Bar packs a punch to screen the boxing bout of the year
IT’S one of the juiciest boxing bouts in history – the American Deontay Wilder against our own Tyson Fury but given it’s taking place at 4am in Las Vegas, where can you watch it?
It’s not an easy fixture for British boxing fans but Ian Snowball who runs the Showtime sports bar on Zetland Street, Huddersfield town centre, said he was determined to screen it despite the high cost.
Wilder, 35, had not been beaten in 43 bouts before he lost his WBC heavyweight title to Fury in February 2020.
Prior to that, their bout was declared a draw so there’s plenty of excitement about the prospect of two of the world’s best-known heavyweight fighters going headto-head after the damp squib of the Anthony Joshua/Oleksandr Usyk fight last month.
Mr Snowball, who staged the Joshua/Oleksandr Usyk bout said he expected at least 100-150 people to attend.
He said: “We were surprisingly busy with this Joshua fight – boxing has a very wide but almost underground following – so it was quite a surprise to me.
“We actually had a fair few people in suits and posh togs, who came for a few hours then left and hit the town – it fascinates me, people’s behaviour.”
West Yorkshire Police has advised him that as long as he has adequate security working until the end of the fight, and a last admissions policy of
3.30am, they have no objections to him showing the fight.
No one will be allowed into the club after 3.30am so make sure you are there on time for what is expected to be one of the great fights of recent times.