Don King... I tell you the irony...

I always get annoyed when Don King has a promotion as these days it means we don't get to see it in England.

Every single time (even for important matches like Jones-Tarver II) he prices us out of the market. I don't know whether this is because his prices are dearer for the foreign market, or that there's so little demand for boxing over here that they don't deem it a worthy use of the money, but it means I have to miss out. Imagine never getting to see a John Ruiz match.

Okay, that last one was a joke.


BUT - the most popular sport in this country is football, or, as you American chappies like to incorrectly call it, "soccer". Recently the BBC have been running adverts where Don is being his usual verbose self, really hyping the matches in an office ("Yeah, it's Manchester United, baby!" etc.) and then being told that the football is so good it doesn't require hard sell. ("It don't need no Don!")

The BBC reputedly forked out LOADS to get Don to do it. And how does the old bugger repay 'em? By not letting 'em have boxing for a reasonable price.

They waste the license fee by giving him a job... he charges them too much for boxing in return. Nice one, Don!

[neils7147933]

soccer matches are ridiculously priced over here. It's like in the thirty dollar range for a single game that's going to come on at an inconvenient time anyway if it's live.

we do have a channel called Fox Sports World that, if you pay for a Sports Pak, will get some European sports, though all the big games are on PPV; I see them advertised all the time and I'm thinking the only ones buying them have to be immigrants and people over here on business, because people like to watch sports LIVE.

No wonder it can't get an audience if people have to pay for it all the time... though personally I have no interest in it anyway

[neils7147933]

yeah - no new fans at 34.95 anyway.

[El Jesus]

soccer is a UK originated word, short for "football association" if you *******s dont like the word, well then you shouldnt have invented it.

Watch the language with people you don't know, BJ

[Tyson_Bit_Holyfields_Ear]

The heavyweight division is a joke thanks to King.

[neils7147933]

The heavyweight division is a joke thanks to King.

King can't control the talent level. Brewster doesn't deserve a belt, no, and some of the heavyweight PPV cards are a ripoff of late, but King can't bring another Tyson or Lewis in. He can only promote what he's got, which isn't much.

I hear all the time "Oh the heavyweights need to be unified..." even though there is no division that is unified with the exception of maybe 160 ( I don't hear Maselino Masoe claiming to be the true champ there)

[El Jesus]

Watch the language with people you don't know, BJ

How am i supposed to "know" you, or anyone else, who cares, move on. You shouldnt have tried to talk about words "americans misuse" when you people invented the word in the first place. You did know that before i said it didint you?

Maybe you should watch what you say before you generalize a whole country on something so damn trivial.

[Pno]

Americans are they only country pretty much in the whole world that don't call that sport football LOLOLOL


oh well, who cares...
both sports have often had atheletes that fall down acting hurt when they really weren't hit that hard.

nothing to get all huffy and puffy about..