. A shame for Hughie but the promotion has genuinely been quite pathetic.
Any promoter who doesn't frequently use social media is doing his fighters a disservice, its free, most people use it, even if their not personally interacting, at least constant retweets etc, hammer the twitter constsntly, Eddie's use of social media is a big part in why he's the best promoter in the world today
Agreed, but it's not just that. Hearn will do the Joshua Pulev press conference soon. I imagine that it's 99% certain that at the conference it'll be a case of 'the fight will be on Sky Box Office.' And it's not just Joshua - TV is usually announced at the announcement regardless, including standard Sky.
Surely a massive part of a title fight is who is showing it, given that's a major source of income. Why is taking so long? Hennessy has form for this in fairness. Froch was a guy who ended up filling Wembley who had probably his most exciting fight broadcast on an internet stream.
Re: Is the Fury v Parker going to be a hard sell?
Posted: 04 Sep 2017, 16:02
by Manchester Hitman
It wouldn't surprise me if Hennessy eventually announces that he has concocted some kind PPV online streaming service for this fight.
Let's face it, no fcuking tv exec wants to pay for this shite- what a shambles.
Re: Is the Fury v Parker going to be a hard sell?
Posted: 04 Sep 2017, 16:12
by Mimmy
Manchester Hitman wrote:It wouldn't surprise me if Hennessy eventually announces that he has concocted some kind PPV online streaming service for this fight.
Let's face it, no fcuking tv exec wants to pay for this shite- what a shambles.
Proberly end up on Spike TV
Re: Is the Fury v Parker going to be a hard sell?
Posted: 04 Sep 2017, 16:34
by KiwiRider
mimmy123 wrote:Any Boxrec members going to this fight out of interest?
I wish!
Have a good one dude!
I'm just jelous. I think your going to get 12 rounds of HW action...
Although my darling sweetheart is coming out to the farm with a butter chicken and a 6 pack of Guinness for the fight

Re: Is the Fury v Parker going to be a hard sell?
Posted: 04 Sep 2017, 16:40
by KiwiRider
Manchester Hitman wrote:It wouldn't surprise me if Hennessy eventually announces that he has concocted some kind PPV online streaming service for this fight.
Let's face it, no fcuking tv exec wants to pay for this shite- what a shambles.
It's on Sky Box Office in New Zealand.
Don't know why there is all this confusion in the UK. Totally weird

Re: Is the Fury v Parker going to be a hard sell?
Posted: 04 Sep 2017, 16:42
by 3132DW
mimmy123 wrote:Manchester Hitman wrote:It wouldn't surprise me if Hennessy eventually announces that he has concocted some kind PPV online streaming service for this fight.
Let's face it, no fcuking tv exec wants to pay for this shite- what a shambles.
Proberly end up on Spike TV
Good Old "Dave"

Re: Is the Fury v Parker going to be a hard sell?
Posted: 04 Sep 2017, 17:02
by Boxerbeetle
mickey1975 wrote:20 of us going. Fury will surprise Parker.
By actually turning up for the fight?
Re: Is the Fury v Parker going to be a hard sell?
Posted: 04 Sep 2017, 17:22
by rd350lc
KiwiRider wrote:Manchester Hitman wrote:It wouldn't surprise me if Hennessy eventually announces that he has concocted some kind PPV online streaming service for this fight.
Let's face it, no fcuking tv exec wants to pay for this shite- what a shambles.
It's on Sky Box Office in New Zealand.
Don't know why there is all this confusion in the UK. Totally weird

No confusion , nobody is interested in it .
Re: Is the Fury v Parker going to be a hard sell?
Posted: 04 Sep 2017, 17:24
by jameswilson
Boxerbeetle wrote:mickey1975 wrote:20 of us going. Fury will surprise Parker.
By actually turning up for the fight?
By not drowning the front row when his pustules explode?
Re: Is the Fury v Parker going to be a hard sell?
Posted: 04 Sep 2017, 17:29
by 3132DW
jameswilson wrote:Boxerbeetle wrote:mickey1975 wrote:20 of us going. Fury will surprise Parker.
By actually turning up for the fight?
By not drowning the front row when his pustules explode?
Oh that's just wrong

Re: Is the Fury v Parker going to be a hard sell?
Posted: 05 Sep 2017, 01:09
by Glass Joe
Don’t people understand that if there is no TV in the UK then this fight won’t be on TV in New Zealand. Sky PPV in New Zealand will be taking a feed from UK TV production and adding in there own commentary etc, I can’t see Sky TV wanting to pay 150-200k for the production and I reckon in the contract between hennessey and duco it states that hennessey has to supply them with a live TV feed.
So unless hennessey does some actual work for a change and secures tv then this event wont happen, a percentage of Parkers purse is based on the TV rights selling well in New Zealand, Australia and Samoa, so parker will either want hennessey to cover that loss or he wont fight.
So let’s see if hennessey comes through and announces the UK TV deal today, still not sure that he understands it is only 18 days to fight night!
Re: Is the Fury v Parker going to be a hard sell?
Posted: 05 Sep 2017, 02:21
by veriton
It's on YouTube for a tenner. What a complete farce.