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Just wondering. The Boxrec schedule lists every home fighter vs TBA - a bit unusual with six days to go, and the promoter didn't make mention of the show in his column on Friday, despite mentioning most of his other upcoming promotions.

For armchair fans there's three shows on telly next Sat night - Sky's Groves show, C5's Hennessey show, and B ox N ation's York Hall show. Unless its fallen through ?

As far as im aware its still on as the b/nation schedule has been updated from yesterday,Buglioni's fighting Ribchev and Skeete's fighting someone Pinto or sumin like that

handsofstone wrote:As far as im aware its still on as the b/nation schedule has been updated from yesterday,Buglioni's fighting Ribchev and Skeete's fighting someone Pinto or sumin like that

Cheers Of the three shows on telly, this is my first choice, hence me asking. I love the 5 hour shows from York Hall.

JimJim2009 wrote:

handsofstone wrote:As far as im aware its still on as the b/nation schedule has been updated from yesterday,Buglioni's fighting Ribchev and Skeete's fighting someone Pinto or sumin like that

Cheers Of the three shows on telly, this is my first choice, hence me asking. I love the 5 hour shows from York Hall.

I'll be watching it, but only because it allows me to then watch Groves and Galahad later, so I can watch all three shows from the same night.

expe wrote:

JimJim2009 wrote:

handsofstone wrote:As far as im aware its still on as the b/nation schedule has been updated from yesterday,Buglioni's fighting Ribchev and Skeete's fighting someone Pinto or sumin like that

Cheers Of the three shows on telly, this is my first choice, hence me asking. I love the 5 hour shows from York Hall.

I'll be watching it, but only because it allows me to then watch Groves and Galahad later, so I can watch all three shows from the same night.

Chuffing hell Expe, that's a late night ! I love the boxing but I wouldn't stay up until the early hours doing 3 shows back to back, that's beyond the call of duty

JimJim2009 wrote:

expe wrote:

JimJim2009 wrote:
Cheers Of the three shows on telly, this is my first choice, hence me asking. I love the 5 hour shows from York Hall.

I'll be watching it, but only because it allows me to then watch Groves and Galahad later, so I can watch all three shows from the same night.

Chuffing hell Expe, that's a late night ! I love the boxing but I wouldn't stay up until the early hours doing 3 shows back to back, that's beyond the call of duty

I'm not doing them all in one lol. I'll watch allegedly live, then when the show on Sky is repeated I'll watch that, followed by Galahad on Demand 5 when it's put up. I'll be keeping an eye on the show in Bolton on the same night if VIP are streaming it, couple of fighters on there I wouldn't mind watching and if there's a break and I can find a stream I might watch Abril in Finland. There's loads on this month, just need to find the time to watch it all.

Schedule's now been updated for Fwank's show, Skeete fights Leandro Mendes Pinto, 37 year old Brazilian, Buglioni's in with Alexey Ribchev and Tom Baker-Jordan King looks a good match up, good to see two undefeated fighters going in with each other early on.

http://boxrec.com/show_display.php?show_id=698430

Times like this I do love my virgin tivo box,

Think I'm gonna watch Groves live, record this and Galahad. Watch Galahad soon as Groves has finished then this...or if I get tired go to bed and watch this first thing Sunday.

Has the Groves vs Rebrasse undercard been announced yet?
It was mostly TBAs last time I looked

What happened to the Copperbox? I remember a big hoo-ha about the exclusive deal and expected to see Buglioni, Skeete, Kean, etc packing it out each time they fought?

earsjohn wrote:What happened to the Copperbox? I remember a big hoo-ha about the exclusive deal and expected to see Buglioni, Skeete, Kean, etc packing it out each time they fought?

They didn't renew the deal. Last time they fought there (that infamous April 2014 card where Chisora & Fury were supposed to fight but Warren refused in case they got injured before the big showdown), the venue was half empty.
They was also an issue with closing time and the soundsystem. Apparently, the last fight was always after the last tube so most people would leave in the middle of it and the soundsystem was always too low.
The venue is now used mostly for gymnastics and basketball. Ironically, its wikipedia page doesn't mention the boxing fights happening there.

UrbanFox wrote:

earsjohn wrote:What happened to the Copperbox? I remember a big hoo-ha about the exclusive deal and expected to see Buglioni, Skeete, Kean, etc packing it out each time they fought?

They didn't renew the deal. Last time they fought there (that infamous April 2014 card where Chisora & Fury were supposed to fight but Warren refused in case they got injured before the big showdown), the venue was half empty.
They was also an issue with closing time and the soundsystem. Apparently, the last fight was always after the last tube so most people would leave in the middle of it and the soundsystem was always too low.
The venue is now used mostly for gymnastics and basketball. Ironically, its wikipedia page doesn't mention the boxing fights happening there.

Shame. I thought it could have been made to work. It's a decent spectator venue and surely finishing before the end of the tube isn't that difficult? I thought the deal was for 6 cards - there haven't been that many already have there?

Is it Buglioni or Skeete topping the bill??

earsjohn wrote:

UrbanFox wrote:

earsjohn wrote:What happened to the Copperbox? I remember a big hoo-ha about the exclusive deal and expected to see Buglioni, Skeete, Kean, etc packing it out each time they fought?

They didn't renew the deal. Last time they fought there (that infamous April 2014 card where Chisora & Fury were supposed to fight but Warren refused in case they got injured before the big showdown), the venue was half empty.
They was also an issue with closing time and the soundsystem. Apparently, the last fight was always after the last tube so most people would leave in the middle of it and the soundsystem was always too low.
The venue is now used mostly for gymnastics and basketball. Ironically, its wikipedia page doesn't mention the boxing fights happening there.

Shame. I thought it could have been made to work. It's a decent spectator venue and surely finishing before the end of the tube isn't that difficult? I thought the deal was for 6 cards - there haven't been that many already have there?

No offence to Fwank, but a good matchroom show would easily sell out the Copperbox, as would - in my opinion - Fury/Chisora 2, or BJS/Eubank jnr, except for some punters being doubtful about Fwank's main events happening.

So it seems Bradley Skeete's fight with Leandro Mendes Pinto is the bill topper

I just had a look at Pinto's record and it looks thin to say the least,i dont why promoters fly these people in to lose when they can put on someone more local on and bring some more bodies through the doors

handsofstone wrote:So it seems Bradley Skeete's fight with Leandro Mendes Pinto is the bill topper

I just had a look at Pinto's record and it looks thin to say the least,i dont why promoters fly these people in to lose when they can put on someone more local on and bring some more bodies through the doors

It is a pretty poor card to be fair its got the feel of one of those low key Wednesday or Thursday night ones theyve done in the past. Even the main fights are really just keep busy fights.

earsjohn wrote:Shame. I thought it could have been made to work. It's a decent spectator venue and surely finishing before the end of the tube isn't that difficult? I thought the deal was for 6 cards - there haven't been that many already have there?

As said by another poster, Franck Warren seems to struggle with ticket sales in recent months. He didn't sell with Fury v Chisora II so the deal was probably terminated by mutual consent.

Eddie Hearn already stated he wasn't interested. I also remember that there was a lot of bad blood between Matchroom and the CopperBox on IFL tv.

London is a hard sell even with good fights you just need tickets sellers, but sometimes that isn't enough.

Not many boxing fans left in London !!

They didn't renew the deal. Last time they fought there (that infamous April 2014 card where Chisora & Fury were supposed to fight but Warren refused in case they got injured before the big showdown), the venue was half empty.
They was also an issue with closing time and the soundsystem. Apparently, the last fight was always after the last tube so most people would leave in the middle of it and the soundsystem was always too low.

It is basically all Bradley Skeete's fault. There were four copperbox shows, and he fought on them all. Three went the distance, and the other one was a 7th round stoppage. This impacted on closing time, last tube home etc, and basically knackered everything. I know he's become an exciting, British level Tommy Hearns but I lost the will to live during some earlier Skeete bouts.

JimJim2009 wrote:It is basically all Bradley Skeete's fault.

The new George Groves.