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So, now that Bellew's night on Sky Sports has gone tits up, Khan's half arsed attempt at making his homecoming a big deal being on Box Office, Premier Sports are charging for their night, as are ESPN and Super Channel and Showtime online, I ask you:

Is now the time for the BBC to make a U-turn with boxing?

grannyman wrote:So, now that Bellew's night on Sky Sports has gone tits up, Khan's half arsed attempt at making his homecoming a big deal being on Box Office, Premier Sports are charging for their night, as are ESPN and Super Channel and Showtime online, I ask you:

Is now the time for the BBC to make a U-turn with boxing?

Showtime online?I didnt know about that,tell me more.Cheers

More chance of platting shit

Apologies Lefty, I deleted a sentence and missed a bit. Pretty sure there is no 'Showtime Online'. However, if the BBC got their act together I could watch i-player when I'm on nights!

grannyman wrote:Apologies Lefty, I deleted a sentence and missed a bit. Pretty sure there is no 'Showtime Online'. However, if the BBC got their act together I could watch i-player when I'm on nights!

Well thanks for the heads up

What is this Super Channel I have heard about? Internet only?

stujones wrote:What is this Super Channel I have heard about? Internet only?

My understanding is that it's a Canadian online subscription channel, showing British fights. Not sure about prices though.

I'm attending a talk with Barbara Slater, the director of BBC sport on March 1st and I'm planning to ask some questions about boxing. If anyone has anything they want asking let me know.

Does she prefer Barbara or Babs?

Lead with that.

grannyman wrote:So, now that Bellew's night on Sky Sports has gone tits up, Khan's half arsed attempt at making his homecoming a big deal being on Box Office, Premier Sports are charging for their night, as are ESPN and Super Channel and Showtime online, I ask you:

Is now the time for the BBC to make a U-turn with boxing?

The BBC are run by people who love golf and tennis - they happily show eight hours of that crap because that is what they want to watch - ratings be damned and what the people want. Boxing will never ever come big time back to the BBC - it wouldn't suprise me within the next ten years that they ban it from their channels like a lot of national broadcasters around Europe.

itv should get the boxing back on itv1 that way it should take off like it was in the 80's 90's to be honst sky has wrecked the sport and the ufc are sitting there laughing their c**k off

Can you ask why they like to show the amateurs, especially in the build up to the Olympics and then they will no doubt cover the Olympic boxing to the extent where the team are household names (especially the medallists) only to then let them fade from the public radar