Fast BBC is Quigg to Post Results sans a Spoiler Alert

Indeed, my blogger friend rightly complained about the instant BLAB on the Frampton-Quigg fight. Which on this night, was the SECOND most annoying thing about that fight and the Internet.

Why IS it that insensitive Internet news sites LOVE to show shock photos and to spoil things with instant results of sports events? Sometimes they'll say "photos too graphic" and offer a link but too often they're more concerned with making sure you're on the page, literally frozen in that "can't stop watching the trainwreck" position. And saying who won a fight? They figure they'll get a GOOD reputation as the place to instantly go for the breaking news? Fuck OFF.

In this case, I actually did want to know who won, but I didn't think of going to the BBC or any mainstream website, as usually they don't even care about boxing. I went to one of the boxing forums (the alternative would've been ESPN or another all-sports website).

The reason I needed to know is that I'd been watching the fucking fight...till the last two minutes! That's when the "ruin our fun" brigade managed to shut down the illegal feed on the usual suspects' streaming sites.

I don't blame the PPV people for desperately trying to fuck things up (at least they aren't as nasty as Kanye who put a Trojan in the Kickass downloads of his fucking album). This thing was staged by Showtime Pay-Per-View and I think even the UK's Box Nation was squeezing an extra tenner from its subscribers in order to see it.

As I usually do, because Box Nation isn't even available if I wanted to pay for it, I went to the dodgy sites where there might be screen freezes for five seconds. Or more. Sometimes the only way to see a fight clearly is to grab an unprotected foreign language feed. Showtime might charge a minor price to France or Spain, who show it on their normal TV channels.

The fight was a big deal in the U.K. since BOTH guys were British and BOTH held versions of the championship belt. After a doleful start (six boring rounds of cautious jabbing) the fight started to get hot.

Underdog Quigg had a puncher's chance and a few times late in the fight, landed pretty good shots. The 11th was an exciting round, especially since he knew he was running out of time. And then...SNAP! The channel mysteriously switched to a hockey game. The streaming sites lost their feeds and had substitute other programming. One of my regular sites also had a feed from France but they lost that, too.

I figured there wasn't likely to be a KO, so I just checked the boxing forums (where loners discuss and watch the fight and post wisecracks) to find out who won.

PS, Kickass and the other torrents don't usually have anyone upping fights. At least, you cant count on it so you're always aiming to get a stream.

Fuckin' boxing. Keerist. Is the Super Bowl on Pay Per View? Wimbledon? Many insist that boxing would be much more popular if they kept it to free TV. Obviously the promoters and some elite fighters are much happier to make millions on PPV super-match-ups, and whatever high prices they can get from Showtime and HBO for ordinary championship fights. I don't blame most people for not even knowing who Frampton and Quigg are, much less caring.

I'm not sure if Box Nation will grow to the point where it's available free or for a nominal price on cable channels around the world. All I know is that it does get tougher to find good streams on major boxing and MMA events. At least, for now, MMA stuff is always on Kickass the next day. I just have to make sure to NOT check Internet news sites to accidentally be told who won.