Richard Schafer Hits England to meet with Sky over Khan Fallout

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Richard Schaefer, boss of Amir Khan's American promoters Golden Boy, is in London for talks with Sky Sports chief Barney Francis over the fall-out that has led to the boxer no longer appearing on Sky Box Office.

However, any negotiations will not be helped by Khan attacking Sky on Twitter over their pay-per-view booking fiasco for the Haye-Klitschko fight and for bizarrely advising customers - including his fellow non-drinking ******s - to watch the action in the pub instead.

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[boracay420]

khan needs to stop being a negotiating diva and posting all his twitter crap

[DET. IRONSIDE]

khan needs to stop being a negotiating diva and posting all his twitter crap

Why? He got absolutely crapped on by Sky because they were too busy bloating David Haye's hype machine with nationalistic propaganda.

Sky coverage for Haye Klitschko was woeful. It IS the big gun but they need to make space for Khan and they deny him coverage because they needed to boost the Hayemaker that never landed.

And look at the paper:

However, any negotiations will not be helped by Khan attacking Sky on Twitter over their pay-per-view booking fiasco for the Haye-Klitschko fight and for bizarrely advising customers - including his fellow non-drinking ******s - to watch the action in the pub instead

as if twitter has a special non-****** button?

[TouchyAndalou]

As I understand it, Sky were unhappy with the quality of the undercard, as well they should have been. Doubly so considering Khan's and their underwhelming choice of opponent in McCloskey. The decision to move it from Sky Box-office to regular television was sound.

At any rate, Schafer and Khan should be grovelling considering the amount of publicity they just did for the Haye fight. Primetime obviously can't hope to match that even a little. Khan needs Sky more than Sky needs Khan, there's absolutely no doubt about that.

[DET. IRONSIDE]

As I understand it, Sky were unhappy with the quality of the undercard, as well they should have been. Doubly so considering Khan's and their underwhelming choice of opponent in McCloskey. The decision to move it from Sky Box-office to regular television was sound.

At any rate, Schafer and Khan should be grovelling considering the amount of publicity they just did for the Haye fight. Primetime obviously can't hope to match that even a little. Khan needs Sky more than Sky needs Khan, there's absolutely no doubt about that.

He made more money on the PPV with Primetime than Sky offered.

He'll probably do the same again. Primetime's a pretty decent channel when it gets down to it.

[TouchyAndalou]

He made more money on the PPV with Primetime than Sky offered.

He'll probably do the same again. Primetime's a pretty decent channel when it gets down to it.

This is short-sighted imo, as was Khan's decision to shun Sky.

He would have had far, far, far more viewers had he been shown on regular Sky, all potential customers for his next PPV. And if he signs to fight a real name opponent - Mayweather, for instance - Sky would go all out to promote the event, in ways that Primetime can't hope to match. Haye was on Sky Sports news constantly in the lead-up to the Klitsckho fight, was advertised all over their website and channel SKY1 (reaching millions of casual sport fans) I expect that fight did good numbers, certainly a lot better than it would have done on Primetime.

I'm not saying that having a fledgling network showing boxing isn't good for the sport in the UK, because it probably is. But from a business perspective, it's within Khan's best interests to get back in bed with Sky.

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If khan wants good paydays he needs to stop being cheap.he's costing GBP some money over foolishness.

[mushahadeen]

uhhhhh maybe it would help if they didn't send a Swedish guy w/ a Gestapo **** accent.

[The_Golden_Goy]

This is short-sighted imo, as was Khan's decision to shun Sky.

He would have had far, far, far more viewers had he been shown on regular Sky, all potential customers for his next PPV. And if he signs to fight a real name opponent - Mayweather, for instance - Sky would go all out to promote the event, in ways that Primetime can't hope to match. Haye was on Sky Sports news constantly in the lead-up to the Klitsckho fight, was advertised all over their website and channel SKY1 (reaching millions of casual sport fans) I expect that fight did good numbers, certainly a lot better than it would have done on Primetime.

I'm not saying that having a fledgling network showing boxing isn't good for the sport in the UK, because it probably is. But from a business perspective, it's within Khan's best interests to get back in bed with Sky.

It is in Khans interests to get back with Sky, but he wouldnt have got more exposure had it been on Sky rather than primetime. They offered Khan Sky Sports 3 or 4, which not everybody has unless they have the full sports package. If it was on SS1 or 2, then great, I dont doubt Khan wouldve accepted that, but to be on SS3 or 4, wouldve hurt him in the pocket on in terms of exposure. People wouldnt be bothered ringing up and upgrading their package for a channel theyd use once.

[TouchyAndalou]

It is in Khans interests to get back with Sky, but he wouldnt have got more exposure had it been on Sky rather than primetime. They offered Khan Sky Sports 3 or 4, which not everybody has unless they have the full sports package. If it was on SS1 or 2, then great, I dont doubt Khan wouldve accepted that, but to be on SS3 or 4, wouldve hurt him in the pocket on in terms of exposure. People wouldnt be bothered ringing up and upgrading their package for a channel theyd use once.

Everybody who bought the Primetime PPV would have watched it, plus a good number of SS3 or 4 viewers who weren't willing to cough up £15 or didn't even know it was available on Primetime. He definitely would have got more exposure, that's obvious.