Northland boxer Lani Daniels can show off her skills to the whole of the country when her IBF World Heavyweight title fight against Alrie Meleisea is televised on Sky TV in May.
The promoter for the Daniels v Alrie Meleisea bout for the IBF World Heavyweight title fight, Vasco Kovacevic, has arranged for the historic event to be televised, with Sky TV picking up the bout.
Auckland’s Eventfinda Stadium (North Shore Events Centre) will play host to the fight on May 27 for the first-ever IBF World Heavyweight title, and possibly the WBO World title to be added into the mix.
Kovacevic, who is also Alrie Meleisea’s trainer and manager, said historically, most of the boxing that has been televised in New Zealand has either been with Sky Sports or on the pay-per-view service Sky Arena. It’s only recently that boxing has been televised free to air under Duco Events with TVNZ and TV3. The two world title fights with Geovana Peres were both televised in 2019 on Sky Sports. A regularly televised New Zealand kickboxing event, King in the Ring, was hosted by Sky Sports. However, the promoters eventually moved the event to TVNZ Duke.
The upside with Sky Sports is you can watch the fight even if you are not a Sky customer, with the Sky Sports Now website. On top of that, the event is usually repeated at least three times during the week, in case people missed the initial broadcasting, he said.