Khan vs McCloskey moved from Sky PPV to Sky Sports 3

[Mark TKO]

Primetime ?? Is that the one Froch fights on. Well looks like I won't get to see this one at all. Farcical


Bad move all round. As I said from the start he should have fought Prescott to sell it !!

For those interested this is a key point discussed (twice due to techology failuere) on Fantana's first Radio Show that came out yesterday

[porkypara]

If the fight goes to prime time only a very few hard core Khan fans are going to watch this fight as most pubs dont get primetime event in my experience.

[erics44]

ill get it, what else have i to do on a saturday night?

bet sky are a bit disapointed with all the work they have done with khan recently

fury isnt fighting at all is he? surely they could have found someone with a relatively high profile considering it is on a khan card

[ono]

ill get it, what else have i to do on a saturday night?

bet sky are a bit disapointed with all the work they have done with khan recently

fury isnt fighting at all is he? surely they could have found someone with a relatively high profile considering it is on a khan card

They offered him 40k to uppercut himself for 4 rounds, but he turned it down.

[boxingbantz]

Khan's team are idiots. They got greedy and got what they deserved. They offered the fight to ITV but they turned it down so they've whored themselves off to Primetime. This is the stupidest thing his team could've down. Burning bridges with Sky, as they may well have done with the nonsense, is going to cost them millions in the future and I think they're going to regret it. They should fuck off Amir Khan and replace him with Carl Froch.

[Cressa121]

Here's one of Khan's team talking about the split. I understand their gripe with being on skysports 3 and not skysports 1, because you don't get all the skysports channels in one package, some only have 1 and 4 or something. It does seem daft to not just suck it up and get on with it, sky is where the money's at in this country so if that affects future fights it might not be too good a move. Still I can't imagine it doing too well on Primetime. If sky aren't interested in showing Khan-Bradley that's stupidity on their part and I'd be disappointed, but as long as some broadcaster over here picks it up I'll pay for that one.

Team Khan on Sky Sports Split, Sky Says No To Bradley - Boxing News

Khan's team are idiots. They got greedy and got what they deserved. They offered the fight to ITV but they turned it down so they've whored themselves off to Primetime. This is the stupidest thing his team could've down. Burning bridges with Sky, as they may well have done with the nonsense, is going to cost them millions in the future and I think they're going to regret it. They should fuck off Amir Khan and replace him with Carl Froch.

I just don't get the move to Primetime. You hardly ever see their advertisements anywhere, unless people are following it closely they'll not know what's happened with it, it's hardly mainstream. Surely skysports 3, even it it has less viewers than skysports 1 would get better ratings than Primetime.

I hope they at least show Froch if they're cutting Khan off. It looks like they're interested in showing him, but they haven't announced whether they'll be showing the Johnson fight yet.

Speaking of Froch, he's got an autobiography coming out in a few weeks. I'd rather see him bring one out when he's retired cos he's going to be missing the end to the Super Six, sort of like Calzaghe's where it ends with him saying he'd never fight Roy Jones because he was old and it wouldn't be worth it. Fair play to him though, just cashing in like most other athletes have been doing.

[0james0]

Has anyone seen Khan do any promo for this fight other than on a Skysports boxing based show?

I haven't.

I think if you ask any caual fan, they won't even know this fight is hapoenig.

[generalbulldog]

Khan's team are idiots. They got greedy and got what they deserved. They offered the fight to ITV but they turned it down so they've whored themselves off to Primetime. This is the stupidest thing his team could've down. Burning bridges with Sky, as they may well have done with the nonsense, is going to cost them millions in the future and I think they're going to regret it. They should fuck off Amir Khan and replace him with Carl Froch.

Agreed. Anyways I've heard Khan's family are the ones that are doing all the business deals. Fighting McCloskey on PPV? Only Pac, Mayweather, and a select few can get away with fighting no names and bums on PPV. Khan and his team drastically underestimated this.

[Fenster]

Khan's team are idiots. They got greedy and got what they deserved. They offered the fight to ITV but they turned it down so they've whored themselves off to Primetime. This is the stupidest thing his team could've down. Burning bridges with Sky, as they may well have done with the nonsense, is going to cost them millions in the future and I think they're going to regret it. They should fuck off Amir Khan and replace him with Carl Froch.

Agreed. Anyways I've heard Khan's family are the ones that are doing all the business deals. Fighting McCloskey on PPV? Only Pac, Mayweather, and a select few can get away with fighting no names and bums on PPV. Khan and his team drastically underestimated this.

It has nothing to do with McCloskey. Sky approved him. They already started to promote the fight and had filmed Beyond The Ropes (their version of 24/7). It went all wrong because the undercard fell apart, it is currently utter toilet, and clearly they didn't deem the main event strong enough to warrant a PPV on it's own.