Tell ESPN you want to see Boxing here

[robpalmer135]

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lets bombared this site.

[Martbowski]

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lets bombared this site.
Jesus christ, when has a mass bombardment ever worked? You really think the execs are sitting in their chairs when a runner sprints in with ten poorly worded emails.

"Boss... it's the boxing online community! They want more pugilism on the screens!"

.."But Joey, boxing hasn't been a success on British television for at least ten years - ITV tried to bring it back to primetime but it didn't really work. Where's the avenue for marketing and advertisement? We could replay Germany football for a tenth of the cost and still get more viewers and revenue.."

"...Boss... Rob Palmer threatened to close his subscription down..."

"Rob? The guy who sits on the internet all day purporting to be 'in the know' about all things boxing despite not really having a clue?"

"Yeah, that guy boss..."

"Never heard of him."

[punchdrunkgench]

just dropped them an email come on guys lets get behind this

[Harry Chibber]

Jesus christ, when has a mass bombardment ever worked? You really think the execs are sitting in their chairs when a runner sprints in with ten poorly worded emails.

"Boss... it's the boxing online community! They want more pugilism on the screens!"

.."But Joey, boxing hasn't been a success on British television for at least ten years - ITV tried to bring it back to primetime but it didn't really work. Where's the avenue for marketing and advertisement? We could replay Germany football for a tenth of the cost and still get more viewers and revenue.."

"...Boss... Rob Palmer threatened to close his subscription down..."

"Rob? The guy who sits on the internet all day purporting to be 'in the know' about all things boxing despite not really having a clue?"

"Yeah, that guy boss..."

"Never heard of him."


:rofl:rofl:rofl

[Flea Man]

A phone call I received a few weeks ago (abridged version)

ESPN: Hello there Mr Fleaman, I'm a Scottish Telesales respresentative?

FLEA: Hello.

ESPN: We'd like to offer you a free month of ESPN as you were a Setanta subscriber?

FLEA: I only like Boxing, I don't think you guys have got much of that, and it's a hassle cancelling it after the 1st month.

ESPN: well we've got all the live Premiersh....

FLEA: Not a big Footy man nowadays. Just Boxing.

ESPN: Oh, well if ya like Boxing we've got the exclusive rights to the UFC, which is even bett.....

(PHONE LINE GOES DEAD)

[robpalmer135]

Jesus christ, when has a mass bombardment ever worked? You really think the execs are sitting in their chairs when a runner sprints in with ten poorly worded emails.

"Boss... it's the boxing online community! They want more pugilism on the screens!"

.."But Joey, boxing hasn't been a success on British television for at least ten years - ITV tried to bring it back to primetime but it didn't really work. Where's the avenue for marketing and advertisement? We could replay Germany football for a tenth of the cost and still get more viewers and revenue.."

"...Boss... Rob Palmer threatened to close his subscription down..."

"Rob? The guy who sits on the internet all day purporting to be 'in the know' about all things boxing despite not really having a clue?"

"Yeah, that guy boss..."

"Never heard of him."

in the time you spent writing this response, you could have filled it in 10 times.

just do it you fucking twat.

[Flea Man]

Jesus christ, when has a mass bombardment ever worked? You really think the execs are sitting in their chairs when a runner sprints in with ten poorly worded emails.

"Boss... it's the boxing online community! They want more pugilism on the screens!"

.."But Joey, boxing hasn't been a success on British television for at least ten years - ITV tried to bring it back to primetime but it didn't really work. Where's the avenue for marketing and advertisement? We could replay Germany football for a tenth of the cost and still get more viewers and revenue.."

"...Boss... Rob Palmer threatened to close his subscription down..."

"Rob? The guy who sits on the internet all day purporting to be 'in the know' about all things boxing despite not really having a clue?"

"Yeah, that guy boss..."

"Never heard of him."

Funny thing is, ITV4 gets pretty good ratings for their fights. I can imagine one and a half million people staying up to watch Froch-Dirrell, with the right promotion. Trust me, there's enough casuals that stayed up to watch Mayweather-Marquez. A British fighter, hyping it as a tournament and showing the Pascal fight the week before on ITV4 with a doc supporting it, FOR FREE people will watch it.

However ITV prefer showing rolling still images with captions advertising their shows with a backdrop of cheesy muzak at that time of the morning, so there's big competition for the graveyard slot.

[Martbowski]

in the time you spent writing this response, you could have filled it in 10 times.

just do it you fucking twat.
I make bangers, not anthems.

[pathmanc1986]

Jesus christ, when has a mass bombardment ever worked? You really think the execs are sitting in their chairs when a runner sprints in with ten poorly worded emails.

"Boss... it's the boxing online community! They want more pugilism on the screens!"

.."But Joey, boxing hasn't been a success on British television for at least ten years - ITV tried to bring it back to primetime but it didn't really work. Where's the avenue for marketing and advertisement? We could replay Germany football for a tenth of the cost and still get more viewers and revenue.."

"...Boss... Rob Palmer threatened to close his subscription down..."

"Rob? The guy who sits on the internet all day purporting to be 'in the know' about all things boxing despite not really having a clue?"

"Yeah, that guy boss..."

"Never heard of him."



man you got a chuckle outa me with that one

[Martbowski]

Funny thing is, ITV4 gets pretty good ratings for their fights. I can imagine one and a half million people staying up to watch Froch-Dirrell, with the right promotion. Trust me, there's enough casuals that stayed up to watch Mayweather-Marquez. A British fighter, hyping it as a tournament and showing the Pascal fight the week before on ITV4 with a doc supporting it, FOR FREE people will watch it.

However ITV prefer showing rolling still images with captions advertising their shows with a backdrop of cheesy muzak at that time of the morning, so there's big competition for the graveyard slot.
I sincerely doubt that 1.5 million have even heard of Carl Froch. Amir Khan is the second most famous boxer in the country and he pulled in 40,000 PPV's for the Barrera fight. I don't really know where I'm going with this, but boxing on telly is in the doldrums, and I don't think Junior Witter vs Jimmy NoBody on ESPN @ 3am is gonna appeal to anybody.

Fact is, Setanta was a beautiful one off - sure, football was its number one priority, but arguably boxing was #2, and look where it got them - bankrupt. Hence why the UFC, steamrolling boxing at the moment is getting the big push on ESPN and boxing is being shafted. Just a shame that our one genuinely charismatic fighter just signed to Sky Box Office.

[Mazallan]

Jesus christ, when has a mass bombardment ever worked? You really think the execs are sitting in their chairs when a runner sprints in with ten poorly worded emails.

"Boss... it's the boxing online community! They want more pugilism on the screens!"

.."But Joey, boxing hasn't been a success on British television for at least ten years - ITV tried to bring it back to primetime but it didn't really work. Where's the avenue for marketing and advertisement? We could replay Germany football for a tenth of the cost and still get more viewers and revenue.."

"...Boss... Rob Palmer threatened to close his subscription down..."

"Rob? The guy who sits on the internet all day purporting to be 'in the know' about all things boxing despite not really having a clue?"

"Yeah, that guy boss..."

"Never heard of him."


Cant see me emailing ESPN now.

[Martbowski]

Cant see me emailing ESPN now.
If you appeal to Joey he might put in a few good words.

[El Cepillo]

A phone call I received a few weeks ago (abridged version)

ESPN: Hello there Mr Fleaman, I'm a Scottish Telesales respresentative?

FLEA: Hello.

ESPN: We'd like to offer you a free month of ESPN as you were a Setanta subscriber?

FLEA: I only like Boxing, I don't think you guys have got much of that, and it's a hassle cancelling it after the 1st month.

ESPN: well we've got all the live Premiersh....

FLEA: Not a big Footy man nowadays. Just Boxing.

ESPN: Oh, well if ya like Boxing we've got the exclusive rights to the UFC, which is even bett.....

(PHONE LINE GOES DEAD)

Classic.

Reminds me of the time I bought a bike from Halfords and I happened to be wearing a DLH-Mosley 2 t-shirt. The guy on the checkouts said "who won?", I replied "Mosley, but it was controversial", "yeah, just like wrestling isn't it?" :fire "No, its nothing like it".

[Harry Chibber]

done.

[robpalmer135]

I sincerely doubt that 1.5 million have even heard of Carl Froch. Amir Khan is the second most famous boxer in the country and he pulled in 40,000 PPV's for the Barrera fight. I don't really know where I'm going with this, but boxing on telly is in the doldrums, and I don't think Junior Witter vs Jimmy NoBody on ESPN @ 3am is gonna appeal to anybody.

Fact is, Setanta was a beautiful one off - sure, football was its number one priority, but arguably boxing was #2, and look where it got them - bankrupt. Hence why the UFC, steamrolling boxing at the moment is getting the big push on ESPN and boxing is being shafted. Just a shame that our one genuinely charismatic fighter just signed to Sky Box Office.

Froch got close to 5million viewers for the Pascal fight.

Are those Khan numbers official?

I think you will find Setantas deal with IPL and the Guiness Premiership were worth allot more than Setantas Top Rank deal.

Setanta showing boxing was not the problem, the issue was the paid to much for it. Hopefully ESPN are in the process of sorting out a decent deal with US and UK promoters.

ESPN are not trying to appeal to the general public, they are trying to appeal to the hardcore sports fans. Junior Witter vs Devon Alexander would have appealed to many british boxing fans and if they new you were going to get fights like that every week allot of Boxing fans would sign up.

I am someone that feel boxing news appeal to the BBC and ITV is pointless, but pushing Sky and ESPN to show more boxing is not.

If ESPN signed up the same deal with Top Rank as setanta did, in the next 6 months they will be able to show Pacquiao vs Cotto, the winner of that vs Mayweather, Williams vs Pavlik, Gamboa, Lopez, Valero. I doubt Setana were playing more than 250k per year.

[Mazallan]

I am going to ask for more german football and repeats of 1980's show jumping or whatever shit they show.

[Martbowski]

Froch got close to 5million viewers for the Pascal fight.

Are those Khan numbers official?

I think you will find Setantas deal with IPL and the Guiness Premiership were worth allot more than Setantas Top Rank deal.

ESPN are not trying to appeal to the general public, they are trying to appeal to the hardcore sports fans. I am someone that feel boxing news appeal to the BBC and ITV is pointless, but pushing Sky and ESPN to show more boxing is not.
Where are the facts for the Froch fight? Also, if he's such a big draw why did no-one give a shit that his fight against Taylor wasn't live? Can you imagine the uproar if a Calzaghe/Hatton/Hamed/Benn/Eubank even Khan fight wasn't shown live? But no-one really cared about Froch - you think if he had really hit five million ITV wouldn't have been really interested? I heard three million for the Pascal fight which is still impressive, but why haven't any TV stations been in contact for the Super Six with a serious offer? Cos boxing isn't a draw!

Imagine if fifteen years ago one of our very few world champs was involved in one of the most exciting things to happen to boxing in ages (the super six)? It just wouldn't happen! If boxing was still popular, and we still had characters the people in television would show it - if everyone started hankering over watching Kilroy rather than Corrie you can be damn sure that he'd be on telly four times a week at prime time.

and re: boxing being second on Setanta, purely the way I saw it. Boxing had it's own dedicated show, frequent advertising and that. I certainly never watched rugby on Setanta but then I'm not a middle aged toff with worries over my sexuality like all rugger fans seem to be.

[silverman]

ESPN are the only channel likely to pick up any boxing. Once they're happy that they are now up and running ... and when they realise that they've a lot of empty Saturday nights next season when they're down to just 23 Premiership matches ... they might just get interested again.

I did hear some news that they might pick up on golf's USPGA rights which they might look to plug the gaps left by missing football. Which could be bad news!

Boxing News campaign to bring back boxing on the BBC is pointless. The Beeb are not interested and they have no money. So why would they spend big money for fights at 0300 in the morning for a couple of hundred thousand viewers. Why would they spend a lot of money to put fights on BBC3. The heads of sport there don't like boxing and above that the controllers of the channels don't want boxing cluttering up their channels.
They might raise an eyebrow if they were offered Amir Khan. They've heard of no one else and care even less!

If ITV do leave the sport then ESPN are last channel standing (other than Sky). They do have money. It's whether they care or think it will add any subscriptions.

[robpalmer135]

Where are the facts for the Froch fight? Also, if he's such a big draw why did no-one give a shit that his fight against Taylor? Can you imagine the uproar if a Calzaghe/Hatton/Hamed/Benn/Eubank even Khan fight wasn't shown live? But no-one really cared about Froch - you think if he had really hit five million ITV wouldn't have been really interested? I heard three million for the Pascal fight which is still impressive, but why haven't any TV stations been in contact for the Super Six with a serious offer? Cos boxing isn't a draw!

Imagine if fifteen years ago one of our very few world champs was involved in one of the most exciting things to happen to boxing in ages (the super six)? It just wouldn't happen! If boxing was still popular, and we still had characters the people in television would show it - if everyone started hankering over watching Kilroy rather than Corrie you can be damn sure that he'd be on telly four times a week at prime time.

and re: boxing being second on Setanta, purely the way I saw it. Boxing had it's own dedicated show, frequent advertising and that. I certainly never watched rugby on Setanta but then I'm not a middle aged toff with worried over my sexuality like all rugger fans seem to be.

Setanta had its own dedicated show for Rugby, Cricket but they were on normal setanta. they had ultimate talk for UFC.

it was quite widley reported and i read it on digital spy which do a top 10 rated show each day sort of thing. i remember it was pushing 5mil at its peak.

The problem doesn't lie with the TV stations with regards to the Super 6, it lies with Hennesey being a complete tool. however pushing ESPN might get them to show a bit more interest. every little helps.

I agree with you. Boxing is nowhere near as popular as it used to be and that is down to the greedy promoters. However there is a still a decent sized hardcore following which the Bunce Hour's popularity and the decent viewing figures ITV4 and Friday Fight Night gets. If ESPN were to show 2 US shows a month, they would get a decent number of subscribers.

Boxing doesn't belong on terrestrial but there is a place for it on subscription, as well as PPV at a reasonable price. The reason ITV dont want to show boxing is not due to the lack of viewers, its due to the lack of advertising revenue. Boxing gets allot of viewers but it only targets the male demographic. Males 18-30 used to be the biggest consumer but now its women who advertisers want to appeal to as they have become the biggest consumer (more women work so now they have more cash to spend). advertisers are also clever. 90% of people that watched Mayweather will have taped (sky +) it and watched it sunday morning. whenever an advert came on they would fast forward. Sky+ is actually killing TV advertising.

If sky were to put on a PPV show once a month, which had 3-4 competative title fights and 2-3 prospects and went from 7pm to midnight (simular to the states PPV) and cost £5 instead of £15, i think it would do well.

[Martbowski]

^Too long to quote, but just one points - is it really down to the promoters, or to the actual boxers? How many superstars have we got? Way I see it, since Lewis, we've had one - Hatton, and his PPV results show just how successful he was. Sure, he had the Manchester following, but it spread organically.

That's the problem with promotion - you can't force people down the throats of the general public. Take Khan, beloved after the Olympics and then reviled for a couple of years until beginning to get a bit more popular recently - although only really within boxing circles. You can tell how popular people are when they go from free to paid - Howard Stern kept the majority of his audience when he went to radio you had to pay for, yet Khan's audiences have plummeted. Is that down to poor promotion, or just uninteresting boxers?

Would the premiership be as popular without Torres, Gerrard, Giggs, Drogba and Heskey?

[robpalmer135]

****** has openly said that he wants to put on bigger shows on a saturday night. sky should let him do a cheaper PPV once a month.

You have Khan or another world title fight headlining (mitchell/clev/brook next year), with 2 euro/british/comm title fights and then a couple of his top prospects. i would pay £5 for that every month or you buy a season ticket for say £50. No adverts, 5-6 hours of boxing which would have to be high quality to get the buyers.

the thing that pisses me off is that Sky charge £3.50 for a 2 hour film, and they charged £5 for prem plus, so why charge £15 3 hours of boxing?

[Martbowski]

and fifteen quid with adverts - absolute disgrace, what the fuck am I paying for?

[jj01709]

:lol::lol:Jesus christ, when has a mass bombardment ever worked? You really think the execs are sitting in their chairs when a runner sprints in with ten poorly worded emails.

"Boss... it's the boxing online community! They want more pugilism on the screens!"

.."But Joey, boxing hasn't been a success on British television for at least ten years - ITV tried to bring it back to primetime but it didn't really work. Where's the avenue for marketing and advertisement? We could replay Germany football for a tenth of the cost and still get more viewers and revenue.."

"...Boss... Rob Palmer threatened to close his subscription down..."

"Rob? The guy who sits on the internet all day purporting to be 'in the know' about all things boxing despite not really having a clue?"

"Yeah, that guy boss..."

"Never heard of him."

[Martbowski]

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[pathmanc1986]

[quote=Martbowski;4998168]^Too long to quote, but just one points - is it really down to the promoters, or to the actual boxers? How many superstars have we got? Way I see it, since Lewis, we've had one - Hatton, and his PPV results show just how successful he was. Sure, he had the Manchester following, but it spread organically.

That's the problem with promotion - you can't force people down the throats of the general public. Take Khan, beloved after the Olympics and then reviled for a couple of years until beginning to get a bit more popular recently - although only really within boxing circles. You can tell how popular people are when they go from free to paid - Howard Stern kept the majority of his audience when he went to radio you had to pay for, yet Khan's audiences have plummeted. Is that down to poor promotion, or just uninteresting boxers?



this is an important point. the general appetite for sports viewing in the uk and ireland is very good, people will watch sports in great numbers but it needs to be the top line stuff. we will watch almost any boxing, but im even talking about the likes of world championship fights involving non p4p fighters that is popular within the sport but doesnt appeal to the general fan. even the holy grail of sports tv th premiership suffers from this where people in reality only want to watch the big 4 and then in the example of golf and tennis, people only want to see the very best regardless of nationality. if domestic promoters continue to regard themselves more valuable than they really are we will hardly see any boxing on tv. mayweather has crossover appeal now, not because of his persona imo but his amazing skills. if people believe they arent being bullshited and its the very best world wide out there people will watch as long as the viewing time is sensible.

froch may be able to achieve this, but he will have to do it the hagler way. i think it will take him to win the super 6 impressively before he enters the public consciousness

[robpalmer135]

Hatton only got the huge numbers on PPV when he faced Mayweather. Lewis only did huge numbers against Tyson and Holyfield.

for PPV to do well you need an opponent. Barerra will have done decent numbers for Khan but Prescott and Kotelnik were not very good.

[ishy]

Would the premiership be as popular without Torres, Gerrard, Giggs, Drogba and Heskey?

:rofl:rofl

[GazOC]

For a PPV to "do well" it doesn't need to do huge numbers or an opponent. Khan-Presccot, Hatton-Paulie etc will all have made Sky/****** a ruck of money to more than offset the advertising lost.

[ShaneTheSherrif]

Jesus christ, when has a mass bombardment ever worked? You really think the execs are sitting in their chairs when a runner sprints in with ten poorly worded emails.

"Boss... it's the boxing online community! They want more pugilism on the screens!"

.."But Joey, boxing hasn't been a success on British television for at least ten years - ITV tried to bring it back to primetime but it didn't really work. Where's the avenue for marketing and advertisement? We could replay Germany football for a tenth of the cost and still get more viewers and revenue.."

"...Boss... Rob Palmer threatened to close his subscription down..."

"Rob? The guy who sits on the internet all day purporting to be 'in the know' about all things boxing despite not really having a clue?"

"Yeah, that guy boss..."

"Never heard of him."

:lol:

Im going to email them anyway, just incase.

[GazOC]

:lol:

Im going to email them anyway, just incase.

Tell them you know "GazOC off of the Internet", it might get your foot in the door.
;)

[JonOli]

Just mailed them.

[kerrminator]

Done.

It only doesnt work if too few people request it. The feedback form is there for a reason.

[kosaros]

Jesus christ, when has a mass bombardment ever worked? You really think the execs are sitting in their chairs when a runner sprints in with ten poorly worded emails.

"Boss... it's the boxing online community! They want more pugilism on the screens!"

.."But Joey, boxing hasn't been a success on British television for at least ten years - ITV tried to bring it back to primetime but it didn't really work. Where's the avenue for marketing and advertisement? We could replay Germany football for a tenth of the cost and still get more viewers and revenue.."

"...Boss... Rob Palmer threatened to close his subscription down..."

"Rob? The guy who sits on the internet all day purporting to be 'in the know' about all things boxing despite not really having a clue?"

"Yeah, that guy boss..."

"Never heard of him."

At least Rob is trying to do something for the sport he loves - may I ask, what are you doing to help the cause?

[Martbowski]

At least Rob is trying to do something for the sport he loves - may I ask, what are you doing to help the cause?
I'm a wedding DJ who often plays 'Simply The Best' to publicise the career of Chris Eubank.

[kosaros]

I'm a wedding DJ who often plays 'Simply The Best' to publicise the career of Chris Eubank.

hahahahahaha...........................

[Martbowski]

hahahahahaha...........................
Just doing my bit mate.

[LosG]

Froch got close to 5million viewers for the Pascal fight.






What gave you that idea? The show on ITV1 averaged at 1 million.

[2tall2slow2]

Done

[chrisfinch]

Martbowksi has been right about pretty much evevrything in this thread.:good

[Losfer_Words]

For what it's worth, I sent a little message saying more boxing would be brilliant as well:good.

[Chinny]

Well done Rob, I've sent a message. It can't hurt and only takes two minutes.

Martbowski what is the thinking behind analysing sex and the city? Are you looking for online pussy?

[leighton]

I put this up on a earlier tread today. Just get behind it. It may well fall on deaf ears and nothing gets done about it but we tried to get some more live boxing on British and Irish tv which will be a good thing to see.

Over here in Ireland they have the Dunne World title fight on live on our bbc type of station on here rte and have shown a lot of boxing over the past few years which was great to see. For those die hard fans rte.ie will be streaming the Dunne bill from 9.30 uk and Ireland time on Saturday night. It is better than nothing.

[Martbowski]

Well done Rob, I've sent a message. It can't hurt and only takes two minutes.

Martbowski what is the thinking behind analysing sex and the city? Are you looking for online pussy?
I thought it would be the opportunity to show people my sensitive side, alas I hate the fucking show.

[theuppercut]

I think they've added boxing to their row of sports when you go to the week schedule. Under the days there's ALL and then from left to right sports in an a-z format. I'm pretty certain boxing wasn't there before. Again I'm clutching at straws but it is a tiny bit of progress.

[gasman]

I was on the ESPN UK site last night to check if they had any more boxing on and then stumbled upon the link for 'feedback'. I did take the time to pass on my thoughts on their efforts to date. I delighted in borrowing some Bob Arum's words in my assessment of UFC and their judgement to show this over boxing, Russian football and Portuguese football also got mention.....etc...etc..

[gasman]

I did this a couple of weeks ago now as requested and I've not heard a single thing from Boxing News despite emailing their entire team -

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That is strange from BN, they plugged this in their 100 year issue.

[Losfer_Words]

Fuck me, Stew, you've outdone yourself. That website looks brilliant. Wonder why they won't get back to you:think..

[PrideOfWales]

Jesus christ, when has a mass bombardment ever worked? You really think the execs are sitting in their chairs when a runner sprints in with ten poorly worded emails.

"Boss... it's the boxing online community! They want more pugilism on the screens!"

.."But Joey, boxing hasn't been a success on British television for at least ten years - ITV tried to bring it back to primetime but it didn't really work. Where's the avenue for marketing and advertisement? We could replay Germany football for a tenth of the cost and still get more viewers and revenue.."

"...Boss... Rob Palmer threatened to close his subscription down..."

"Rob? The guy who sits on the internet all day purporting to be 'in the know' about all things boxing despite not really having a clue?"

"Yeah, that guy boss..."

"Never heard of him."

In one thread, you've just become my new favourite poster hinesy.

If I were you though, instead of watching all those episodes of SITC, I'd concentrate more on trying to plough Claire Bond, Jane Marney & Abbie Bishop.

[gasman]

Stew, the site looks very slick and professional. Well done.

[sidthehat]

Agree site looks very good. Makes you wonder if BN have the desire to see campaign through.

[gasman]

Agree site looks very good. Makes you wonder if BN have the desire to see campaign through.

Well, there was no mention of their campaign in this week's issue, so...

[Darni187]

Benn vs Eubank is on right now.

[Martbowski]

In one thread, you've just become my new favourite poster hinesy.

If I were you though, instead of watching all those episodes of SITC, I'd concentrate more on trying to plough Claire Bond, Jane Marney & Abbie Bishop.
Haha, never go back to your old school for women it's a bad idea.

[dan-b]

Jesus christ, when has a mass bombardment ever worked? You really think the execs are sitting in their chairs when a runner sprints in with ten poorly worded emails.

"Boss... it's the boxing online community! They want more pugilism on the screens!"

.."But Joey, boxing hasn't been a success on British television for at least ten years - ITV tried to bring it back to primetime but it didn't really work. Where's the avenue for marketing and advertisement? We could replay Germany football for a tenth of the cost and still get more viewers and revenue.."

"...Boss... Rob Palmer threatened to close his subscription down..."

"Rob? The guy who sits on the internet all day purporting to be 'in the know' about all things boxing despite not really having a clue?"

"Yeah, that guy boss..."

"Never heard of him."

:rofl:rofl:rofl:lol::lol::lol:

[PaddyD1983]

A phone call I received a few weeks ago (abridged version)

ESPN: Hello there Mr Fleaman, I'm a Scottish Telesales respresentative?

FLEA: Hello.

ESPN: We'd like to offer you a free month of ESPN as you were a Setanta subscriber?

FLEA: I only like Boxing, I don't think you guys have got much of that, and it's a hassle cancelling it after the 1st month.

ESPN: well we've got all the live Premiersh....

FLEA: Not a big Footy man nowadays. Just Boxing.

ESPN: Oh, well if ya like Boxing we've got the exclusive rights to the UFC, which is even bett.....

(PHONE LINE GOES DEAD)

:lol::lol::lol:

I hate that.

"Oh, you're a boxing fan? I'm into UFC like. Good innit?"
"Wouldnt know mate, never watched it"

Clown.

[robpalmer135]

wow Boxing News really kept this going!!! To be fair i said at the beginning they had the wrong plan.

[NSFW]

Nice bump dan...

[NSFW]

Just emailed them....