Question...if Calzaghe,Hatton are so good...

[!!! Beowulf !!!]

Hatton has headlined on sky PPV for the last coule of years. He'll be fighting on a different PPV Channel Setanta Sports next.


It doesn't matter if his fights aren't PPV in the states, almsot all US PPV cards are "free" on Sky over here.

Calzaghe is contracted to ITV, a free channel.

[Dimebar]

Calzaghe is contracted to ITV, a free channel.

Warren is contracted to ITV.

Calzaghe is one of his puppies.


Eubank is the only boxer to ever be contracted to TV networks in Britain, and the first to ever be contracted to TV networks period.

[SHB]

PPV is a very very bad thing for the sport. So why on earth would someone use it as a barometer to rate fighters against? We should be applauding those fighting on channels which are free to watch.

[Dimebar]

The atmosphere at a Benn, Bruno, Eubank or Hatton fight on another stratosphere to any US fight in history

[jonbonjovi]

mayweather vs. de la hoya wasnt on PPV in england

[Dimebar]

mayweather vs. de la hoya wasnt on PPV in england

It almost wasn't on at all. Sky had to be persuaded.

[Tong Po]

You see, in Britain it is rather different than the US. We don't have to pay ****** amounts of money to watch the fights, Hatton is the only one whose fights our shown on Box Office. All of the others are either terrestrial tv, or you can watch on basic cable.

Would it make Joe Calzaghe a better fighter if he made the British public pay to see his fights?

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PPV is crap.

True it is killing the sport.

caus normal ppl aint buying it so they aint watching it.

Look at how much popular Calzaghe has become to the main public not he has been on normal TV.

Hatton is only famous now because he was on sky sports before.

Casual boxing fans wont spend £30 on a PPV, heck not even some of us will.

[Dimebar]

Not one Hatton fight has been watched by as much as 200,000 people in Britain.

[Jim_Davis]

You mean his last 3/4 fights?...those were free in the USA.

So was Mayweather vs De La Hoya here loool