Comments Thread For: Ben Whittaker Goes Pro With BOXXER, Will Be Trained By SugarHill Steward

[Ragga1]

Ben Shalom is building a good stable with a lot of potential. Ben Whitaker with his skills and charisma should sell himself well to the public.

[Rodtang]

The Sky model isn’t good for the fans. Anything decent is slung behind a paywall. The glory days of Benn-Eubank pulling in 18 million viewers on ITV are long behind us unfortunately. Sky have ostensibly priced the terrestrial channels out of the sport in the UK.

But they've consistently been the largest and most successful platform in the UK have they not? Regardless of promoter. You said it yourself. Warren, Hearn and next Shalom. If their the biggest, then that's through Sky. Who is bigger or better if not Sky?

[RoadMan94]

Not really. Has there ever been a Flyweight star in the UK for example? Galal’s a talented kid just like Kal was but they can’t sell tickets and can’t generate money. They’re not assets to a promoter.

There is Kai, Gamal and Galal. Galal was in last olympics and I may be wrong but I’m sure he signed with Hearn. He was also fun fighter in the olympics. I loved buatsi when he was in 16. I feel like his career has stalled somewhat.

[RoadMan94]

As I said last year, just a matter of time before Boxxer are the number one promotional company in be UK. Shalom won the lottery when he got Sky’s backing. Just like Hearn did in 2011, Warren did in the 90’s etc.

Completely agree. Eddie seemed to take sky sports for granted and felt he was the machine. You can never overstate how much sky puts behind the promoter.

[RJJ-94-02=GOAT]

Matchroom had more interest in Yafai. So it seems they both got what they wanted.

No they didn’t.

[RJJ-94-02=GOAT]

Completely agree. Eddie seemed to take sky sports for granted and felt he was the machine. You can never overstate how much sky puts behind the promoter.

Spot on mate.

[RJJ-94-02=GOAT]

But they've consistently been the largest and most successful platform in the UK have they not? Regardless of promoter. You said it yourself. Warren, Hearn and next Shalom. If their the biggest, then that's through Sky. Who is bigger or better if not Sky?

ITV were the biggest in the 80’s. Sky have dominated since the 90’s largely due to the formation of the Premier League in 92. Sport on terrestrial TV is what’s best for the people but it’ll never happen again in regards to boxing.

[RJJ-94-02=GOAT]

There is Kai, Gamal and Galal. Galal was in last olympics and I may be wrong but I’m sure he signed with Hearn. He was also fun fighter in the olympics. I loved buatsi when he was in 16. I feel like his career has stalled somewhat.

Yeah Buatsi’s been moved terribly. Look where Okollie is by comparison. Even Yarde.

Craig Richards is a massive step in the right direction though, really like that matchup.

[Dakuwaqa]

The Sky model isn’t good for the fans. Anything decent is slung behind a paywall. The glory days of Benn-Eubank pulling in 18 million viewers on ITV are long behind us unfortunately. Sky have ostensibly priced the terrestrial channels out of the sport in the UK.

Yup. Patchy schedule and everything good is costing you £20

I still don’t understand how some so called fans get a hard on for DAZNs difficulties

Weekly cards, many of them very decent, loads of content etc.

Makes no sense to me

[RJJ-94-02=GOAT]

Yup. Patchy schedule and everything good is costing you £20

I still don’t understand how some so called fans get a hard on for DAZNs difficulties

Weekly cards, many of them very decent, loads of content etc.

Makes no sense to me

Yeah I’ve always said I liked the DAZN concept. Not so much the PPV model they’ve introduced though. The content isn’t good enough to, I’ve said from day onecit reminded me of Boxnation but with less content. Boxnation were showing GBP, PBC, TR, Sauerland, Warren and several other European and North American cards. DAZN are essentially only showing GBP and Matchroom cards. It just isn’t enough content and lacks quality. DAZN is around the same price at Netflix over here for example and look at the difference in content provided.

The PBC with the DAZN model is it was never going to be sustainable, you could see this coming a mile off. I doubt they remain deeply involved in the sport long term tbh. If you want to retain consistent subscribers you need a mainstream sport like Football in Europe, NBA and NFL in North America etc to drive subscriptions. Boxing only produces a handful of mainstream events per year, so you might be able to drive subscriptions for one or two months, but how do you retain them for the next 11?