UK TV all turn down Froch fight

[Testdead]

why the hell aint it gona be ITV i no why froch has his title and is demanding big money expecting to go straight to pay per view, he should take a cut and stay on ITV and increase his fan base

Can you remember the last time itv put on a big fight at 4am?

[Sparked_1985]

Can you remember the last time itv put on a big fight at 4am?

I remember the Beeb showing Lewis getting wrecked by Rahman.

Are they not in the equation at all?

At least with the Beeb they can plug the **** out of the fight on radio, MOTD etc.

[Davros?]

agree.

Setanta will definately pick it up last minute, and no surprise there, of course the fight will be shown, i cant understand why people are worried. No way will it not be on.

One thing tho that disappoints me is ITV bottling it. They've been behind Carl all his career, and as it always goes, they drop him when it gets interesting. ITV dont like payment out one bit !

Shame. Big time boxing should have its place on mainstream, regardless of the time of the fight. I would always stay up late to watch Tyson, for example, in the mid 80's. The fact it's on late/early is a shabby arguement by them when the truth is they dont want to pay a lot of money.

anyway, dont fret people, the fight will be on, im 110% sure of that, oh, and it will definately be setanta too - why on earth do you think he's been on the show so much lately !

ITV wanted to show it but Froch's team wanted it to be on PPV and did not want ITV involved, I beleve ITV were going to show a re run of the fight but that doesnt look like happening now, They should never have tried to go the PPV route.

[Testdead]

I remember the Beeb showing Lewis getting wrecked by Rahman.

Are they not in the equation at all?

At least with the Beeb they can plug the **** out of the fight on radio, MOTD etc.

I remember that i watched it live a laughed my ass off. Lennox smiling at Rahman then gets clobbered.

I dont remember anytime itv have shown any interest in putting on big fights outside of their prime time.

I cant see them doing it no with the current economic climate. Froch said he signed a deal to have it on bbc radio live and unless he buckles over his pay demands i cannot see Setanta picking it up.

I mean Bunce has yet to even mention the rights to the fight.

It is crazy signing to fight the biggest fight of your life without securing tv rights. It happened to Jennings but he was a total unknown.

[Muttley85]

I mean Bunce has yet to even mention the rights to the fight.

i emailed him yesterday about getting the fight on setanta, he said this:

I'm on it...but it's a lorra lorra money.

Adios.
Bunce.

[Mickey Gomez]

If the fight is profitable they'll show it. If it's not they won't.

[Roger Mellie]

He is right.I am not a particularly big fan of his,but you have to give him his dues.He won the title in a brutal fight,and goes to america to fight someone of Taylors calibre in his first defence.I understand that he can come across badly,but if the british tv companies dont get behind this fight and this fighter,then a sad day for british boxing it will be.

[Savino]

This will defo be on the tele over in the UK somehow. Setanta managed to get the Cotto-Jennings fight at the last minute so expect them to get this.

The whole Froch camp are mad if they think Froch is PPV mode....even Amir Khan not PPV mode imo.

[mines a pasty]

I definately think Setanta will get it. The ONLY niggle is that Setanta are going through some very well documented financial difficulties at the moment, and of course, the fight wont come cheap. However, it cant expect to be calling itself 'The Home of Boxing' if it doesnt buy the rights to the fight.

We'll see..