Comments Thread For: Amir Khan vs. Kell Brook Sells Out in Ten Minutes

[Liondw]

That's quite surprising, for a fight with two guys way past their prime, but the British are interested. A nice cash out fight for them before sailing into the sunset.

[removed]

Brook vs Khan is still a huge fight over here.

Gotta give it to Amir, he always said the Brook fight would be there for him whenever he finally wanted it, and he was right.

Sky are going to hype this fight to death, and it will sell a s***load of PPVs.

[1hourRun]

[QballLobo]

UK fans definitely come out and support their guys. Anthony Joshua has been selling out stadiums there for years and now a Khan/Brook fight that should have happened 7-8 years ago will still have a packed house.
Even still I will still watch it. Win or lose Khan is always entertaining. Brook is probably a slight favorite but I wouldn’t be surprised if either guy won.
There was some quality trash talk by Khan at the presser. Him talking about making the olympic team over Brook and trainers telling him to take it easy on Kell got under his skin for sure.

[LAchargers373]

Article is funny khan/Brook winner isn’t the best WW in the country Conor Benn is lol

[Ajvar]

This is not sport, this is farce. It would have been a sport years ago, at least before both of them were practically KOed by Crawford.

[gingerbreadman]

I'd be interested (if it were possible) to see the proportion of tickets that were snapped up for resale. The non-boxing public have been exposed to Khan and Brook's names for the past ten years or so in the press, and the celebs and rich people likely to buy monstrously expensive seats make up part of that public. Khan, and to a lesser extent Brook, have benefitted from having become prospects at a stage when the factory line of British amateur talent hadn't come through yet, and British world champions were very rare in the pros.

[Bob]

Bot mark up resale tickets.

[chicken-]

Sounds like every "sold out" concert where the tickets appear for 4x the value an hour later on every ticket resale site.

[tokon]

"level of national interest . . "

What interest?! Noone cares!!