UK TV all turn down Froch fight

[potatoes]

I have heard from within the camp that Mick Hennessy and Carl froch are asking for ****** amounts of money.

Interesting bit of gossip that might even be true.

[Sweet Pea 50]

]He is as polish as a fucking polka dance.[/B]

It's either him being a pole, or being an *******, dont know which one to put, since I dont care so much about him.

[boxasmash]

OH behave.!!!

LMFAO

Nobody wanted to see Hopkins v Calzaghe.

As for RJJ v Calzaghe, it was a PPV flop. They 'expected' to bring in the dumb boxing fans, but even they were not so dumb to forget Roy Jones's career ended 4 years before they faced.
If i remember correctly, people wanted to see Joe face Pavlik.

did you know dumbass that calzaghe vs hopkins had the highest views EVER on setanta sports by quite a margain? the fight was on at 4 am UK time too.

hopkins is old but he is still a top fighter.

[potatoes]

From Carl Froch:


Hello Cobra fans bad news. My fight against Jermain Taylor will not be shown live in the uk. Many things have been said that are not true i will clear them up now. I am the WBC champion its not no micky mouse WBO title its the lineal title. By being the WBC champion i believe it is my right to be compensated as such. I have brought big time boxing back to itv by fighting world-class operators prime-time. We offered itv a deal where they would show the Taylor fight but they turned it down wanted options and refused to meet my fee. When Mick told me Setanta were interested i reluctantly agreed so you my fans could see me beat Taylor live. I didnt want to deal with Setanta due to the poor fights they put on regarding Joe Calzaghe, real fans know beating Hopkins and Jones was a joke. again Setanta refused to compensate me in a way that pleased me and Mick. All i wanted was parity with what Calzaghe earned against Roy Jones (a washed up Jones) i am fighting a prime top 10 bonafide champion. I have tried to secure the fight but have been unable. Sky showed an intrest but unless it was on Boxoffice i didnt want to know. Sky said it cannot do nothing until after the Hatton fight.

But all is not lost as we have done an exclusive deal with BBCSport to have the fight broadcast on Radio 5-live.

Regards, the cobra.

Dear Cobra,
You don't know the first ****ing thing about the business of boxing. As to whether Calzaghe vs. Apples is a worthy fight doesn't mean **** to anybody, who is anybody, in any future negotiation. Boxing is about drawing the fans. It is the fans who buy tickets and who ultimately pay the bills. You can try to charge any "fee" you want, nobody cares and nobody is going to pay it.

[Rocky.]

All you people bad mouthing setanta, fcuk off

Setanta is the home of boxing, and bring us boxing fans tons of boxing events and big fights, so start showing them a bit of respect rather than bad mouthing them at every opportunity.

Froch boxed on ITV he had no ties to setanta, his fight was ment to be on sky box office, his team are asking for silly money, thats why no station is interested.

When they lower their asking price, then some tv station will pick up the fight.

[Davros?]

Hennesey has a contract with ITV but he said after the Pascal fight that Froch was a PPV fighter and was done with ITV, but ITV had a verbal contract and said they would disputed any attempt to show it on another network.
Hennessey is an idiot he had a good deal with ITV and fighters always get more fans when there on there, just look what happened to Calzaghe when he was on ITV he was a nobody before and now he is a big name, There is no way that a Froch PPV would sell much more than 10,000 imo, Hennessey is a typical promoter thinking of short term gains over a long term investment.

[potatoes]

Hennesey has a contract with ITV but he said after the Pascal fight that Froch was a PPV fighter and was done with ITV, but ITV had a verbal contract and said they would disputed any attempt to show it on another network.
Hennessey is an idiot he had a good deal with ITV and fighters always get more fans when there on there, just look what happened to Calzaghe when he was on ITV he was a nobody before and now he is a big name, There is no way that a Froch PPV would sell much more than 10,000 imo, Hennessey is a typical promoter thinking of short term gains over a long term investment.

One should not be too critical about Hennessey. When you are handling a joker like Froch, you can't expect a long shelf-life.

[Ryn0]

Setanta should pick it up for Taylor, it's not like Froch will be a titlest long anyway.

[pcr405]

Setanta aka ****anta can **** of a sky monoply is much better than having ****anta i mean just **** of. They have the worse irish commentators ****ing pundits who know jack ****. AND THEY HAVE THE ****ING CHEEK TO PAY MILLIONS FOR THE FA CUP SEMI SO THE WHOLE OF ENGLAND CANT WATCH IT.

[Rocky.]

Setanta aka ****anta can **** of a sky monoply is much better than having ****anta i mean just **** of. They have the worse irish commentators ****ing pundits who know jack ****. AND THEY HAVE THE ****ING CHEEK TO PAY MILLIONS FOR THE FA CUP SEMI SO THE WHOLE OF ENGLAND CANT WATCH IT.

Yeah setanta should fcuk off, just drop boxing all together, and we can go back to sky sports showing us one or 2 big fights a year from america.

Idiot