Khan vs McCloskey moved from Sky PPV to Sky Sports 3

[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.

[Master]

Amir should fight for free on ITV or BBC and get some real exposure. What a grade A tit he is becoming in this fight.

[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.

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.

Oh it's a shit fight. When it only does 50 ppvs in advance sales.

Even Ricky Hatton’s high profile fight with Pacquaio registered just 300,000 pay-TV hits on Sky Box Office, while advance sales for this Khan-McCloskey bout had reached barely 50.

Read more: Sky TV pull plug on Amir Khan's title defence against Paul McCloskey | Mail Online

Sky TV pull plug on Amir Khan's title defence against Paul McCloskey | Mail Online

[Master]

Which 50 twats paid for it already?

[boxingbantz]

"I want to give my UK fans a chance to see me," said the WBA light-welterweight champion in a hastily arranged conference call, organised to announce Primetime TV's coverage of the bill.

"I could have gone back to America and fought there. I chose to come home and fight in front of my loyal fans who've followed me since the Olympics. I want to build my career in America but I did promise the UK fans I'd bring them a big fight. I'm doing this for my fan base. I'm not making as much as I did for my last few fights, but I'm doing it for them."

So this has nothing to do with money but he switches it from Sky PPV because he is going to lose money with it not being on PPV. The guy is a fucking clown. He had won a lot of people around with his performance against Maidana but all of this bullshit is going to turn people off of him again.

[Master]

Fight for free on ITV. (it rhymes if you say it fast enough)

[Fenster]

Maybe it is a shit fight, but in that case, why is everyone blaming Team Khan for being greedy? Sky were happy to sell this fight PPV until a few days ago. It is not Khan's fault the undercard fucked up.

So.. this is all Sky's fault for greenlighting a "shit" fight in the first place. All Team Khan have done is take their fight from one PPV station to another.

If he earns more from the Primetime PPV than the £100,000 offer from Sky he wins. Simple as.

[boxingbantz]

Maybe it is a shit fight, but in that case, why is everyone blaming Team Khan for being greedy? Sky were happy to sell this fight PPV until a few days ago. It is not Khan's fault the undercard fucked up.

So.. this is all Sky's fault for greenlighting a "shit" fight in the first place. All Team Khan have done is take their fight from one PPV station to another.

If he earns more from the Primetime PPV than the £100,000 offer from Sky he wins. Simple as.

He was still going to earn £250k from Sky if he fought on Sky Sports 3.

[Fenster]

Maybe it is a shit fight, but in that case, why is everyone blaming Team Khan for being greedy? Sky were happy to sell this fight PPV until a few days ago. It is not Khan's fault the undercard fucked up.

So.. this is all Sky's fault for greenlighting a "shit" fight in the first place. All Team Khan have done is take their fight from one PPV station to another.

If he earns more from the Primetime PPV than the £100,000 offer from Sky he wins. Simple as.

He was still going to earn £250k from Sky if he fought on Sky Sports 3.

But they are gambling they will earn more from Primetime. If they do they were justified in snubbing Sky's offer. If they don't then Team Khan have fucked up.

Either way, they couldn't have anticipated Sky were gonna pull the plug on the PPV, they had already started promoting, just a week before the fight.

[generalbulldog]

Maybe it is a shit fight, but in that case, why is everyone blaming Team Khan for being greedy? Sky were happy to sell this fight PPV until a few days ago. It is not Khan's fault the undercard fucked up.

So.. this is all Sky's fault for greenlighting a "shit" fight in the first place. All Team Khan have done is take their fight from one PPV station to another.

If he earns more from the Primetime PPV than the £100,000 offer from Sky he wins. Simple as.

The point being is that Khan's team overestimated his star appeal to sell the shit fight. Pac can get away with it in Clottey because he's an all out action star and top p4p. Haye can do it with Harrison because he has a charismatic persona and can call himself HW champ not to mentioned Harrison was an Gold winner at the olympics and is at least somewhat known to the UK public.

Khan doesn't have those things going for him to sell a fight on PPV agaisnt some d list fighter.

[Fenster]

Maybe it is a shit fight, but in that case, why is everyone blaming Team Khan for being greedy? Sky were happy to sell this fight PPV until a few days ago. It is not Khan's fault the undercard fucked up.

So.. this is all Sky's fault for greenlighting a "shit" fight in the first place. All Team Khan have done is take their fight from one PPV station to another.

If he earns more from the Primetime PPV than the £100,000 offer from Sky he wins. Simple as.

The point being is that Khan's team overestimated his star appeal to sell the shit fight. Pac can get away with it in Clottey because he's an all out action star and top p4p. Haye can do it with Harrison because he has a charismatic persona and can call himself HW champ not to mentioned Harrison was an Gold winner at the olympics and is at least somewhat known to the UK public.

Khan doesn't have those things going for him to sell a fight on PPV agaisnt some d list fighter.

err... () The fight is PPV. The fight will cost £15, exactly the same as if on Sky Box Office.

Quite simply - he has moved from one PPV station to another.

[JazMerkin]

Maybe it is a shit fight, but in that case, why is everyone blaming Team Khan for being greedy? Sky were happy to sell this fight PPV until a few days ago. It is not Khan's fault the undercard fucked up.

So.. this is all Sky's fault for greenlighting a "shit" fight in the first place. All Team Khan have done is take their fight from one PPV station to another.

If he earns more from the Primetime PPV than the £100,000 offer from Sky he wins. Simple as.

The point being is that Khan's team overestimated his star appeal to sell the shit fight. Pac can get away with it in Clottey because he's an all out action star and top p4p. Haye can do it with Harrison because he has a charismatic persona and can call himself HW champ not to mentioned Harrison was an Gold winner at the olympics and is at least somewhat known to the UK public.

Khan doesn't have those things going for him to sell a fight on PPV agaisnt some d list fighter.

GB, why are you trying to act like you understand how the UK public buys PPVs? Khan is a much bigger name over here than Manny Pacquiao. Like it says above, the Pacquiao-Hatton fight did 300,000, in contrast Mayweather-Hatton did 1.3m. To the general UK public, Pacquiao is 'that guy who KO'd Ricky Hatton & trains with Amir Khan'.

Haye-Harrison was big because it traded on Haye being more popular as a HW champ, and the fact there was that animosity. Haye would not do such big numbers against Matt Skelton. In fact, I'd go as far as to say that Audley is the most recognized recent British boxing name with the UK public outside of Haye, Khan, Hatton & Calzaghe. Guys like Froch or Ricky Burns just don't register in the same way.

I think Sky have handled this all wrong. The only people who were going to buy this for the whole card were hardcore boxing fans, and let's face it 90% of them will look for a stream or go to a pub as they did for the Haye-Harrison fight. Most who would have paid for the card would have done so for Khan (who is absolutely massive in the Asian community). I think Team Khan generally act like some dickheads & do down a very likeable fighter, but the fact Sky tried to shaft them onto Sky Sports 3 speaks volumes. They really couldn't shift over a replay of the afternoon Premier League game instead so Khan could be on SS1 or 2, which are the channels that most people have?

The fact they first tried to go to ITV tells me they're not as greedy as we're making out & to be fair it would be difficult for a terrestrial channel to suddenly shift about their Saturday night coverage. The major problem with moving to Primetime would be that it doesn't have the same promotional abilities to casual fans that Sky Box Office does. Considering that the Khan-Maidana fight reportedly did as many sales as Hatton-Pacquiao maybe Sky have missed a trick.