Boxing Thread

[Walter Cronc]

£16.95 to book the fight, very steep.

Contemplating watching it in the pub, but I enjoy the commentary
Other option is streaming it, but again its not the same - prob freeze once the action gets going.

Lots of streams will be available for this fight God14.

[STREET FIGHTER]

Anyone know of any bars in Cookstown, Dungannon or Magherafelt showing it......

[nrico2006]

Thinking of getting it myself, better on big screen etc but how likely is it that a really good non buffering stream will be available?

[Walter Cronc]

Thinking of getting it myself, better on big screen etc but how likely is it that a really good non buffering stream will be available?

Wiziwig, Vip Box all should have decent streams. My shout would be try it 30-40 mins before the fight and if its no good at all pay for it!

[STREET FIGHTER]

Thinking of getting it myself, better on big screen etc but how likely is it that a really good non buffering stream will be available?

I tried to watch the last Frampton fight on the web and by the time it stopped buffering/messed about the fight was over!!

[nrico2006]

Thinking of getting it myself, better on big screen etc but how likely is it that a really good non buffering stream will be available?

Wiziwig, Vip Box all should have decent streams. My shout would be try it 30-40 mins before the fight and if its no good at all pay for it!

I normally would have checked during the undercard and didn't mind booking last minute but now they have the surcharge for booking on the day.  Usually don't watch many of the undercard fights but nearly more interested in seeing DeGale get his head knocked off than anything else.  Virgil Hunter put him in his box yesterday.

[J OGorman]

Thinking of getting it myself, better on big screen etc but how likely is it that a really good non buffering stream will be available?

Wiziwig, Vip Box all should have decent streams. My shout would be try it 30-40 mins before the fight and if its no good at all pay for it!

I normally would have checked during the undercard and didn't mind booking last minute but now they have the surcharge for booking on the day.  Usually don't watch many of the undercard fights but nearly more interested in seeing DeGale get his head knocked off than anything else.  Virgil Hunter put him in his box yesterday.

nrico, if yer mad keen to see the fight, I'd dip for it or split it between a couple of you. I've been heartbroken a good few times in the past with links dropping or freezing during bouts. Also had seemless streams, its the chance you take. Not great for the old stress levels though!

[God14]

Thinking of getting it myself, better on big screen etc but how likely is it that a really good non buffering stream will be available?

Wiziwig, Vip Box all should have decent streams. My shout would be try it 30-40 mins before the fight and if its no good at all pay for it!

I normally would have checked during the undercard and didn't mind booking last minute but now they have the surcharge for booking on the day.  Usually don't watch many of the undercard fights but nearly more interested in seeing DeGale get his head knocked off than anything else.  Virgil Hunter put him in his box yesterday.

nrico, if yer mad keen to see the fight, I'd dip for it or split it between a couple of you. I've been heartbroken a good few times in the past with links dropping or freezing during bouts. Also had seemless streams, its the chance you take. Not great for the old stress levels though!

Yeah I agree. Really wanna see the flight. Even when you manage to get a decent stream, your enjoyment is almost ruined as in the back of your mind your waiting for it to freeze. It could be explosive at any second.

[nrico2006]

Thinking of getting it myself, better on big screen etc but how likely is it that a really good non buffering stream will be available?

Wiziwig, Vip Box all should have decent streams. My shout would be try it 30-40 mins before the fight and if its no good at all pay for it!

I normally would have checked during the undercard and didn't mind booking last minute but now they have the surcharge for booking on the day.  Usually don't watch many of the undercard fights but nearly more interested in seeing DeGale get his head knocked off than anything else.  Virgil Hunter put him in his box yesterday.

nrico, if yer mad keen to see the fight, I'd dip for it or split it between a couple of you. I've been heartbroken a good few times in the past with links dropping or freezing during bouts. Also had seemless streams, its the chance you take. Not great for the old stress levels though!

Yeah I agree. Really wanna see the flight. Even when you manage to get a decent stream, your enjoyment is almost ruined as in the back of your mind your waiting for it to freeze. It could be explosive at any second.

Aye, same here.  Plus, not the same on a wee screen.  Ill probably order it tonight then. 

[J OGorman]

Thinking of getting it myself, better on big screen etc but how likely is it that a really good non buffering stream will be available?

Wiziwig, Vip Box all should have decent streams. My shout would be try it 30-40 mins before the fight and if its no good at all pay for it!

I normally would have checked during the undercard and didn't mind booking last minute but now they have the surcharge for booking on the day.  Usually don't watch many of the undercard fights but nearly more interested in seeing DeGale get his head knocked off than anything else.  Virgil Hunter put him in his box yesterday.

nrico, if yer mad keen to see the fight, I'd dip for it or split it between a couple of you. I've been heartbroken a good few times in the past with links dropping or freezing during bouts. Also had seemless streams, its the chance you take. Not great for the old stress levels though!

Yeah I agree. Really wanna see the flight. Even when you manage to get a decent stream, your enjoyment is almost ruined as in the back of your mind your waiting for it to freeze. It could be explosive at any second.

Aye, same here.  Plus, not the same on a wee screen.  Ill probably order it tonight then.

its not that long ago we'd have been sitting around the radio listening to McGuigans earlier fights !

[Archie Mitchell]

Anyone know of any bars in Cookstown, Dungannon or Magherafelt showing it......

Mary's in Magherafelt showed the last fight. But it was on some foreign channel and not proper Sky Box Office

[STREET FIGHTER]

Anyone know of any bars in Cookstown, Dungannon or Magherafelt showing it......

Mary's in Magherafelt showed the last fight. But it was on some foreign channel and not proper Sky Box Office

Cheers AM......Some mix of characters in Marys......from all walks of life.....

Booking it in instead.

[BennyHarp]

What time is the Froch v Groves fight?

walk in will be 10/10:30pm apparently Walter

Ring walk at 9.45. Press conference was relatively civilised there. Looking forward to this, £17 is a bit steep but I just don't trust the online streaming.

[Atticus_Finch]

Despite the controversial, premature end to the first bout it was one of the most enjoyable fights I have been to and I said at the time that if a rematch was made that I would be there no matter what.  Groves entered the arena getting booed by the English fight crowd and left the arena getting cheered.  This time round I think Froch will once again emerge as the victor but in a lot more clear cut fashion than the first fight.

I don't think anyone could have predicted what was going to unfold that night in Manchester.  The first thing that struck me in the fight was that Froch looked sluggish and it wasn't a case of Grove's speed making him look sluggish.  Groves does not have faster hand speed than Andre Ward, I put Froch looking sluggish down to his preparation.  I genuinely think that he went into the fight being complacent.  I listened to Mike Costello talk that ahead of the first encounter Froch was classing Groves as his "Audley Harrison" i.e. someone who would talk a good fight but when it came to the crunch not live up to his words.  If that is true and Froch genuinely believed that he was doing a complete disservice to Groves who deserved a lot more respect than that.  Credit where credit is due Groves entered fought that night in Manchester with no fear and was brilliant.  By the end of the sixth round I think he had thrown the kitchen sink at Froch and had nothing left to give, after which point Froch started to finally recover and the tide started to turn.  That's not taking away from the joke of a stoppage.  As a neutral I felt cheated being deprived of what should have been a couple more rounds of great action.

This time round I am not entirely convinced that even Groves himself believes he will win the fight.  I find it a bit strange that he would sign a promotional deal with Sauerland (Kessler's promoters) just before the fight.  Surely if he believed he was going to win he would be better off waiting until after the fight and would receive a pound or two more being the number 1 Super Middleweight on the domestic scene ?

A lot was made of the so-called "mind games" battle in the run up to the first fight with even Froch admitting now that Groves got "under his skin".  This time round, from the build-up I've watched, Froch looks a lot more composed and seems to be coming out on top.  In Sky's "Gloves are off" programme featuring the two fighters Froch had Groves lost for words on a number of occasions (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qNxhpXB7bhU)     Froch seems focused and confident, there is no risk of him entering the ring complacent this Saturday.

Froch has also got his "weigh"  over a dispute about the weigh in time.  Groves is the naturally heavier fighter and the earlier the weigh in time is the more time he has to put on weight.  In Manchester from what I can remember the weigh in time was 12, this time round it is 4pm mainly to suit Sky coverage.  The less time Groves has to put on weight the better it is for Froch.  If I was predicting the flow of the fight I think the first opening rounds will be a cagey enough affair similar to the Kessler fight but from there on I would expect a sharp (in comparison to the 1st fight) Froch to start coming out on top and forcing a stoppage in rounds 6 / 7.  No doubt now I've said that Groves will win by KO in the 1st round. 

Shrewd move by Eddie Hearn signing James De Gale to matchroom.  No doubt De Gale will watch the main event feeling he should be involved.  If Groves loses I could see the pair of them fighting first, rather than De Gale fighting the winner.   You have to give credit to Hearn while boxing will not be the mainstream sport it once was until terrestrial television is back covering it.  For a fight to have a sell-out crowd of 80,000 suggests that things are going in the right direction. 

Agree with what has been said on here, I wouldn't want to be relying on a stream to watch the fight.  Sky has a lot more resources to clamp down on streams than Box Nation or Primetime.   Much better getting a group of fellas together chipping in a few pound each, if the second fight is a patch on the first one it will be money well spent.

Couple of good weekends of boxing coming up with Cotto vs Martinez next weekend in Madison Square Garden.
No better feeling when a Thursday is your Friday and you're clocking off ahead of a fight weekend !  G'Luck

[quit yo jibbajabba]

fair play atticus always enjoy yer boxing posts