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  • BIGPOPPAPUMP
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    Comments Thread For: Sky Box Office Drops Boxing, Fans To Get Free Fights

    Sky Box Office have dropped world championship boxing from their schedule after a year of controversial fights as reported by WBN on July 22nd.

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  • Team Vitaminas
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    Hbo and Showtime droping PPV would kill boxing in the U.S

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    • onechance87
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      #3
      Originally posted by Team Vitaminas
      Hbo and Showtime droping PPV would kill boxing in the U.S
      Nah it could be great for boxing.Imagine floyd-ortiz on regular hbo,It would
      get like 20 millions viewers.

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      • daggum
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        #4
        Originally posted by Team Vitaminas
        Hbo and Showtime droping PPV would kill boxing in the U.S
        no it would make boxing a lot more accessible for fans. mayweather wouldn't make 40 mill a fight but i don't give a crap.

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        • paulf
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          #5
          Good. Their cards the past year were dreadful.

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          • Hitman932
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            #6
            Originally posted by paulf
            Good. Their cards the past year were dreadful.

            That's what happens when you put Brit fighters on TV.

            Sky acts like they were doing a good job and were let down by the fighters. In reality they ignored Carl Froch whose fights against Pascal, Taylor, Abraham and Kessler were better than every Haye, Cleverly and Khan fight. Well Khan-Maidana was pretty good but not as good as Froch against Pascal or Kessler.

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            • Dirk Diggler UK
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              #7
              We finally have something to thank David Haye for

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              • SP1
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                #8
                Haye definitively plays a big part in this whole debacle. The dude talks the talk which is all good in creating hype for the fight but he fails in walking the walk. But Sky screwed themselves by putting on the Haye-Harrison fight. That fight will go down as the straw that broke the camels back.

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                • Bierstadt
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                  #9
                  Originally posted by Team Vitaminas
                  Hbo and Showtime droping PPV would kill boxing in the U.S
                  Makes some sense actually. Not everyone subscribes to premium channels, but everyone has access to PPV and wouldn't mind dropping some money on a really great fight once in a while. But then again just subscribing to HBO or Showtime straight is still cheaper than paying for a single PPV, though I'm not sure if they have any minimum subscription periods.

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                  • Gypsy John Fury
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                    #10
                    I will actually buy Sky Sports now.

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