Comments Thread For: Sky Sports Confirms: No Khan vs McCloskey Fight

[1believer]

Yeah, Khan's team are mainly his Dad are obviously morons.

But at the end of the Day, Khan can step in refuse what he wants. Khan obviously agrees with this ****.

He deserves blame too.

Yea well that would be hard for him, it's a cultural thing I think for Khan. This is a guy who still lives with his Mum and Dad. This kind of **** is always going to happen with him everytime until he drops that team of his, they're doing his career and his reputation no good at all but it's hard for him to let go as they are more than just business partners.

[SpitBalla]

No, Sky aren't interested. No one is interested. Hense why it should NOT be on PPV. It's a glorified tune up, why should we pay for a glorified tune up?

Khan made that kind of money, especially his last fight, because people are willing to watch him fight a legit fight, I paid for that, I am willing to pay for LEGIT fights (Key word being legit). However, I and many other are not willing to pay for a tune up. Again, thus why Sky cancelled the PPV.

How does it effect me if the fight moves from Sky Sports 3 to Primetime? Because Primetime is a PPV channel, Sky Sports 3 is not......so on primetime I have to pay for the fight, on Sky Sports 3, I don't.....

Khan is greedy for this because making £250,000 to put a royal beating on an unproven fighter who is boarderline Top 10 in his division is more than ****ing enough. Asking for over 1 Million pounds for fighting Mcloskey is the epitome of greed.

LOL @ Calling me racist for not supporting Khan Mcloskey being on PPV.

Not necessarily calling you the racist, but its certainly present on this thread.

What you say makes no sense. If no one is interested, and it is a tuneup fight, why do you care?? Why would you POSSIBLY get worked up? How does that make one bit of sense?

It is not the epitome of greed anymore than any other boxer. And how are you in a position to make the distinction that £250,000 is not greeedy and 1 million pounds is? And where is your source that he is asking for a million pound after the undercards fell??

All this betrays an understanding of how boxers negotiate. EVERY fighter tries to make as much money as possible. Hell Floyd, even asked for 100 milly recently. Every fighter will try and get the most money possible. For someone who follow boxing as closely as you, how can you not understand this?

And who is saying Khan is asking for a million pounds after the undercard fiasco, do you have a source??? After the undercards fell through Khan was making less than McClosky before renegotiations, so again, how is this THE EPITOME OF GREED??? Its exactly this kind of mental gymnastics, along with the false outrage, that proves there is something seriously racist or biased here.

They can ask for as much money as they want, and if the networks are interested they say yes, if not, price goes down or the fight doesn't happen. It's simply flabergasting that you can say how much Khan should or shouldn't ask for.

And Khan is entitled to choose whether he fights on PPV or not. The fact it makes you get so worked up indicates you have no clarity in thought, and are merely jumping on the bandwagon(racist or otherwise), especially since you admitt no one is interested in this fight, and that it is a tuneup. Ppl get angry when a great fight is held up by someone, but to get worked up over a tuneup as you call it, proves the bias.

And, you're being way too dissmisive of McCloskey, which is something ppl here do when its suits their needs. At the end of the day, such an unimportant fight could only provide such false and idiotic outrage if one was a racist, or simply part of the ****** echo chamber.

[flint]

who cares. just fight

[TheKza]

His Team keep on fcuking him over, what a bunch of idiots.

[BoxingTech718]

Muthafawka! I was just about to get excited for khan vs bradley!!!!!

[GRANDSLAM]

I think his team are letting him down. He's only 23 but he's still a grown up. Thats one thing about Warren, he's a wanker but he knows what he's doing. He won't sell many PPV's without the Sky Machine behind him talking about the fight on SSN constantly, I know I won't be buying it. I don't think Primetime is even in HD.

Kudos to Sky, after the Haye vs Harrison fight they're not just putting anything on PPV, it's got to be worth it.

[IronDanHamza]

Not necessarily calling you the racist, but its certainly present on this thread.

What you say makes no sense. If no one is interested, and it is a tuneup fight, why do you care?? Why would you POSSIBLY get worked up? How does that make one bit of sense?

It is not the epitome of greed anymore than any other boxer. And how are you in a position to make the distinction that £250,000 is not greeedy and 1 million pounds is? And where is your source that he is asking for a million pound after the undercards fell??

All this betrays an understanding of how boxers negotiate. EVERY fighter tries to make as much money as possible. Hell Floyd, even asked for 100 milly recently. Every fighter will try and get the most money possible. For someone who follow boxing as closely as you, how can you not understand this?

And who is saying Khan is asking for a million pounds after the undercard fiasco, do you have a source??? After the undercards fell through Khan was making less than McClosky before renegotiations, so again, how is this THE EPITOME OF GREED??? Its exactly this kind of mental gymnastics, along with the false outrage, that proves there is something seriously racist or biased here.

They can ask for as much money as they want, and if the networks are interested they say yes, if not, price goes down or the fight doesn't happen. It's simply flabergasting that you can say how much Khan should or shouldn't ask for.

And Khan is entitled to choose whether he fights on PPV or not. The fact it makes you get so worked up indicates you have no clarity in thought, and are merely jumping on the bandwagon(racist or otherwise), especially since you admitt no one is interested in this fight, and that it is a tuneup. Ppl get angry when a great fight is held up by someone, but to get worked up over a tuneup as you call it, proves the bias.

And, you're being way too dissmisive of McCloskey, which is something ppl here do when its suits their needs. At the end of the day, such an unimportant fight could only provide such false and idiotic outrage if one was a racist, or simply part of the ****** echo chamber.

I care because I don't want to pay for a tune up? It's really not that difficult.

They orginally put this on PPV, it was taken off PPV, mainly because no one really cares about this fight. It was moved to Sky Sports 3 (Not PPV) which obviously means Khan is going to make less money. Now he has moved to PrimeTime which is PPV, because obviously he wants more money for the fight.

I'm sorry but fighting Mcloskey for 250,000 pounds is more than enough money. Especially as it's obviously a tune up for Bradley, in which Amir Khan has pretty much admitted. Fighting Mcloskey for no less than a Million pounds is greed. I don't care if you were orginally going to get over a million. Fighting Mcloskey does not warrent you getting a million pounds.

Why do you keep asking me why I am frustrated about this? I am frustrated because earlier this week it was announced I wouldn't have to pay for this fight, one that we SHOULDN'T have to pay for. And now today I am told that i actually am going to have to pay for it. So therefore when I thought I would be able to watch this fight in the comfort of my own home on the TV, now I am going to have to find another way to watch. Because I am not paying for a tune up....So yeah, that is why I am frustrated.

What source is there that Khan wants over a million pounds? Erm maybe because he has refused to fight on normal TV for 250,000 thus has moved it to a PPV channel? Let's put two and two together. He has move to Primetime in attempt to make more money than he will get on Sky Sports 3.

Yes, and Floyd asking for 100 million dollars is ****ing greedy!!!!!!!!

I am not racist nor biased. I have defended Amir Khan for a long time on these boards and have followed his career since the Olympics. So no, I'm not biased nor racist. So just stop.

Getting worked up over having to pay for a tune up means I'm biased? Ermmmm...OK.

I am not being dismissive of Mcloskey. I am being realistic, Mcloskey has done nothing to suggest he can beat Amir Khan. And Amir Khan is fighting him merely to stay busy. That's it, I'm sorry if i am not jumping for joy that I have to pay for this. Surely this MUST mean I'm biased or racist

At the end of the day, I and many others do not want to pay for this fight. Sky identified that, and let us see it for free, and rightfully so. In response, Khan moved the card to Primetime, which we have to pay for. Thus we are frustrated at this news.

If this means I'm biased, then hell yeah I am biased...

[SpitBalla]

Your standards for defining if a figher is greedy or not, would mean EVERY SINGLE BOXER ALIVE is greedy, since every boxer with the leverage or opportunity has always looked for the maximum money.

And since we know, EVERY FIGHTER in Khans position does the same, its meaningless to call him greedy, since every fighter in his position does the same thing. If everyone is greedy, why single Khan out for it?

What source is there that Khan wants over a million pounds? Erm maybe because he has refused to fight on normal TV for 250,000 thus has moved it to a PPV channel? Let's put two and two together. He has move to Primetime in attempt to make more money than he will get on Sky Sports 3.

Just because Khan is refusing to fight for 250,000 pounds does not mean he is asking for a million pounds, just that he wants MORE than 250,000 pounds. If one would guess, its probably significantly more, but to assume its 1 million pounds is baseless.

You have a point with much of what you say. But the fact is, if a fighter can make more money somehow, that fighter will ALWAYS choose that option. EVERY FIGHTER, EVERY TIME. This is simply a fact.

The truth is every ONE of us would do the same.

[wazaa.]

Change the title.

Sky screwed Amir. Amir has to take a 1 million pond pay cut. Thats around 1,4 million dollar cut. Ofcourse Amir is gonna get pissed. This is not pocket change were talking about.

[IronDanHamza]

Your standards for defining if a figher is greedy or not, would mean EVERY SINGLE BOXER ALIVE is greedy, since every boxer with the leverage or opportunity has always looked for the maximum money.

And since we know, EVERY FIGHTER in Khans position does the same, its meaningless to call him greedy, since every fighter in his position does the same thing. If everyone is greedy, why single Khan out for it?



Just because Khan is refusing to fight for 250,000 pounds does not mean he is asking for a million pounds, just that he wants MORE than 250,000 pounds. If one would guess, its probably significantly more, but to assume its 1 million pounds is baseless.

You have a point with much of what you say. But the fact is, if a fighter can make more money somehow, that fighter will ALWAYS choose that option. EVERY FIGHTER, EVERY TIME. This is simply a fact.

The truth is every ONE of us would do the same.

I'm not singleing out Amir Khan. Any fighter who is in Khan's position I would be saying the same thing. And regardless to who the fighter is, if I was told last week I would get to see this fight for free, which I believe a fight of this calibur we should see this fight for free, to then be told I have to pay now because obviously £250,000 isn't enough for Team Khan. Then hell yes I would be equally frustrated.

I'm really not concerned if every single person on the planet would do the exact same. I am still going to be frustrated at having to pay for a fight that I shouldn't have to pay for after being told I would be able to see it for free.

Again, OK, If every single fighter thinks this way then yes they are all greedy. I can't comprehend why I shouldn't be frustrated about this because of this? I DON'T CARE WHO THE FIGHTER IS. If I have to pay for a tune up like this when I have been told I would get it for free, then I am going to be frustrated. An I'm pretty sure most people would be, thus the responses in this thread.