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

[chiguy91]

sucks for the cut they pulled on him, but just take the fight and move onto bradley. that fight will be a moneymaker for him since it'll be here in the states and on HBO. plus, when he gets bigger, sky sports will deff put him on ppv over there, so might as well just take the money and forget about it.

[mushahadeen]

khan's people make pacquiao's people's seem like smart, reasonable businessmen.

[Fighting Pride]

khan's people make pacquiao's people's seem like smart, reasonable businessmen.

huh???

Pacquiao is the first fighter to have PPV's do a million buys in three consecutive years, soon to be four.

After Mosley he will have made more money in his last six fights than possibly any boxer in history did from a couple of years in the ring (over $110 million).

Pacquiao's opponents received career high paydays, besides DLH and Hatton who probably made 35-40 million between them. Not bad if you can get eh

Before Top Rank signed him he was making $1-2 million purses and 200-250k PPV buys.

If these guys are ****** and unreasonable businessmen, we'd all love to be that

[removed]

Khan's dad & the rest of his team should stick to driving taxi's round Bolton & leave the boxing business to people who actually know what they're doing.

[War-Robbo]

Shouldnt have had to pay for the fight, Khan is going to batter him. I would have been happy if it was sky sports 3 but primetime **** that...

[Las Vegas,]

Aw man, for a second there I was worried that they cancelled the fight.

[Ray*]

Eh? So are Sky just going to cut their losses with all their promo stuff?

I guess so lol, Its incredibly greedy of Team Khan to switch this fight from sky to primetime with less than a week to go, It shows how greedy they are, They are not thinking this ***** through, If this fight stays on skysport 3 for free most people would get the chance to see it and definitely buy his next fight (Bradley), If they go to primetime on short notice they would sell less than 10,000 buys and most people wouldnt buy his next fight.

[Las Vegas,]

huh???

Pacquiao is the first fighter to have PPV's do a million buys in three consecutive years, soon to be four.

Nope. Evander Holyfield, Mike Tyson and Oscar De La Hoya were.

[AndyShitHot]

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.

Yeah so what's better than taking a pay cut? Making no UK TV money I guess and having nobody able to even watch the fight in the UK.

[AndyShitHot]

I guess so lol, Its incredibly greedy of Team Khan to switch this fight from sky to primetime with less than a week to go, It shows how greedy they are, They are not thinking this ***** through, If this fight stays on skysport 3 for free most people would get the chance to see it and definitely buy his next fight (Bradley), If they go to primetime on short notice they would sell less than 10,000 buys and most people wouldnt buy his next fight.

I can't see Primetime picking up this fight on 5 days notice. UK Fans will either have to stream the HBO coverage at 3am or download the next day. I think this decision was made to benefit the fans who have paid a lot of money on tickets for the fight who might have been pissed off that they could have just stayed home and watched the fight on Sky Sports 3.