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@EddieHearn: Big announcement coming on Friday!!! We will hold a press conference at 12.30pm at the O2 prior to the weigh in both open to public

David price? Martin murray?

I think Hearn mentioned something to do with the Sky deal in one of the Q+As that he did with iFilm so I don't think it's anything to do with a signing. It may be to do with the sky deal or may be Sky signing up some more international fights.

Hopefully announcing no more PPV for fights that are not worth PPV.

Swifty Smith

I think it could be the pacman fight as well as more dates for the next few years

Eddie is stepping down as head of boxing to become a cast member of TOWIE whilst entering into a civil union with Kugie bear, Kugan Cassius.

not the big announcement but they are showing Ggg v Stevens.

The big announcement is that every third wednesday, and the first friday of the month, there will be...........an announcement... Of sorts.

Seriously though, this does my head in.

columbo wrote:Eddie is stepping down as head of boxing to become a cast member of TOWIE whilst entering into a civil union with Kugie bear, Kugan Cassius.

More likely than an 'actual' PPV being shown on sky

its going to be darren barker vs sturm "official"

more dates

maybe signed;

Martin Murray
Jamie McDonnell

Big announcement is that Saturday's show is being switched to PPV. ;;-)

bigB wrote:more dates

maybe signed;

Martin Murray
Jamie McDonnell

Definitely not Jamie McDonnell as his next fight is on BN.

Matchroom have extended their deal with SKY until 2016.

Announcement on Matchroom website:

http://www.matchroomboxing.com/news/mat ... extend.htm

I await the next big announcment from Bunny and the boys - counterpunch lol

Huge announcments are getting ridiculous ........next up will be the truth behind hayes cut ......booth got him back with the tripod

I thought he was announcing the full Froch v groves undercard today.

maybe he will be putting some boxing on that isnt PPV after all the moaning he did about FW taking boxing away from the public. Then doing sod all apart from ppv fights - is froch v groves PPV worthy really? groves is the mandatory the fight has to take place hearn's just making a nice buck out of it by charging people £15 a pop. Im so glad i scrapped sky for the boxing and got allegedly the only thing i miss is ringside.

Finn wrote:maybe he will be putting some boxing on that isnt PPV after all the moaning he did about FW taking boxing away from the public. Then doing sod all apart from ppv fights - is froch v groves PPV worthy really? groves is the mandatory the fight has to take place hearn's just making a nice buck out of it by charging people £15 a pop. Im so glad i scrapped sky for the boxing and got allegedly the only thing i miss is ringside.

Please remind me how many PPV fights Sky have put on in the last 2 years of the Matchroom contract.

earsjohn wrote:

Finn wrote:maybe he will be putting some boxing on that isnt PPV after all the moaning he did about FW taking boxing away from the public. Then doing sod all apart from ppv fights - is froch v groves PPV worthy really? groves is the mandatory the fight has to take place hearn's just making a nice buck out of it by charging people £15 a pop. Im so glad i scrapped sky for the boxing and got allegedly the only thing i miss is ringside.

Please remind me how many PPV fights Sky have put on in the last 2 years of the Matchroom contract.

If Fury Vs. Haye had gone ahead it would have been 3 PPV shows in a 6 month period. I wonder how many PPV shows SKY and Matchroom will put on nexy year? I'm guessing 5 or 6. The problem I have is each event will also need to have a reasonable undercard. This means guys like Kell Brook, Tony Bellew, Scott Quigg, George Groves and Ricky Burns are more likely to fight on PPV undercards going forward instead of SKY Sports. I fear SKY Sports boxing fans are going to be left watching the likes of Brian Rose, Kevin Mitchell, Rocky Fielding, Anthony Crolla and Prizefighters on Matchrooms 20 SKY Sports dates. No disrespect meant to these guys however these are not the type of fighters who I subscribe to SKY Sports to see on SKY's Fight Night program.

80/20 wrote:I await the next big announcment from Bunny and the boys - counterpunch lol

It will be them announcing that they are now Queensberry promotions and a deal with Rainham steel.....

earsjohn wrote:

Finn wrote:maybe he will be putting some boxing on that isnt PPV after all the moaning he did about FW taking boxing away from the public. Then doing sod all apart from ppv fights - is froch v groves PPV worthy really? groves is the mandatory the fight has to take place hearn's just making a nice buck out of it by charging people £15 a pop. Im so glad i scrapped sky for the boxing and got allegedly the only thing i miss is ringside.

Please remind me how many PPV fights Sky have put on in the last 2 years of the Matchroom contract.

Don't let columbo see this post for god sake.

jameswilson wrote:

earsjohn wrote:

Finn wrote:maybe he will be putting some boxing on that isnt PPV after all the moaning he did about FW taking boxing away from the public. Then doing sod all apart from ppv fights - is froch v groves PPV worthy really? groves is the mandatory the fight has to take place hearn's just making a nice buck out of it by charging people £15 a pop. Im so glad i scrapped sky for the boxing and got allegedly the only thing i miss is ringside.

Please remind me how many PPV fights Sky have put on in the last 2 years of the Matchroom contract.

Don't let columbo see this post for god sake.

Kiss my ass honkey.

earsjohn wrote:

Finn wrote:maybe he will be putting some boxing on that isnt PPV after all the moaning he did about FW taking boxing away from the public. Then doing sod all apart from ppv fights - is froch v groves PPV worthy really? groves is the mandatory the fight has to take place hearn's just making a nice buck out of it by charging people £15 a pop. Im so glad i scrapped sky for the boxing and got allegedly the only thing i miss is ringside.

Please remind me how many PPV fights Sky have put on in the last 2 years of the Matchroom contract.

The last 3 decent ones since sky brought back the ppv platform - froch v kessler, froch v groves and haye v fury all ppv. Sky refused to do ppv for the vast majority of that two year contract.

chad wrote:

earsjohn wrote:

Finn wrote:maybe he will be putting some boxing on that isnt PPV after all the moaning he did about FW taking boxing away from the public. Then doing sod all apart from ppv fights - is froch v groves PPV worthy really? groves is the mandatory the fight has to take place hearn's just making a nice buck out of it by charging people £15 a pop. Im so glad i scrapped sky for the boxing and got allegedly the only thing i miss is ringside.

Please remind me how many PPV fights Sky have put on in the last 2 years of the Matchroom contract.

If Fury Vs. Haye had gone ahead it would have been 3 PPV shows in a 6 month period. I wonder how many PPV shows SKY and Matchroom will put on nexy year? I'm guessing 5 or 6. The problem I have is each event will also need to have a reasonable undercard. This means guys like Kell Brook, Tony Bellew, Scott Quigg, George Groves and Ricky Burns are more likely to fight on PPV undercards going forward instead of SKY Sports. I fear SKY Sports boxing fans are going to be left watching the likes of Brian Rose, Kevin Mitchell, Rocky Fielding, Anthony Crolla and Prizefighters on Matchrooms 20 SKY Sports dates. No disrespect meant to these guys however these are not the type of fighters who I subscribe to SKY Sports to see on SKY's Fight Night program.

If, if, if, if......

The actual answer to my question is 1.

chad wrote:

earsjohn wrote:

Finn wrote:maybe he will be putting some boxing on that isnt PPV after all the moaning he did about FW taking boxing away from the public. Then doing sod all apart from ppv fights - is froch v groves PPV worthy really? groves is the mandatory the fight has to take place hearn's just making a nice buck out of it by charging people £15 a pop. Im so glad i scrapped sky for the boxing and got allegedly the only thing i miss is ringside.

Please remind me how many PPV fights Sky have put on in the last 2 years of the Matchroom contract.

If Fury Vs. Haye had gone ahead it would have been 3 PPV shows in a 6 month period. I wonder how many PPV shows SKY and Matchroom will put on nexy year? I'm guessing 5 or 6. The problem I have is each event will also need to have a reasonable undercard. This means guys like Kell Brook, Tony Bellew, Scott Quigg, George Groves and Ricky Burns are more likely to fight on PPV undercards going forward instead of SKY Sports. I fear SKY Sports boxing fans are going to be left watching the likes of Brian Rose, Kevin Mitchell, Rocky Fielding, Anthony Crolla and Prizefighters on Matchrooms 20 SKY Sports dates. No disrespect meant to these guys however these are not the type of fighters who I subscribe to SKY Sports to see on SKY's Fight Night program.

Im as a big a critic of matchroom as you can get but it cant be any worse than the shit we used to get served up on those "friday fight nights" most of that was truely dire.