Current state of coverage in the UK
Before you look at the schedule ( which is very good, especially whilst allegedly is free), I want everyone to look at the current state of coverage and maybe how we should react;
First and foremost I am forcing everyone to BOYCOTT PRIMETIME, as this could spoil big fight coverage in the UK and ruin the boxing coverage in this country, spoil the coverage for us proper boxing fans if every decent fight / fighters are shown on £15 PPVs!!!!!! Their coverage is awful, looks like they just use a poor internet stream, poor sound, picture goes off and commentary is very poor - overall very poor production - £15 a fight!!!! Disgusting - bad for boxing. At £15 a fight its worth just waiting to watch it on the internet for free the next day - probably in better quality as well. What annoys me the most is that these fights use to be on normal Sky ( in glorious HD), whilst we do not always like Sky productions they are defo better than anyone else in this country and FREE to Sky Sports subscribers, which is most of us.
I like the allegedly idea - Good starting lineup, both amateur, small hall and big time fights from all over the world, bunceys boxing hour and back catalogue fights from Golden Boy and Top Rank. At £10 a month you can’t complain and no PPV per fight!
We all need to write to SKY and make sure the big fights stay on Sky and not Primetime. The Manny - Marquez and Cotto - Marg fights are listed on their Sky Bet site as being on Sky Sports1 but we need confirmation or atleast request Sky to show these
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Brilliant Schedule for the start of the season ( especially if Primetime don’t steal Pac-Marquez and Cotto-Marg and put them on PPV!!!! , I do reckon if we push sky - they might do a long term deal with Arum now that warren and golden boy have left)
Friday 30th September
allegedly - 7 pm - York Hall, London
British Super Featherweight Title
Liam Walsh vs. Paul Appleby
British Southern Area Light Middleweight Title
Ryan Toms vs. Steve O’Meara
Saturday 1st October
allegedly - 7pm - Jahnsportforum, Germany
WBA & IBF World Cruiserweight Titles
Steve Cunningham vs. Joan Pablo Hernandez
European Middleweight Title
Sabastian Sylvester vs. Gregory Proksa
IBF Inter-continental Light Heavyweight Title
Karo Murat vs. Gabriel Campillo
Sky Sports 1 - 8pm - Newport Leisure Centre, Wales
European Lightweight Title
Gavin Rees vs. Derry Matthews
Bradley Price vs. Danny Butler
Sunday 2nd October
Sky Sports 1 - 12:30am - Boardwalk Hall, Atlantic City
WBC Emeritus & Ring magazine Middleweight Titles
Sergio Gabriel Martinez vs. Darren Barker
Andy Lee vs. Brian Vera
Premier Sports - 2am - MGM Grand Garden, Las Vegas
WBA World Light Flyweight Title
Roman Gonzalez vs. Omar Soto
WBC World Super Bantamweight Title
Toshiaki Nishioka vs. Rafael Marquez
Saturday 8th October
Sky Sports 1 - 8:30pm - Ponds Forge Arena, Sheffield
WBA World Welterweight Title Eliminator & Inter-Continental Title
Kell Brook vs. Rafal Jackiewicz
Wednesday 12th October
Sky Sports 1 - 8:00pm - Olympia, Liverpool
Prizefighter - The Super Flyweights
(Lee Haskins, Craig Lyons and star man Usman Ahmed!!)
Saturday 15th October
allegedly - 7pm - Echo Arena, Liverpool
WBO World Light Heavyweight Title
Nathan Clevery vs. Tony Bellew
European Super Middleweight Title
Piotr Wilczeski vs. James Degale
allegedly - Time TBC - Staples Centre, Los Angeles
WBC World and Ring magazine Light Heavyweight Titles
Bernard Hopkins vs. Chad Dawson
Vacant WBC World Lightweight Title
Antonio DeMarco vs. Jorge Linares
Danny Garcia vs. Kendall Holt
Luis Collazo vs. Freddy Hernandez
Paulie Malignaggi vs. Orlando Lora
Friday 21st October
allegedly - 7pm - York Hall, London
British Cruiserweight Title
Rob Norton vs. Leon Williams
Saturday 22nd October
allegedly - 7pm - Ludwisburg Arena, Germany
WBC & WBO World Cruiserweight Title Unifcation
Marco Huck vs. Krystof Wlodarczyk
Sky Sports 1 - 8pm - Bolton Arena, Bolton
British Super Bantamweight Title
Jason Booth vs. Scott Quigg
Karl Place vs. Carl Johanneson
Friday 28th October
allegedly - Time & Venue TBC
WBO Inter-Continental Welterweight Title
Frankie Gavin vs. Diego Gabriel Scaves
Saturday 29th October
Eurosport - 8pm - Trabzon, Turkey
IBF Inter-Continental Super Middleweight Title
Benjamin Simon vs. TBA
Saturday 5th November
allegedly - 7pm - Wembley Arena, London
Interim WBO World Lightweight Title
Micheal Katsidis vs. Ricky Burns
British & Commenwealth Super Middleweight Titles
George Groves vs. Paul Smith
Vacant English Super Bantamweight Title
Ryan Walsh vs. Liam Richards
- Parken, Copenhagen, Denmark
WBO Super Middlleweight Title
Robert Stieglitz vs. Mikkel Kessler
Saturday 12th November
Sky Sports1 (unconfirmed) - 2am - MGM Grand Garden, Las Vegas
WBO World & Ring magazine Welterweight Titles
Manny Pacquiao vs. Juan Manuel Marquez
Saturday 18th November
allegedly - 8pm - York Hall, London
British & Commonwealth Featherweight Titles
Lee Selby vs. John Simpson
Saturday 28th November
Sky Sports 1 - 8pm - Venue TBC
Vacant English Featherweight Title
Joe Murray vs. Chris Meale
Saturday 3rd December
Sky Sports 1 - 8pm - Sap Arena, Manheim, Germany
WBA World Middleweight Title
Felix Sturm vs. Martin Murray
Sky Sports1 (unconfirmed) - 2am - Madison Square Gardens, New York
WBA World & Ring magazine Light Middleweight Titles
Miguel Angel Cotto vs. Anotonio Margarito
WBA World Lightweight Title
Brandon Rios vs. Kevin Mitchell (TBC)
Mike Jones vs. Sebastian Andres Lujan
Saturday 10th December
*****BOYCOTT******************************************
Primetime - 14:99 - Crap fight - Time - Venue TBC
WBA & IBF World Light Welterweight Titles
Amir Khan vs. Lamont Peterson
Overall great line up as long some of these unconfirmed SKY fights don’t end on Primetime