BBC and Boxxer Bring Boxing Back To Free TV – Let’s Hope You Don’t Ruin It

The BBC’s Decided Boxing Deserves A Seat Back At The Saturday Night Table, Teaming Up With Boxxer to Stream Fights on BBC Iplayer and Air Them on Good Free-to-Air Tv. That’s right – You Won’t Need to Pay on PPV on PPV to Watch a Prospect Battery Some overmatched Latvian. For now.

It’s not Just The Main Fights, Either. They’ll Chuck In A Few Undercard Bouts, behind-the-scenes Bits, and Some Field Features Across The BBC Sport Site and App. Sounds Nice, But Most Of Want Decent Fights Three Hours Of Preamble And Half-Time Montages That Look Like There Made For The Six Nations.

BBC Says Boxing’s Back – But Will Anyone Care?

Alex Kay-Jelski From BBC Sport is the Back to the Back, Talking About Bringing Boxing to “Younger Audiences” and Giving Them “The Next Generation” of Fighters. The “Next Generation is Great and All, but IF the matchmaking’s Garbage, No One’s Going to Stick Around Past Round Three. This Sport Needs Blood, Drama, And Real Competition – Not Just A Shiny Set and A Pre-Fight Panel.

Shalom Promises The “Biggest Possible Audience” – Yeah, We’ve Heard That Before

Boxxer Boss Ben Shalom Calls It “Historic” and Says They’ll Bring The Most “Entertaining” Fighters To The Biggest Audience. Translation: They’ll Try To Make Stars Without Risking Them Too Soon. Hopefully That Means Real 50/50 Fights Of Another Unbeaten Kid Against A Cab Driver With Six Losses in A Row.

This could be a win for fans … IF them da n’t fill it with Safe Matchmaking and Padded Records. BBC’s Got The Platform, Boxxer’s Got The Fighters – Now Let’s See IF Thain’ve got the Guts to Worth Worth Fights Worth. Or Will It Be Overproduced Saturday Night Snoozefest?