Comments Thread For: Wasserman Boxing, Channel 5 Announce Multi-Event Deal

[BIGPOPPAPUMP]

Wasserman Boxing and Channel 5 today announce an exclusive multi-event deal that will bring boxing to terrestrial television in a series of free-to-air fight nights delivered in association with Infinitum Entertainment and William Hill.
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[joe strong]

Maybe now Sauerland can start paying to bring in decent opponents for some of their fighters…

[DougalDylan]

Free to air boxing is always good, we need it in all countries as a feeder for the other channels, yes even Fox ;-) though it's a shame about their numbers.

Hughie Fury vs Sam ***ton did 2.9 million viewers a few years back on Channel 5 ( a channel no one watches) and its sister channel for the British a few years back. Imagine what the BBC could do?

[PRINCEKOOL]

These things needs to be long term, this is not the first time that Channel 5 has played around with boxing.

In order for such a deal to be long term, great events need to be produced. And the broadcaster needs to start associating themselves and their brand with the sport.

[Oldskoolg]

Excellent, much better than app only based boxing they no one sees

[nick_viking]

This is good news, ch5 coverage is frequently hilarious. The Frampton v Herring coverage was brilliant, no messing around, the broadcast started about a minute before they got in the ring, none of the presenters really had a clue what they were doing, and the wonderful Steve Bunce spent half the punditry session talking about infectious diseases. More of this please.

[P to the J]

This is good news, ch5 coverage is frequently hilarious. The Frampton v Herring coverage was brilliant, no messing around, the broadcast started about a minute before they got in the ring, none of the presenters really had a clue what they were doing, and the wonderful Steve Bunce spent half the punditry session talking about infectious diseases. More of this please.

Lol. Big fan of Bunce; doesn’t **** about

[P to the J]

I’m too young to remember if the UK had regular Saturday night fights on terrestrial TV before 2000-ish, just remember watching sporadic bouts involving Skelton, Fraudley and Danny Williams.

Gotta say, wish someone would bring back that deal the U.S had in the 80s/90s, where any old random Joe could turn up and fight pros with iffy records on live shows every saturday.

[stellen]

Great stuff. Ive enjoyed plenty of nights getting in from the pub, with a chinese or indian, and watching the boxing on channel 5 with the mrs.