Lacking a United Front?

I?ve been reading a little this afternoon, looking around the internet for something to inspire me and, finally, I stumbled upon it.

Looking through an article published by the Belfast Telegraph I have to whole-heartedly agree with something written in relation to Sky Sports.

Now, before I continue, I have to admit that I love Sky Sports, I?ll be forever grateful that they pioneered the way forward when it comes to broadcasting sport, compared to channels of the terrestrial variety.

However, when the writer of the reference article points out his total disappointment at Sky Sports not covering the outcome of Carl Frampton?s recent world title triumph against Kio Martinez, he?s right.

The fight, as we all know was on Box Nation, Frank Warren?s television channel. Because of that there seems a marked reluctance to even acknowledge the fight existed until a couple of days later.

The same thing, I?ve fund, happens with Premier League football. Whenever Sky?s rivals, BT Sport, cover a game live, it gets pushed on to the back-burner by Sky.

Now football can probably live with that as the game is awash with money.

But Boxing has, in the past, struggled to make an impact on television, something that changed mostly due to Sky Sports promoting the sport. In recent times, the sport has found its way back onto Channel Five and with Frank Warren leading the way with so much on his channel, can we not be a united sport instead of letting a small thing get in its way.

Would it have been so hard to offer congratulations to Carl Frampton on its news channel rather than lead with the obscure (for me) sport of Nichikori beating Djokovic in the US Open tennis semi-final?

Or would that be part of the utopia of a perfect world?