Comments Thread For: Sources: 'The Contender' Could Return On BBC With Tyson Fury as Host

[BoloShot]

Mate this is the BBC we're talking about here, they're all SJWs and Marxists.

But yeah, I completely agree.

Oh I know the BBC might as well be the propaganda arm of the CCP they're so unabashedly far left.

[deathofaclown]

Indeed, yet according to matchroom clowns like blackstar or w/e he's called, nobody knows who Tyson Fury is in the UK?

lol

ITV did a 4 part documentary on him on prime time TV and now BBC want him to be a TV host, I think it’s fair to say he’s the biggest name in UK sport right now, at least as far as individual sports go.

All matchroom fans have to go on is that AJ filled a few stadiums. Well Fury hasn’t even fought in the UK since he become the face of boxing, so there’s not even a comparison to be made there. He would sell out those venues now too. Not forgetting AJ’s ticket sales were dwindling and no longer sell outs in the UK

At the end of the day, you can’t do all that without backing it up in the ring. Fury become the nations sweetheart and hero because he backs it up in the ring when he goes to USA in big fights.

AJ was very well managed and they did a great PR job but in the end he went to USA and got folded. That’s when joe public starts to understand the difference between greatness and just good

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ITV did a 4 part documentary on him on prime time TV and now BBC want him to be a TV host, I think it’s fair to say he’s the biggest name in UK sport right now, at least as far as individual sports go.

All matchroom fans have to go on is that AJ filled a few stadiums. Well Fury hasn’t even fought in the UK since he become the face of boxing, so there’s not even a comparison to be made there. He would sell out those venues now too. Not forgetting AJ’s ticket sales were dwindling and no longer sell outs in the UK

At the end of the day, you can’t do all that without backing it up in the ring. Fury become the nations sweetheart and hero because he backs it up in the ring when he goes to USA in big fights.

AJ was very well managed and they did a great PR job but in the end he went to USA and got folded. That’s when joe public starts to understand the difference between greatness and just good

Good post as usual mate. Skills pay the bills. AJs reputation will never recover from him being dominated and stopped by a clinically obese late replacement.

[Kiowhatta]

Boxing has far more serious concerns regarding allocation of resources, to wit, trying to connect the worldwide surge in popularity in boxing with the professional and amateur ranks, reducing the number of belts, sanctioning bodies and putting on better fights - 'The Contender' has proven to be nothing more than a slickly produced, highly edited piece of glitzy MTV-style trite, made worse because it falsely offers hope to fighters who, to date, after multiple series have never proved to be anything other than hyped, jumped up club fighters, embarrassing themselves with clichéd rhetoric and strained trash talk, scripted to regurgitate the oldest storylines in boxing.
Spare us please.

The money would be better spent on a new EA sports Fight Night. Really.

[Bunch Pag]

Makes perfect sense for all parties involved if the stories are true..

It'll be a big coup for both the BBC and Tyson...

[Split Decision]

Good post as usual mate. Skills pay the bills. AJs reputation will never recover from him being dominated and stopped by a clinically obese late replacement.

ITV did a 4 part documentary on him on prime time TV and now BBC want him to be a TV host, I think it’s fair to say he’s the biggest name in UK sport right now, at least as far as individual sports go.

All matchroom fans have to go on is that AJ filled a few stadiums. Well Fury hasn’t even fought in the UK since he become the face of boxing, so there’s not even a comparison to be made there. He would sell out those venues now too. Not forgetting AJ’s ticket sales were dwindling and no longer sell outs in the UK

At the end of the day, you can’t do all that without backing it up in the ring. Fury become the nations sweetheart and hero because he backs it up in the ring when he goes to USA in big fights.

AJ was very well managed and they did a great PR job but in the end he went to USA and got folded. That’s when joe public starts to understand the difference between greatness and just good

Absolutely

He’s the darling of the nation now. A national treasure. The greatness cannot be denied.

He’s favourite to win sports personality and now being asked to host TV shows.

He’s easily the face of boxing now. Eddie Hearn must be seething that AJ is yesterday’s news and seen as a bit of a laughing stock since Ruiz.

lmao u ****** should really get a room

[RJJ-94-02=GOAT]

This would make great TV. I did lose interest in the Contender though, when they started having has-beens on the show, fighters who'd already had their chance. The first Contender was amazing, so many young prospects and unbeaten fighters. They've never had that quality a cast on since, really charismatic fighters too. Sergio Mora, Ishe Smith, Peter Manfredo, Alfonso Gomez, Ahmed Kaddour, Miguel Espino to name a few. That was a great lineup. We need another one like that, young, hungry unbeaten fighters.

Yeah the first season was class. I always kept an eye out for all of the cast members after the series concluded. Smith and Mora both went on to win world titles which shows how solid that lineup was.

It’ll be interesting to see whether they use solely UK fighters or an international cast. I’m not sure the talent pool is deep enough over here.

[W1LL]

Yeah the first season was class. I always kept an eye out for all of the cast members after the series concluded. Smith and Mora both went on to win world titles which shows how solid that lineup was.

It’ll be interesting to see whether they use solely UK fighters or an international cast. I’m not sure the talent pool is deep enough over here.

Imagine if they could get one going with the likes of:

Scott Fitzgerald
Anthony Fowler
Ted Cheeseman
JJ Metcalf
Sam Eggington
Conor Benn
Josh Kelly
Chris Kongo

That chit would be "Da Bomb!"

Wishful thinking though because most of them are signed to Sky, lol.

[rudy]

Good post as usual mate. Skills pay the bills. AJs reputation will never recover from him being dominated and stopped by a clinically obese late replacement.

Very true indeed they should they heavyweights with less than 6 fights all unbeaten forgot the hasbeens we know what they can do

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Very true indeed they should they heavyweights with less than 6 fights all unbeaten forgot the hasbeens we know what they can do

Yep.

Boxing on terrestrial TV is a good thing.