Comments Thread For: Amir Khan Talks Sky Rift, Bradley Being Scared, More

[Rick Grimes]

what im trying to say is sky are a bunch of greedy bastards who are trying to scam the general public, why what do you want me to say?

Scam the public? You got it the wrong way round. Khan's team scammed the public, Sky wanted to give us a fight for free but you want to pay for them.

[pcpc]

If you think im gonna say its racism your wrong, david Haye is there poster boy and hes black, so plz shut the **** up and leave my thread

[pcpc]

yeah and degale groves was really ppv worthy right?

[rich6666]

Far more notice in which to promote it plus a far more credible opponent, who has a big punch and a genuine chance of winning.

As far as i am aware didn't sky heavily promote the Khan vs McClosky fight across there network up until 1 week before? I remember seeing posters up outside my local. The change of PPV channel shouldn't have affected the viewing figures too much.

How will primetime promote this fight when no main stream media gives a damn, and I highly doubt sky will even acknowledge this unification fight is even happening.

[pcpc]

Im pretty confident this fight will do alot more then the mccloskey fight, but it would have done huge numbers on sky sports 1, 2 or 3 had they not rejected it, guess khan will just have to move on, fortunately for him he has the in following in england and elsewhere that froch never had so will still do alright, but i giuess once the bigger fights come then it will do huge numbers, no matter who the broadcaster is.

[Dave Rado]

As far as i am aware didn't sky heavily promote the Khan vs McClosky fight across there network up until 1 week before? I remember seeing posters up outside my local. The change of PPV channel shouldn't have affected the viewing figures too much.

Of course it affected the figures, given that almost no one had subscribed to Primetime prior to that fight - they needed far more notice than that in order to get people to subscribe to them.

As for how they'll promote it, BBC sports channels such as Five Live will acknowledge the fight, and will give it more credibility than the McCloskey fight; and Primetime can also advertise.

[R.I.P Chico]

Sky might have been promoting the Khan/McCloskey up until a few weeks before the fight, but to buy the PPV from Primetime you also had to subscribe to their channel!

[rich6666]

Sky might have been promoting the Khan/McCloskey up until a few weeks before the fight, but to buy the PPV from Primetime you also had to subscribe to their channel!

Since when do you have to subscribe to primetime? I thought it was a pay per event channel.

[pcpc]

Since when do you have to subscribe to primetime? I thought it was a pay per event channel.

there is a one off subscribtion fee to register with them

[rich6666]

there is a one off subscribtion fee to register with them

Like £2.50 or £3? I don't see how this would effect or put off thousands of potential buys from Box Office to Primetime?