BBC and ITV bid for Khan vs Malignaggi

[Savino]

Ifit's on either ITV or the BBC my guess it will be the Duke and Richie Woodhall.

[Lloydy]

I think it's great news if ITV get the Khan fight! I know the commentators are generally ****e but it's good news for the sport to be on terrestial TV again, for long the TV networks have turned away from boxing despite the likes of ITV 4 doing good numbers. This what we need to get the sport back into the mainstream and with the amount of talented young fighters we have coming through it could be the start of something.
Also I'm not a massive fan of Jim Watt on Sky, it would be good if they mixed it up a bit more on FFN.

[GRANDSLAM]

The UK needs some good commentators, some real entertaining personalities instead of your textbook commentator. Look at all the HBO previous and current commentary team, they're excellent.

I'd have to agree with that, Ian Darke has been the voice of British Boxing for a long time and generally does a good job but the 'color' commentators/analysts are pretty ****. Jim Watt is ok but Glenn McCrory and Johnny Nelson are devoid of charisma and none of the three are even close to being household names in England. Maybe Sky can get Lennox to do some of the bigger domestic fights if they don't clash with HBO fights or maybe even get Frank Bruno to be in the studio, perhaps even Steve Bunce (whom I had the pleasure of bumping into a few weeks ago in Hammersmith, nice bloke). There should definitely be a change though.

Saying that the guy who does the unofficial scoring for HBO with the high pitched voice is crap and adds nothing at all.

[omz4life]

I actually think Duke Mckenzie and John Rawling are great commentators i enjoy listening to them and i really hope they take charge of the fight

[gingeralbino]

who are the five live commentators? They aren't too bad, mind u i've only listened to boxing on 5live once (although Bunce was there and he got on my nerves).

[PittyPat]

Soooooo, anything been settled yet?

[wazaa.]

It's been confirmed that the Khan-Malignaggi fight will be shown on ITV. //krikya360.com/forums/sh...d.php?t=377917

[bboy80]

a free fight for once... and what a surprise the BBC light weighted out of it

[dantheman1983]

Can't stand the Sky sports commentators

Ian Darke, Duke & Barry G all the way.

[AndyShitHot]

Can't stand the Sky sports commentators

Ian Darke, Duke & Barry G all the way.

Yeah I prefer the ITV team, looking forward to this although I hope they don't half measure us and show Ortiz-Campbell too.

Will be an amazing day of sport watching Pompey in the FA Cup final then the Mitchell-Katsidas card on Sky Sports and then this at about 2am. Better make sure I make no plans on the Sunday