BoxNation on Virgin Media?

[thatllbeme]

july doesnt look to bad for live boxing:

thursday 5th: box academy sexton v butler,ormond v coveney (boxnation)
friday 6th: fortuna v cruz,abdusalamov v byarm (espn)
saturday 7th: w klitschko v thompson (boxnation) brook v jones,hope v proksa,rees v mathews(sky sports) fury v maddalone,haskins v hall,eubank jr v tba (channel 5)

friday 13th: glen johnson v fonfara,jose luis castillo v popoca (espn)
saturday 14th: haye v chisora,l walsh v urbano,hall v osullivan,heffron v tba,b saunders v tba (boxnation) khan v garcia,guerrero v medina (sky sports)

friday 20th: burgos v vasquez,martinez v brewer (espn)
saturday 21st: broner v escobedo,maidana v thurman (boxnation)

friday 27th: lundy v beltran,ennis v tba (espn)


and with possible fights:

conquest v williams or the card with michael and liam walsh on 7th july as the klitschko v thompson undercard doesnt look very good!
Juan Manuel Marquez v Al Sabaupan and Orlando Salido v Oscar Bravo 21st july!
Robert Guerrero v Selcuk Aydin 28th!
it could be an even better month!

[Chad]

Tonight BBC Newsnight will host a live debate between boxing promoter Frank Warren and Robert Smith, secretary of the British Boxing Board of Control, to discuss the imminent bout between heavyweight fighters David Haye and Dereck Chisora. The show starts at 10:30pm on BBC 2. This should be worth a watch!

[thatllbeme]

shaun obrien @wkdpodge 03 Jul

@bigdaddybunce any chance of getting donaire fight sat? or even the conquest williams show or the one with walshy 2 and 3 ?


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Steve Bunce
@bigdaddybunce

@wkdpodge I would like to give you great news...I can't all have been looked at.

[RichardCoulter]

So, from midnight tonight BoxNation are to start charging £10 registration. A sign that they are now popular enough to get away with this, or a sign of desperation??

[Chad]

Originally Posted by RichardCoulter

So, from midnight tonight BoxNation are to start charging £10 registration. A sign that they are now popular enough to get away with this, or a sign of desperation??

It's the sign of a smart company who have learned from previous mistakes.

When Chisora faced Klitschko Boxnation were hit with 30,000 people trying to subscribe in the 24 hours leading up to the fight. Boxnation couldn't handle the demand. They decided to show the fight for free which resulted in hundreds of complaints from paying customers. They are trying to avoid a repeat of this and have been telling people who might subscribe for next weeks fight NOT to leave it to the last minute.

Boxnation have been advertising the £10.00 registration charge on their Facebook page, their website, Twitter, The Bunce Boxing Hour and The Sun newspapers for weeks. They have been completely open and honest about the introduction of this charge.

The £10.00 charge is not applicable to Virgin customers. SKY customers can get 2 months of Boxnation for £10.00 by going to www.boxnation.com and enter the promotional code SUNBOXING. The discount offer ends at 11.59pm on July 6.

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Whilst typing just got this e-mail from Boxnation:

"£10 REGISTRATION FEE STARTS TOMORROW

Subscribe today and avoid paying an extra £10!

At midnight tonight, we're adding a one-off registration fee to manage the expected high demand for Haye v Chisora: Licensed to Thrill.

To get BoxNation for just £10 a month, with no additional fees, make sure you subscribe BEFORE MIDNIGHT TONIGHT.

Click here now to subscribe.


What happens after the first month?

You will continue to pay the usual monthly subscription fee of £10, unless and until you contact us to unsubscribe from the service. You can unsubscribe at any time with no cancellation fee and there is no minimum term.


What if I already have BoxNation?

Then you will not be affected by this fee, and will continue to receive BoxNation for just your regular £10 a month.

It’s your channel. Be a part of it. Are you in?"

[AZIMUTH]

when you said boxnation showed the klitschko/chisora fight for free,did you mean that boxnation was beamed out un- encrypted?

[Chad]

Originally Posted by AZIMUTH

when you said boxnation showed the klitschko/chisora fight for free,did you mean that boxnation was beamed out un- encrypted?

Here is the statement Boxnation released on the Monday after the fight:

"There was an issue on Saturday evening with taking online bookings for the Vitali Klitschko v Dereck Chisora World Boxing Council (WBC) World Heavyweight title fight.

Due to unprecedented demand for orders, the pay system experienced technical problems just after 7pm and some further bookings were unable to be taken.

As a result, we understand that many customers went through a stressful period of attempting to subscribe unsuccessfully and so, as a gesture to those customers, the live fight was made available free to watch on BoxNation on the Sky platform. The problem did not affect viewers who had ordered on the Virgin platform.

BoxNation apologizes for the problems customers encountered and will fully investigate the matter so that these do not happen again."

[AZIMUTH]

Thanks.

[RichardCoulter]

Originally Posted by Chad

It's the sign of a smart company who have learned from previous mistakes.

When Chisora faced Klitschko Boxnation were hit with 30,000 people trying to subscribe in the 24 hours leading up to the fight. Boxnation couldn't handle the demand. They decided to show the fight for free which resulted in hundreds of complaints from paying customers. They are trying to avoid a repeat of this and have been telling people who might subscribe for next weeks fight NOT to leave it to the last minute.

Boxnation have been advertising the £10.00 registration charge on their Facebook page, their website, Twitter, The Bunce Boxing Hour and The Sun newspapers for weeks. They have been completely open and honest about the introduction of this charge.

The £10.00 charge is not applicable to Virgin customers. SKY customers can get 2 months of Boxnation for £10.00 by going to www.boxnation.com and enter the promotional code SUNBOXING. The discount offer ends at 11.59pm on July 6.

---------- Post added at 12:45 ---------- Previous post was at 12:44 ----------

Whilst typing just got this e-mail from Boxnation:

"£10 REGISTRATION FEE STARTS TOMORROW

Subscribe today and avoid paying an extra £10!

At midnight tonight, we're adding a one-off registration fee to manage the expected high demand for Haye v Chisora: Licensed to Thrill.

To get BoxNation for just £10 a month, with no additional fees, make sure you subscribe BEFORE MIDNIGHT TONIGHT.

Click here now to subscribe.


What happens after the first month?

You will continue to pay the usual monthly subscription fee of £10, unless and until you contact us to unsubscribe from the service. You can unsubscribe at any time with no cancellation fee and there is no minimum term.


What if I already have BoxNation?

Then you will not be affected by this fee, and will continue to receive BoxNation for just your regular £10 a month.

It’s your channel. Be a part of it. Are you in?"

When the registration fee comes in, this won't encourage people to sign up early before the next peak time, as it will already in place.

Maybe the registration fee increase is going to be introduced about a week before the next big fight, to encourage people to subscribe early again??

http://www.boxnation.com says "THIS OFFER CLOSES AT 4PM ON SATURDAY AFTER WHICH THE REGISTRATION FEE IS SUBJECT TO INCREASES GET IN EARLY

So, it looks like the offer is now on until 4pm today. (The webpage is really poorly written.)

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http://www.boxnation.com/haye-v-chisora-pricing/

Just seen this:

It looks like the Sky fee goes up by an unknown amount just before the fight and then is free again. It looks like the VM fee goes up to £18.50 and then down to £10


Sky viewers
Registration fee
Monthly subscription fee
When?
£10 (€12.50) £10 (€12.50) 7th July onwards
£10 (€12.50) + late booking surcharge* £10 (€12.50) After 6pm 14th July
Free registration £10 (€12.50) From July 15th onwards
* The registration fee is subject to a late booking surcharge that will increase based on demand.


Virgin Media viewers
Subscription charge
When?
£10 Until 6am 9th July
£18.50* 6am 9th July onwards
£10 From July 15th onwards
* The first monthly charge of £18.50 is a one-off. Thereafter, customers who continue to subscribe will pay just £10 a month.

[Chad]

Looks like they are over complicating things. Still if potential new Virgin customers get in now they won't be stung.

"Furthermore, any Sky TV users who subscribe after 6pm on July 14th will be charged a late booking surcharge which will increase based on demand."

That is just mental. SKY customers who leave it to the last minute will be charged £10.00 registration fee + £10.00 subscription fee plus an extra late booking fee. If people are leaving it too late they could end up paying about £25.00!

[andy_m]

Which is basically what you might pay on pay per view. I think it's really clever.

[thatllbeme]

should be picked up by boxnation!

George Groves will return to the ring in the United States at the end of the month.

The British and Commonwealth super-middleweight champion takes on Mexican Francisco Sierra in San Jose on July 28 on the undercard of the WBC welterweight title fight between Robert Guerrero and Selcuk Aydin.

A series of last-minute injuries have kept Groves idle since his victory over Paul Smith in November, and the unbeaten Londoner is desperate to get his career back on track.

"It is more relief than anything now that I finally have a date to box," Groves told his own website.

"It feels like a lifetime since I last fought and I need to make up for lost time seeing as I haven't managed one round of competitive fighting this year!

"Francisco Sierra is a very seasoned and tenacious fighter. He packs a punch and has a typical 'no holds barred' Mexican style. I can't wait to face this test, and finally show all the improvements I have made this year."

Sierra, the same age as Groves at 24, has been in with Edison Miranda during a 31-fight career featuring five defeats.

[Chad]

Originally Posted by thatllbeme

should be picked up by boxnation!

George Groves will return to the ring in the United States at the end of the month.

The British and Commonwealth super-middleweight champion takes on Mexican Francisco Sierra in San Jose on July 28 on the undercard of the WBC welterweight title fight between Robert Guerrero and Selcuk Aydin.

A series of last-minute injuries have kept Groves idle since his victory over Paul Smith in November, and the unbeaten Londoner is desperate to get his career back on track.

"It is more relief than anything now that I finally have a date to box," Groves told his own website.

"It feels like a lifetime since I last fought and I need to make up for lost time seeing as I haven't managed one round of competitive fighting this year!

"Francisco Sierra is a very seasoned and tenacious fighter. He packs a punch and has a typical 'no holds barred' Mexican style. I can't wait to face this test, and finally show all the improvements I have made this year."

Sierra, the same age as Groves at 24, has been in with Edison Miranda during a 31-fight career featuring five defeats.

Robert Guerrero Vs. Selcuk Aydin is a Goldenboy show so it looks like Boxnation will snap this up. I've watched Selcuk Aydin about 4 times on Eurosport in the past couple of years. He's a tough big punching Turk who is making the jump up to the top level against Guerrero. Should be fun whilst it lasts however can't see Aydin picking up the win.

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If you haven't seen this yet, it's worth a watch!

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=s-OibaJTDRU

It's Monte Barrett Vs. Shane Cameron from Wednesday. If you don't want to watch the whole fight, skip to 13 minutes in to see the beginning of the end. Talk about a power punch!

[thatllbeme]

Saint George Groves
My next fight will be shown LIVE on @boxnationtv Another great reason to subscribe this month! #TeamHayemakerDouble with @mrdavidhaye
confirmed by george himself!

[Media Boy UK]

You can now buy Boxnation on Virgin TV for 30days for £18.50. Virgin will remove when 30days are up so no need to phone.

Just follow the info on Virgin Channel 547.