Team McCloskey reveal (in detail) why fight with Khan is off

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I'm not a huge fan of Con the way i am of Manny Pacquiao and was of Joe Calzaghe. I'm only an average fan of Con. It's pretty obvious Con wants to dictate everything here. Some of his counter offers are just moronic (25% on sales over 200000). But at the same time doesn't Paul McCloskey realize he's only Paul McCloskey? Why the fuck is he trying to negotiate like he's actually somebody? He's no Tim Bradley or Marcos Maidana. He ain't even a Julio Diaz or Willy Blain. Bradley and Maidana are 2 of the division top stars. Diaz is a shot former champion. But he was a champion. Blain at least can say he's a 2 time Olympian amateur star. Paul McCloskey is like Paul McCloskey. And Paul McCloskey's don't get to make demands. His team admitted the offer was twice what he ever made. Does he not know getting doubled what you ever made is actually a good thing? Unless his previous highest purse was $12 dollars what the fuck is the problem? Your Paul McCloskey. How much have you deluded yourself into thinking your worth? It's obvious Con is deadly afraid of Precott and wants the easiest fight possible. So do everyone a favor and take the fight. The faster you accept the faster this charade is over. Not only that but the chances of you losing to a fellow scrub like Graeme Higginson or Peter McDonagh are pretty fucking high. I doubt the offer will still be on the table after that

i dont really agree mate

khan will get millions while he gets 100k if that?

yeah khan should get the lions share but to that extent? paul still has to go through the training and the press and all the build upo and get to the arena and face the crowd

The poor bastard.

Nobody really knows who is. To Joe Casual he's not much different to Graham Earl. He'll have been offered close to what he offered Peterson. It's not like a loss to Khan is going to impact his future earning potential. If he makes a good show of it it will probably improve things for him.

He might aswell lose to Khan on Sky Box Office, in front of a couple of thousand Irish fans and a couple of hundred thousand PPV'ers, in the UK at 10pm.

It surely beats fighting a few more tomato cans before losing to someone like Ortiz/Maidana at 3am in Foxwoods Casino, infront of about 75 travelling Irishman and a UK/Irish TV audience that's can't even compete with one of them middle of the night quiz phone-in shows that you get on challenge TV. That's if he's lucky. It might not even make the telly.

A loss to Khan does hurt his earning potential. He'll have to give up his Euro belt, which guarantees him dough against beatable opponents. If Khan totally humiliates him, as you all think, then he has to start all over again.

Has Salita been big news since getting slaughtered? How about Kevin Mitchell, Enzo Macc, Gary Lockett, Michael Jennings, etc, etc. Most careers go downhill after losing big fights.

McCloskey has been picked because Team Khan need a "gimme" for an April date. He is not meant to win. So, considering they are not offering "life changing money" and have a shitty rematch option, the guy has a case for refusing it.

Even though in a perfect world I agree he should take the fight purely for the cahnce to win the "world" title

I don't know. I'd take the chance now. Like you say, it's a world title fight. He has no chance of beating any of the other top guys at 140. He'd only have a very small chance of beating Khan and that's down to Khan's vulnerability.

He's as ready as he'll ever be. The flip side is, he could wait and perhaps get lucky. Somehow get a fight with a guy like Olusegun for a vacant title. Somehow.