Your guide to watching boxing on TV in the UK, with channel details and schedule for major upcoming fights.
Boxing fans have never had it so good in the UK, with Sky Sports, TNT Sports (formerly BT Sport) and DAZN all investing massive sums of money into the sport.
With Channel 5 and Amazon Prime Video also coming to the Boxing On TV party too, the landscape has never been brighter for domestic fight fans. All great news if you want to watch fights on TV or live stream via a multitude of different available devices and platforms.
The calendar for the remainder of 2024 is looking terrific, with the sport booming thanks to superfight after superfight - topped of course by that epic Fury vs Usyk blockbuster. The good news is that their rematch is now official for December this year.
Furyjoshua.com provides the latest on the UK landscape, and details of the major fights coming up that you can watch on TV.
Big boxing fights coming up on TV in the UK
This guide is not intended to be exhaustive - it tells you when the major events are taking place, and where you can watch them:
December 11, 2024 (Fortitude Valley - DAZN)
- Conor Wallace vs Asemahle Wellem
December 12, 2024 (Hamburg - DAZN)
- Mourad Aliev vs Davide Brito
December 12, 2024 (Flint - DAZN)
- Ardreal Holmes vs Edwine Humaine Jr
December 13, 2024 (Orlando - DAZN)
- Antonio Vargas vs Winston Guerrero
December 14, 2024 (Tijuana - Sky Sports)
- Jaime Munguia vs Bruno Surace
December 14, 2024 (Ontario - DAZN)
- Alexis Rocha vs Raul Curiel
December 14, 2024 (Monaco - DAZN)
- Murodjon Akhmadaliev vs Ricardo Espinoza Franco
December 15, 2024 (Gibraltar - DAZN)
- Dillian Whyte vs Ebenezer Tetteh
December 21, 2024 (Riyadh - DAZN, Sky Sports Box Office, TNT Sports Box Office)
December 24, 2024 (Tokyo - Sky Sports)
- Naoya Inoue vs Sam Goodman
January 11, 2025 (Sheffield - Sky Sports)
- Callum Simpson vs Steed Woodall
UK boxing broadcasters
Sky Sports: The biggest and best UK boxing broadcaster for the last 30 years. Most of the sport’s great names have fought on Sky at some stage, and the good news is boxing on the platform will continue despite Eddie Hearn, Matchroom and more recently Joshua all moving to DAZN.
Sky responded to the loss of Matchroom by swiftly inking deals with Bob Arum’s Top Rank and relatively new UK promotional outfit Boxxer.
The Top Rank deal means a slew of world stars such as brilliant 135-pounder Vasiliy Lomacheko plus bantamweight prodigy Naoya Inoue featuring on TV in the UK.
DAZN: Owned by the UK’s richest man Sir Leonard Blavatnik (valued at £23billion per recent Sunday Times Rich List), launched in the UK in late 2020.
Has a five-year global deal with Hearn and Matchroom, which includes a minimum of 16 UK shows per year plus all Matchroom shows outside the UK. It also now has the biggest cash cow in the UK market under contract after the signing of Joshua.
If all that were not enough, Frank Warren’s Queensberry Promotions has now also signed a major partnership with DAZN to add to the embarrassment of pugilistic riches on the platform from April 2025.
DAZN launched in the UK with a bargain subscription cost of £1.99 per month, though that price point has subsequently increased by a significant amount since.
TNT Sports: The newly-named channel came into official operation from July 18, 2023 with the transition from BT Sport complete.
Currently has a major partnership with Warren and Queensberry and has aired all of Tyson Fury’s fights since his 2018 comeback.
Has invested strongly into boxing in recent years, and also regularly broadcasts UFC shows, though the bigger fights (think Conor McGregor) are on the pay-per-view Box Office platform.
Channel 5: Has a partnership with Wasserman Boxing to show fights free-to-air in the UK.
Agency giant Wasserman acquired promotional outfit Team Sauerland in 2021 to set up its boxing division.
