britishwrestlinglegends Posted September 23, 2011 Share Posted September 23, 2011 Cheers for the answers, I enjoy boxing but know nothing about it so being told by someone who knows their stuff is great. I know nothing on subjects that are of no interest to me. If i enjoy something, I at least having a basic knowledge of what i am enjoying? Do you mean you have a basic knowledge or as you say "nothing"? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Paid Members ReturnOfTheMack Posted September 24, 2011 Paid Members Share Posted September 24, 2011 Cheers for the answers, I enjoy boxing but know nothing about it so being told by someone who knows their stuff is great. I know nothing on subjects that are of no interest to me. If i enjoy something, I at least having a basic knowledge of what i am enjoying? Do you mean you have a basic knowledge or as you say "nothing"? Â Â OK I dont know nothing, but I know very, very little. I could name about 5 current boxers for example. I dont have time to learn about everything that has interested and entertained me in my life, and while I enjoy to watch boxing its always been low down the list of things to do/learn about. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Zebra Kid Mark Posted September 24, 2011 Share Posted September 24, 2011 Cheers for the answers, I enjoy boxing but know nothing about it so being told by someone who knows their stuff is great. I know nothing on subjects that are of no interest to me. If i enjoy something, I at least having a basic knowledge of what i am enjoying? Do you mean you have a basic knowledge or as you say "nothing"? Â Â OK I dont know nothing, but I know very, very little. I could name about 5 current boxers for example. I dont have time to learn about everything that has interested and entertained me in my life, and while I enjoy to watch boxing its always been low down the list of things to do/learn about. That's a bit like me and pornography. I know the names of about 5 porn stars where as all the others are nameless to me but I still enjoy watching them. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Mr Lawrence Posted September 24, 2011 Share Posted September 24, 2011 (edited) Taylor Slade - Don't you think this Frank Warren channel is going to fuck Boxing up even more than it is already? I mean with top level fighters not fighting each other. Even before this channel started, i was thinking if David Price beats Big John next month he is in line to fight Tyson Fury for the British title. Who will show this fight? Sky or Ch5? It will go to the highest bidder, so does this cause friction between Hennesy and CH5? Â Also, i can see it leading to more fights between fighters who are under the same promotional umbrella as they are easy to make but not neccesary the most interesting to watch - classic example - Groves and Smith. Why is Groves, who beat Degale fighting Smith who Degale destroyed two fights previous? If Booth was still promoting him this would not happen. Â Also now, sky sports is 20quid a month, Warren tv 10quid, then primetime possibily offering fights for 15quid, This basically can have you spending 50quid a month to watch the top fights - is this right? Edited September 24, 2011 by Mr Lawrence Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Paid Members wandshogun09 Posted September 24, 2011 Paid Members Share Posted September 24, 2011 The Pacquiao vs Marquez card is shaping up nicely  Manny Pacquiao vs Juan Manuel Marquez Juan Carlos Burgos vs Luis Cruz Mike Alvarado vs Breidis Prescott Brandon Rios vs TBA  looks really good, hope they continue stacking the undercards like this in future. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
David Posted September 24, 2011 Share Posted September 24, 2011 Any word on this channel being available on Virgin? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Mr Lawrence Posted September 24, 2011 Share Posted September 24, 2011 the channel is going to available on virgin, i read that in the warren column in the sun today. free for the first couple of months but then it'll cost you a tenner a month. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
David Posted September 24, 2011 Share Posted September 24, 2011 Thanks man. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Mr Lawrence Posted September 24, 2011 Share Posted September 24, 2011 http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Eros-tGCgVk if anyone had any doubts how popular hatton was, watch this. For me i see ricky hatton as the english hulk hogan or steve austin. brought loads of fans to the sport who had never watched it before and brought back a load who had watched it then stopped watching it. It was good he had Joe C as his tag team partner. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Paid Members Egg Shen Posted September 25, 2011 Author Paid Members Share Posted September 25, 2011 yeh Hatton's support was amazing, surely no British fighter has ever come close to getting that kind of euphoric response. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Paid Members Taylorslade Posted September 25, 2011 Paid Members Share Posted September 25, 2011 http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Eros-tGCgVk if anyone had any doubts how popular hatton was, watch this. For me i see ricky hatton as the english hulk hogan or steve austin. brought loads of fans to the sport who had never watched it before and brought back a load who had watched it then stopped watching it. It was good he had Joe C as his tag team partner. Â Ricky Hatton was a box-office juggernaught, and his drawing power was even more incredible considering he never fought on terrestrial television. Hatton was a true Sports Network/Sky Sports home grown mainstream fighter. 35,000 travelling fans for the Mayweather fight, and 25,000 for Pacquiao (even 15,000 for the Paulie Malignaggi fight) for me, puts him in a class completly of his own. A limited fighter, of course, but the bottom line, is that the only two losses of his career came against two of the modern and all-time great fighters. I believe that he should be inducted into the Hall of Fame, when eligible. People can disagree, but I can't imagine what the boxing landscape during 2000-2009 would've been without him, and it's easy for people to dismiss him, but if Barry Mcguigan is a HOF fighter, then there's no reason why Ricky Hatton shouldn't. He brought a lot to boxing and was an integral part of the resurgence of boxing in the "noughties" (hate that word) and a massive part of the series of blockbuster fights over the last decade which revolved around the Welterweight divison. Â I attended the Kostya Tszyu fight with my dad, my three uncles and my grandad, we were sat just behind press row, which was a minor miracle in itself, thanks to my grandad who had an incredible amount of connections in the boxing scene. The atmospere was unbelievable and I can't explain how the feeling of pure euphoria just overcame everyone in the building. The only other fight night which comes to mind as being close to that, was the Bruno Vs Mcall fight at Wembley when Frank finally won a Heavyweight crown, everyone was in tears that night, but seeing Hatton break Kostya Tszyu's heart when everyone picked the champion to destroy the challenger early, was unique. Â Taylor Slade - Don't you think this Frank Warren channel is going to fuck Boxing up even more than it is already? I mean with top level fighters not fighting each other. Even before this channel started, i was thinking if David Price beats Big John next month he is in line to fight Tyson Fury for the British title. Who will show this fight? Sky or Ch5? It will go to the highest bidder, so does this cause friction between Hennesy and CH5? Â Also, i can see it leading to more fights between fighters who are under the same promotional umbrella as they are easy to make but not neccesary the most interesting to watch - classic example - Groves and Smith. Why is Groves, who beat Degale fighting Smith who Degale destroyed two fights previous? If Booth was still promoting him this would not happen. Â Also now, sky sports is 20quid a month, Warren tv 10quid, then primetime possibily offering fights for 15quid, This basically can have you spending 50quid a month to watch the top fights - is this right? Â I know what you're saying, and I think you are right to be concerned, but I think once the wrinkles are ironed out everything will fall into place, and I'll tell you why. Â Regarding Price Vs Fury, it will probably end up going to purse bids, and as far as Channel 5 and Sky are concerned, I can't see it causing many problems. I can imagine that Hennessy will probably end up putting the fight on, and some of my reasons for that are pure speculation, although I've good reason to speculate that they are true. Now, Sky have deals with a few different promoters and managers to provide the network with a certain amount of fights every year. CH5 on the other hand, are building their boxing coverage around Tyson Fury, infact, he basically is their boxing content. So with that in mind, I wouldn't be surprised if -in the event of an all out bidding war- CH5 instruct Hennessy to keep bidding high and they will pick up the difference. However, call me a conspiracy theorist, but I'm fairly sure that Frank Maloney would see Mick Henessy winning the purse bid as quite a positive. 1- He believes in his fighter David Price's chances of beating Fury, 2- it would be infront of a large free TV audience, so Price would get a lot of exposure no matter what happened, but especially if he beat Fury live on CH5 it would transfer a massive amount of instant recognition to the viewing audience who might not of known Price beforehand, especially seeings as CH5 have been building Tyson Fury for quite some time now....3- and finally, it would't cost Maloney much. So it will be interesting to see how it all plays out. Â Boxnation.... Â I can understand people being apprehensive about it, and I suppose it is somewhat similar to the situation over in the States regarding promotional companies like Top Rank and Golden Boy now having the ability to produce and distribute their own PPV events without HBO or Showtime, if the networks do not approve of the fights that are put to them, only with Boxnation being an actual channel, but I think it has still been born out of the same circumstances and tension. Frank Warren can say otherwise as much as he likes, and I know that Boxnation as a project in general has probably been going on for some time, but I don't think it is a coincidence that the launch of this new premium channel has came not long after Sky announced that they will not be doing anymore PPV's for a while. Â I still think that Boxnation is a positive though. I like the fact that its format will be similar to that of Setanta, or at least it seems to be, with the customer paying per month for the channel without any per-night PPV's on top. With Setanta, every other weekend we got fights such as Pacquiao Vs Marquez/Barrera, with big fights with British interest included in the package such as Calzaghe Vs Hopkins/Jones, Haye Vs Mormeck/Macarinelli/Barrett. Considering the fact that Warren last year, put on shows such as the Magnificent Seven and the Degale-Groves show which were both on SBO, they would be included with the Boxnation package, and then you have everything else on top, so this has potential to be very good, just depends how they deal with it. Â As far as Primetime and one night PPV's goes, it probably won't be this year, but I can see them in the near future also switching to the same format as the one which Setanta used and which Boxnation are going to use. I think they will have to really. 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Paid Members Taylorslade Posted September 25, 2011 Paid Members Share Posted September 25, 2011 Taylorslade are you still going to write up your experiences in boxing on here or have you changed your mind about it would love to here it  Well, I can't really post a "from start to finish" biography of my experiences in boxing, but if you have any questions then don't hesitate to ask. If I was to type a post that started from scratch, then I wouldn't know where to start because it spans my lifetime really. If anything in the discussion reminds me of my own experiences then I'll share them from now on, and if you or anyone else has any questions, then please ask and I'll answer.  And here's a photo of me when I was about 9, leaving the ring after a contest. Sorry it's small, I don't know where to upload it so it's full size. And yes, I know, nice shorts.  Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Paid Members nfc90210 Posted September 25, 2011 Paid Members Share Posted September 25, 2011 Just saw this on the BoxNation Twitter.  http://twitter.com/#!/boxnationtv  boxnationtv BoxNation Checkout http://www.boxnation.tv register today and get 1 months free when we go encrypted 24 Sep Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Paid Members Egg Shen Posted September 25, 2011 Author Paid Members Share Posted September 25, 2011 so Boxnation is going to cost Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
David Posted September 25, 2011 Share Posted September 25, 2011 Are we getting it free initially though? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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