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Originally Posted by Chad

Boxing makes a big return to terrestrial TV next month with 2 world title fights.

On the 21st February Manchester's Martin Murray travels to Monaco to face undefeated top 5 pound-for-pound world champion Gennedy Golovkin on Channel 5. And after an absence of nearly 5 years, ITV confirmed today they will be showing Carl Frampton defending his IBF title against hard hitting number 1 contender Chris Avelos on the 28th February.

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/sport/box...elevision.html

ITV executive Niall Sloane said: 'This is a first step back into boxing for us and it is very exciting.

'It used to be that fighters were built up on terrestrial television before going on to pay-per-view with the likes of Sky. But lately the wider public have been deprived of the chance of seeing brilliant youngsters like Carl.'

This is big news for boxing fans as it looks like both Channel 5 and ITV have a commitment for the sport. Impressively these are 2 of the biggest shows world wide in February and they've been opened up to a massive terrestrial audience. Will be interesting to see the impact this renewed interest in the sport has on SKY and Boxnation.

I would imagine ITV are looking to alternatives to Champions league football which disappears at the end of this season.