Haye vs Valuev, Khan vs Salita May Go To ESPN

[Rewind]

All those fighters suck so bad, no wonder they put it on ESPN instead of HBO.

Self-ownage. Both of the Klits last fights were on Classic. Perfect sig material, but you ain't worth it.

[NakiFan]

Good as long as they arent on HBO where the commentators can tell us all that khan and haye are not as good as americans!

[mrpain81]

Good news if this will be ESPN or ESPN2, classic doesn't get many viewers.

[Dave Rado]

This would be great to get both fights on US television.

This article is only about screening the fights in the UK, not the US. ESPN has opened a UK arm whicb is trying to replace Setanta as the UK's premier boxing subscription channel.

[Dave Rado]

No think they mean ESPN in the US cos both fights will surely land on Sky Box Office over here, shame though cos if ESPN UK were gonna show these fights then it might mean that they were finally gonna pick up where Setanta left off. I'd buy ESPN UK if they showed at least a slight committment to Boxing but nothing as of yet.

No you didn't read the article properly. They are talking about an article in the UK newspaper The People, not a US newspaper, and that article says that the UK arm of ESPN is trying to win these fights away from Sky:

"Espn's British invasion continues apace as the US broadcaster prepares to battle Sky Sports for the rights to screen Amir Khan's next fight.

He won his first world crown, the WBA light-welterweight title, by beating Andreas Kotelnik in July - a bout broadcast by Sky Box Office.

But theirs is a fight-to-fight deal and ESPN will muscle in when Khan, whose promoter Frank Warren is in negotiations with mandatory challenger Dimitry Salita about a December clash, announces his first defence.

The channel will consider showing Khan's fight as part of their subscription package, while Sky Box Office is pay-perview - punters paid £14.63 for the Kotelnik scrap.

Espn are interested in screening David Haye's WBA heavyweight title clash with Nikolay Valuev in November and could be interested in ITV's deal with Hennessy Sports, which runs out this year."

[Dave Rado]

I think they are talking about ESPN in the United States picking it up.

No you misread the article, they're only talking about the UK.

[Dave Rado]

This is what boxing needs, more of this. People would be more interested if more fights were available to everybody like they used to be.

ESPN UK isn't available to everybody, it's a subscription channel and only has a tiny number of subscribers.

What's really needed is for ITV or the BBC to support boxing, because everyone in the UK has access to them - but the BBC isn't interested and ITV has just pulled the plug.

[Dave Rado]

All those fighters suck so bad, no wonder they put it on ESPN instead of HBO.

This is an article about ESPN UK, who are trying to poach these fighters from Sky. HBO isn't available in the UK, so they're completely irrelevent.

[Lucky Charms]

This is an article about ESPN UK, who are trying to poach these fighters from Sky. HBO isn't available in the UK, so they're completely irrelevent.

If ESPN UK gets it, it will be shown in the US (likely ESPN Classic) and ESPN Deportes.

[johnle43]

good catch rado! i read through it quickly the first time and sorta thought it would be on US espn.