Comments Thread For: Crawford-Khan ESPN Pay-Per-View - Undercard Information

[Eff Pandas]

Hopefully I can watch this at my local movie theater if not I’m going to have to stream can’t pay 75 and it’s just me

They need to make this a regular thing. All boxing PPV's at the theater.

[aAgger]

They need to make this a regular thing. All boxing PPV's at the theater.

Just like the good old days of closed-circuit theater TV, when people used to watch boxing at theaters.

[Alan Smithee]

London Olympics: Boxer Vikas Krishan's victory overturned

London: A few hours after the US men's boxing team thought it was done at the Olympics, amateur boxing's governing body decided Errol Spence deserved to fight on.

AIBA overturned Spence's loss to Indian welterweight Krishan Vikas late Friday night, five hours after the defense-minded Vikas had apparently clutched and grabbed his way to a 13-11 victory.

After the American team protested the result, AIBA's competition jury reviewed the bout and ruled Vikas had committed nine holding fouls in the third round alone. He also intentionally spit out his mouthpiece in the second round, which should have resulted in at least four points of deductions.

Spence advanced into the quarterfinals to face Russia's Andrey Zamkovoy on Tuesday. If he wins, the American men's team will avoid leaving the Olympics with no medals for the first time ever.

"I am obviously thrilled that the competition jury overturned my decision and I can continue chasing the gold medal I came here to win," Spence said late Friday night. "I am going to make the most of this second chance that I've been given. I can't wait to get back in that ring on Tuesday."

Spence felt he had won the bout afterward, expecting his hand to be raised in the ring, but wasn't terribly surprised when Vikas got the nod. The welterweight from Dallas already was the last US man standing after his eight male teammates lost in the previous five days, including three-time Olympian Rau'shee Warren's 19-18 loss to France's Nordine Oubaali an hour earlier.

Spence stopped the eight-fight skid, but must beat Zamkovoy to save the most successful team in Olympic boxing history from its first medal shutout and its worst showing at any games -- although three U.S. women are still alive in their first Olympic tournament, which begins Sunday.

Spence's late reprieve was surreal for a team that appeared headed home with nothing. Spence struggled to penetrate Vikas' technical, plodding style despite showing superior power and entertainment value.

"We did a lot of work, got a lot of coaching, but it's the judges that we feel we're going against most of the time," Warren said.

The 2008 U.S. team won only one bronze medal in Beijing, the worst showing so far -- but at least that team won six total fights, one more than the London team. The American men have won only one gold medal in the last three Olympics, by Andre Ward in Athens in 2004.

The vaunted American team has claimed at least one boxing medal in every modern Olympics where boxing was a sport except the boycotted Moscow Games, and many of the men who won them are among the giants of the sweet science.

https://www.firstpost.com/sports/lon...ed-404640.html Personally I thought Vikas won the fight, both are southpaws, the fight is on Youtube.

Thanks. I'll check it out!

[Chrismart]

🇬🇧📺 Terence Crawford vs Amir Khan will be shown live on BT Sport Box Office pay-per-view in the UK, April 20th.

— Michael Benson (@MichaelBensonn) March 8, 2019

[CocoonOfHorror]

This is a great card compared to Spence-Garcia. I'm legitimately interested in every fight. But $75 would be steep, especially for those who have already been paying monthly for ESPN+.

But the fact is that about half of the $75 for a typical US PPV goes to cable companies. If ESPN is offering PPV direct through the ESPN app, that gives them an opportunity to decrease the price and actually increase their revenue. With US fans anchored to the $75+ price point, they would see it as a bargain.

Any word on a discount for ESPN+ subscribers? How about $45 for PPV through the app?

[Colonada]

Aamir khan is my man, where do i watch his old fights? :O

[2ndroundko]

This is a great card compared to Spence-Garcia. I'm legitimately interested in every fight. But $75 would be steep, especially for those who have already been paying monthly for ESPN+.

But the fact is that about half of the $75 for a typical US PPV goes to cable companies. If ESPN is offering PPV direct through the ESPN app, that gives them an opportunity to decrease the price and actually increase their revenue. With US fans anchored to the $75+ price point, they would see it as a bargain.

Any word on a discount for ESPN+ subscribers? How about $45 for PPV through the app?

what an embarrassing tweet from an employee