Wilder vs Fury a poorly promoted fight

[Ray*]

Is it so hard to accept the fact that the fight isn't selling as well as everyone had hoped? The excuses you guys are coming up with are quite funny lol.

"We guys" ok mate.

[uppercut510]

its lost some steam but come fight week it will be LIT, Jacobs last fight was the definition of poorly promoted.

[PotentialToast]

Usyk is not known in the UK yet Sky have just done a documentary on him. He has been reported on BBC too. I am currently 40 miles from Manchester and had a pub chat this afternoon (lunch time pint) with a casual who offered to babysit for his misses and friends to go out if he is allowed to gets Bellew v Usyk on PPV. Matchroom and Sky put work in.

[PotentialToast]

I really wanted to see Lawrence Okolie v Matty Askin on the AJ/Pov undercard, there was enough hype about it but it was one of the worst fights I've seen.

You my friend a master of understatement.

[Ray*]

Usyk is not known in the UK yet Sky have just done a documentary on him. He has been reported on BBC too. I am currently 40 miles from Manchester and had a pub chat this afternoon (lunch time pint) with a casual who offered to babysit for his misses and friends to go out if he is allowed to gets Bellew v Usyk on PPV. Matchroom and Sky put work in.

Sky sport sure knows how to plug a fight, from start to finish. They have bigger audience too. Which is why they tried to raise Wilder profile a while back as a potential Joshua opponent. With BT sports they are a bit like DAZN, they have the money and they have been a gret competition to sky too but they don't hve the viewership that sky sports command. So this fight been on BT sport hasn't grab the imgination like it would had it been on sky. When Bellew/Usyk is getting more air time than Wilder/Fury then you know sky puts a lot into the way they plug their fights.

[pillowfists98]

Should have been in the UK.

[PotentialToast]

Sky sport sure knows how to plug a fight, from start to finish. They have bigger audience too. Which is why they tried to raise Wilder profile a while back as a potential Joshua opponent. With BT sports they are a bit like DAZN, they have the money and they have been a gret competition to sky too but they don't hve the viewership that sky sports command. So this fight been on BT sport hasn't grab the imgination like it would had it been on sky. When Bellew/Usyk is getting more air time than Wilder/Fury then you know sky puts a lot into the way they plug their fights.

I don't know whether your US based or UK. I'm UK but all my mates know who Wilder is (and they are not hard core boximg fans). That is why I hope it is him im April. I have spent time in SE US other than on holiday and I fear he is not the star he could or is, because of racism (but he has him self to blame to some extent: Eddie milking a Black man?). Football crowds are pretty white but boxing crowds in the UK are mixed and there isn't that bad vibe).

[PotentialToast]

And just to emphasize the point, I have my first tickets to watch two white guys on a main event fight for ages! But it doesn't matter!

[Ray*]

I don't know whether your US based or UK. I'm UK but all my mates know who Wilder is (and they are not hard core boximg fans). That is why I hope it is him im April. I have spent time in SE US other than on holiday and I fear he is not the star he could or is, because of racism (but he has him self to blame to some extent: Eddie milking a Black man?). Football crowds are pretty white but boxing crowds in the UK are mixed and there isn't that bad vibe).

Oh yes Wilder is known over here, sky sport have showcase his fights like 3/4 times on their channel as far as i know. This is why i think having this Fury fight in america wasn't a great idea, he shold have build up on the Joshua thing over here in the UK by knocking Fury out here.

[PotentialToast]

Oh yes Wilder is known over here, sky sport have showcase his fights like 3/4 times on their channel as far as i know. This is why i think having this Fury fight in america wasn't a great idea, he shold have build up on the Joshua thing over here in the UK by knocking Fury out here.

They'd have filled Wembly or Old Trafford. It have kicked off in the crowd though!