Hernandez vs. Afolabi LIVE on Channel 5 (Dec 6)

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LONDON (13 NOV) Hennessy Sports and Team Sauerland are pleased to announce that the IBF World Cruiserweight Championship showdown between Yoan Pablo Hernandez (29-1, 14 KOs) and Ola Afolabi (21-3-4, 10 KOs) will be broadcast LIVE on Channel 5 (8.30-10.30pm).

British boxing fans will now have the chance to follow London-born Afolabi as he attempts to dethrone the Cuban cruiserweight king on Saturday, December 6 at the EWE Arena in Oldenburg, Germany.

“We’re delighted to be working in collaboration with Mick Hennessy to bring UK fans this exciting cruiserweight clash,” said promoter Nisse Sauerland. ‘‘Channel 5 is a fantastic platform for boxing and fitting home for this world championship fight. Hernandez and Afolabi are two of the division's top talents and will guarantee an explosive encounter on December 6.”

“This is a great opportunity for British boxing fans to again watch a genuine world title fight involving a British fighter on free-to-air television,” said promoter Mick Hennessy. “In the space of six weeks Channel 5 have delivered the IBF world bantamweight title fight between Stuart Hall and Randy Caballero and now the IBF world cruiserweight title fight between Yoan Pablo Hernandez and Ola Afolabi.

“Channel 5 are really delivering for boxing fans in this country and it's great to be able to give fans free-to-air boxing on a regular basis.

“Finally, I'm thrilled to be working with Team Sauerland on this show and together we'll be announcing an exciting British line-up very soon.”

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[Sklar]

Excellent. Keep up the good work, Mick.

A better fight than Bellew v Cleverly, free to air (excl TV licence).

[Boxerbeetle]

Brilliant news. Ola has a great chance to win this one.

[Counter-puncher]

great stuff. not sure their styles gell to make a classic but it's a high-quality matchup

[Joellucketti]

Brilliant news, what the hells going on at channel 5 recently with all this boxing on lol

[ste1983]

Great news this the more boxing on terrestrial tv the better!

Not long back it was looking like Channel 5 were pulling out of boxing but now they seem more involved than ever this plus GGG v Murray announced in the same week.

[Andrew]

Great stuff odds have it at least a 60/40 fight too

[ScottDetonator]

Could David Price be on the under-card by any chance? ;;-)

[JimJim2009]

You would have thought this was a given for b ox nation. Interesting to see channel five broaden their horizons. There must be a world of difference in price in footing the bill for a live broadcast, and just buying the overseas rights to a show happening anyway. They might get several shows for the same price.

[orbtastic]

This could be a low-paced affair.

[Counter-puncher]

This could be a low-paced affair.

aye, Afolabi is a Toneyesque lay-back-'n-counter type, and Hernandez is, well, he's Cuban, so yeah.

[Rogers21]

come on Ola

[handsofstone]

Great news,hats off to channel 5 and keep up the good work


Afolabi deserves a bit of luck,i hope he's still got 1 last great performance in him,Hernandez can definitely be beat and seems like a matter of time before his low workrate will be punished,hopefully Ola can outhustle him on way to a points win

[lefty]

Im starting to wonder if Hennessy has a load of dirt on top tv executives because so often he seems like he's dead and buried in terms of tv deals and then he's pulls one out the hat like this! Lol

[lefty]

Ps i dont particularily rate Hernandez. I actually think Lebedev is a better southpaw and quite possibly the best guy in the division even though he had that close somewhat controversial loss to Huck a few years back.

[JimJim2009]

Im starting to wonder if Hennessy has a load of dirt on top tv executives because so often he seems like he's dead and buried in terms of tv deals and then he's pulls one out the hat like this! Lol

I hope his paymasters don't end up preferring mick to buy them shows that are already happening, instead of paying and broadcasting his own.

[handsofstone]

Ps i dont particularily rate Hernandez. I actually think Lebedev is a better southpaw and quite possibly the best guy in the division even though he had that close somewhat controversial loss to Huck a few years back.

The CW divisions a bit of an enigma, if every champ was on their game,i would probably go for Huck,but you can make a case for them all being no1 but they've showed vulnrabilities and are all fortunate to still have their titles,hopefully Guillermo Jones never gets near a world title fight again,who knows what he took out of Lebedev that night,then for him to fail another test hours before the rematch is unforgivable

[handsofstone]

Admittedly ive never seen WBC champ Wlodarczyk

Edit - As ive glanced at this months BM to spell Krzysztof's name i noticed he lost the title to Grigory Drozd

I remember seeing they were fighting recently but never knew the result,i seen Drozd beating Masternak for the European last year,he was good that night but never thought he'd be a world champ by now

[rpms]

Nick Blackwell on the undercard again,its great that Mick's keeping him busy so far

[littlepug]

Well done ch5, they've really impressed of late and love the involvement of Bernstein

[handsofstone]

I do hope that channel 5 big these shows up with some decent advertising,it could be the dawn of a new era

With the Sky hype train in full steam ahead mode trying to hoodwink the casual fans and fleece the hardcore with THAT PPV wouldnt it be lovely if Channel 5 reap the rewards by attracting all the casuals into watching on their free channel after being sucked into the Cleverly/Bellew machine

[Horse]

Ps i dont particularily rate Hernandez. I actually think Lebedev is a better southpaw and quite possibly the best guy in the division even though he had that close somewhat controversial loss to Huck a few years back.

I think Hernandez only deserved one win from his last 4 fights.

Afolabi has a great chance here, he better not screw it up by fighting like a lazy git.

[chad]

Nobody has picked up the Khan Vs. Alexander fight on the 13th December as of yet. Wonder if Channel 5 are interested?

I think we'll hear something soon about which channel Carl Frampton will be fighting on going forward too

[Jack B]

Great news to see this more big fights on Channel 5, but not too sure what Hennessy has to do with it. Surely Sauerland can sell directly to Channel 5 without a middleman? And they don't really need to put any of his fighters on the undercard, do they?

Still cool though, if we can have the British title level fights that MH promotes plus some decent big fights from the continent, all on FTA, that's a real step in the right direction.

[broomy7s]

Great news and David Price should be on the undercard. Seems like the allegedly and sauerland deal is no more.