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Originally Posted by Maggy J
Well it seems odd that the British public have no way to view their own athletes winning titles.
Perhaps the sport has priced itself out of business if Sky can't make money on it.
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100% correct. We should be able to celebrate our world champions without having to pay PPV or even a subscription. It's always bugged me how the big fights featuring Brits don't tend to trickle down to terrestrial TV. SKY are terrible for holding onto their TV rights when it comes to boxing. Setanta Sports used to sell the rights of their major shows to the BBC. When David Haye beat Enzo Maccarinelli in 2008 to become the undisputed champion of the world, the full fight was shown 7 days later on BBC2.
In an ideal world SKY would offer to sell either the full fight, or extended highlights to the BBC or ITV whenever they televise a Brit in action at world level. It ain't going to happen which is sad.
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Originally Posted by muppetman11
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I seem to remember someone posting on here that they couldn't order the Strikeforce PPV's as the events were only available via SKY.
I guess we'll just need to wait and see.