Comments Thread For: Team McCloskey: Khan Fight is Dead! Offer Was a Joke!

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i really get tired of seeing crap like this. taking this fight is an investment. take the short money (which is still more than you are going to make anywhere else) and if you WIN you are now a title holder - which puts you in the mix for important, big, and LUCRATIVE fights in the future. it seems like to me these guys don't think they can win. from a glory standpoint and a money making standpoint, it doesn't make sense not to take this fight, unless you think that you can't win it - which seems to be the case. same situation with valuev-vitali falling through a bunch of times. valuev gets like double his career high payday but still doesn't want to take the fight cause he knows he will get beat. once again, from a glory AND money making standpoint - it didn't make sense not to take that fight, unless you know you couldn't win. even if you know you can't win, it still might be the best choice.

i blame both fighters for this fight not happening (not that ANYONE gives a **** about this fight, im glad it didn't happen), but much more so mccloskey than khan. khan prob at least offered a career high payday. mccloskey is too afraid to take a career high payday AND a title shot.

sometimes i wonder why these guys got in this sport at all. why are there hardly any fighters that are true competitors once they reach the world class level?

I guess fighters (or their teams) just figure it's sometimes not worth the risk of a momentum-shifting loss to take the "short end" of the money. Especially nowadays, since losses mean too much.

In some cases, it pays off. Aaron Pryor turning down Sugar Ray Leonard because he wanted more money turned out to be a good business move (assuming SRL beats Pryor), since Pryor ended up making more $$ to beat a more beatable Alexis Arguello a couple years later. Alex Garcia rejecting a career high payday to face George Foreman was a bad move. Garcia got knocked out by a relative unknown shortly after. Or Juan Lazcano rejecting over a million to face Floyd Mayweather, although I believe it was on relatively short notice. He ended up facing for J.L. Castillo for less money and lost. I'm not sure how much he got for facing Ricky Hatton in 2007, but I don't think he ever ended up getting 7 figures for a fight.

It takes times afterwards to see if the move was good or not.

[Jim Tom]

According to a report in the Derry Journal, a proposed fight between WBA junior welterweight champion Amir Khan, and undefeated British champion Paul McCloskey, is a dead issue. McCloskey's promoter Barry Hearn told the paper that Khan's financial offer for a main event showdown on an April 16 pay-per-view - "was a joke." Hearn would not reveal the number, but he says the offer is so low that no credible boxer would possibly accept it.



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Khan has a corner shop mentality.Everything to him should be on the cheap,he might as well fight his father if he wants to get an opponent for free

[wazaa.]

This is good news.

Ortiz, Peterson, Katsidis and Prescott are all better opponents than McCloskey.

[Sparked_1985]

This is good news.

Ortiz, Peterson, Katsidis and Prescott are all better opponents than McCloskey.

Prescott is not better than McCloskey.

There is a slim chance that Prescott wouldn't hit McCloskey cleanly over 12-rounds.

Prescott is absolutely the worst opponent Khan could face - but I still want to see it - because somehow by the grace of God that man nearly punched Amir's head off.

[Joe2608]

No doubt this would be McCloskey's biggest payday to date by quite a bit so he's obviously just being a money hungry *****.

[right hand jab]

They probably offered him like $75,000 to Khan's 2.5 million....

Yeah, it does make me wonder, who's being greedy and who's lowballing?

[PandaKilla]

dunno, but he's sold out 1000s of seats as a headliner and had money from rte or sky. Less than he woulda made from Khan, but not peanuts either.

But none of those fights were a ppv world title fight, of course he's gonna be looking for more money for that.

U gotta look at it as a % of the overall pot though. 80-20 would be fair. If he's looking to become a millionaire then fair enough to turn it down, if Khans offering him a 100k when Khan stands to make a million or 2 then that offer is a joke. We need to know what numbers were being touted by both parties to know whats going on

How is 100k a joke of an offer?

That's 150K US dollars BTW, which Ortiz got for Petrson...

100K for him is a good price IMO, but anyway, who cares I didn't even know the guy.

I hope Prescott takes 100k.

[PandaKilla]

Khan has a corner shop mentality.Everything to him should be on the cheap,he might as well fight his father if he wants to get an opponent for free

More money to another man is less for me.

If Mckloswkey was even famous then OK, but he is unknown to me, and I am in the UK.

[PandaKilla]

Peterson made 100k dollars for Ortiz

I gurantee Mcklowskey or whatever hasn't made 100k a fight.

Just because Khan is making bucks, doesn't mean someone should get a jump to 500k.

If they were truly hungry for a title, then it would happen.

Money talks, but if they want to be champ and think they can win, then they would jump at it.

[gingeralbino]

How is 100k a joke of an offer?

That's 150K US dollars BTW, which Ortiz got for Petrson...

100K for him is a good price IMO, but anyway, who cares I didn't even know the guy.

I hope Prescott takes 100k.

Ortiz v Peterson was a non title 10 rd undercard fight of a non ppv event.

big difference.