Comments Thread For: Team Khan on Sky Sports Split, Sky Says No To Bradley

[Davros?]

If Khan said he was moving to ITV fair enough he would get good coverage there but moving to Primetime is an awfull idea.

[SlappyJoe]

what I'm asking is does England cable carry showtime and HBO ppvs ?

Yes but usually on Sky. For example the Morales fight on the weekend was shown on Sky Sports (2?) - it was not PPV but Sky Sports is a subscription based service where you pay a monthly fee. If a fight is big enough over here then Sky will promote it to something called Sky Box Office which is completely PPV - fights like Khan-Maidana, most Haye fights, Frank Warren's big fighters... you get the idea.

Primetime is a MUCH smaller PPV service that barely anyone is aware of. They don't have the benefit of cross promotion to other sports fans (for example Sky has it's own Sports News channel that is extremely popular with fans of most sports, especially soccer which is by far the biggest sport here, plus they can advertise with onscreen banners and regular adverts on their 4+ 24/7 sports channels) and as such rely on the more keen boxing fan who seeks out a matchup - as you can imagine their sales are an absolute fraction of Sky's too.

Anyway - shame Khan's not on Sky Sports as now I'll have to watch a less clear stream. There's no way Khan-Bradley goes the same way as this... Sky will definitely be interested as it's an easy sell. Khan will bend over backwards to stay with Sky in the long term as it's worth so much more to him being on Box Office than anywhere else - we're taking factors of 10/20. Still if he does go then I hope Sky pick up Carl Froch instead... he deserves it so much more. The only reason he's not popular over here is because Sky never took to him.

[BetterCallSaul]

Oh and trust me, the collapse of the Khan-Sky relationship is the beginning of the end of world class boxing events on Sky Sports.

Sky has been propping up the sport in this country for years, and makes little to no money doing so.

This could be the final nail in the coffin for British boxing and it may not ever recover.

[Davros?]

Oh and trust me, the collapse of the Khan-Sky relationship is the beginning of the end of world class boxing events on Sky Sports.

Sky has been propping up the sport in this country for years, and makes little to no money doing so.

This could be the final nail in the coffin for British boxing and it may not ever recover.

When ITV started showing boxing again loads of my mates started getting into it but they have fallen off and dont watch so much since they droped it.

[onechance87]

Oh and trust me, the collapse of the Khan-Sky relationship is the beginning of the end of world class boxing events on Sky Sports.

Sky has been propping up the sport in this country for years, and makes little to no money doing so.

This could be the final nail in the coffin for British boxing and it may not ever recover.

what if another ricky hatton star pops up

[Blubba]

sky knows khan is getting too big for his shoes. he aint even popular in the UK.

more ppl know about khan in the US than the UK. he shud just stay in the states

[Slick_Rick]

Was ricky hatton more popular or less popular when ricky was amirs age
right now?will khan ever be big like hatton?

Khan is much more well known then Hatton was at this age, hes been pretty much in the public eye since he was 17. However as for being popular am not sure, a lot of people dislike Khan.

What Hatton did was to build up a steady fan base by fighting on channels like Sky Sports 3, it was not late into his career that he became a PPV fighter.

As for Khan reaching the popularity of the Hatton, that will never happen, well i cant see it.

[gingeralbino]

Oh and trust me, the collapse of the Khan-Sky relationship is the beginning of the end of world class boxing events on Sky Sports.

Sky has been propping up the sport in this country for years, and makes little to no money doing so.

This could be the final nail in the coffin for British boxing and it may not ever recover.

yeah, or more likely - Team Khan will go crawling back to sky after he gets 5000ppv buys on primtime and makes feck all money and sky will carry on as normal, only with promoters now more woried about trying to sell them **** cards and upping their game.

I dont see why sky would turn down Khan Bradley, sounds like a load of bollocks - or a bluff to get Khan to agree to fight on SS3. They'd show it, they've been talking about it for months

[Rome-By-Ko]

Oh boy more excuses why not to give Bradley 50/50,I already seen this coming..I smell a duck in the making..

[BetterCallSaul]

Oh boy more excuses why not to give Bradley 50/50,I already seen this coming..I smell a duck in the making..

Khan has already stated that he wants to fight Bradley and he has the tools needed to beat him. This spat with Sky Sports won't change anything as Khan is more closely affiliated with HBO and they ultimately call the shots regarding who Khan does and doesn't fight. Khan's next fight will be Bradley in July, and when he beats him, you will be wishing he would have ducked.