Haye Vs Vitali - No Primetime US Slot

[BattlingNelson]

Exactly! longest night of my life was trying to stay awake to watch Tyson - Spinks. Great fight that turned out to be....

Lol. I had it exactly the same way. Playing darts all night with my buddies gettting more and more drunk and more and more tired as the fight was delayed. And then only 91 sec.'s

[TonyJ]

AGainst Tiger Wladimir made over 8M $. The Klitschkos don't need HBO or SHowtime. RTL, german network station, are paying them very, very well (over 3M € per fight only for German tv-rights).

[Shanks]

im gonna go to this 1 live anyway

[hardmanbrit]

Lol. I had it exactly the same way. Playing darts all night with my buddies gettting more and more drunk and more and more tired as the fight was delayed. And then only 91 sec.'s

The former Undisputed Light-Heavyweight Champion of the World Michael Spinks was a terrific fighter.

I was a big fan of his and I was very surprised when Tyson managed to beat him in such little time back in the eighties.

[Enayze]

Uh... This fight would never, ever, ever, ever be on HBO PPV. NEVER. It doesn't matter what time it is on. No one in the states knows those fighters. It'd be the worst selling HBO PPV since Rahman/Maskaev II. That was never a concern.

Vitali Klitschko actually has a big audience in the states. His fights would sell.

[The_Italian]

I dont see anything wrong with the U.K. refusing to hold the event at a time that pleases the U.S.

and as you all know im from the U.S. and will be the first to say i dont think its fair to alter the start of their event to please another country.

Here in the U.S. we dont really alter the start of our fights to please anyone else so why should they have to do it for us?

and on another note i kind of enjoy tuning into a fight with a late lunch on a saturday (like i did for the wlad v. rahman fight) which began at 1:45PM Pacific time.

Its a good change of pace and it actually works out for me because I get to enjoy a good fight and then the rest of my saturday night is free to go out with friends so it works for me.

When calzaghe fought roy jones here in the u.s. it didnt start at a special time...
when hatton fought malignaggi it didnt start at a special time
when hatton fought castillo it didnt start at a special time

get where im going with this.

I believe the fights should air at an comfortable time for the hosting country...

Thats the most fair way to do it.

[HappyBoxingFan]

Just heard from Adam Booth (Haye's Promoter\Trainer) that the fight in June in London will be at our time 10-11pm (whats that, like 4-5pm in the US?) and will not be made later (usually 2-3am UK time) to suit US audience, thats gonna p*ss HBO\Showtime off a little if they want to sell the fight

Who cares. It's a heavyweight fight to get excited about.

[nathan_nall]

Good, we have to stay up until 4 & 5 in the morning to watch US fights.

haha... I actually never thought about it like that. Guess we owe you guys a fight at a decent time. Still wish we could see Haye-Vitali live without having to stream it

[Kris Silver]

Well it's not that un reasonable, perhaps 11, with a likely 11:30 GMT actual start time works about right, thats what 6ish?

Surely decent numbers still watch fights around this time, before saying going out? It's easier in some ways I'd have thought. 3/4am on the other hand is literally, body clock changing. So not a big deal imo, 11ish is fine.

[nathan_nall]

I dont see anything wrong with the U.K. refusing to hold the event at a time that pleases the U.S.

and as you all know im from the U.S. and will be the first to say i dont think its fair to alter the start of their event to please another country.

I agree, but when fights are made overseas... its not like American's are breathing down the necks of our European brothers to "Make this work for us Yanks!!!" Its their choice when they will and won't hold the fight. The reason its done according to U.S. primetime is because the greatest revenue is generated in the U.S. So its just the lesser of two evils, but I'm glad that there is such a dramatic shift in the geographical location of the greatest support for the sport that places in Europe are now saying, "we don't need your primetime!"