Froch vs Dirrell TV Coverage

[jimmyt]

I reckon Hennessy and Froch have messed up on this one. Carl should win this fight and move on to the proposed fight with Kessler which could be HUGE. But who other than real fans (those of us who get on here and know who Froch is) will give a toss? Had they any sense ( in my opionion ), Hennessy would have taken less money and made sure that they reached a maximum audience in the UK and Europe. Fighting on Sky or ITV at a decent hour would have raised Carl's profile, especially with an exciting fight like the Pascall and Taylor scraps. Getting noticed by Joe Public, even in want to see him lose situation like Eubank or Hamed, even Khan inn some quarters would enevitably mean bigger pay days in the future. I for one will be interested in the viewing figures for this. I may be wildly wrong but I would be surprised if the figures top 150,000. Thats not the number of people paying but the total watching at that price, time and the fact cable subscribers like me do not even get the chance to buy it.

[don't call it a comeback]

I reckon Hennessy and Froch have messed up on this one. Carl should win this fight and move on to the proposed fight with Kessler which could be HUGE. But who other than real fans (those of us who get on here and know who Froch is) will give a toss? Had they any sense ( in my opionion ), Hennessy would have taken less money and made sure that they reached a maximum audience in the UK and Europe. Fighting on Sky or ITV at a decent hour would have raised Carl's profile, especially with an exciting fight like the Pascall and Taylor scraps. Getting noticed by Joe Public, even in want to see him lose situation like Eubank or Hamed, even Khan inn some quarters would enevitably mean bigger pay days in the future. I for one will be interested in the viewing figures for this. I may be wildly wrong but I would be surprised if the figures top 150,000. Thats not the number of people paying but the total watching at that price, time and the fact cable subscribers like me do not even get the chance to buy it.

This fight is almost comically obscure both in terms of media coverage and actually finding a way to watch it. This fight should be free to air to grab the biggest audience possible and then cash in later on in the series. Even if it is PPV not having it on virgin or via the select button on sky shows an amazing lack of planning. Its the Peter principle at work with this particular promoter.

I still remember the farce over whether the Witter-Ndou fight would be televised, with almost hourly updates right to the event. Has anything been learned in the meantime?

EDIT: its even worse than I thought, I just looked at the channel. Day of the fight, last big promotional push.....no footage running on the channel, no proper ads, no teasers or tasters, no hype, just two cheap looking stills and the website address. No purchase information, no telephone number.

Day of a fight. A fight they expect people to shell out £15 for. I'd be embarassed if I was involved with this to be honest.

[WayoftheCass]

I reckon Hennessy and Froch have messed up on this one. Carl should win this fight and move on to the proposed fight with Kessler which could be HUGE. But who other than real fans (those of us who get on here and know who Froch is) will give a toss? Had they any sense ( in my opionion ), Hennessy would have taken less money and made sure that they reached a maximum audience in the UK and Europe. Fighting on Sky or ITV at a decent hour would have raised Carl's profile, especially with an exciting fight like the Pascall and Taylor scraps. Getting noticed by Joe Public, even in want to see him lose situation like Eubank or Hamed, even Khan inn some quarters would enevitably mean bigger pay days in the future. I for one will be interested in the viewing figures for this. I may be wildly wrong but I would be surprised if the figures top 150,000. Thats not the number of people paying but the total watching at that price, time and the fact cable subscribers like me do not even get the chance to buy it.

Khan-Kotelnick got 35,000 buys apparently. Now consider it was easily purchasable on all formats and Khan has a profile 10 times that of Froch. This will do nothing like 150,000. I'd be surprised if it tops 1/6 th of that. Honestly I know NO ONE who even knows it's on. I'm an actual boxing fan and I can't get access. Hennessy is obviously completely oblivious to the realities of the real world. Notice how he'll go deadly silent in the next few days no matter how the fight ends up. That's because the PPV will be so shockingly bad he'll be forced to awake from the serious delusion he's under. Unfortunately for us it is going to take a viewing disaster on a scale of the one that will occur tonight for Hennessy to realise how $hit a job he's done. The likes of Warren, Hatton etc must have contacted Froch in the build up to this and said 'ditch this clown.' Hopefully one good thing that will come out of this is that Froch will be forced to reconsider his management team because the aftermath of this ,result aside, will be his complete anonymity amongst his own domestic public and eventually Froch's ego will come into play and he will demand greater exposure. Hennessy obviously can't deliver that.

[Fatsam]

The whole thing is a mess, i dont even know at this point if i have ordered the fight or not, no confirmation emails, nothing!. I have had to piss around looking around over the net to find out how the thing works, and still dont know if thats accurate.

This is a fornicating joke, it's not like we are overflowing with brit world champs, pissed off that no big channel picked this one up.

There is constant talk about how justin and his friends are taking money away from boxers etc but for fucks sake, at least make it easy for the people who actually want to buy the fights!