Comments Thread For: “Fighting Words” – Wlad Klitschko: Heavyweight Heave-Ho

[dans]

Wlad's a nice enough guy and a great champion, but I'm not paying to watch him fight on the internet.

The fact that I still watch his boring mismatches on free tv is a wonder in itself.

Again, I'm not knocking him at all, but why am I gonna spend $15 to watch him on my laptop?

[Dave Rado]

no one cares about tennis period.

That's a ridiculous post. Tennis gets far more television viewers worldwide than boxing does. Many, many times more.

[Dave Rado]

Sucks that the HW champ isn't on American network TV, sounds like some sort of inside biased against him......I mean him being "not entertaining" as some say sounds like a BS reason as tons of extremely boring fighters who never even ko anyone get on HBO and PPV cards all of the time.

They showed 15 of his fights, so to accuse them of being biased against him is ridiculous. They are in business to make a profit. They obviously no longer feel they can make a profit on Wlad's fights. It's that simple.

[mookiep]

That's a ridiculous post. Tennis gets far more television viewers worldwide than boxing does. Many, many times more.

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[Dave Rado]

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In Britain alone, during Wimbledon, tennis regularly gets TV audiences of well over 10 million and the BBC shows live tennis for more than 5 hours a day every day throughout the Wimbledon fortnight, as well as an hour of highlights every evening.

Boxing doesn't get anything like that amount of coverage or viewers. None of the terrestrial channels show boxing at all any more, and Sky think they've done extremely well if they get more than a million viewers for a fight.