Sky Sports have announced a deal with Golden Boy Promotions to show all the company’s big fights from the States. The first fight card on the contract is the Marcos Maidana v Devon Alexander bout on the 3rd March, followed by Mexican legend Erik Morales v Danny Garcia on the 24th March, and the still-to-be-rearranged Victor Ortiz v Andre Berto rematch. Many have been critical over Sky’s recent lack of big fights from the US over recent years, but this deal shows a commitment to boxing for the forseeable future.
Elsewhere, Sky have confirmed a number of other big fights coming up separate from the Golden Boy deal. Firstly, Wladimir Klitschko defends his Heavyweight title belts against Jean-Marc Mormeck also on the 3rd March in Germany, while two weeks later Matthew Macklin faces a huge ask as he takes on Middleweight champion Sergio Martinez in New York. Finally, Amir Khan will get the chance to avenge his defeat to Lamont Peterson in a rematch on the 19th May.
More boxing, and Channel 5 are back on the scene on the 18th February with a Hennessy Sports card headlined by exciting prospect Kid Galahad challenging former world title challenger Jason Booth at Super Bantamweight. On the undercard is Chris Eubank Jr’s second fight.
Channel 4 will show the Indoor UK Athletics Trials and Championships on Sunday 12th February, with live coverage from the track finals. It is their first foray in to the sport since their disastrous coverage of last year’s IAAF World Championships. Ortis Deley is nowhere to be seen as Rick Edwards presents.
And finally this week, Sunday’s Super Bowl saw a victory for Eli Manning and the New York Giants, but the headlines for many was some woman sticking her middle finger up during the half-time show. But my highlight was this, the extended version of a Honda commercial shown during the game-an absolute must see for fans of 80’s John Hughes comedy Ferris Bueller’s Day Off. Enjoy:
This weekend marks the return of Ski Sunday for this season on BBC Two, beginning with the Men’s Giant Slalom from Adelboden at 4.45pm on Sunday, obviously. Keep an eye out on the red button afterwards for highlights of the Men’s Slalom from the same venue, and lots of other live World Cup action over the next couple of months-including the classic races from Wengen and Kitzbuehel. Graham Bell and Ed Leigh present, with commentary from Matt Chilton.
On the subject of Skiing, Chilton’s Eurosport commentary partner for Women’s races Chemmy Alcott (right) takes part in ITV’s Dancing on Ice on Sunday night. She has been missing from World Cup action for over a year with a broken leg sustained in Canada, and has partnered the TV work alongside her recovery. Best of luck to her in the show.
There has been a change to February’s live Football League matches, with the addition of the East Midlands derby between Derby and Leicester on the 23rd February. It is a rare Thursday night fixture for Sky Sports, especially as it will go head-to-head with the two Manchester clubs competing in the Europa League that night, but comes ahead of a jam-packed weekend of football that includes the Merseyside and North London derbies, plus the Carling Cup final.
ESPN will launch a new weekly comedy and discussion sports panel show on Thursday nights, beginning on the 12th January. ‘Off the Ball’ is presented by Will Buckley, and comes just before the launch of ESPN’s new Sunday sports strand.
Finally, former England cricket captain Andrew Flintoff will present a documentary on BBC One about the effects of depression and mental health issues on professional sportsmen and women. It sounds really interesting, and airs next Wednesday, the 11th January at 10.45pm. I will be taking a look back at it in a ‘View from the sofa’ next week.
Sky Sports have announced a deal with Golden Boy Promotions to show all the company’s big fights from the States. The first fight card on the contract is the Marcos Maidana v Devon Alexander bout on the 3rd March, followed by Mexican legend Erik Morales v Danny Garcia on the 24th March, and the still-to-be-rearranged Victor Ortiz v Andre Berto rematch. Many have been critical over Sky’s recent lack of big fights from the US over recent years, but this deal shows a commitment to boxing for the forseeable future.
After the news that Rally Sweden will be shown on Motors TV, ESPN have confirmed that they will be showing this weekend’s second round of the World Rally Championship. The channel broadcast the entire season last year, but their contract was voided when the FIA ended their contract with previous commercial rights holders North One Sports after the company went in to administration.
This weekend marks the return of Ski Sunday for this season on BBC Two, beginning with the Men’s Giant Slalom from Adelboden 
This weekend sees the start of the NFL Play-offs. 
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