More than 100,000 watched Khan

**porkypara** · 08-06-2009 09:38 AM

Just saw this on the boxingnews website

**skel1983** · 08-06-2009 11:23 AM

Warren says they were miles and miles ahead of 30k and then says it was in excess of 100k, so id guess it wasnt 150k as he would of said it was in excess of 150k so not exactly miles was it Franky

**Fenster** · 08-06-2009 12:41 PM

Whatever the figure it's crap.

You wonder why the general sports fan don't give a shit about boxing, Khan goes from fighting Brit journeymen in front of 6 million on ITV to 30,000-100,000 on PPV.

The same night 600,000 (apparently) watched Cleverly-McIntosh on ITV4.

**porkypara** · 08-06-2009 03:23 PM

Originally Posted by Fenster

Whatever the figure it's crap.

You wonder why the general sports fan don't give a shit about boxing, Khan goes from fighting Brit journeymen in front of 6 million on ITV to 30,000-100,000 on PPV.

The same night 600,000 (apparently) watched Cleverly-McIntosh on ITV4.

And the itv show was much better IMO.

**paddy448** · 08-06-2009 10:20 PM

dam 100,000 buys is shocking, was expecting much more than, think it amounts to 1.5 million quid

**Gandalf** · 08-06-2009 11:16 PM

Good, people shouldn't be needing to pay PPV for Khan fights anyway. People should just watch them illegally and save some money. I would never buy something just because I wanted a fighter that I didn't respect to get knocked out. The Barrera fight was the only worthy PPV IMO and that was on Barrera's name. PPV should only be for established exceptional fighters facing off in exceptional matchups. In the UK there is a Warren monopoly and anything with a pulse and coverage will be dolled up for PPV. People shouldn't fall for this rubbish.

What the UK needs is for its terrestrial networks to show more boxing. People like boxing and it needs regular coverage so that ordinary people can follow it. Boxing is treated too shoddily there.