By Nick Parkinson, Daily Star
CARL Froch has slammed Sky TV for not showing his next world title fight against Mikkel Kessler on April 24.
Nottingham’s WBC super-middleweight champion will instead be shown live on Primetime TV – his third fight in-a-row not screened live by a terrestrial channel or Sky Sports.
Froch, 32, insists his clash with Dane Kessler is as big as the next fights of Amir Khan and David Haye.He said: “I am very disappointed about Sky not showing it.
“I think Sky TV is the forefront of boxing and at the minute it is the best channel to be on in terms of getting across to your target market. I consider myself to be a Sky Box Office fighter.
“They have had Khan-Salita and Haye-Valuev. I feel Froch-Kessler is up there with it and could justifiably be on Sky Box Office."
“My promoter Mick Hennessy has spoken to all the networks, but budgeting, scheduling whatever the reason I don’t think they’re good enough reasons.When I became world champion it was a difficult time for TV."
“Setanta collapsing didn’t help because it minimised the competition. If Kessler won his last fight this would be box office for Sky but him losing his world title took the edge off the fight. But I am not going to cry about it. Primetime is a building channel.”
Source: dailystar.co.uk
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