It is time USA starts catering for the UK audience and STOP putting fights on at 4am!

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  • Mr Giggles
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    #1

    It is time USA starts catering for the UK audience and STOP putting fights on at 4am!

    We are the second biggest audience, the second biggest money generator. Why are we still having to watch fights at 4/5 am. We don’t do this to the US audience when we have fights in the UK.

    I fell asleep during Haney vs Prograis, last I remember was round 9 or 10 and then waking up two hours later with my laptop in front of me still on. Putting fights on at 4am, having to decide shall I sleep and wake up for it and miss the undercard or try and stay awake the whole night.

    We need to start boycotting US fights or do something, cause this ain’t right. Maybe we should make the US audience watch uk fights at 4am, put fury vs AJ at Wembley and make it come on at 4am in the US, see how they feel!
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    #2
    Originally posted by Mr Giggles
    We are the second biggest audience, the second biggest money generator. Why are we still having to watch fights at 4/5 am. We don’t do this to the US audience when we have fights in the UK.

    I fell asleep during Haney vs Prograis, last I remember was round 9 or 10 and then waking up two hours later with my laptop in front of me still on. Putting fights on at 4am, having to decide shall I sleep and wake up for it and miss the undercard or try and stay awake the whole night.

    We need to start boycotting US fights or do something, cause this ain’t right. Maybe we should make the US audience watch uk fights at 4am, put fury vs AJ at Wembley and make it come on at 4am in the US, see how they feel!
    Only by default due to them being behind us in time zone. Still pretty inconvenient to US boxing fans who work on a Saturday afternoon.

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    • Combat Talk Radio
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      #3
      Originally posted by Mr Giggles
      We are the second biggest audience, the second biggest money generator. Why are we still having to watch fights at 4/5 am. We don’t do this to the US audience when we have fights in the UK.

      I fell asleep during Haney vs Prograis, last I remember was round 9 or 10 and then waking up two hours later with my laptop in front of me still on. Putting fights on at 4am, having to decide shall I sleep and wake up for it and miss the undercard or try and stay awake the whole night.

      We need to start boycotting US fights or do something, cause this ain’t right. Maybe we should make the US audience watch uk fights at 4am, put fury vs AJ at Wembley and make it come on at 4am in the US, see how they feel!
      Live fights will always be a challenge. Like when Japan does a fight that for us is like 1am.

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      • benplace
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        #4
        What time would be acceptable to you? 4am in the UK is 11pm EST in the USA. Just like you dont want to watch fights at 4am we dont want to stay up until midnight.

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          #5
          Originally posted by benplace
          What time would be acceptable to you? 4am in the UK is 11pm EST in the USA. Just like you dont want to watch fights at 4am we dont want to stay up until midnight.
          Frankly, night fights are annoying in general for the US. Not sure why we can't have main events in the afternoon. If they figured out how to do sometime between 12pm - 3pm or whatever, that should be reasonable then for the UK. It's the weekend, most people aren't working anyway.

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          • Dr. Z
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            #6
            Originally posted by Mr Giggles
            We are the second biggest audience, the second biggest money generator. Why are we still having to watch fights at 4/5 am. We don’t do this to the US audience when we have fights in the UK.

            I fell asleep during Haney vs Prograis, last I remember was round 9 or 10 and then waking up two hours later with my laptop in front of me still on. Putting fights on at 4am, having to decide shall I sleep and wake up for it and miss the undercard or try and stay awake the whole night.

            We need to start boycotting US fights or do something, cause this ain’t right. Maybe we should make the US audience watch uk fights at 4am, put fury vs AJ at Wembley and make it come on at 4am in the US, see how they feel!
            Who should we demand to watch on our hours? Wilder? Please.

            We got the welterweights with Bud Crawford. He is on prime time. But form heavyweight to middle weight the USA is very thin.

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            • Spray_resistant
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              #7
              No, we're the most important people on the planet and our fighters are all so chinny.

              Also, what if a wild animal attacks you in the woods? You can just shoot it with your....oh thats right.

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              • kiaba360
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                #8
                Originally posted by dan-b

                Only by default due to them being behind us in time zone. Still pretty inconvenient to US boxing fans who work on a Saturday afternoon.
                USA fans are just fortunate, and the afternoon events is one of the reasons why I started following UK boxing. I much prefer to watch an event from 12-5pm than from 8-1am. I empathize with the UK fans who have to put up with the early morning time, don't know how they keep up with USA boxers.

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                • dan-b
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                  #9
                  Originally posted by kiaba360

                  USA fans are just fortunate, and the afternoon events is one of the reasons why I started following UK boxing. I much prefer to watch an event from 12-5pm than from 8-1am. I empathize with the UK fans who have to put up with the early morning time, don't know how they keep up with USA boxers.
                  I think the last fight I stayed up all night for was Mayweather - Pacquiao. I set alarms for the first two GGG - Canelo fights. I mostly watch replays these days. I realised relatively late in life how important sleep is and I'm reluctant to disrupt my sleeping patterns now.

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                  • paulf
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                    The USA is nearly the size of Europe. Getting fights scheduled so people from New York to LA can watch is challenging enough.

                    What's going on on the other side of the world is of no concern.
                    Last edited by paulf; 12-11-2023, 02:07 AM.

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