How many of you would pay $9.99 a month for a boxing channel?

But they can do something like NFL or MLB channel. Show old fights, recent fights, and boxing movies to make it somewhat worth it. Yes i know things need to be worked out (rights, royalties, and crap if any) but it may work. Major movie and television studios do not release some product to home video because the rights to things like music and such are either too expensive or impossible to obtain. Does anyone think some start-up boxing network would be able to afford the rights to classic Ali fights or Frazier fights or Leonard fights or Duran fights? Not a chance in hell. Anyone think HBO will be giving another network access to their 40 year fight library? At ANY price? One weekend a month, every month, would be dedicated to showing Rocky 1 to 5 in non stop rotation. Eventually that would change to one night per week. Then they would approach all the idiots who have 'boxing channels' on YouTube and offer them all time slots so they can promote their 'high quality' crap shot on their high quality iPhone video equipment. And on and on and on... :)

It works for WWE because they have wrestling pretty much locked down. Even then, I am not sure how the paid streaming service is working for them now. I know Vince lost a small fortune getting it going. Streaming is a bit hit and miss because their can be latency issues and the fight likely isn't as live as it would be compared to on a TV probably something to do with the by far higher data transfer rate/speed of satellite. It has its advantages and disadvantages pretty much, we should be blaming big co-operate companies for forcing us into expensive packages instead of giving us a defined option.

i definetly would but its a pipe dream, I already pay for hbo,showtime, boxnation, skysports

It works for WWE because they have wrestling pretty much locked down. Even then, I am not sure how the paid streaming service is working for them now. I know Vince lost a small fortune getting it going.

Most hardcore fucks on here wouldn't even pay for it. They'd just be asking for streams like they usually do. Yet they complain over and over about casuals. I kind of agree but I refuse to pay Skysports to be forced with golf, cricket, football etc when I'm just wanting a few things 1- Watch all Chelsea FC games 2- Watch all boxing events Hence why I do justify some people going for streams, however for boxing channels like Boxnation I'll happily put money in their pocket.

For all boxing channels, every major fight highest I'm willing to go (as a Brit) is £25-30 per month. £25 I'd be more than willing to pay, £30 and above I might feel a bit iffy about paying.

Most hardcore fucks on here wouldn't even pay for it. They'd just be asking for streams like they usually do. Yet they complain over and over about casuals.

I would. Call it boxing network. And run it the same as nfl network does. Hire former trainers fighters and sports analysts.

But they can do something like NFL or MLB channel. Show old fights, recent fights, and boxing movies to make it somewhat worth it. Yes i know things need to be worked out (rights, royalties, and crap if any) but it may work. I'm assuming if anyone could do it with all the money he has it could be Haymon. He seems to building toward a UFC type model with his roster of fighters. Throw in some contender type programming, old fights, documentaries etc and I think it could work.

Hell yeah!! I'll sign up right now!

A Boxing Channel would FAIL because boxing has absolute Sh1t Fans! WWE has more loyal fans than Boxing which is really sad that more people are dedicated to something FAKE than they are something real :lol1: So No, No Boxing Channel! ESPN Classic was basically a Boxing Channel and nobody watched so ESPN got rid of it But they can do something like NFL or MLB channel. Show old fights, recent fights, and boxing movies to make it somewhat worth it. Yes i know things need to be worked out (rights, royalties, and crap if any) but it may work.

I didn't even know ESPN Classic was canceled. They did use to show a lot of fights...and Cheap Seats re-runs. I still get the ESPN Classic channel on my cable package.

I definitely miss it. Even though they showed Arguello-Pryor nine million times I still miss it. I didn't even know ESPN Classic was canceled. They did use to show a lot of fights...and Cheap Seats re-runs.

A Boxing Channel would FAIL because boxing has absolute Sh1t Fans! WWE has more loyal fans than Boxing which is really sad that more people are dedicated to something FAKE than they are something real :lol1: So No, No Boxing Channel! ESPN Classic was basically a Boxing Channel and nobody watched so ESPN got rid of it Lol, so fking true...millions of adults watching actors fight haha...

300k customers That seems like a high estimate, especially early on.

A Boxing Channel would FAIL because boxing has absolute Sh1t Fans! WWE has more loyal fans than Boxing which is really sad that more people are dedicated to something FAKE than they are something real :lol1: So No, No Boxing Channel! ESPN Classic was basically a Boxing Channel and nobody watched so ESPN got rid of it

The poll says $9.99 for PBC lol. No thanks. But if I could get basically all my boxing on one channel for $9.99? Yeah I'd be down.

With Box Nation you just get access to the live channel and some documentary stuff. I also have the UFC Fight Pass and love it. UFC is a monopoly within that sport so they have the best fights and you have full access to their fight library, but still have to pay for the ppvs which I prefer to go out to watch anyways. UFC is not a monopoly. I enjoy watching Belator fights on Spike just as much as watching UFC fights.

I would only if its like the MLB network, analysis live, after the fight, or live fight update interviews, with boxers, not for like classic boxing all day, no way I want live 2015 stuff

Not a chance. There are not enough quality new fights happening to keep things interesting and they would never be able to get the rights to most of the great fights to show them on their network. You could pretty much count out all the HBO and Showtime fights as well as classic fights that were shown on the Big Three networks in the past. This would leave them with a very limited library of fights to show and like many specialty channels, you would get 6 hours of programming per day, repeated 4 times. And the entire library would be repeated after a month or two. Even if they did get rights to every fight ever broadcast, they would run out of content after a few months and go into repeat mode. There is an all fight channel available in my channel package and I did not select it. Just from a free preview it was obvious that it would have been a waste of a pick. I am more than satisfied the way things are right now.