Amir Khan vs. Zab Judah on HBO - July 23 - who ya got?

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I think Khan will win a unanimous decision in a boring fight , I cant stand the man he is coming accross as very greedy and arrogant person with his dealings with SKY for instance , who in there right mind would pay £15 ppv against McCloskey, when Sky wanted to down size the card and pay less money , he threw his dummy out of the pram , and went to Primetime he is being advised very badly IMO , SKY is the only place to be on british TV .

Well considering Primetime sold enough Khan - McCloskey ppvs to rake in over £1m, i'd say he made a good decision. He easily got paid more than the £100k he would have received from Sky.

Khan signed a contract with Sky where he was due to make somewhere around £1m. A week before the fight, sky remove it from ppv, so Khan would only make £100k. He's well within his rights to look elsewhere. I don't understand how it constitutes him throwing his dummy out. Sky basically fucked him over, albeit, inadvertently.

Khan is with the richest and most popular promoter in the sport and he's a regular on HBO. The difference in earnings between Sky and Primetime will be chump change to him. Infact, i'd imagine Primetime would be the better option anyway considering Sky's new boxing budget comes into play pretty soon. They're clamping down big time. Khan's probably jumped ship at the right time.

Sky has far more selling potential though. Haye has just made around £15 million for a fight he lost. Khan only made £250,000 for his last fight. Hatton made a fortune with Sky too. It is definitely the place to be over here. Haye managed to negotiate a deal where he was getting £5 per PPV sold for the Valuev fight. If Khan could make himself more popular over here and then negotiate a deal like that he could make lots more.

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I think Khan will win a unanimous decision in a boring fight , I cant stand the man he is coming accross as very greedy and arrogant person with his dealings with SKY for instance , who in there right mind would pay £15 ppv against McCloskey, when Sky wanted to down size the card and pay less money , he threw his dummy out of the pram , and went to Primetime he is being advised very badly IMO , SKY is the only place to be on british TV .

Well considering Primetime sold enough Khan - McCloskey ppvs to rake in over £1m, i'd say he made a good decision. He easily got paid more than the £100k he would have received from Sky.

Khan signed a contract with Sky where he was due to make somewhere around £1m. A week before the fight, sky remove it from ppv, so Khan would only make £100k. He's well within his rights to look elsewhere. I don't understand how it constitutes him throwing his dummy out. Sky basically fucked him over, albeit, inadvertently.

Khan is with the richest and most popular promoter in the sport and he's a regular on HBO. The difference in earnings between Sky and Primetime will be chump change to him. Infact, i'd imagine Primetime would be the better option anyway considering Sky's new boxing budget comes into play pretty soon. They're clamping down big time. Khan's probably jumped ship at the right time.

Sky has far more selling potential though. Haye has just made around £15 million for a fight he lost. Khan only made £250,000 for his last fight. Hatton made a fortune with Sky too. It is definitely the place to be over here. Haye managed to negotiate a deal where he was getting £5 per PPV sold for the Valuev fight. If Khan could make himself more popular over here and then negotiate a deal like that he could make lots more.

I do agree, but Primetime is a TV station on Sky, and is available to anybody who has Sky, so i don't see how it will make a big difference. The only difference is probably the advertising. Sky might spend more money marketing the fight. Having said that, they made a fuckery of the Khan - McCloskey promotions anyway.

Priimetime are an independant Boxing channel and have much, much less overheads than Sky so it doesn't need to sell as well as Sky does, in order to pay the fighters. Sky have already started working under next years Boxing budget and they're clamping down big time on the amounts they pay their fighters. Khan would still make a mint with them, but while he's fighting the likes of Judah, Bradley, Alexander, Morales etc, the difference between what he'll earn from Primetime compared to Sky will be negligible. The only time it will make a big difference would be if he was to fight a superstar like Mayweather, in which case, Sky would bend over backwards to bring him back.

[Howlin Mad Missy]

Hopefully the yanks will dislike him as much over here.