Lack of promotion
Posted: 14 May 2016, 05:53
Channel 5 seem to have stopped promoting their shows. I'm sure when they had the likes of Fury, Eubank and DeGale on their shows they used to put the odd urban placard and tv ad about their boxing shows.
It really annoys me when I almost miss out on a fight night because of zero promotion. And tonight Lee Haskins is defending his world title on home soil on terrestrial TV. I know we'll never return to the days when UK boxers were household names but if a boxing fan doesn't hear about a big fight then it stops being a big fight.
I'm a fairly big boxing fan and I subscribe to allegedly plus IFL, BoxTalk, Boxing Gossip, Seconds Out and a couple of others on YouTube. And all I saw was one video of a press conference with bad audio. Then I actively checked the TV listings to see that the main event is on Channel 5 (which I know would probably mean the undercard is on Spike TV). I thought as Barry McGuigan was in the centre of the table in that presser that it would be his event. But it turns out Haskins is 'promoted' by Chris Sanigar.
Sanigar should have been going to every recent domestic boxing show and demanding to get interviewed. Channel 5 should be advertising the fact that they are screening a world title fight on free to air TV. At least Hennessy used to do (and still does) interviews with James Helder.
Promoting a fight(er) should not be limited to the Bath Chronicle and the Western Daily Press. Sanigar Promotions don't even have a website
It really annoys me when I almost miss out on a fight night because of zero promotion. And tonight Lee Haskins is defending his world title on home soil on terrestrial TV. I know we'll never return to the days when UK boxers were household names but if a boxing fan doesn't hear about a big fight then it stops being a big fight.
I'm a fairly big boxing fan and I subscribe to allegedly plus IFL, BoxTalk, Boxing Gossip, Seconds Out and a couple of others on YouTube. And all I saw was one video of a press conference with bad audio. Then I actively checked the TV listings to see that the main event is on Channel 5 (which I know would probably mean the undercard is on Spike TV). I thought as Barry McGuigan was in the centre of the table in that presser that it would be his event. But it turns out Haskins is 'promoted' by Chris Sanigar.
Sanigar should have been going to every recent domestic boxing show and demanding to get interviewed. Channel 5 should be advertising the fact that they are screening a world title fight on free to air TV. At least Hennessy used to do (and still does) interviews with James Helder.
Promoting a fight(er) should not be limited to the Bath Chronicle and the Western Daily Press. Sanigar Promotions don't even have a website
